Beauty and Culture

Over the years, each community measured the beauty on their own vision, culture, beliefs and location. Because of, technology, traveling and immigration we can recognize the overlap of one culture to another, and the similarities.

In the earliest years, each group of people has their own beliefs of woman beauty and the way that woman dress herself. For example; the Arabian gulf culture and Indian culture. Both of them, they prefer women with long black hair, white skin and big black eyes. Kohl is a black substance, commonly used by the women of the Arabian Gulf as eyeliner and eye shadow. Apart from making the eye look bigger, it was also believed that kohl eyeliner could prevent eye diseases. In desert areas, kohl is used by both men and women, as it controls the suns glare from the desert, and thus is of huge practical use. Henna is commonly used in these cultures to stain nails, skin and hair to enhance beauty by creating decorative henna designs. Black henna is used on the feet and hands, while red henna is typically used on the tips of the fingers and toes. But, Arabian woman their traditional dress is (Abaya) which covered the whole body. Where, the Indian woman wears (Sari) which appears the beauty of the body. Sari is a strip cloth ranging from four to nine meters that is draped over the body. There are many similarities between Indian and Arabian Gulf culture, but when we compare the Arabian and Indian culture with Westerns aspect of beauty we will find a lot of differences. In Westerns they prefer the tallness and caring about it so much as an important measure of beauty. Then, followed by long blonde hair, in spite of they are thrilled by the black hair, clear brown skin with sporty skinny body, wide shoulders, fully thick lips and green or blue eyes. And these standers are related to typical look of European woman.

In our generation, the media affects the culture in different sides where we can figure the overlap between different cultures. In one hand, in Arabian Gulf nowadays, the girls dye their hairs into blond, wear a light eye contact lenses and their dress become as Westerns fashions. In the other, the Westerns like the Eastern beauty which depends on black eyes and black hair.

Finely, I believed that; (Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.) Kahlil Gibran.