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contrast in beauty
Jul. 26th, 2010 12:15 pmI read something somewhere about how we distinguish between masculine and feminine by contrast. So women wear makeup that exaggerates facial characteristics and men do not.
Although I think I could believe that about the contrast without artificial emphasis, I don't believe it overall.
There's Duke on Haven, he's got extremely dark hair, very prominent eyebrows, and a dark moustache. He seems very striking in that Superman's Clark Kent kind of way. The majority of women preferred Aragorn to Legolas in the LOTR movies. And most men seem to gravitate toward the blonde bimbo kinds of women where there's very little difference between hair and skin color but the lips are painted blow-job red.
So high-contrast is appealing to women. The proverbial "Tall, dark, and handsome."
I don't know what men who aren't interested in artifice-laden women prefer in terms of contrast, but there isn't a parallel "dark and beautiful" saying.
It makes me wonder how much of women's standards of "beauty" are less about what's appealing to men and more about what women like on themselves.
On the whole I am quite pleased to be with a man who thinks makeup is ugly on women and that I am more beautiful without it. Not only because it's beneficial to my self-esteem, but because I don't waste an unholy amount of money on artificial colorants.
Although I think I could believe that about the contrast without artificial emphasis, I don't believe it overall.
There's Duke on Haven, he's got extremely dark hair, very prominent eyebrows, and a dark moustache. He seems very striking in that Superman's Clark Kent kind of way. The majority of women preferred Aragorn to Legolas in the LOTR movies. And most men seem to gravitate toward the blonde bimbo kinds of women where there's very little difference between hair and skin color but the lips are painted blow-job red.
So high-contrast is appealing to women. The proverbial "Tall, dark, and handsome."
I don't know what men who aren't interested in artifice-laden women prefer in terms of contrast, but there isn't a parallel "dark and beautiful" saying.
It makes me wonder how much of women's standards of "beauty" are less about what's appealing to men and more about what women like on themselves.
On the whole I am quite pleased to be with a man who thinks makeup is ugly on women and that I am more beautiful without it. Not only because it's beneficial to my self-esteem, but because I don't waste an unholy amount of money on artificial colorants.
