Newsflash: beauty is a social construction. I mean, duh. But if you’re a visual person like me, seeing it mapped out on a human face across the world is much more powerful than nodding off atop Sociology 101. Journalist Esther Honig sent a photo of her face as a blank canvas to artists in 27 countries and asked them to make her look beautiful. The results were strikingly different, with artists altering her eyebrows, cheekbones, lips, and skin tone. It’s another lesson in mind over matter, beauty in the eye of the beholder, skin-deep beauty as intertwined with our culture, and so on and so forth! Arguably the biggest outlier is from the USA, and one word comes to mind: SEVERE. Are these artists working for Mattel?
The Before Photo
Argentina
Australia
Bangladesh
Germany
Greece
India
Indonesia
Israel
Italy
Kenya
Morocco
Pakistan
Philippines
Romania
Serbia
Sri Lanka
U.K.
Ukraine
USA
Venezuela
Vietnam
Photo Credits: Esther Honig
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