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No. 165197

I thought this would be an interesting discussion. I've seen it sort of talked about in other threads.

What are the beauty standards in your country or area and how close or far to them are you? Do you care? Do you think people focus too much on them?

No. 165198

I'm British and I'm pretty indulgent in the whole "hairless body" thing, but mostly because it makes me feel like a dolphin.

Doesn't bother me what other women choose to do with their bodies; it's why it's their bodies.

No. 165199

I'm from New Zealand, but we have the same fucking hairless body thing and its irritating to shave all the time. I'm a naturally hairy person too… When I was in high school I never shaved hah. I was hairier than my fucking brother.
In NZ, people don't care all that much, depends where you are though. specially in summer.

No. 165200

>>165199

Aw dude I fucking love hair removal it's so cathartic.
I epilate though so with every session it becomes slightly more permanent, and I actually kind of like the minor pain of epilation.

No. 165201

Germany here.

Germans usually dislike heavy make up, you're supposed to look ~all natural~ and if you wear red lipstick people will look at you like you are the beacon of sin. Wear as little make up as possible, if you are born slightly ugly of have bad skin you should make sure never to let anyone know you correct these issues with make up.
As said, for hair is't usually long and straiiiiight as a ruler. In winter you might be okay with braided updos, otherwise go for topknots.

Clothes should follow the current trend. Being too flashy, cute or girly will get you disapproving stares. As with make up, it's best not to be too flashy or show that you've tried hard or have a different style.
If you do though, at least people will be polite enough to just stare at you and mostly leave you alone.

We might trick ourselves with "you totally don't need to be skinny! Beatuy at every size!!!" but that's total bullshit. It's the same as everywhere else; you are supposed to be thin. We do have a rise in obesity, but I noticed that mmost girls from 13 to 30 are usually a smaller size; I get the ompression that middle aged women and older mostly contribute to the obesity statistics.

Being hairless is important too. Your whole body should be hairless. Trend for men being hairless is growing too.

No. 165202

>>165200
Anon, lol i fucking hate it… but i get what you feel about liking the minor pain of epilation,
I don't take painkillers for minor period cramps cause i like the feeling of it.. idk ha

No. 165203

>>165197
I think people don't focus enough of them.
seriously beauty standards arent much a big deal.
bitches be acting like shaving is the same as being abused or some shit like that.
i think if you have a good skincare routine and you eat healthy and have a healthy body, it's all good.

No. 165204

>>165201
i love your beauty standards. damn i want to live in germany.

No. 165205

>>165204
Why? Tbh I hate the whole "be perfect but never let on that you actually do anything ever to improve your appearance" thing. Like they want skinny chicks who eat huge burgers and perfect skin but no foundation or spending money on expensive creams, natural hair that you spent 2 hours on, etc etc.
Also, I like the simple, natural look and I adopt it myself but seeing interesting looking people is nice too. I've never been to Germany but I lived in France for a while and while almost everyone was attractive, it's just not interesting. There was practically no other style except that wavy hair and skinny jeans look. No subcultures, nothing. Meh

No. 165206

>>165205
I like places with high standards.
I'm the inverse.
I just love strict beauty standards because it shows people take care of themselves but that,s just my opinion.
I love natural makeup and the purity thing hnng
I love the whole "be perfect but never let on that you actually do anything ever to improve your appearance"
i guess im weird haha

No. 165207

>>165206
I wouldn't really qualify that as high standards, or at least not any more so than basically anywhere else.
I agree though, I love that look, and I have a similar outlook about my own appearance but it shouldn't apply to everyone.
I'm not saying people should run around being obese or dressing in bodyline, not at all, but you can be cute and "different". Some bright lipstick, or studs, or fluffy bows, whatever.

No. 165208

>>165206
Yes I enjoy off duty 17 yearold ukranian model who's vacationing in brazil look. But I know that's not realistic.

No. 165209

>>165208
strict beauty standards are realistic though lol just don't be lazy and thats all

No. 165210

>>165199
Oh my god, another NZer!

