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21st Century Beauty Standards

Thais O. Fernandes

BSN in Nursing- Miami Regional University

ENC2201-Report Writing and Research Methods

Prof. Shazia Zaidi

September 29th, 2020

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Abstract

An analysis of examination finished on the impact publicizing in the plan other than the

gloriousness industry has on women. Promotions unrealistic heavenliness has promoted anxiety,

low confidence, and lack of bravery in various females. Most of these undesirable views begin

from hopelessness amid the Body as well as appearance. Fewer investigations have been done

connecting to beautifiers and how this may affect females and how women may utilize

impressiveness care items to control their look.

This paper initially discusses the current investigation that bases on the fundamental

business's impact on females. An overall audit was made from this assessment to aggregate

general information about social event understudy's medicinal use, affinities, and feelings. The

outcomes exhibit that school ladies are high customers of beautifiers aware of the disciplinary

business. Only a few personal differences may influence the choices a woman makes concerning

exceptional care items.

There are many discussions on how people should present themselves to be described as

'beautiful.' This is because different people understand Beauty differently. There are no set

standards for Beauty. However, in the 21st-century, beauty has been confused with fancy

appearance. This is why the ladies have ended up getting into makeups with full force.
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21st Century Beauty Standards

Introduction

Instead of consent to the most recent craze, beauty standards today are reliably being

rethought and tested. Beauty standards in the 21st Century have been loaded up with hostile

overviews for the two people. These standards lead to being loaded up with discouragement,

miserable mental self-portrait, and even uneasiness due to not having the option to cherish them

completely, being hurtful for everyone. 21st Century beauty standards should be rethought to

show practical measures versus web-based media standards, early instruction about self-

perception, and open-door treatment for challenging eating disorder.

L'Oréal SA takes part in the assembling and offer of excellence and hair items. It works

through the accompanying portions: Professional Products, Consumer Products, L'Oréal Luxe,

and Active Cosmetics. The Professional Products fragment makes items that are utilized and sold

in beauty parlors. The Consumer Products portion offers excellent and care things for people,

sold in mass-market retail channels. The L'Oréal Luxe portion advertises top of the line skin care

and perfect items in specific retail sources, for example, retail establishments, perfumeries, and

travel retail. The Active Cosmetics section offers dermo-corrective skincare items sold in drug

stores and expert areas of drugstores. The organization was established by Eugène Schueller in

1909 and is settled in Clichy, France.

After not sustaining the overviews of what society admits someone should be, these

young males, besides young women, carry on with their lives in silent torment. Several view

themselves as "excessively fat" or "extremely repulsive" to carry on with over a regular day to

day presence. Besides women, teenagers are influenced not to fit the irrational beauty standards

introduced to them (Ehlinger‐Martin, 2016, p. 90). For this, young males besides young women
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disconnect themselves, creating their upbringings are laden up with awful memories besides no

social aptitudes for some time down the lane.

Although the community desires to admit that these cases occur through the long

youthful stages of someone's life, these matters are also current in additional established years.

How insane is it that even at 18 to 25 years of age, individuals judge each other depending on

weight, how much cosmetics somebody wears, or Being an aspect of the younger generations in

the 21st Century has made a living through these weights significantly more troublesome. Dread

has even been embedded into the psyches of the individuals who experience the ill effects of

these brutal beauty standards.

These days, the Beauty we endeavor to reach from what we find in magazines and films

essentially aren't genuine. It's unthinkable. Innovation has obscured the picture of Beauty so

much that it has become something non-existent. On account of sites like Facebook, MySpace,

YouTube, and Tumbler, Beauty isn't merely a physical presence any longer actually; more often

than not, we see these pictures of Beauty through some computerized screen (Erves, 2019). We

not just expect to be excellent in person any longer, yet additionally on the web. The corrective

medical procedure is viewed as a standard; Botox isn't strange (they've even made a TV show

about it), "boob occupations" regardless of whether ladies need more giant or littler bosoms are

regular. Laser medical procedure to eliminate undesirable hair, the right vision, kills bug veins

all normal. Immature microorganism innovation indicates a potential enemy of maturing stuff in

fat cells, creating faces appears years more youthful.

Uncountable beauty magazines are disclosing to us what to appear, wear, be tan, and

please our males, in what way to do our hair, have long besides delightful eyelashes, cosmetics.

Cosmetics that make us immaculate besides cosmetics make us appear more youthful than
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cosmetics that stay set up for 24 hours. Indeed, even articles urging medical procedure to

upgrade people's bodies to the current standards of Beauty. In the 21st Century, "wonderful" isn't

even too regular. Terms like "hot" besides "sexy" have supplanted beauty standards besides the

less the garments, the well.

