What does it mean to be a "classic" beauty?

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Anonymous wrote:It is sad that most pps are nor even realizing that yoy are defining classical beauty with white features. I agree with Halle Berry, but it seems only reason she shows up is that she has white facial features.

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"Classic beauty" in the western sense means women who have that specific look that is most common among white women.

As I said previously, other cultures have their own standards of a "classically beautiful face."

You can't judge Indian, Asian or African bone structure by white beauty standards.

I don't know what thread you are reading but other PPs and I have named:

Iman
Aishwarya Rai
Halle Barry
Lupita Nyong'o
Kerry Washington
Gal Gadot

I think I even cited Nefertiti.

None of whom are the white beauty standard.

All of whom are classic beauties.

Apart from Lupita, I am reading the same thread as you. Plus what is Gal Gadot doing on your list of African or partially African women? She is as white as it gets. Halle Berry has extremely white features, you are clearly clueless about African, Asian and other ethnicity and their beauty standards, classical or just cute. Aishwara Rai? Really? You found the whitest feature looking Indian woman to prove your point? Nefertiti, historians and archaeologists speculate was of North East African heritage, which has facial features similar to white ethnicity. Look up Ethiopian women.

so your problem is not that women listed are white but that they have "white features"? first of all features are not necessarily white (more women in Ethiopia have high cheek bones than in any white country), they just happen to be what everyone everywhere likes. imam is gorgeous not only by white standards but also by "black"' and "Asian" standards. you can stamp your feet all day long but you wil never make fat ass Serena Williams or some such "a classical beauty".

that's not necessarily what everyone everywhere likes. please stop speaking for all of humanity.

by all means keep telling yourself that you are beautiful but there is a lot of research on this, sorry!

but you've failed to cite to none of it.

actually I told you title of the science book ("the survival of the prettiest") that has evea chapters on this. it's a bit dated but a good start for someone who knows nothing (you). there you have hundreds of references and you can look at recent articles citing those references if you want your knowledge to be current.

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Anonymous wrote:It's ridiculous that folks are injecting a ethnic competition into a standard that has nothing to do with coloring. Classic beauty just means a beauty that involves a symmetric, well-proportioned face, features on the delicate side, none disproportionate (even if its beautiful or sexy in its own way, e.g. Angelina's mouth, Amal's eyebrows), perhaps a statuesque, sculptural quality to face and body. I agree with others that although its not perhaps strictly part of the definition, it implies someone who is more elegant and pretty than sexy.

I would say that there are plenty of non-Anglo women that meet the definition--as others said, Halle Berry, Iman, also Lupita Nyong'o, Aishwarya Rai, maybe Thandie Newton, Freida Pinto. And on the other side, definitely actresses like Grace Kelley and Ava Gardner.

+1 Nuff said

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Classic beauty is white Hollywood , idiots

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Reading this thread makes me sick. it’s amazing all the virtues associated with being a white skinny woman.Theyre features are “classic” and “timeless” by the virtue of their ethnicity.

How are non white women supposed to feel??

All hair non classic beauty!

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Anonymous wrote:Reading this thread makes me sick. it’s amazing all the virtues associated with being a white skinny woman.Theyre features are “classic” and “timeless” by the virtue of their ethnicity.

How are non white women supposed to feel??

All hair non classic beauty!

and how are ugly women supposed to feel? how are stupid peole supposed to feel when they hear what it takes to be a genius?

they are supposed to accept who they are rather than demanding that morons be treated as geniuses.

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Anonymous wrote:It is sad that most pps are nor even realizing that yoy are defining classical beauty with white features. I agree with Halle Berry, but it seems only reason she shows up is that she has white facial features.

+1

"Classic beauty" in the western sense means women who have that specific look that is most common among white women.

As I said previously, other cultures have their own standards of a "classically beautiful face."

You can't judge Indian, Asian or African bone structure by white beauty standards.

I don't know what thread you are reading but other PPs and I have named:

Iman
Aishwarya Rai
Halle Barry
Lupita Nyong'o
Kerry Washington
Gal Gadot

I think I even cited Nefertiti.