I don't think NZ cares too much about how women look compared to most other countries, but I live around a college and it's slightly depressing at times how so many people here are attractive, both men and women.

No. 165211

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I'm french, and I think one of the first rule to be seen as a human here is ; Don't be fat, seriously don't.

Despite our very hairy reputation, the hairless rule apply here too, you must be soft as a dolphin, eyebrow trimed, mustach waxed, no leg hair, no underarm hair, no belly hair even it it's just three litttle baby hairs … (I'm a hairy girl so you can pobably feel my strugle)

A classical beauty here must be effortless, chic and modern when she just threw random clothes on her, her face must be nice without any makeup, her hair should be savage but classy, …

We have to much natural classical beauty in our history, like Anna Karina, Romy Shneider, B.B, Isabelle Adjani, Vanessa Paradis, emmanuelle beart. I think all thoses women sum up, the "french ideal" a beautiful, thin lady, who dress in a classic yet modern fashion, with nice hair and little makeup…. Yeah.

No. 165212

>>165210
Another Kiwi? Awesome~ Wow I haven't met anyone from Nz on here before.
Anon, do you mean college such as high school, or uni?

I've heard from a lot of foreigners that they have never met such bloke-ish bunch of females, haha don't know what that makes me then.

No. 165213

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I live in UK and its pretty much the same as America standards but with less emphasis on big asses and more emphasis on fake tan

however, i will be moving to Korea soon with my bf (Also Korean)
Knowing how high their standards are . I feel like their family will eat me alive (I have a large jaw, pretty much dakota level if not worse) and im freaking out
I feel like people will call me ugly behind me back and its making me not want to go to Korea (even though it seems unrealistic that people would waste their time on an ugly foreginer )
I'm also pretty tall so I will probably be the same height as guys there

No. 165214

>>165213
Anon! You can do it, If you aren't a fucking stupid ass Koreaboo you should be fine

No. 165215

>>165204
>>165206
Lol our standards aren't really as high as you make them seem to be. I think most Asian standards and partly even the American ones are much higher.

It's just this retarded "look a certain way but neeeever admit you're not born perfect how dare u" attitude. At least Koreans are more open about surgery and having a 20+ product routine is the norm. Here if you use visible make up you're quick to get judged as "fake" and "vain" if you use some beauty products that are more than 5€.
It's hypocritical and stupid.

Besides I think the ~all natural~ and super bland look is overrated. I'd rather see some people being a bit creative than 20+ girls all looking the same while wearing the standard H&M/forever21/Primark uniform clothes.

No. 165216

I'm a foreigner living in Austria and to me it seems the Austrian beauty standards are a bit different than Germany's.

- makeup is usually expected. A lot of girls wear a very natural look EXCEPT for their eyes. Eyeliner and eyeshadow and mascara seem almost required here. Even on uni excursions. I almost never wear eye makeup beyond mascara and occasionally I feel really out of place.

- I see a lot of dyed blonde hair here. I guess I'm used to that everywhere, though. A lot of unnatural red dye too.

- I don't know about body hair but not wearing a bikini at the beach is seen as ridiculous if you are under 40. I guess I didn't see any body hair at the beach.

- Very few girls with pixie cuts here.

- People take risks with their hair but not as much with clothes. If it's not in Zara or H&M, people aren't generally wearing it.

- the only jeans are skinny jeans, as tight as possible. Leather pants and leggings are also OK, no matter how ugly the leggings.

- People comment if you wear heels or platforms and worry about whether you can walk in them (sure, no problem, even on your cobblestones).

-girls do not dress in a preppy or cute style here.

- I get a lot of compliments on my style (even though it's really … idk, a mixture of stuff - hard to explain). It just doesn't fit in. I don't wear a lot of bright colors, but occasionally all I see is black and grey around me, so any brighter color feels a bit garish. Not all the time, but some days.

No. 165217

I wish I could tell you about Belgium but I don't really know. People in the capital cities dress a lot more "daring" than in smaller cities and villages. Then ofcourse there's a difference between different subcultures (and again more subcultures in bigger cities)
I think the standerd here is people prefer blonde hair, natural make-up and not too skimpy clothes.
Hope for another Belgian to tell more!

