Beauty and Culture Around

The World

Presented By : Aziz Falah

Presentation Outline

• Introduction• Traditions • What’s Traditions?• Examples of cultures around

the world

INTRODUCTION

Throughout history, people in every culture have sought to change the natural appearance of their bodies. They reshape and sculpt their bodies and adorn them with paint, cosmetics, clothing, and jewelry..

What’s Traditions?

• A tradition is a belief or behavior passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special meanings with origins in the past. Common examples include holidays or impractical but socially meaningful clothes ..

Long Necks The women in Japan are often called 'giraffe' women

because of the custom of placing rings around their necks from when they are young girls until they marry.

The more longer the neck , the more beautiful a woman is !

starting at the age of 5, and

gradually adding more

and more.

Stretched Lips

Lip plates are a unique tradition, that of inserting lip-plates into their lower lip. In these tribes, it is still a norm to wear fairly large wooden or clay pottery discs or plates that are inserted in a girl’s lower lip.

There reason for having these plates Women wear these to show strength and fertility, in the Mursi tribe a woman wearing this shows the epitome of validation and self-esteem of a woman.

Feet binding• The rich families used to bind their daughter's feet when they’re 3-4

years for their feet to stop growing because one of the signs of beauty was small feet !

• This was causing the women lifelong pain and making it difficult for her to walk.

Fattening Traditions• In many other countries, such as Mauritania and Nigeria big is

most definitely beautiful. a skinny woman would be pitied. To the point that young girls have been sent by their parents to fattening camps where they’re forced to eat 15,000 calories a day in order to fatten them up !

Blue Face Tattoo• Tattoos are common around the world. For Maori

people in New Zealand, the tattoos are placed on their lips and chins. The ultimate beauty is to have full blue lips.

BODY SCARS• Scars are considered something to hide in the west, but for

Karo girls in southern Ethiopia it will help them get a husband. As young girls, the skin on their stomach is cut to create scars, and when they have enough they are considered ready for marriage.

Small Face• In South Korea, the smaller your face is, the prettier you

are. Also this is from the country that considers the double lid is a better choice compared to their single lid which is pretty common among Asians.

SURGERY BANDAGES• Believe it or not, Iran is the rhinoplasty capital of the

world you Nose jobs are so common ,and so much of a status symbol, that women will often wear their post-surgical bandages longer than needed or even create fake bandages to wear without actually having the surgery.

LONG EARLOBES

• Stretched earlobes are a beauty ideal among the Masai of Kenya, where women piece and elongate their lobes using stones and pieces of elephant tusk.

Thin is in?So, beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder! Some of

these practices may seem strange, even unattractive to us, but I wonder what the people who do them would think of

our ideas of beauty.

• REAL BEAUTY is not about the looks, the dress, or things in your body, like jewelries, etc.

• It is not also about the color of your skin, nor the shape of your face, even the style of your hair.

• It is not about the physical appearance but the inside look. Its what’s in the inside that matters !

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

“ Beauty is not about having a pretty face. It’s about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul “