Looking at our standards

I find our beauty standards kind of funny. It's not something many think about, but think about the conversations you hear from the people around you. I'm sure you've heard plenty of girls talking about how they need a tan or how they need to shave or how they need to lose weight. It's funny, back then people didn't want to be tan because it showed that they were of lower class. The fad only became popular because Coco Chanel accidentally got a sun tan (read more here). The reason why women shave is because of a marketing ploy to get women to buy razors (read more here). Plump women used to be considered more beautiful and healthy (read more here). Why do we think tanning is beautiful? Why do we cringe whenever we hear of a girl not shaving her pits?

It's because of the society we're raised in.

It's that bubble again, influencing our thoughts on what we think is beautiful. It'd probably be weird to a majority of us to think of others having completely opposite opinions of beauty, but it happens. It's just something to think about.