No. 165218

>>165213
Anon, I live in Korea w/ my bf also, and as long as you are white they won't talk about your face. If you are at least 10kg overweight they will talk all sorts of shit about you behind your back tho.

No. 165219

>>165213
>same height as guys
>in Korea but not in own country
oh boy, you must be so tall

No. 165220

In my country, lash extensions have become really trendy and 4 out of 5 girls have them now. I hate them, most of the time they look really jarring and fake in a really bad way. I don't mind subtle lash extensions but it seems like everyone goes for the really long and voluminous ones that just look like fake lashes… and then they wear no make-up with them.
Imagine putting on your heaviest, most ridicilous fake lashes and not wearing any eye make-up with them. It looks so stupid it makes me angry.

No. 165221

>>165201
That's what I noticed when I was in Germany! I really like the way people take care of themselves but don't walk around like they're going to a party.
I'm Portuguese, our beauty standards are pretty much the same as in the US but also heavily influeced by Brazil. This used to be a pretty conservative country but girls are showing more and more skin. It's pretty common to go to college with a crop top and skinny jeans (yes, even in the winter). Tanned skin is desirable and people with naturally light hair and eyes are idolized, even if they have ugly features. Also, there's a huge fitness trend here, most girls go to the gym and wish for big glutes and six packs. That's pretty much it.

No. 165222

I was about to start typing something up about British beauty standards, but then I realised that we lost them many years.
I don't feel like Britain has an identity any more, it's just one big mixing pot.

No. 165223

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>>165201
Other german here and my experience is almost the same execpt that ppl in my town actually call you out when you're ugly / you wear too much make up / you wear no make up at all. Also, lately every blond/light brown haired girl dyes her hair dark brown for some reason.

>Dagibee for references

No. 165224

>>165223
why are they making themselves untermensch on purpose?

No. 165225

>>165224
seriously tho! non-blondes are subhuman! tans skin never leaves the house without black eyeliner and mascara

No. 165226

>>165225
It's ok, we can't all be aryan.

No. 165227

>>165226
Aryan as in Iranian or Aryan as in being a small brunette Austrian man with small dick complex and anger issues?

No. 165228

>>165227
Hitler never claimed to be aryan. Nice try juden.

No. 165229

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https://np.reddit.com/r/asianfeminism/comments/3tr4m8/why_they_arent_completely_wrong_when_they_say/

TL;DR: Large eyes and double eyelids have never historically been considered to be universally beautiful in East Asian societies until extensive contact was made with Western Europeans in the 20th century. The current beauty standards found in East Asia are an offshoot of the imperialistic tendencies of the West during the Cold War era. This still affects us today in the way we perceive our own beauty and how we view interracial relationships, particularly with white people.


Thoughts?

No. 165230

>>165229
That place is just an offshoot of where a bunch of asian guys write long ramblings essays about their conspiracies as to how da white man is keeping da yellow man down. That entire essay was nothing more than ramblings to justify why it's evul to marry da whites and promote some sort of weird pan-asian american nationalist sentiment.

In short, it's garbage.

No. 165231


No. 165232

>>165229
That place is just an offshoot of where a bunch of white guys write long ramblings essays about their conspiracies as to how da joos is keeping da white man down. That entire essay was nothing more than ramblings to justify why it's evul to marry da blacks and promote some sort of weird pan-white american nationalist sentiment.

In short, it's garbage.

No. 165233

>>165206
>"I like places with high standards"
>Germany
Top kek

No. 165234

>>165229
That's basically every article written by an Asian-American person with a SJW slant. At the end, it's suspicious that she only summarizes the bits about double eyelids and big eyes while a couple of other modern beauty standards have clearly existed before white people ever came to East Asia as if to say, "look, it's really all white supremacy's fault". My suggestion to OP: Stop reading posts from subreddits titled asianfeminism/asian-whatever.