None of whom are the white beauty standard.

All of whom are classic beauties.

Apart from Lupita, I am reading the same thread as you. Plus what is Gal Gadot doing on your list of African or partially African women? She is as white as it gets. Halle Berry has extremely white features, you are clearly clueless about African, Asian and other ethnicity and their beauty standards, classical or just cute. Aishwara Rai? Really? You found the whitest feature looking Indian woman to prove your point? Nefertiti, historians and archaeologists speculate was of North East African heritage, which has facial features similar to white ethnicity. Look up Ethiopian women.

so your problem is not that women listed are white but that they have "white features"? first of all features are not necessarily white (more women in Ethiopia have high cheek bones than in any white country), they just happen to be what everyone everywhere likes. imam is gorgeous not only by white standards but also by "black"' and "Asian" standards. you can stamp your feet all day long but you wil never make fat ass Serena Williams or some such "a classical beauty".

that's not necessarily what everyone everywhere likes. please stop speaking for all of humanity.

by all means keep telling yourself that you are beautiful but there is a lot of research on this, sorry!

but you've failed to cite to none of it.

actually I told you title of the science book ("the survival of the prettiest") that has evea chapters on this. it's a bit dated but a good start for someone who knows nothing (you). there you have hundreds of references and you can look at recent articles citing those references if you want your knowledge to be current.

You sound extremely ignorant. Go back to your trailer park.

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Anonymous wrote:While I am no huge fan of the Kardashian clan, I do have to agree that Kim is insanely beautiful.

For someone who doesn’t sing, act or do anything else talented, she sure is our Queen of pop culture now.

Plus many people claim to dislike her.

But I have never heard a soul state that she is not pretty.

She has been body shamed a lot, but she does have the birthright of beauty.

I'm not hating, but that girls' face has been pushed, pulled, injected and sliced- so calling it birthrite is interesting. She has always had very very nice eyes and high cheek bones for sure which made her pretty. The, um, additional help has made her face very beautiful.

I think the "additional help" made her look like a clown.

Her old face was much better; she was at least cute then.

She looks like a freak now.

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Anonymous wrote:It is sad that most pps are nor even realizing that yoy are defining classical beauty with white features. I agree with Halle Berry, but it seems only reason she shows up is that she has white facial features.

+1

"Classic beauty" in the western sense means women who have that specific look that is most common among white women.

As I said previously, other cultures have their own standards of a "classically beautiful face."

You can't judge Indian, Asian or African bone structure by white beauty standards.

I don't know what thread you are reading but other PPs and I have named:

Iman
Aishwarya Rai
Halle Barry
Lupita Nyong'o
Kerry Washington
Gal Gadot

I think I even cited Nefertiti.

None of whom are the white beauty standard.

All of whom are classic beauties.

Apart from Lupita, I am reading the same thread as you. Plus what is Gal Gadot doing on your list of African or partially African women? She is as white as it gets. Halle Berry has extremely white features, you are clearly clueless about African, Asian and other ethnicity and their beauty standards, classical or just cute. Aishwara Rai? Really? You found the whitest feature looking Indian woman to prove your point? Nefertiti, historians and archaeologists speculate was of North East African heritage, which has facial features similar to white ethnicity. Look up Ethiopian women.

so your problem is not that women listed are white but that they have "white features"? first of all features are not necessarily white (more women in Ethiopia have high cheek bones than in any white country), they just happen to be what everyone everywhere likes. imam is gorgeous not only by white standards but also by "black"' and "Asian" standards. you can stamp your feet all day long but you wil never make fat ass Serena Williams or some such "a classical beauty".

that's not necessarily what everyone everywhere likes. please stop speaking for all of humanity.

by all means keep telling yourself that you are beautiful but there is a lot of research on this, sorry!

but you've failed to cite to none of it.

actually I told you title of the science book ("the survival of the prettiest") that has evea chapters on this. it's a bit dated but a good start for someone who knows nothing (you). there you have hundreds of references and you can look at recent articles citing those references if you want your knowledge to be current.

