What are Filipino beauty standards?
This means tan skin, big eyes, full lips, and a defined jaw line. For Filipinos, our influences from our Spanish conquerors who ruled the country for centuries have made us aim for a standard of beauty that is leaning more toward a Western standard—with taller and slimmer noses, straight hair, and fairer skin.
What is the standard of beauty?
The standard of beauty is essentially a variable standard of what it means to be attractive that is contingent on the feminine beauty ideals that are present in a given culture.
Who put beauty standards?
It all began 2,400 years ago in Greece and Rome, when the West’s standards of beauty were set. “But the Greeks knew that there was more to a person than just a face,” says Dr. Dietrich von Bothmer, chairman of the Greek and Roman department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
What is the archetype of beauty in the Philippines?
During Hispanic times, when Filipinos were considered second-class citizens in their own country, the archetype of beauty was the standard of the conquistadores. That yardstick where indios are ashamed of their own skin color. No wonder we had people like Doña Victorina who abused facial powder just to look more like the Caucasian colonizers.
Are standards of beauty applied to Filipino women based on skin color?
It’s quite unfortunate that the standards of beauty applied to Filipino women are still based on skin color. It is like a mortal sin to have a darker skin tone. It seems that some sensitive racial barometer in the Pinoy still equates blackness with being dirty and unclean, or that having a darker shade of melanin is something to be ashamed of.
Why do Filipinos have a fixation with the mestiza standard of beauty?
Historically speaking, the fixation with the mestiza standard of beauty is one of those cultural influences we got from our Spanish colonizers. During Hispanic times, when Filipinos were considered second-class citizens in their own country, the archetype of beauty was the standard of the conquistadores.
What is the Filipino mentality of true beauty?
One Filipino mentality is “ Ang tunay na ganda ay morena, hindi harina” which means “true beauty is a brown skin, not flour (very white). Shown below is Wilma Doesnt.