Though the practice is starting to die out there are still seven and eight year.
Ideal woman beauty standards around the world.
This trend actually goes back to the past when the color of the skin was related to the social class a person belonged to.
Out of the 18 designers 14 were women and four were men according to superdrug.
Korean women prefer their skin to be very fair it s a beauty standard that goes back ages to when tanned skin was a sign of lower social status.
Those basically are the main beauty standards in sweden.
Women increasingly are seeking plastic surgery fixes to achieve this look.
Kim kardashian as unfortunate as it may be is the poster woman of ideal beauty standards for the modern woman.
Henry viii certainly doesn t match ideal beauty.
Given that koreans have such beautiful porcelain skin.
If you think of the standard for gorgeous complexions korea ranks at the top.
American beauty standards can seem pretty unrealistic sometimes so it s refreshing to see the vastly different standards of other cultures.
Unrealistic standards of beauty and to see how such pressures vary around the world.
In order to highlight a woman s perception of her culture s beauty standards superdrug asked the four male designers to photoshop the image based on messages women in their countries receive about what an ideal body should look like.
If the skin was dark it meant that the person worked in the fields and was poor.
Women are expected to be skinny but not too skinny with large breasts and a big butt all while maintaining a flat stomach.
For chinese women pale skin is considered a true beauty standard.
We thought it would be interesting to see what are those criteria are around the world and basically how beauty is perceived in different parts of the world.
Korean women are admired the world over for their incredible skin.
The goal of this project is to better understand potentially unrealistic standards of beauty and to see how such pressures vary around the world the project says.
What the ideal woman looks like around the world.
These women work very hard to maintain flawless pale porcelain skin.
Larger women are considered the ideal by men in the african country of mauritania where fat farms still exist not to slim women down but to beef them up.
Their creamy alabaster faces are used to sell skin care all around the globe.