Physical Beauty is Temporary

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What about tall athletic single mothers? Or having kids makes you automatically a second class citizen? Hmmmm Wouldn't it be a reverse knowing that if you knocked her up, you wouldn'e get saddled with someone who had let themselves go after having kids.

We should thank Ricky5 for creating this before and after pics thread.

According to this article, the sun definitely ages the skin.
http://www.skincarephysicians.com/aging ... facts.html

I don't know about that, I think that's just a stereotype, I don't think the OP used the best example to represent healthy American women. I find our British celebrities like Keira Knightley, Rachel Weisz, Helena Bonham Carter, Russell Brand, Christian Bale, Emma Watson and Hugh Grant to be more attractive than the likes of Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson or Zac Efron. I'm sure there are plenty of American people who are attractive without the stereotypical Hollywood look, I find some American actresses attractive such as Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock and Anne Hathaway.

I would say that in the past fifteen years, our culture has been inspired by the United States or the typical Hollywood look, many people seem to be using fake tan and whitening their teeth here like this.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HTr8ygb-gQ[/youtube]



The United Kingdom isn't very different from the United States when it comes to eating, we definitely aren't far behind in terms of being unhealthy according to the chat posted below. I get most of my vegetables from an allotment but I know there are a large majority of people in the UK who live off fast food and takeaways. France tends to the be one of the healthier countries and that's because they mostly grow their own vegetables and eat organic foods, most groceries in the United Kingdom have closed down or been overshadowed by major supermarkets and fast food franchises.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_o ... th-obesity

I do not know. I was merely trying to reproduce RICKY5's thoughts on the matter.

I believe age does not necessarily makes people ugly. My own mother is an example of that: she is 43, but most people think she is, at most, 35. When I was a child, people were surprised to know that she was not in fact my older sister. To this day, most people react surprised when they discover she has a 21 years old son.

Also, I have remained relatively unchanged since I was about 4 years old, as weird as it may sound. If anyone seed a photo of me as child, the person will immediatelly recognize me. The only significant changes are my eyes (which got smaller, but less asian-like), nose (much larger now) and size of my head (it is not as proportionally large as before). Any photo of me from back when I was 15 years old (which was when my face began to physically mature and people stopped mistaking me for a 12 years old) is exactly like my current ones.

I love this! It's perfect! It's how I feel, too. So much more "grounded".

And Magnus_Rex, {sob} I'm not only old enough to be your mom, I'm actually OLDER than your mom!

Age is just a number. Hold on, I am going to travel all the 4800 miles to where you live so we can talk about it.

Lucky for you, I live where there are many, many Brazilian immigrants. I know all the good restaurants!

You can teach me Portuguese, right?

I have never taught anyone. There is only one way of finding out...

Go to all the soccer games in my neighborhood and have you translate the swear words for me? Hee.

Actually, I have an Antonio Carlos Jobim CD and some Elis Regina CDs. I will be studying up on them (where they sing in Portuguese).

Yay, I await your arrival!

Portuguese is the one with the lisp, right?

I laughed out loud!

You may be thinking of Castilian Spanish, though some dialects of Portuguese can be a bit mush-mouthed, I've noticed. Same with any language, really.

i have never been able to interpret what makes someone physically attractive apart from simple aspects like healthiness and cleanliness.

if someone looks sickly or frail or feeble, then i would be less likely to touch them, but apart from that, i can not see what most people see with regards to physical beauty.

if someone has greasy hair and dirty brown teeth, i think they are not clean, and i do not like dirt.

but i can not see why people like angelina jolie (sp?) are so widely adulated. she is not pretty as far as i am concerned.

people say that their criteria for attractiveness are things like the shape of teeth, or the shape of eyes, or the length of legs or the size of breasts etc.

to me, teeth are for eating with, and eyes are for looking with, and legs are for walking and breasts are for babies.

how can the shape of someones teeth be important in deciding whether they are pretty?

i have been told that it is the symmetry of the teeth that is important, but some people in indonesia have their teeth filed down so they are all the same size and length, and to me it looks ridiculous.

some asian people have surgery to reduce their epicanthic folds, and i can not see why. they can see perfectly well as they are, but somehow many people are more attracted to western style eyes even though they are not superior to asian eyes.

long legs may be better suited to running, but how does being a good runner make someone pretty?
i have no idea.

i saw a show last week where a reporter went to hollywood to make a documentary about people who have many surgical procedures to make them selves look different.

i was astonished at how the recipients of the plastic surgeries and the botox injections and the liposuction procedures were happy with the results.

one woman had a bit of fat in her belly, and it looked quite ok, and after her liposuction, she did not have the fat, but she had horrible folds of skin that were draped like heavy curtains around her midriff.
she was happy none the less.

most of the people in the documentary had spent thousands of dollars trying to look more "attractive", and they seemed proud of their investment, but to me it looked like they had been stung by a swarm of bees.

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anyway, everything is temporary. not just beauty. the whole universe is temporary, and there will be a time when no one exists to remember how beautiful any one ever was.

Aaahhhh the beauty of youth. The shiny hair, smooth forehead and sparkly eyes are what age takes away. But age takes it away far more slowly than the unhealthy habits people are talking about in this thread. So stay away from those and you can hang on to this for a lot longer.

beauty is temporary, but ugly is forever.

ugliness is also temporary because ugliness is in the mind of the beholder who is temporary

i love the 'before and after' photos thing. i was meaning to make a 'post a pic of yourself 5 years ago' thread a while back, but never got round to it