Ideal Beauties of the Future

Today, our project group briefly – and kind of off topic – discussed what kind of ideal beauty we will have in the future. As all of us know, every different age has its own ideal beauty. Thick, thin, tall, short, pale, dark. Here are some pictures I found on Google to remind you all. As always when talking about ideal beauties, women are always in focus.


I wouldn’t say it’s fully accurate to say that the zeitgeist today is to find a sun bleached, thin blonde with silicone D-cups, tripping along the beach of Los Angeles in some skimpy, red baywatcher’s swimsuit. But I wouldn’t say it’s fully inaccurate either. To me, I think this stereotype woman looks synthetically. A long time ago, I heard of a theory that says ideal beauties have features that indicates that they don’t have any major disease. No abnormalities are common for ideal beauties. If you’d morph thousands of ordinary people’s pictures together, it would make a pretty attractive person.



Another anecdote I came to think about, when thinking about the busty, thin sunbleached blonde, is the story of Charles Darwin and the peacocks. Darwin was said to be puzzled by these birds and their long beautiful tails. At first, he couldn’t see how they fitted into his evolutionary theory. He then talked about sexual selection and that the long tail offered an advantage in the mating game.

I really don’t know how to think of that blonde girl. I’d say that her disproportional body doesn’t look too healthy, and therefore shouldn’t be attractive. In the future, I think the borders between health care and beauty industry will fade, and that we will do things to ourselves that make us healthy and therefore more sexually attractive. Today, the beauty industry with implants and such, imply medical risks, while in the future, such bodily modifications should start with improving the health and in that process, making you an ideal beauty. A natural beauty will be the ideal beauty of the future. I just suspect we must put a lot of effort in making ourselves look like that natural beauty though.

Finally, a tribute to my all time favourite model and actress, Marilyn Monroe. As you can see, she was not only drop dead gorgeous, she was also weight lifting from time to time and looking pretty healthy. She was actually said to be a borderline case – that is – severely mentally challenged. That's true, looks aren't everything. I’d put up with lots of crazy shit for that girl though =)