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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It’s such an amorphous concept that it could relate to anyone and anything. After all, it may be that your grandmother may not fit the traditional roles of “conventional attractiveness” due to her age. However, she may still be utterly sweet, have a beautiful spirit, and accommodating to everyone she meets. Does that make her any less beautiful? Of course not. In fact, that kind of person has so much more to offer than someone who only relies on their looks to get ahead.

For this reason, any discussion about beauty means discussing the philosophical underpinnings of what beauty is, but not necessarily throwing out all meanings of the concept in order to render it unusable.

In this post, we hope to explore the true hallmarks and pillars of beauty. This way, even if you don’t want to “compete” in “conventional spaces,” we hope you can recognize the beauty in yourself and feel more confident thanks to that.

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Beauty Is Often Healthy & Natural

Instead of focusing on being beautiful, focusing on improving your health and your natural strengths is the best way forward. After all, you can paint a disheveled house with beautiful colors, but that doesn’t mean the illusion will hold. 

For this reason, it’s good to be careful. If your skin doesn’t respond well to makeup, you might wear none at all or only in limited amounts. Caring for your skin with appropriate creams is so much better. Excellent hygiene underpins all of this. On top of that, you don’t have to only ever think of your natural self to be beautiful. You’re not “lesser” or less of a natural beauty if you click here to implement rhinoplasty or to resolve cosmetic issues you’ve wanted to change for a while, provided it’s for the right reasons.

Often, embracing your natural self, no matter what characteristics you have, can be a precursor to accepting who you are. There’s nothing more beautiful than someone who remains unapologetically themselves.

Beauty Is Gracious

True beauty doesn’t have to continually seek validation or dominate over others to be present. It’s a natural and seamless characteristic that is valid whether or not it’s being observed. Of course, that doesn’t mean posting outfits of the day on your Instagram or having fun with fashion before you go out means you’re “seeking validation.” It just means you’re expressing yourself.

However, judging or putting down others, thinking you need the latest and greatest fashion to look good, or feeling as though you can only go outside if you prepare yourself a certain way can be less than ideal. If you focus on being gracious, you tend to become more beautiful by the moment. That’s not to say you have to be a “classy woman who never puts a foot wrong,” in fact, you can still be yourself and express who you are. It’s just about being socially supportive, nurturing, and giving yourself that same love, too. 

If you can achieve that, then the natural shine of your personality and perspective will help you make many friends and connect with people worth knowing. It’s hard to think of a more functional use of “beauty” than that.

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Beauty Is Flawed

A very common misconception suggests that beauty is the same thing as perfection. That’s why many “beauty treatments” are designed to make you look flawless and uniform. Of course, if that’s how you like to express yourself, there’s nothing wrong with that.

However, it’s also good to remember that beauty is also flawed, and in some cases, is made more pressing, interesting, and unique by those flaws. In Japanese tea-drinking ceremonies, broken cups and pots aren’t thrown out, but fixed, the notable cracks showcasing the history and character of the piece, which would not have existed otherwise.

This goes to show that just because something has a flaw, it is not rendered unusable or undesirable. So, it might be that you have a birthmark, you’re overweight, or you currently have a bad posture that you’re working on. Does that make you any less beautiful? If you have acne, does that mean you can’t look great in an outfit? If you have a condition like alopecia or vitiligo, does this mean that you won’t look gorgeous? Not at all. In fact, there are runway models with all of these conditions now as the industry looks to become more inclusive.

Understanding that can help you avoid detesting and rejecting your own flaws, but embracing them as part of you. If you accept them and improve what needs to be improved (such as for health reasons, acne, etc.), then you’ll move forward with a real sense of pride in who you are, asking for approval from no one.

Beauty Is A Process

You can think of beauty as a fire that can be fed, as opposed to a state you achieve, like enlightenment. This means that no matter where you are in life right now, you can be beautiful. You can be beautiful as a person entering their prime, a woman in her middle-age, a man trying to find well-fitting clothes for his job, or someone learning to live anew with a health condition.

So, here we come to the cleanest definition of what beauty is - an attitude informed by a perspective. If you apologize for nothing, work on self-care, and view life with a sense of adventure and possibility, you’re operating with beauty in mind. These are the kinds of people that bring joy, worth, and goodwill into the world, so it’s hard to argue they deserve any other definition.

Beauty is a process, one you can have fun with. You hardly achieve one make-up look or wear one outfit and never try to change from that point on. Keeping that in mind can help you enjoy the very many definitions of beauty, instead of feeling constrained to just one.

With this advice, you’re sure to implement the true hallmarks and pillars of beauty. What are your thoughts on the pillars of beauty? Let us know in the comments!