Every person wants to be beautiful and unique. They are loved in society, almost any door opens before them, even without money. Therefore, everyone tries to be beautiful. Next, we suggest looking at more interesting and exciting facts about beauty.
1. International Day of Beauty is celebrated on September 9th.
2. The most unusual beauty contest was held in the UAE. The most beautiful camel was chosen.
3. A person looks prettier in a group photo than in an individual photo.
4. A pathologically strong experience of emotions caused by the contemplation of beauty is called Stendhal syndrome.
5. In the Maya tribe squint was considered an indisputable sign of beauty.
6. Women of the Padaung tribe, for beauty, lengthen their necks with brass rings.
7. The left side of the face is more beautiful than the right side.
8. The salaries of handsome men are 5% higher than those of their ordinary-looking colleagues.
9. A larger percentage of attractive people consider themselves happy.
10. The level of intelligence of beautiful people is on average 11 points higher.
11. Only 10% of women have an hourglass figure.
12. Women find smiling men less attractive.
13. Forming their idea of the beauty of a man, women rely on the opinion of others.
14. Most men are attracted to women whose faces are endowed with childlike features.
15. As a result of evolution, women become more attractive, and men's appearance is not subject to such radical changes.
16. Beauty is a subjective concept. Each era has its own ideas about beautiful appearance.
17. In ancient Greece, tanned skin was considered unattractive.
18. In the Middle Ages, a woman with narrow hips and small high breasts was considered beautiful.
19. In the era of Louis XIV, the ladies of the court adorned their faces with false flies, thus disguising smallpox scars.
20. The predecessor of modern lipstick were bugs crushed to a pasty state - cochineal.
21. Muslim women are allowed to adorn their faces only with eyeliner.
22. In the East, until the middle of the 20th century, black teeth were considered a bright sign of female beauty. Teeth stained this way stayed healthy longer.
23. In China, a thick mustache and beard are a sign of male beauty.
24. French courtiers ate exclusively pureed soups, as they believed that chewing food contributes to the appearance of wrinkles.
25. The audience is able to understand a beautiful person faster, because the listeners carefully examine the face of the speaker.
26. In order to make a figure beautiful, women for several centuries tightened their waist in a corset.
27. In China, small foot size was considered one of the main signs of beauty. The girls' feet were tightly bandaged, they were deformed and seemed miniature in shoes.
28. Colored lenses are in vogue in Japan to make women look like anime heroines.
29. The sap of the belladonna plant (translated from Italian as "beautiful woman") was buried in the eyes for beauty. Pupils dilated, making the look unusually bewitching.
30. According to the Hong Kong magazine Travelers Digest, the most handsome men live in Sweden, and Ukrainian women topped the women's rating.
31. The use of very beautiful models in advertising reduces its effectiveness, therefore people with ordinary appearance are more often attracted for filming.
32. In the United States, there is talk of a ban on the Barbie doll, as this toy deforms the psyche of a girl who seeks to resemble this fictional image.
33. Classic Japanese beauties have flat breasts, long necks, short and crooked legs.
34. Archaeologists call Cleopatra the first who collected recipes for hair and skin care in a separate book.
35. Liposuction is the most popular plastic surgery in the world.
36. In plastic surgery, rhinoplasty is in the first place in popularity among men.
37. The first World Beauty Contest took place in Spa in 1888.
38. In Russia, the future tsarist wife was chosen from among the girls of the whole country. The selection criteria were only health and beauty.
39. In the Middle Ages, beauty was considered a manifestation of sinfulness.
40. Most often, the idea of beauty changed in the XX century.
41. It is a sin for a Muslim woman to show off her beauty.
42. Beauties of the XXI century are distinguished by plump lips, thin nose and lush hair.
43. In India, a woman is considered beautiful if she has wide hips, large breasts, fair skin, regular features and long hair.
44. The Japanese believe that the most beautiful girls are those who are not yet 20 years old.
45. The most beautiful slaves, ransomed at slave bazaars or captured during military campaigns, fell into the sultan's harem.
46. Men note that the largest number of beauties is found among flight attendants.
47. Crooked teeth and protruding ears, according to Japanese men, truly adorn a woman.
48. In Turkey, fair-haired and blue-eyed young ladies are automatically considered beautiful.
49. Women of the Massai tribe, guided by their notions of beauty, pierce and scar their faces, changing them beyond recognition.
