What the “ideal woman” looks like in 11 different countries

Beauty, as they say, is a relative concept. A person may be considered beautiful in one country and unattractive in another. A man’s or woman’s style considered beautiful here in Brazil can be rejected in Africa or in Asian countries, for example.

To show how these concepts of beauty vary according to the region, the awesome.club brought together 11 countries around the world that have unusual concepts of female beauty.

A typically Irish woman usually has thick eyebrows, fair skin, and thin lips. But her most common features are a large forehead, green eyes, lots of freckles, and red hair.🇧🇷 As the Irish people are not used to beauty treatments (they prefer a more natural style), these feminine characteristics are very much appreciated.

In most Western countries, a perfectly aligned smile is associated with beauty, but in Japan things work very differently. In the Land of the Rising Sun, Young women are going to dental clinics to make their teeth crooked! This “semivampire” look, or “yaeba” as it’s called, is actually considered cute over there. The Japanese believe it to be a symbol of natural beauty and youth.

Statistics show that Iran has the highest percentage of nasal surgeries in the world! And that’s no wonder, as women can’t use their other body parts to attract potential mates. Then, tend to invest a lot of time in their faces, especially noses.

Rhinoplasty, a surgery that corrects imperfections in the nose, is very expensive in this country. Therefore, if a woman passed through it, it means that she has good purchasing power, being from a wealthy family. Therefore, many iranian women wear their bandages long after surgery just to show that they are rich enough. Some of them even use fake bandages to pretend they had a nose job.

The ideal of beauty in South Korea is defined by flawless white skin, a sharp nose, a small face and large eyes. But the most important thing is the shape of the face — it must look like a heart, with a narrow chin and wider at the top. To achieve this ideal, many Korean women spend thousands of dollars on plastic surgery.

French women always look for natural beauty —they wear almost no makeup, rarely wear perfume, and tend to leave their hair natural. The average Frenchman believes that true beauty is reflected in a woman’s skin; so instead of makeup, girls use more creams and lotions to make their face look perfect.

In Tajikistan, thick eyebrows joined together above the nose are considered the standard of beauty for women. Some time ago there was even a common superstition: the closer your eyebrows were to each other, the closer your husband would be to you. Also, this type of look is considered a kind of symbol of purity and innocence in women.

Although today things are changing, it is still possible to find many Tajik girls with an eyebrow like this. And even those who have lost this gene, cultivate the necessary hair or draw the eyebrows to look more beautiful.

“The eyes are the mirror of a person’s soul”, goes a saying. And women in Saudi Arabia take him very seriously. As they don’t show most of their face because of religion, much attention is usually paid to the beauty of the eyes🇧🇷 To make themselves more attractive, they use all kinds of makeup and other resources and spend considerable amounts on them.

For the Chinese, pale skin is considered a true synonym of beauty. This trend actually harks back to the past, when skin color was related to the social class to which a person belonged. If the skin was dark, it meant that he worked in the fields and was poor. That’s why Chinese girls will do anything to keep their skin as white as possible.

This quest for the pale face goes far beyond just avoiding sunlight. To get rid of “dark skin”, they also use all kinds of face creams, which often contain bleaching agents.

For the Kayan ethnic group who live in Myanmar, the long neck is considered a symbol of well-being and beauty🇧🇷 That’s why local girls wear rings on this part of their body from the age of 5. In the beginning, there are 6 rings, a number that increases every year. At the time of marriage, the number of rings reaches the maximum. That’s when they stop adding them.

As a result of using these props, the woman’s neck can reach up to 40 cm🇧🇷 And sometimes it’s so uncomfortable that it’s hard for a girl to move her head. However, they never complain: beauty demands sacrifices, does it?

In New Zealand, tattoos are not just used to decorate the skin. the Maori natives use a tattoo technique called “ta moko” to make a sort of “identity card” with patterns of black and dark blue on a person’s face🇧🇷 The women of the group traditionally get tattooed on their chins during adolescence. The more elaborate the tattoo, the higher the social status. The tattoo “tells the story” of the person and, of course, helps to enhance their beauty among the group.

In some tribes of this African country, when a woman reaches childbearing age, the other members remove the 2 lower front teeth and make a kind of piercing in the lower lip. Then they insert a piece of clay or a wooden disc into this hole. As it grows, larger and larger disks are placed there to stretch the lip even further, until it reaches the size of a plate. This ornament is seen by the Surma people as a symbol of female maturity that attracts men to marriage.

The natives also use weights to stretch the earlobes until they touch the shoulders. they believe that the more stretched out the lobes, the prettier they are.

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