You sound extremely ignorant. Go back to your trailer park.

hahaha. i am research scientist with an ivy league phd. you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This Chinese model Du Juan is an Asian example that falls into the category of classic beauty.

Eh. I wouldn’t choose to look like her.

then which east Asian would fall into your category?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Christy Turlington

+ 10 million. Hands down, the most beautiful woman of our time.

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Anonymous wrote:It is sad that most pps are nor even realizing that yoy are defining classical beauty with white features. I agree with Halle Berry, but it seems only reason she shows up is that she has white facial features.

+1

"Classic beauty" in the western sense means women who have that specific look that is most common among white women.

As I said previously, other cultures have their own standards of a "classically beautiful face."

You can't judge Indian, Asian or African bone structure by white beauty standards.

I don't know what thread you are reading but other PPs and I have named:

Iman
Aishwarya Rai
Halle Barry
Lupita Nyong'o
Kerry Washington
Gal Gadot

I think I even cited Nefertiti.

None of whom are the white beauty standard.

All of whom are classic beauties.

Apart from Lupita, I am reading the same thread as you. Plus what is Gal Gadot doing on your list of African or partially African women? She is as white as it gets. Halle Berry has extremely white features, you are clearly clueless about African, Asian and other ethnicity and their beauty standards, classical or just cute. Aishwara Rai? Really? You found the whitest feature looking Indian woman to prove your point? Nefertiti, historians and archaeologists speculate was of North East African heritage, which has facial features similar to white ethnicity. Look up Ethiopian women.

so your problem is not that women listed are white but that they have "white features"? first of all features are not necessarily white (more women in Ethiopia have high cheek bones than in any white country), they just happen to be what everyone everywhere likes. imam is gorgeous not only by white standards but also by "black"' and "Asian" standards. you can stamp your feet all day long but you wil never make fat ass Serena Williams or some such "a classical beauty".

that's not necessarily what everyone everywhere likes. please stop speaking for all of humanity.

by all means keep telling yourself that you are beautiful but there is a lot of research on this, sorry!

but you've failed to cite to none of it.

actually I told you title of the science book ("the survival of the prettiest") that has evea chapters on this. it's a bit dated but a good start for someone who knows nothing (you). there you have hundreds of references and you can look at recent articles citing those references if you want your knowledge to be current.

You sound extremely ignorant. Go back to your trailer park.

hahaha. i am research scientist with an ivy league phd. you?

In that case, you are probably upset that a good-looking rich white man would rather bang "fat-ass" Serena Williams rather than someone that looks like you.

[Anonymous]

To me, a classic beauty is someone who you can look at once or twice and think, "she's beautiful", but you can look away and maybe not think about her again. There's something very uninteresting about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reading this thread makes me sick. it’s amazing all the virtues associated with being a white skinny woman.Theyre features are “classic” and “timeless” by the virtue of their ethnicity.

How are non white women supposed to feel??

All hair non classic beauty!

I am a non-white woman, and I feel just fine. I am beautiful, but not a classic beauty. So what? Who cares? Why are you bothered?

[Anonymous]

Serena Williams' husband is not good looking (what?). and while my husband and I are nowhere rich as Selena and her husband (she is richer than he is btw) we have plenty and money is not an issue for us.

in any case, love is not all or primary about looks. many stunning wome had tragic romantic lives and many an average woman has married a hot and successful man. attraction, especially long term attraction, is complicated.

Serena is not ugly but she is very far indeed from being any sort of classical beauty. not because she is black but for many other reasons including, yes, her fat ass.

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This Chinese model Du Juan is an Asian example that falls into the category of classic beauty.

Eh. I wouldn’t choose to look like her.

then which east Asian would fall into your category?

NP (well posted earlier re: classic beauty being about proportion not ethnicity).
Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger) definitely
perhaps Lucy Liu (but almost too distinctive looking) or Tao Okamoto