Essay On Beauty And Outer Beauty

Why is it that when someone says the word beauty, we automatically think about the physical appearance? Most of the time, people overlook inner self or inner beauty. As Marilyn Monroe (n.d.) said, boys think of girls as books. They judge them based on their covers. But beauty should be a balance between physical appearance and inner self.

As the famous saying goes, ”Beauty is only skin deep”. But us humans put extra effort and importance to our physical appearance. According to the Young Authors Foundation, the average woman spends two and a half years of her life grooming herself. Like getting her hair done, having her eyebrows fixed, etc. while the average man contributes one and a half year of his life to grooming himself.

We may not notice it, but we subconsciously give importance to our physical appearance. Physical appearance or outer beauty is important because if we are satisfied with how we look, we have the confidence to do anything. According to M. Farouk Radwan (n.d.), a Master in Psychology, there exists a self-image problem. Self-image problem is when our looks do not match our standard for what is good-looking.

Another reason why outer beauty is important is the halo effect. According to the Journal of Personality and Social

inner beauty, she stated there that we should love both our physical and inner beauty. Beauty should not be about changing yourself to try and meet the standard of the society. Beauty should be about you representing yourself in the way that you want people to see you. With self-confidence and a pure heart, we can be able to influence other people. We can be able to share our knowledge, our wisdom and the like. But, self-confidence should not make us self-absorbed. We should have a healthy self-esteem, not too high and not too low. Inner self is the one that radiates beauty in which other people see beyond our physical