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Every day we hear that outer beauty is nothing but a question of luck. Some persons were a little luckier at birth than others and got a nice face, a shapely figure and an irresistible smile. “So what?”, they say. “You have your unique sort of beauty, yes it is not your face, but your temper, your ability to have affection to others and help them, you creativity and inner qualities”! No doubt, you agree that a human being is more than a mere appearance, but still, deep in our soul you feel disappointed and fooled. Why do you feel this way?

To reveal the answer let us have a closer look at contemporary ways and the public opinion prompted by the mass media. Every entertainment and show on TV, every single advertisement, the main part of articles in various journals and magazines sing the same old song - you should behave this way or another to be bright, youthful, healthy and beautiful! In fact, money, energy, youth, beauty and sex appeal are the tin goods forced on us today. If you cannot give your buddies a ride in a brand new BMW, loneliness is your destiny! If you are not good looking enough, you life is a mistake! If your muscles are not big enough you will doubtlessly end up your vain days in the gutter! If you breasts are not large and shapely enough, you will never reach anything, so seize trying! If you are in your forties you are history - give the way to teens or they will throw you out of their way! Judging by our mass culture the whole world goes mad and we are absolutely happy about it… Do you still need more proves to realize why you feel so uneasy when special trainings and psychological counsels start feeding you with inner beauty that is far more important that a mere shell!

There is a stunning difference between what mass culture tells us and what certain specialists tell us. That is exactly why you cannot find a basis to rest at! Let us try to dissect this painful issue to get a clear look of what beauty is! It will help you realize whether you wish to be the slave of your mortal shell or try to understand what you are like deep inside your soul!

We speak about beauty to characterize any person, creature, place, object, phenomenon or idea that we behold with a feeling of delight and satisfaction. Beauty is an essential part of aesthetics, psychology and culture of every nation in the world. The ideal of beauty is a kind of perfection existing in one’s imagination but impossible to achieve in reality.

If fact, the sensation of beauty is nothing but a combination of natural harmony and balance in every detail, it makes a human being, animal, place, object, phenomenon or idea in question exceptionally attractive and nice for people perceiving it. It is an entirely subjective experience, maybe that is why it is generally believed that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”.

The spring of the word “beauty” can explain some awkward points of today’s term. The Greek equivalent of the word “beautiful” - “horaios” literally means “being of one’s hour” - so, ripe fruits of the time were believed to be beautiful. At the same historical epoch young girls who tried to look older as well as old women who tried to look younger were not viewed as beautiful at all! Beautiful meant “good in its time”, that is why old men and women and even injured warriors were considered just as beautiful as young and healthy personalities. Can you imagine anything of the kind in our up-to-date society proclaiming the epoch of equality and humanism?

You will be stunned to learn that little children very early acquire a preference for beautiful faces; in fact it is a kind of cognitive standard any human comes to this world with! No wonder the universal notions of beauty and attractiveness are similar across all cultures and genders. Number one building block of beauty is symmetry. The clue is rather simple here - we all enjoy seeing symmetry and proportion because it is the evidence of absence of any genetic or acquired drawbacks. No wonder ancient people really treasured symmetry.

So, the Pythagorean school found special attractiveness in the golden ratio and proclaimed the beauty of every man and woman and object corresponding definite mathematic rules. Ancient Greeks showed their love of symmetry and proportion having erected many of marvelous buildings, immaculate statues of men and women etc. Renaissance Europe restored this old idea of beauty that is why even today we call definite types of male and female body and face proportion a “classical beauty”.

Discussing appearance it is silly to forget that we are a part of nature, we are creatures sharing basic instincts with the majority of mammals on the Earth. Of course that our instincts influenced by the force of our intellect disguise themselves as certain habits, tastes, emotions, likes and dislikes. In fact the ideals of male and female beauty are based on the qualities necessary for reproduction and survival of the human race. Refuse do believe? OK, here are some tips for realizing the nature of beauty of the opposite sex!

You will not deny the fact that personalities who are rather young, have smooth skin, well-proportioned bodies and regular features are always considered to be attractive throughout the history of humanity. You can be absolutely sure you liked your spouse for his or her intelligence, grace, politeness, sense of humor, elegance etc. You are absolutely right, but enumerating the features like this, you deny the fact that your spouse has body as well! What about his or her state of health, youthfulness, facial symmetry, smell etc?

One more shocking fact for you - average appearance is the most attractive for the majority of people. Remember, we have some animal instincts in us? The logic is we are attracted to mates of our own species to guaranty reproduction! The average image of the mate is a kind of icon for us; that is why average looks is the most desired one. Recent investigation proved that a number of men and women found a computer generated average image more attractive than individual images of real men and women having certain specific features!

What are the determinants of male outer beauty? As recent investigation proved, heterosexual women and homosexual men prefer:

- heavy brows, prominent chins, heavy jaws and broad cheekbones associated with increased testosterone and being a reliable indication of good health;
- symmetrical faces and bodies being a sign of good inheritance and ability to create healthy babies;
- slim waist, broad shoulders and muscular chest (so called v-shaped torso) associated with increased testosterone, too;
- height - 80% of women dream of a male blessed with the height of 6 feet or taller for long-term commitment and the opposite male when a short-term affair is intended;
- moderate amount of torso hair.

What are the determinants of female physical attractiveness? As newest research proved, heterosexual men prefer:

- waist-to-hip ratio of approximately 0.70 because women with hourglass figures are more fertile than other females due to higher levels of certain female hormones, and this fact subconsciously lures the men choosing mates;
- symmetrical face and body being a sign of good inheritance and ability to produce healthy babies;
- large eyes, dilated pupils, small chin and nose, high eyebrows and wide smile;
- women 2.5 - 7 years younger than their mates;
- indicators of youth like high firm breasts, smooth skin, clear eyes, long and lustrous hair;
- full (not large) breasts as a signal of fertility;
- erect posture and natural body mass index (neither too thin nor too fat);
- long legs as a subconscious indicator of good health (not merely aesthetic feature).

Unfortunately, natural standards of beauty are dangerously influenced by mass culture. There is a real threat of degeneration of human race if the media continue determining what is or is not beautiful for us the way they do it today! For instance, ultra-skinny models promote disorders in the heads of many people. Glamorous movie idols force ordinary young men and women try and fit into extremely narrow standards of TV beauty. Easy excess to pornographic pictures and videos creates false notions of natural body proportions. Do not forget that the teens are the most vulnerable group of human society and they have to face it every day! What can be done in a situation like this? Keep fit and healthy because real beauty can not exist without perfect health. Have enough sleep, entertainment, physical exercise and recreation. Give up harmful habits - being displeased with your life is one of them, too! Think positive, find time for hanging out with your friends and reaching your goals. Be very careful about your diet because we are what we eat! Make sure your body gets every important vitamin and mineral. If you fall ill take the complete course of treatment. If you cannot stand queuing up visit any good affordable internet pharmacy to save you time and money.

If you choose to purchase safe and cheap generic drugs online, you will receive perfect service and fast delivery saying nothing of splendid discounts. And the most important point to fulfill! Be yourself, because trying to become someone else in equally painful and dangerous.