The Curse Of Beauty

The German quarterly business magazine Enorm ran, during a recent edition, an editorial on how honest capitalism appears to those who spent their early lives underneath the yoke of socialism in the previous East German provinces. The 2 page report featured 9 men and girls who had started new businesses or suggested others on the method of founding a business, with roughly one hundred words voicing their opinions and a photograph. Eight of the photographs showed those interviewed standing or sitting a long way from the camera. The ninth, a Public Relations Advisor who had started her own business, was shown wanting over her shoulder, sitting in a snug chair, with the photograph placed centrally and significantly larger than the other eight. From the text offered, from the different businesses and opinions there was no great difference noticeable, however the ninth interviewee was beautiful, and also the photographer had obviously taken your time with placement, pose and setting to project her in a higher light-weight, to boost the complete article with a true eye-catcher.

Undoubtedly, for the Public Relations company at least, another bonus since the reader's eye is drawn towards this one photograph, the others falling into shadow, and to the linked text describing each her experiences and business interests. For girls generally, particularly for girls considered beautiful by the standards of society, this extra attention can be both a blessing and a curse depending on individual points of view and therefore the circumstances. That many women fancy the attention their looks attract, that they generally play to an audience is undisputable however, particularly for the celebrities of stage and screen, there's a dividing line between work and leisure, between when their beauty ought to be admired and commented upon, and after they simply want to be themselves, faraway from the limelight and in private. In personal beauty, or recognition, will have a lot of drawbacks than advantages.

As a lady, particularly one constantly in the general public eye, appearance is of paramount importance. Standards of beauty and fashion - clothes and accessories - are set and are constantly being pushed higher by the publicity machine of fashion designers, by film studios, magazine editors which, for many, are nearly not possible to achieve or maintain. Additionally Father Time and Mother Nature have a task to play that, irrespective of that lotions and creams are offered in countless beauty salons, can not be held back for long. Once a lady is caught within the seemingly endless circle of beauty, once she lets herself be taken along for the ride, there's no going back. The fight against loss of beauty, loss of esteem in the general public eye based solely on her appearance, is doomed to failure and, forgotten by several throughout the business and film world, there are invariably queues of lovely girls waiting on the sidelines for his or her probability on the frontline.

For anyone who cannot adapt to the passage of time, to the truth of bitter competition, beauty can be additional than a straightforward curse, it can become one amongst the foremost stressful endurance races of a person's life, from the instant the primary wrinkle or gray hair appears through to the final acceptance that, regardless of what, beauty is only skin deep. Some cannot accept these changes, are unprepared for the natural evolution of face and figure and struggle to maintain their perceived position despite all contrary signs nearly to the level of an obsession. The curse of beauty will become a mental downside as beauty wears skinny or changes, leaving the standards of a younger generation behind.

There's another curse associated with beauty, one that many people seem to overlook: the curse of not being lovely enough in keeping with the transitory standards and fashions of the day, of just about having that final touch, that gleam, that smoothness, the eyebrows or eyelashes, lips, eyes, nose. The constant feeling that if just this one factor was slightly straighter - hair, nose - fuller - lips, eyelashes - thinner - figure, eyebrows - everything would be therefore much better. The greatest curse of all, though, is the lack to simply accept oneself, to determine that everybody has their own beauty - be it visible or an inner beauty waiting to be discovered - and to bring it to the fore.