I was watching a youtube clip recently, one from this very popular youtube channel called Slice and Rice. It included a clip of a Korean girl named Glory who was trying to get a kick out of the audience by making them laugh. This clip involved her trying to recreate herself on photoshop with supposed plastic surgery procedures that were computerized and construed so that she could see what the better version of herself would be like. She made her eyebrows less bushy, she trimmed down her bulbous nose. She gave herself the infamous double creased eyelids that so many east asians and koreans lacked, but got as birthday presents maybe when they went off to college. It was interesting, but I’m glad that there was actually a female that was able to face these issues head on and give herself a laugh about it and not take things so seriously about her own looks to make this comedic.
A lot of females can really go down into a rabbit hole of self doubt and desperation when it comes to their looks and whether they meet up with societal standards of beauty, since this is an area that is so emphasized upon this gender. She showed the result of her before and after face, and her black husband sat next to her, in awe and shock that she supposedly looked so different and strange from her usual before self. Many of the comments had stated that she looked so beautiful before! What was she doing to herself? Yadidadi yada. Facebook comments that don’t necessarily hold any scientific or truthful ground from time to time.
I took a look at her after photo in comparison to her before face photo. One thing that my gut instinct told me was that she actually did look better after. The trimmed down nose did make her even out her proportions a bit. There seemed to be a somewhat more defined balance to her appearance. I just didn’t think it was necessarily appropriate to sort of call her out on that and state some sort of “truth” that was not apparent there. Ah, just go with the flow and tell her, “you look beautiful just the way you are! Don’t do this to yourself!” Deep down inside, I couldn’t help but think if there was some instinctual ways our mind are wired to agree upon whether certain structures and aesthetic features were beautiful or not with god’s ways and nature.
There are many ways to define the concept of aesthetic beauty. This includes societally construed standards that evolve over time in terms of beauty. Maybe Hitler and the Ku Klutz Klan can define the Jews and everyone as aesthetically unappealing. Maybe because of societal standards with racism and bigotry over time, black women don’t seem as visually appealing over time. Perhaps polka dot pants aren’t as aesthetically appealing as black jogging pants. That’s not what I’m getting at or referring to. It’s more so an inherent beauty that all creatures in nature see with the way something can be constructed through perhaps god’s doing that learns to visually adorn and connect more with these things.
This is called sacred geometry. There is a golden ratio of phi in math that recognizes that balance and proportion can make facial features in human beings more attractive. This is a proportion that results to 1.618. We don’t just apply this to human beings though. Flowers can have this attribute of the golden ratio. Snails can have this attribute. Trees can have this attribute. It’s simply a frequency ratio that somehow emits more proportional symmetry and beauty. I’m sure for other creatures and beings they share this sacred worshipping of things that fall a bit more in line with this proportion, not just humans.
Regardless, human faces can be calculated in a way to see how close they fit into this golden ratio proportion. This is why there is a universal way to sort of rank aesthetic beauty with human faces. If you do a survey with a select group of humans, be it from different races, generations, societal backgrounds, I’m sure you would come to some common conclusion and agreement as to who was the least attractive to the most attractive in terms of facial features. There would be some sort of common agreement in terms of the ranking system. I mean, I know a few Asian females that are sprawling around youtube trying to promote their supposedly all important products and services. Even though they all look the same, they actually don’t. If I were to compare Glory from Slice and Rice to Vanessa Lau and her channel to Tiffany Tin’s channel, I would rank them from least attractive to most being 1. Glory 2. Vanessa Lau 3. Tiffany Tin. You know who beats all of them though? My Malaysian Facebook friend Cheryl. She is gorgeous. Absolutely stunning. In terms of absolute beauty, no one beats the Spanish celebrity from the hit show Gilmore Girls, Alexis Bledel.
There you have it. There is some system to rank aesthetic attractiveness in some way. This is why plastic surgeons usually have some metric system to turn to in order to reshape faces. We can rank inherent aesthetic appeal. However, keep in mind that it doesn’t entail that is all that makes one “attractive”. What makes someone attractive through the law of attraction can be attributed to many traits. For one, aesthetic appeal only appeals to one of the 4 the senses. We have 4 other senses at the end of the day that determine how we feel at the end of the day. There is a ranking system for smell. There can be metrics for sound and loudness. There can be metrics for taste. There can be metrics for touch. All of these senses at the end of the day combine and mix in order to find out what we find “attractive”. Society and its emphasis on aesthetic physical appearances should take note of this. Aesthetic physical visual beauty does not trump everything. If you had a framed picture of your celebrity crush such as Natalie Portman hung on your wall and simply looked at it every night, but had a highschool crush named Miranda with a bit of acne and cute, plump cheeks you chatted with a bit and gave you a few laughs, who would you feel more “attracted” to? Who would you feel more comfortable around? There goes nature and its law of attraction playing its part right there.
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