Beauty Around the
World
By: Morgan Cornell, Maury Whitley, Tiara Scott
Beauty….
People’s perceptions of beauty vary in
various parts of the world.
Beauty can be influenced by one’s
culture, environment, beliefs, and
media.
There is a great amount of pressure
put on women to be defined as
beautiful.
Thailand
• Members of the Kayan
tribe begin beauty rituals
at the age of 5.
• Girls and women wear
brass rings around their
neck, as they get older,
more are added
• The rings causes their
necks to elongate and give
a giraffe like appearance.
• The brass rings are a sign
of sheer elegance
• Some of the rings can
weigh up to 22 pounds.
New Zealand
• The Maori people of
New Zealand practice
the art of Tattooing.
• It is believed that
women are most
attractive with their
lips and chin tattooed
• Women with full blue
lips and chin are the
most beautiful
Ethiopia
• Women of the Karo
tribe in Southern
Ethiopia
• Elders cut scars on
young girls as a right
of passage.
• Scars allow them to
attract males and
possibly marry.
India
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Indian women take a more
natural approach to beauty
Indian women use natural
resources to achieve their
beauty.
They wear bright colored
clothing and jewelry including
a forehead chain.
The dot in the center of the
forehead is called a KumKum
and is considered to be a
beauty mark.
Indian women are known for
their glowing skin and long,
beautiful hair.
Japanese Beauty
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Japanese beauty is more
traditional and takes hard work
to achieve.
Japanese women love for their
hair to be jet black and straight
with absolutely no kind of wave
or curl.
Japanese Hair Straightening
process.
Japanese also take pride in their
skin.
Japanese prefer to have wrinkle
free, porcelin-like skin.
White, and pale to look youthful.
To achieve this look Japanese
women drink cologyn and bleach
their skin.
Beauty
• Many white teens
would find this model
to be beautiful
• She has blonde hair,
blue eyes, petite, and
on the cover of a
magazine
• Many young teens
feel pressure to look
like this and find this
model to be beautiful
High Fashion Beauty
• In the high fashion world
the thinner you are the
better as seen in this
photo
• Many girls are pressured
to be thin because it is
thought to be beautiful
• Because of this, many
young teens have eating
disorders such as
anorexia and bulimia
Black Beauty
• Many African-American
teens are influenced by
what they see in videos
• Beautiful black women
are seen dancing
provocatively in rap
videos bearing their
bodies
• Many teens are
influenced by this and
feel pressure to look and
dress as the video vixen’s
do
Light Skin V.S Dark Skin
• It is becoming more
common to have light
skinned women in
gracing covers of
magazines and television
• Light skinned women are
looked at as superior to
darker skinned women
because their complexion
is closer to white
Light skin V.S Dark skin
• It is becoming rare
seeing dark skinned
women on television
screens or graving
pages of magazines
because the media
focuses more on
putting the spotlight
on lighter skinned
women
Relaxed V.S Natural
• More and more black
women shown in the
media have relaxed
hair
• For most women
relaxed hair is more
manageable
• This may pressure
teens with natural hair
to go relaxed
Relaxed V.S Natural
• Natural hair is
becoming more
rare in the black
community
• Natural is looked as
positive it allows to
be chemical free
• Some black women
believe that natural
is beautiful
Black Beauty
• Black women are some of the
most diverse group of women.
They come in all types of shapes,
and colors
• Black women are beautiful and
need to embrace one another
• This battle between complexions
cause young teens to have
animosity.
Affect on Teens
– Many teens are influenced by what they see
everyday. Young girls want to feel that they
are beautiful and want to be accepted. Many
young teens are struggle with body image and
self-esteem. They turn to the media such as
magazines and television to get a sense of
what beauty is supposed to look like. This
causes teens to change themselves and
conform. Young girls should love themselves
and know that they Are BEAUTIFUL.