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Beauty is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning, or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology, and culture. An "ideal beauty" is an entity which is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture, for perfection. The experience of "beauty" often involves the interpretation of some entity as being in balance and harmony with nature, which may lead to feelings of attraction and emotional well-being. Because this is a subjective experience, it is often said that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." In its most profound sense, beauty may engender a salient experience of positive reflection about the meaning of one's own existence. A subject of beauty is anything that resonates with personal meaning. The classical Greek adjective for "beautiful" was καλλός, kallos. The Koine Greek word for beautiful was ὡραῖος, hōraios, an adjective etymologically coming from the word ὥρα, hōra, meaning "hour." In Koine Greek, beauty was thus associated with "being of one's hour." A ripe fruit (of its time) was considered beautiful, whereas a young woman trying to appear older or an older woman trying to appear younger would not be considered beautiful. In Attic Greek, hōraios had many meanings, including "youthful" and "ripe old age." From Wikipedia under the
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 news.google.com OfficialWire (press release) Beauty Research has some ideas. BeautyResearch.com, in a recently posted article, suggests some Perfect Gifts for Men just in time for Valentine's Day. ... and more » news.google.com Broadway World Bentley starred in the 1999 hit film "American Beauty " at the age of 21 and has since taken a hiatus from the entertainment. Bentley's return to acting has ... Back From the Depths, Rebuilding a Career New York Times Wes Bentley Admits Drugs Torpedoed His Career BlackBook Magazine all 3 news articles » news.google.com Scotland on Sunday (subscription) Mac is a regular at the big designer catwalk shows; Diane Von Furstenburg, Herve Leger, Mulberry and Tommy Hilfiger have all used the brand ... From Google News Search: "Beauty" What are your best beauty tips for traveling & long flights? Q. What are your best beauty tips for traveling & long flights? How do you look fresh after 14 hours on a plane? Asked by ShannonOfDoom - Sun Nov 22 19:59:10 2009 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments A. Use a lot of lotion and mosterizer. If you want don"t do ur make up until you are about to land then dio your makeup on the plane that way u will look fresh faced when you get off the plane! Answered by cosmeticgirl - Sun Nov 22 20:11:08 2009 Is beauty really in the eye of the beholder or is there a standard? Q. What people commonly term beauty is difficult, we live in a world which is influenced by the Media and TV to define what beauty is? When the Great Plague happened Fat people were in and in Africa as they lived longer. In our society were food is in abundance. Thin is in. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised. Proverbs 31:30 Favour is another word for Charm, Someone who is charming is hiding something. Beauty is a thing that is temporary as it will last but a moment. Even personality if someone is nice or hot? How do you define Nice you do not know who they are? Jer 17:9 - Show Context The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? Do… [cont.] Asked by deltadom33 - Fri May 11 22:06:57 2007 - - 11 Answers - 0 Comments A. Excellent question. It touches on many areas: art, philosophy, sociology, mass communications, psychology, and even the "hard" sciences like statistics, biology, genetics, etc. You have addressed one of the most ancient and universal questions. It can be directed or focussed on many subjects, such as male or female physical beauty, or the inner beauty we often see in physically unattractive people, or it can be generalized to the beauty we can find in nature, the universe, or even mathematics and the realm of ideas. The ancient Greek philosophers (eg: Plato) had much to say on the subject, some even went so far as to attempt an objective classification of the nature of beauty, or the ideal. Fast forward to the present day, to the hard… [cont.] Answered by The Voice of Reason - Fri May 11 22:45:49 2007 How can you tell if the Vitamin E in my beauty care products is natural and not synthetic?
Q. Beauty Care- Synthetic Vitamin E vs. Natural Vitamin E? How to tell if vitamin E is not synthetic in beauty products? If a beauty product says it has Vitamin E (a-tocopherol), how do I know if this is not the synthetic version? Asked by Really Cool Person - Tue Apr 29 15:27:43 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments A. I'm not sure if there is a way to find out other than asking the manufacture itself. Call their questions/comments hotline to see. Answered by Mare - Tue Apr 29 15:33:13 2008 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Beauty" Beauty is a characteristic of a person, place, object or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology and culture. The subjective experience of beauty often involves the interpretation of some entity as being in harmony with nature, which may lead to feelings of attraction and emotional well-being. This theme article needs cleanup. Please review , especially the , to determine how to edit this article to conform to a higher standard of article quality. This page has been listed as needing cleanup since 2008-04-10.Sourced
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