Can Beauty Be Honest?

        The definition of beauty is to have a combination of qualities such as shape, color, or form which all please the aesthetic senses, especially the sight. If beauty is based off of sight then can beauty truly be honest? Anyone can change the way they look in this day and age with the use of Photoshop to edit photographs of themselves. Makeup can change the way ones skin looks. Even surgeries are preformed to permanently change their bodies. Beauty should not be based solely off of sight since visuals can be deceiving. People have to prove the beautiful qualities they have such as a smile, a laugh, kindness, compassion and caring. Anyone can undergo a surgery to look different and possibly more “beautiful” on the inside, but they could be an ugly person on the inside.

I believe that beauty is not only based off of sight alone but ones true beauty is made up of positive qualities someone has. Negative qualities can take away from ones beauty such as bad makeup or hair which are visually seen but also a terrible personality and a spoiled lifestyle take away from beauty. Cameron Russell, a Victoria Secret model, was interviewed on Ted Talks and she gave her opinion of beauty and if it is honest or not. Cameron says that one’s image is superficial and that surgery can change your image. She says that some people win the “genetic lottery” and just have more beauty than others or at least what society’s norm for beauty is. That norm is a tall, skinny and Caucasian woman and she fit the part very well but she doesn't let her modeling career take over her life. Cameron Russell’s definition of beauty is that beauty is constructed or man made and that it is fake. I agree with that as anyone can change their outward appearance but what really matters in the end is what is on the inside.