I was born a brunette but gradually my hair has become medium brown, in summer light brown.
Now I have my natural color with some lighter highlights.
I loved having dark brown hair, dark cherry and plum colors. Now I believe they make me look older so I stick to my natural color with some extra highlights. I never tried red hair because it would limit my choice of colors on clothes.
If you know a common classification of types of beauty, or color types for women - I am a typical "summer".
Zooba,
You are perfect as you are. I saw the pictures you put online somewhere on this Forum.
Often women are very nice in their natural beauty, and often when they change that they get less attractive in my point of view. For instance brunettes who turn themselves into blondes, or blond girls who turn themselves into Goths with black hair and brown contact lenses, or redheads who want to become blondes or brunettes.
What is a typical "Summer"?
Pieter
Here is a person with a very poignant point of view. A most attractive confirmation of Polish women.
The most beautiful men and women in the world
Splat! Blog
Evan Maloney
Is there one country where the women and men are more beautiful than in any other country in the world?
"Beauty is truth, truth Beauty,” said the 19th Century Romantic poet, John Keats, and for the past couple of hundred years people have been trying to figure out what he meant.
Half a century before Keats made his obscure pronouncement, the Scottish philosopher David Hume wrote: ‘Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.’
In other words, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This idea was expressed well by the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa in the lines:
Has a flower somehow beauty?
Is there beauty somehow in a fruit?
No: they have colour and form
And existence only.
Beauty is the name of something that does not exist
Which I give to things in exchange for the pleasure they give me.
In 2001 John Cleese presented a programme called The Human Face, in which he contradicted this idea. He put a plastic Terminator diagram over photographs of ‘beautiful people’ to show that beauty was purely mathematical: a matter of symmetry and proportion. So a beautiful face looks something like this:
This, of course, is an ideal of beauty which relates only to facial features. In terms of the human body, the Western ideal of beauty, at least in so far as it relates to women, has changed drastically over the past few centuries. Believe it or not a painting of Venus (the Goddess of beauty) represents the Natalie Portman of the Renaissance:
Note that her breasts appear only slightly developed, probably because the model was no more than fifteen years old - a couple of years older than Juliet when she married Romeo, and only one year older than Marie Antoinette. It’s a sobering thought, but if this painting were a photograph hanging in your living room, you might be arrested and charged with possessing a pornographic image of a minor.
It is curious, to say the least, that while women have to constantly adapt to the times, the masculine ideal of beauty has not changed for over a thousand years; even the Greeks immortalised the male form in much the same way as it is idealised today. A Greek statue portraying athletics could easily be an AFL footballer in summer training:
But five hundred years ago female beauty had to be well fed. The notion that female beauty is not inversely proportional to calorie intake has been dispensed with in this era of fast food and easy privilege, to the extent where this model would be considered fat:
There is something compelling about the idea of symmetrical beauty, however, when it comes to the popular ideal of facial beauty. And it does seem to apply to faces of different races: Lucy Lui, Halle Berry, Monica Bellucci, Sophie Marceau, Gwyneth Paltrow and Penelope Cruz all have faces that would compliment the Terminator symmetry plastic map of beauty.
So is there one country where this ideal of symmetrical beauty is more prevalent? Probably not,
although the women of Eastern Europe do seem to be particularly blessed.I don’t think I have ever been in a country where there are so many beautiful women as Poland. I am definitely biased because my wife is Polish and I live here, but there is a special quality to the beautiful women of Poland that makes them even more attractive, and that is the apparent lack of awareness of their beauty. A beautiful Polish woman will walk down the street and not feel so special because there are a considerable number of equally or more attractive women walking past them regularly. This commonality means it is a kind of unconscious or unaffected beauty that Polish women have. They do not feel like they are anything special.
In other countries truly beautiful women are less common and thus a women who possesses beauty (in the symmetrical sense) will probably be acuteley aware of it, and this awareness can often make a women less beautiful in the spiritual sense.
Yes, the spiritual sense.
Don’t you find that sometimes when you first meet a person you might not think their appearance is remarkable and then, slowly, as you get to know them better, they start to look more and more attractive. At the same time, some people who look extremely beautiful when you first meet them slowly start to look less and less attractive as you get to know them, until you wonder how you ever thought them attractive at all?
Which brings us back round to the earlier point that beauty really is in the eyes of the beholder or, as Fernando Pessoa wrote, “the name of something that does not exist / Which I give to things in exchange for the pleasure they give me.” For me beauty is everywhere in Poland but am I beholden? I’m sure other people will nominate a country where there are more physically beautiful women or men. Don’t you think that some countries seem to produce more beautiful men than women, and vice versa? Italian men, for example, are generally better looking than their female counterparts, which probably explains why the Italian men sleep around so much. Polish women, on the other hand, are far more beautiful than Polish men, thus foreigners like me are able to enter the country and marry women who are far more beautiful than they deserve (in truth I met my wife in London, and followed her back here). What about the female point of view? Is there a country where the men are pound-for-pound hotter than any other country?
And anyway, after all this buff about physical beauty - does it really matter in the slightest? Is it completely shallow to even discuss human beings in terms of their physical features when we know that a person’s real value has nothing to do with how they look? Should we rather contemplate the beauty of their minds, their hearts, their souls, their truth - as Keats might have been inferring (though nobody really knows.)
