Honors Project -Jamie Cucci

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Honors Project-Jamie Cucci Mike Decaro

• Be a first rate version of yourself, not a
  second rate version of someone else.
• Judy Garland

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What is Beauty?

• I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty
  being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do
  you want, an adorable pancreas? Jean Kerr
• Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a
  mirror. Kahlil Gibran
• Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and
  fifty percent what people think you've got.
  Sofia Loren

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Beauty in American Society

• As an Innate characteristic
• Something people are born with
• You have beauty or you dont.
• Mainly female? Google search beauty women,
  statues and puppies. No men.
• Beauty and the Beast?

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Beauty Products

• Beauty centers on womenor scenery. But not men.
• But is beauty unnatural?
• Much work is required to achieve, or maintain,
  beauty.

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Unnatural Beauty?

• The natural person is loud, fat, hairy, smelly,
  and UGLY.
• There is a huge effort, illusion and business
  centered on beauty.
• Trying to make all people the same?

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Is Beauty a Constant Idea?

• Look at beauty pageants, TV commercials,
  magazines.
• The models look the same.

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What is this Ideal Beauty?

• Women define beauty
• Thin not outwardly strong
• Lots of shiny, glossy hair, only on her head
• These are the new real women.

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Quickly Current Male Beauty

• Tall, or taller than women
• Tanned and Muscular
• Thin, but not skinny
• Fantastic hair, well kept, and only on the head.

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Ideal Beauty

• Young Under 25
• Large Eyes
• If White, tanned.
• If Black, light.
• The Ceramic Barbie
• Disturbing Thought A Child with Breasts?3

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African-American Beauty

• Constantly changing
• Argument Dark skin vs. light skin
• Dark has a negative connotation back to era of
  slavery
• Attempting to look White?

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A-A Beauty

• Texture of hair
• early 1900s -straightened, European style
• 1960s Black pride, embracing natural. The Afro
  opposite of white style.
• Current perms, but long and straight is still
  good hair.

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Portrayal of A-A Beauty

• 1930s depicted with excessively large breasts,
  wide hips, and thick thighs not beautiful to
  media.
• (Aunt Jemima. And that was it)
• But that is precisely what many black men find
  beautiful. Now, many black women have sickly
  thin weights. However, bulimia and anorexia are
  still more common in whites.

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So whats the difference?

• For whites, beauty is tanned, thin with long,
  straight shiny hair and large eyes.
• For blacks, beauty is light, thin, with long
  straight shiny hair and large eyes

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Now, For Something Completely Different

• Middle Eastern Vast cultural differences form
  whites, blacks.
• Country Egypt, modern.
• One of the more progressive Mid-East countries
  Westernized.

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Egyptian Style

• The belly dance
• A celebration of the beauty of women and the
  body.
• Video Compilation. Various dancers and styles
• To live is to dance to dance is to live.
• Snoopy

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Egyptian? Beauty

• Is the Egyptian idea of beauty different than the
  American and European style?
• These are pictures of Miss Egypt 2004 and May
  2004. Do they resemble Europeans?

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Egyptian? Beauty

• Very European Look
• Lighter skin than most Arab nations
• Hair long and straight
• Thin, not very muscular
• In a different culture, beauty is very similar.
  Why?

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Globalization

• Media
• Spread the same ideals throughout the world
• Everyone can see what beauty looks like.
• Selling the same cosmetic products everywhere

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Egyptian Style

• There is a beauty in simple, clean execution, in
  using a movement in it's purest, simplest form,
  that transforms the dancer. There is a joy and
  grace in simplicity that is more powerful than
  any complex ornamentation. When there is no
  camouflage, no busy distraction, it is the dancer
  themselves that is revealed. -- Aziza Sa'id

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Works Cited

• 1 What Is Beauty, Anyway? De ClarkeExcerpted
  from a speech given June 25, 1983 at the Myth
  California Pageant, Santa Cruz, California.
  www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/Nikki/BeautyClarke1.html
  
• 2 A Twisted Perception of Beauty by Kim Campbell
• http//www.harlemlive.org/writing-art/essays/twist
  ed/twisted.html
• 3 Aziza Saids Middle Eastern Belly Dance Site
• http//www.zilltech.com/FAQQuotesArt.html
• 4 Beauty Quotes
• http//www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_beauty.html
• 5 BEAUTY STYLE Ebony 60.12 (Oct2005).
  p98F.
• 6 Taylor, Mikki and Edwards, Pamel. beauty
  Essence 36.2 (Jun2005). p3c-48.
• 7 Morgan, Joan. Natural Woman Essence 36.1
  (May 2005). p64-70.
• 8 Kunzig, Robert. Style of the Nile Discover
  20.9 (September 1999). P80-83.
• 9 Smith, Roberta. Ancients, briefly modern and
  human. New York Times 146.50591 (10/25/96).
  pC32.
• 10 Gray, James J, Ford, Kathryn and Kelly, Lily
  M. The Prevalence of Bulimia in a Black College
  Population. International Journal of Eating
  Disorders 6.6 (November 1987). p733-740.
• 11 J. Fan, F. Liu, J. Wu and W. Dai. Visual
  Perception of Female Physical Attractiveness
  Proceedings Biological Sciences. 271.1537
  (February 2004). p347-352.