No. 165235

>>165229
tl;dr they saw how much more beautiful white people were and wanted to emulate them.

No. 165236

>>165235
That's literally the exact opposite of what the essay says.

>>165232

The essay explicitly decries white supremacy..

No. 165237

>>165229
Thoughts? East Asians with too much time on their hands. Do they not realize that some Asians (even east asians) have natural double eyelids? I don't really get all the BS they are spewing.

No. 165238

I'm swedish and I think the natural look is extremely popular. Clothing is very stylish in the big cities and never ever "too much". I think the tall, defined, sort of mysterious elven look is very sought after.

Being short, curvy, brown haired and round faced didn't really make me feel like I fit in. But oh well. I feel a lot better in Britain where I live now, maybe not when looking in the magazines but seeing people in the streets in general, I'm a lot more comfortable than back in Sweden.

No. 165239

>>165234
imo these people need to get over themselves.

I subscribe to r/asianbeauty because there is actually useful info about Korean cosmetics there, but I roll my eyes at the "beauty standards" threads that get posted occasionally. So much social justice critical race theory sperging.

No. 165240

>>165217
Been living in Brussels for 6 years now, and I couldn't really tell much either
I guess we don't see Kardashian tier bullshitters as much as you would in the US
When I finished secondary school here, the different cliques seemed to have different styles; popular girls were striving for the Kardashian look with Stan Smiths and dyed hair (natural colors), the slightly less popular ones dressed decent and then there were a few tumblrites and punks

No. 165241

>>165235
Did you even read the essay you edgey retard?

No. 165242

>>165205
Isn't Berlin like the hipster capital of Europe with a shitload of subcultures? I know a goth chick from there, and a gyaru.

No. 165243

Finland here, Helsinki to be precise. I like that not wearing makeup here isn't seen as something 'so brave' (because lol seriously?) but at the same time the slutty California beach bunny/Coachella look is really popular and the more American you look the higher in the food chain you are. Which is really funny considering most girls here have chubby cheeks and beady, squinty eyes so it looks horrible.

No. 165244

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>>165242
Yep, hardly anything will surprise you after living in Berlin for a couple of years. Though Berlin is in no way representative for the rest of Germany, not even for Berlin itself. It's only the city center where you see hipsters and weird subcultures. 50% percent of the people you see there aren't German anyway.

No. 165245

>>165243
Oh and for rich people looking as 'preppy' as possible is the ideal and going to New York or LA is seen as a status symbol

No. 165246

>>165244
>50% percent of the people you see there aren't German anyway.

So like the rest of Germany?

No. 165247

>>165243
Just which part of Helsinki is that? I've never noticed the "American" look like California beach bunny/Coachella being popular. The most popular style I see here is the lifestyle blogger "leather jacket with leggins and a baggy shirt/crop top paired with sneakers" one.

No. 165248

Here in Ireland the beauty trend is just to emulate whatever the US or the UK is doing.
What I did notice however is that the women who are seen as being drop dead gorgeous usually have very horsey jaws and huge teeth. Also being caked in 10 layers of makeup is the norm.

No. 165249

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>>165234
>(insert ethnic minority)-Americans writing topics about the state of a country they have never even lived in like their blood just magically transfers all the knowledge of the local culture to them despite having grown up in a completely different country and culture

No. 165250

In Australia, the ideal is pretty much the 'beach/party girl' look
>blonde
>tanned
>skinny
>whatever clothes are in fashion at the moment, I don't think surfy brands are popular anymore

I'm extremely pale and my hair was auburn when I was younger, I got teased for being a 'ranga'(ginger) even though it was a really nice colour. So of course I spent my teen years fake tanning and bleaching my hair like a dumbass. Now I try to stay as pale as possible and for some reason my hair has gone brown, but I've stoppped dying it too.

No. 165251

>>165247
Eira and Lauttasaari is where I usually hang out. The look you're describing is what everyone in the rest of the world seems to be wearing rn including here, but in summer it's pretty much just short shorts and crop tops with as deep a tan as you can eke out of the Finnish sun.



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