Anything that fell outside this courtly beauty ideal must have been seen as utterly obscene.

Along that continuum, the sun-tanned look is a relatively new beauty ideal, she said.

In Chinese contemporary popular culture, there are various aspects to the female beauty ideal.

Every form of media shoves the beauty ideals down our throats.

After the 1860s some African-Americans continued to straighten their hair in order to conform with white beauty ideals.

This clearly shows the gender difference in body image cause different beauty ideals.

It supposedly showed how fashion has influenced beauty ideals.

People who do not fit the "beauty ideal" may be ostracized within their communities.

Put simply, the beauty ideal in American culture is: thin.

He interprets the song as criticism of today's beauty ideals.