50. A bushwoman is considered beautiful if nature has endowed her with hypertrophied buttocks.
51. In the tribes of the Sahara Desert, thinness is considered a sign of poverty and illness.
52. In Congo, a real beauty cannot have a single tooth in her mouth.
53. Adults with good looks give children more confidence.
54. For Muslim women, eyebrow plucking is strictly prohibited.
55. In many African countries, for the sake of beauty, women cover their bodies with many scars.
56. In the Fulani tribe, women for the sake of beauty shave their foreheads high and shave off their eyebrows.
57. The Max Factor company in 1932 first released nail polish.
58. In ancient Greek mythology, Aphrodite was considered the goddess of beauty.
59. In the Tuareg tribe, real beauties should have at least a dozen fat folds on their belly
60. In the 18th century, French women shaved off their own eyebrows, and instead they glued overhead from mouse skins.
61. Most often, the Miss World title went to the representatives of Venezuela.
62. Long nails in ancient China symbolized wisdom.
63. The name Apollo has become a household name for handsome men.
64. The parameters of the figure are considered ideal if they fit within 90-60-90.
65. In Russia, it was customary to wash with dew from fragrant flowers to maintain beauty.
66. Merlin Monroe became a symbol of beauty in the 50s of the XX century.
67. In all the films of the famous "Bond", only beauties became Bond's girlfriends.
68. "Beauty shots" are injections of vitamin cocktails or Botox, which are designed to prolong the youth and beauty of the face.
69. According to folk legends, children should be bathed in a decoction of lovage so that they grow up beautiful.
70. There is an opinion that children born in mixed marriages are distinguished by extraordinary beauty.
71. For a man who describes the image of an ideal woman, beauty is not in the first place.
72. Recently, mouth-watering buttocks have again taken their place in the list of canon beauty.
73. In Ancient Greece, a body with ideal proportions was considered beautiful. It was from those times that the concept of "the square of the ancients" came down to us, where the length of outstretched arms is equal to the height of a person.
74. Male parameters of an ideal body - 98-78-56. And the circumference of the tense biceps, like the neck, should be 40 cm.
75. Models of the 90s were 8% lighter than the average American woman, now this difference has grown to 23%.
76. As a result of the standards imposed by the beauty industry, more than 40% of Japanese and 60% of American elementary school girls consider themselves fat.
77. By consuming fish oil internally, you can make your skin soft and beautiful.
78. To maintain her beauty, Cleopatra regularly took baths with donkey milk.
79. Operations to correct the shape of the nose were done in the 8th century.
80. The famous singer Cher removed a couple of ribs to emphasize her thin waist.
81. In the Muslim world, a woman can make changes to her appearance only with the permission of her husband.
82. In one of the African tribes, as part of a ritual, the most beautiful of girls was fed to lions.
83. Eyeshadow appeared in ancient Egypt as a prevention of conjunctivitis.
84. The Vikings used rancid oil to style their hair.
85. Queen Elizabeth I generously covered her face with white to hide the effects of smallpox.
86. Cleopatra is considered the founder of manicure. Noble Egyptians had a bright manicure, while slaves had the right to a discreet nail color.
87. In the 16th century, artists were invited to apply makeup on a woman's face. The beauties did not wash their faces for several days after that.
88. The first cosmetologists appeared in Ancient Greece, they were called “cosmetologists”.
89. A Christian marriage could be dissolved because the wife hid the imperfections of her face before the wedding.
90. Men believe that the ideal proportion of a woman's figure is when the waist is 70% of the hips.
91. To prolong youth, the Chinese empresses daily rubbed their face with a piece of silk.
92. In order to keep the blush on the face, the Slavs used raspberry or beet juice.
93. The term "cellulite" first appeared in 1920, but it was not until 1978 that it became clear to the general public.
94. A good eight-hour sleep is one of the beauty factors.
95. Naturalness is considered the main sign of beauty in Great Britain.
96. Psychologists note that beautiful people are more confident in themselves.
97. The first Miss World was selected at a competition in London in 1951.
98. In Adygea, during the annual folk festivities, the queen of the holiday must wash herself to prove her true beauty.
99. British scientists have come to the conclusion that over the years there are strong emotional bonds between clients and employees of a beauty salon.
100. Freckles adorn a woman, 75% of men think so.
