Webster's dictionary describes the word beauty as: quality sensed in that which is in perfect harmony.

So beauty is not just an outer appearance. It is a complete harmony from within that can be felt and sensed by others from the way you present yourself. Your beauty comes from within once you know this and others will see this too.

You are indeed beautiful every time you wake up in the morning. Even as your hands touch your face, rub your eyes, and your fingers run through your hair your beauty still shines. You stumble to your bathroom to wash away the previous day's memories, some good some bad. Who is it that looks back to you from the mirror? Uh! Surely this isn't me? Oh dear god it can't be? You close your eyes and open them again slowly. It is!. Is this what you really think? Hang in there, because you certainly are not alone. Women around the world more than ever before have at least one of their facial or bodily characteristics with which they do not feel comfortable with. According to the shocking statistics, more than 95 percent of women have at least once thought of seeking an expert's help in order to alter a particular feature of their body or face, which they blame to be the cause of their low confidence level. A backlash against the ugly and unattractive is percieved by both sexes so therefore they strive to become more beautiful. But, what is beauty exactly? A notion that is subjective or an objective rule placed in total by the fashion and entertainment gurus? Hollywood and in particular the advertising and fashion world have bombarded the female psyche into what they believe is beauty. The fact is it is only their idea of beauty . From the early more curved figures of women promoted in the 50s and 60s, for example, marketers have changed the way women should look by promoting a different version of female beauty. Thinner thighs, smaller breasts or hips, easily spotted cheekbones, are among the most important female features as presented today. The alteration has been so immense that this new boyish silhouette, women observe in magazines and television advertisements, is the way healthy women should look; even if the reality is that women rarely, if ever, look this way.

Finding everyones beauty within and understanding how others judge the beauty factor is important to all, because people need to become much more aware of how prevalent and damaging this kind of media influence is. It is so deep into our subconciense that this is what we accept as normal. Bombarded by greed women are constantley made to feel inadequate so that there need to improve themselves at all and every level becomes compulsive. Maybe it seems a bit of a paradox for many to think of themselves as the main subjects of such a devious scheme to extract more out of one's misery, but it is essential that people at least realize the existence of such a well-fabricated story. Then, they will at least be able to seek their own answers to the old fairytale question "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?"