Each media stage assumes a function in comparing a ladies' worth to that of her body

parts. Every day in magazines, TV plugs and programming, films, television shows, on the web;

in study halls, the rundown is unending. We are submerged in a culture that overlooks the broad

view of ladies continuously! What's more, when we permit it to occur, or at any rate when we

endure its reality, we keep on giving it our blessing?

It is evident that thoughts of gentility, anyway advanced they have become in this

Century. In any case, place a weighty accentuation on physical fascination as one of the

characterizing attributes. What's a lady to do if she needs to be acknowledged grinding away or

flourish at a prospective employee meeting, yet doesn't have any desire to adjust to the beauty

ideal that has been forced on her since birth? Suppose she decides not to change to this norm of

Beauty. In that case, she might be met with social dismissal or cruel analysis (or, for my

situation, be designated for a "makeover" show), or even be disregarded for a condition for

another, maybe more "proficient" candidate.

Physical discontent is how much a person's physical highlights are reflected fashionably

sustaining or delightful. Although physical fascination incorporates general recognitions usual to

every human culture, it is socially and socially needy (Kassai, 2020). This way, it is through

examining the physical ascribes that are esteemed on a tasteful premise in a specific culture that

we can imagine the male and female beauty overviews.

Thesis
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21st Century Beauty standards need to be re-evaluated to show realistic standards vs. social

media standards, early education about body image, and opportunity for therapy for adolescence

facing an eating disorder.

Problem Statement: It is unknown who is beautiful and who is not, since “One man’s meat is

another man’s poison.

Literature Review

Since long ago, people have tried to explain what exactly is Beauty. Researches have been

carried out all over the world, but there is yet a breakthrough. In light of this, Scholars like Dr.

Schmid suggested mathematical formulae to determine the level of Beauty. He suggested that

dividing the length of the face by its width. This gave the conclusion that a beautiful person is

1.5 times longer than its width. However, today, this formula is disputed because it does not have

proof. The formula applied is not reliable. This contradicts because the religious books tell us

that we are all beautifully made, suggesting that all are beautiful. The inconsistencies involved

here create room for further research so that a better conclusion which is fact based, is

established.

The possibility of Physical Beauty is communicated predominantly with the assistance of

the lexeme beauty, signifying "the nature of being satisfying, particularly to take a gander at, or a

person or thing that gives incredible joy, particularly when you take a gander at it' and it is

subordinately incredible, which signifies "extremely appealing," "charming." In this way,

'beauty' is the broadest term of tasteful appreciation. The term' external beauty' is frequently

applied to the energy about physical appearance, including body structure, tallness, face, legs,

abdomen, etc. These physical highlights are seen as lovely because of the spectator's capacity to

assess protests metonymically.

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The most well-known sort of metonymy or synecdoche (saw by most researchers as a

subtype of metonymy) associated with the idea of Beauty is the part's connection to the entirety.

This model is actualized as a component of the subject or wonder gets attributes that permit it to

be comparative with the excellent class. Every classification is described, from one viewpoint,

with objects, and then again, with specific signs by which an item is doled out to this

classification. Concerning our exploration, we can say that the classification. Physical Beauty

incorporates most various elements that may turn into a subject of assessment by the speaker like

the Body, part of the face, tallness, etc. (Lasco, 2019, p. 90). The data substance of each subject's

evaluation presents the small regions of the full-scale zone separated as Physical Beauty.

Notwithstanding all the clashing perspectives on the idea of the lovely, all stylish ideas

are joined in the way that the pith of Beauty is flawless. At the center of flawlessness is the

possibility of agreement and honesty. Agreement as consistency inside an article is viewed as a

commonly correlative beginning of heterogeneous, in any event, rival sides. The directed

examination has assisted with uncovering the perplexing idea of the idea of Beauty. By making

the metonymic model of Physical Beauty, (one of the large scale zones of the concept, the others

being Spiritual, Natural, and Artificial Beauty), significant attributes of the male and female

beauty generalizations in the new aggregate awareness of the English-talking individuals have

been sketched out. The separation of these miniature territories has indicated the assortment of

articles and properties that can be a stylish assessment subject by English speakers. As noted in

the examination, engaging physical quality in ladies is associated with an energetic appearance

and physical highlights, such as the dazzling face, tasty mouth, raised cheeks, sickle lips,

pleasant hair, and impeccable ears, full bosoms, fair skin, and thin midriff.
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We have come to liken Beauty to humankind. If we don't see the Beauty in someone else,

we are oblivious to that individual's humanity. It's terrifying how significant Beauty has become.

It goes to the very heartfelt quality of an individual (Noble & Devi, 2020). Beauty has become so

influential today that rejecting that individuals have it is similar to denying them oxygen. Ok, yet

delightful! Wonderful was a portrayal that was held for uncommon cases, for hereditary lottery

champs. Beauty could even be a weight since it frightened individuals. It scared them. Beauty

was uncommon.

