The idea of what is considered the ideal of beauty for women varies across different cultural ideals and practices. In
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Skin color contrast has been identified as a feminine beauty standard observed across multiple cultures. Women tend to have darker eyes and lips than men, especially relative to the rest of their facial features, and this att… See more

In the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, the feminine beauty ideal created by white male colonists was for women to have a brown skin color with black hair. In the 1920s, an American consul wrote a letter to the … See more

Body hair and facial hair have long been stigmatized in women across many cultures, which regard them as masculine attributes that are undesirable in the opposite sex. For this reason, many women feel pressur… See more

Mass media is one of the most powerful tools for young girls and women to learn and also understand feminine beauty ideals. As mass media develops, the way people see feminine beauty ideals changes, a… See more