This is so last decade, if you look in the uni many good looking people there, both Safys room mates are gym rats and studying engineering.
Some of the most prettiest and talented people have the worst insecurities. Take a look at your boi Michael Jackson.
I am ugly and I am not confident
Not all the research about beautiful people is favorable. There is some recent body of research indicating that attractive people are lacking in the conversation and personality department. You can look it up. I have come across exceptions of people who are attractive and fun to talk to. But looking back…I feel I’ve come across more attractive people whom I found shallow in conversation…their focus being being more on themselves or inane things…there was a lack of depth. And I have come across insecurities in attractive girls as well. Despite the research, there are still so many gray areas.
Allah made us all beautiful in our own way. And then you have society’s standards for beauty …and I think that most people fall into the ‘average’ category. Makeup alone can make a huge difference in a face. Once that face paint is removed, you have (in many cases) an average face…a realistic face. Even photographs are not the most realistic portrayal; there are filters that can be used to make a face look better. We are definitely living in times where there is a greater obsession with beauty (the faker the beauty the better it seems) and youth. And then the media is constantly bombarding us with beautiful (but unrealistic) images and so it’s very easy to become self-conscious. It does take more of an effort to remove yourself from this pressure and come down to reality. A while ago I was in line at the movie theater and there was this girl in front of me who had the most fakest looking lashes glued to her eyes. They looked mega fake from a distance and 100 times faker up close. And I’m sorry but I could get not get myself to appreciate it and I even wondered if maybe both genders have slowly slowly (over time) been conditioned to accept fake beauty as more attractive. When the media keeps throwing something at you, over time society becomes immune to it.
Agree.
Just god given beauty does not cut it anymore, you have to workout, eat healthy, groom yourself and wear appropriate clothings. Th concept of beauty is also there in religion with detailed description of beauty of hoors and also how beautiful girls wallis could get better mahar and beautiful slave would sell for more moola. If anything personality is now valued more as women are finally allowed to work, talk, go out.
‘Ugly’ is very very subjective..
My ex-sil was considered unattractive by quite a lot of our elders, simply because she was darker.. she looked a lot like Freida Pinto..
Many who were younger considered her pretty (including me)..
She had a lot of confidence..