However, improved plastic medical procedure, more customized and successful

nourishment, the blooming of the wellness business, and the ascent of selfie channels on cell

phones, alongside Botox, fillers, and the development of Spanx, have all consolidated to assist us

with looking better and get somewhat nearer to looking uncommon. Specialists, bloggers,

influencers, beauticians, and benevolent companions have brought their voices up in a theme of

body-energy mantras: You go, young lady! You kill! Yasss, sovereign! They are not accused of

talking brutal facts and helping us see ourselves distinctively and turn out to be better forms of

ourselves. Their job is steady inspire, to disclose that we are ideal similarly as we seem to be.

The innovation is online media by and large and Instagram explicitly. The essential

financial factor is the unwavering rivalry for a piece of the pie and the requirement for singular

organizations to develop their crowd of expected clients for items extending from originator

dresses to lipstick, what's more, the socioeconomics lead, as they generally do nowadays, to

millennials, with help from post-war American children that intend to go into that incredible

night with lean abs.

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The cutting edge beauty standard in the West has consistently been established in

slenderness. According to everyone, when the corpulence rates were lower, flimsy models were

just slight misrepresentations. In any case, as stoutness rates increased, the separation between

the truth and the dream developed. Individuals were anxious with a plan that not, at this point,

appeared to be even distantly open. As a culture, we give an empty talk to the idea that what is

essential is inward Beauty when truth; it's the external form that conveys genuine social money

(Pellizzer, Waller & Wade, 2018, p. 370). The new attitude toward Beauty challenges us to

proclaim somebody we haven't met wonderful. It drives us to assume the best about individuals.

It requests that we associate with individuals in a practically clear manner in its transparency and

straightforwardness. Current Beauty doesn't demand that we get together without judgment. It

essentially requests that we come assuming that everybody in participation has a privilege to be

there.

Specifically, people have ended up fighting character issues because of the unreasonable

beauty standards they see via online media. Many have created genuine psychological wellbeing

issues, personality issues, and even body dysmorphia, attempting to imitate the beauty standards

that are just unreachable. Similarly, as the vast majority of us utilize online media to advance

ourselves, vast amounts of superstars, influencers, models, and brands also use it to sell

themselves by making a perfect picture.

It's hard not to see many conditioned delights, level stomachs, stout bosoms,

inconceivably long legs, and enthusiastic, completely adjusted butts. A large number of

Instagram accounts advance pictures of entirely etched people. There is a positive connection

between the ascent of online media and the rise in eating disorders among youngsters and ladies.
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Numerous urgently attempting to imitate the kinds of bodies they see and winding up accomplish

more physical and mental harm.

Although it has been built up that introduction to admired bodies in the media virtually

affects how the two people need to look, it is imperative to underscore that not all people react to

review romanticized pictures similarly. Some individual contrasts that moderate the effect of

introduction to admired pictures on self-perception. For instance, an individual's thought

processes in Survey slim ideal media pictures can decide if and how they influence that person's

self‐perceptions of Beauty (Ramos, 2017). Unmistakably, social beauty standards, as conveyed

by the media, are exceptionally excellent messages. In any event, realizing that slim ideal

pictures are not genuine doesn't prevent ladies from needing to accomplish those standards of

Beauty.

It may be the case that the broad communications influence their crowd not just by

strengthening beauty standards or by evoking quick changes regarding how individuals see and

assess their appearance, yet additionally by impacting apparent standards. Notwithstanding how

they can add to body disappointment, broad communications, including slim ideal pictures, are

famous media types. Numerous ladies and men regularly decide to open themselves to admired

self-perceptions, as highlighted in the media. Individuals can participate in an assortment of

practices identified with the impression of Beauty in online media types.

The significance of Wolf's hypothesis concerning the beauty fantasy is still as

conspicuous in the public eye today as it was in the 1990s, the point at which the book was first

distributed. Although the private enterprise is the main impetus behind present-day beauty

standards, the male-centric society holds incredible impact in ruling these beliefs. This is
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apparent, especially in the sheer convergence of Beauty pointed towards ladies and how in a day

and age where ladies have had more opportunity and preferences than any other time in recent

memory, they are as yet esteemed dependent on their looks. It is a direct result of this that the

norm of Beauty for ladies has been set inconceivably high, a lot higher than men's standards. The

weight of getting some ideal Beauty is something that has influenced everybody, at any rate

somewhat. From the beginning of time, there have consistently been beauty standards somewhat,

anyway, because of the remarkable innovative advances of the 21st Century; there has at no

other time been such an extreme introduction as there is today.

