Beauty Is An Illusion

When I was in high school, I was surrounded by friends who were constantly beautifying themselves. They would start the day with Safi Day Cream and end it with Safi Night Cream. They would wear face masks on weekends and apply toner on their daily basis. Being an inquirer as usual, I would asked my friends why were they doing what they did. One of them smiled at me and said " To look pretty lah". 
                    " To Look Pretty"
This kinda triggered me because the last time I checked, beauty came from the inside. Not from applying tons of cream onto your face. I only nodded to my friend and continued doing my work. The next day, I told my friend about what happened and I complained to her that people wasted too much time in becoming "beautiful". She laughed at me for being mad over that and said something that I will always remember (unless I have Amnesia). She said " Human's definition of beauty will never be the same unless all of them were the same person". I was surprised with what she said because she never uttered something philosophical. But she was right. 
Beauty's definition will never be absolute. It will vary from person to person until the end of time. Hence bringing us to the proverb ;

If my friends back in high school saw beauty as having flawless, fair skin, then who can argue. If my definition of beauty was having a kind and warm personality, then that's it. What I see beautiful will always be different from what others see is beautiful. That's the thrill of being a human. We are so subjective. For example, Im pretty sure we were once told that men will fall in love with women who looked like the models we saw on Victoria Secret Models. That might be true, but only to some extent. We dont see all men going off marrying a woman who used to be a runaway model. No. In reality, some men might like woman who are short rather than tall, who are a bit plump rather than slim. It always vary.

When Izzue Islam who is considered handsome to people married his manager who was a bit older than him and was quoted "average looking", people condemned him for not choosing a younger, more beautiful wife. Izzue Islam responded by saying " I dont care what other peole say, the important thing is me and her fit together and we love each other.". The fact that Izzue Islam thought her wife was beautiful and ignored what the critics were saying, makes the proverb "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" more meaningful.