"When we think ugly (hurtful, spiteful, non-constructive) thoughts, our faces tense and harden. Similarly, when I ignore my needs, my face shows me signs of it. While you have valid critiques of beauty culture, I'd like to see them balanced with inspiring solutions, like expanding upon this inner beauty beauty in energetic and emotional form, the eternal youthfulness that no filler or lift can imitate and no wrinkle can hide."
"Begin Within Two things can't both be true here. Either the soul shapes the body (you get the face you deserve) or it doesn't (no wrinkle can hide inner beauty). Join me in a little thought experiment: how can we visually determine when wrinkles indicate the ordinary ageing of a good-natured person, then? How do they physically differ from those of a spiteful person? We can't, and they don't, because this isn't how bodies and souls work."
Perceptions of physical beauty are strongly influenced by judgments about character and emotion rather than strictly by facial features or aging. Many people assume moral qualities manifest in facial expression and wrinkles, prompting beliefs that kindness produces beauty and spite produces ugliness. Public reactions to close-up portraits and film scenes illustrate this bias: political figures' wrinkles attracted hostile moral readings, while an elderly woman's smile in a film inspired admiration for her lived life. A thought experiment shows wrinkles cannot be reliably read as moral indicators, revealing cultural misconceptions and suggesting emphasis on inner, energetic emotional beauty alongside critiques of beauty culture. Promoting inner beauty as an energetic, emotional form offers an alternative to cosmetic fixes and may contribute to a greater social good.
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