Self-view refers to what way persons perceive them. Damaged self-perspective (similarly

known as undesirable self-perspective) refers to a ridiculous perception of how someone

perceives their body. Alike eating disorders, it is perceived utmost normally in ladies, yet several

males similarly go through the unpleasant impacts of the confusion. Self-perspective concerns

and eating disorder go inseparably (Urbani, 2019). It is often the early dissatisfaction with a

teenager's outlook that pushes them to reason that getting in shape would upgrade their view and

cause them to feel better about themselves besides their bodies. Along these lines, excessive

eating besides overworking is frequently straight, often stimulating instances of confused eating

besides weight paranoia that may create anorexia, bulimia, orthorexia, keen humoring, or eating

disorder.

Methodology: Question and Answer freestyle interview.

The information used to build up this paper was collected from individual fellow student friends

who were believed to give their views freely, without hiding or giving distorted information.

Since the participants were not coerced, they were expected to their beliefs about Beauty.
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Purpose of the Study:

- The purpose of my study is to establish the current beliefs about Beauty among

the people living in the 21st Century.

Problem Statement: It is unknown who is beautiful and not since one Man,s

meat is another man’s poison.

Research Question

- What does society say about Beauty?

- How do Television and social media portray Beauty?

- What is the extend of doubt on one's body beauty due to social media?

- Which age group is highly affected by this?

Description of the Participants

The different researchers used different participants in their research. Article 1, by

Ehlinger, used University and college lady students, the 4th article by Lasco interviewed high

school boys and girls, while Noble's 6th article utilized three beauty shop operators. To get the

information from the participants, the researchers apply different methods.

The first researcher used the technic of providing their respondents with a questionnaire,

The 2nd, keenly observed the behavior of the students on matters concerning Beauty. On the other

hand, the last researcher applied one-on-one interviews, where three young ladies operating

beauty shops were involved.

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The 1st Participant, the University and college lady students, got the information they

gave from reading from school books where they obtained the Data Collected by the researchers.

The 2nd Participants, who were high school boys and girls, got the information from magazines

they read, including the school magazine, which had captured the modeling events.

The 3rd Participant (beauty shop owners) got the data from experience gained from their work.

The ladies also said that they listen to the customers who come to their shops frequently in need

of different beauty products.

Data Collection procedure:

The procedure involved in the collection of the data involved face to face engagement. Here,

questions regarding Beauty were asked, and the respondent given time to answer. The

questionnaire technic was also used, where questions were typed in the questionnaire paper and

given to the targeted group of respondents (Listyani, R. H., & Susanti, E. (2020). The Concept of

Beauty and Body Consciousness of Young Muslim Women at Higher Education in Surabaya,

Indonesia. Talent Development & Excellence, 12(1).

Results/Findings

About 20% of young people were introduced to makeup through media. Afterward, they could

not free themselves.

The research also found that 30% of people are into makeup and do not believe in natural

Beauty.

Discussion

From the results above, it can be seen that quite a several people have gotten into makeups in the
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run to look like someone else. The media has been the leading stimuli for this. Through media,

many young ladies and men have doubted their natural Beauty and sought it elsewhere. Since

there is still no particular threshold for Beauty, they keep doing it the more. The population,

therefore, ought to understand that no one can be set aside and declared beautiful. It all lies in our

eyes. All of us are beautiful in our ways and levels.

The study carried was, however, faced with limitations. Such limitations included;

inconsistency in data collected. Some samples were not able to respond to some critical

questions in the questionnaire. Leaving blank spaces meant alloy for the study. Others also

provided untrue information by responding to questions in a manner that was not genuine. For

example, A person saying they adore natural Beauty but having applied cute on their fingernails.

Better funding could be useful since it would enable the researchers to cover a larger area and

increase the study's size sample.

Conclusion: Summary, Conclusion, and Recommendations

The issues of Beauty have been a long discussion for a long. The researchers who tried to

provide some fact-based information about the same solved what their predecessors tried and left

it incomplete. More and more studies have been done, including this research paper, but the truth

is, we are yet to get there. The concept of Beauty has remained a paradox, and it may continue

being so unless the parameters used are shifted in another direction. Beauty can better be

described by a person giving reference to him/herself. To make this clear, this is what it means.

One will describe herself as Beauty after comparing her face after and before applying the beauty

therapeutic substances, but not comparing with others.

Comparison to others will only lead to more confusion about the subject matter. For example, a

lady who applies face powders cannot appear as dark as she is naturally. After appearing light-
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skinned, they meet another dark lady who is described as beautiful. This paradox seems to

continue not ending any soon, so long as we compare ourselves with others. People need to

accept themselves the way they are and stop doubting if they are beautiful or not. All of us are

beautiful, for Beauty is the set of minds and not seen on the face. From research, the latter has

failed to describe what Beauty is all about.

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perpetration, body image dissatisfaction, healthy eating and dieting behaviors, and life

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