Beauty’s Intrinsic Nature

I know that this will not make me popular with the fashion and beauty industry, but beauty is more than the plaster you apply to your face or the clothing you wear.  This is the great lie.

True beauty is found deeper than that.  It comes from the person themselves, rather than what’s placed on the outside.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
- Rabindrath Tagore

Simply put, you can buy all sorts of products, and wear all sorts of fancy materials, but this will not change whether or not you are beautiful.

The beauty is intrinsic to who you are, and you cannot hide it.  You can try to cover who you are, but you cannot do so forever.

Just as there are many that the world considers beautiful, and the tabloids have fun showing them without their makeup, we are beautiful based on who we are, not what we look like.  How many times have we read about what someone has said, or seen what someone has done and we shake our heads?

Even so, we should work on keeping our inner selves pure.  We should strive to look in ways that accent who we are.  Inside needs to come first.

I'm a 35 year old guy married to the most beautiful woman in the world (VirtuousBlonde) for 10 years, and has 5 mostly adorable children-- depending on whether they've had a nap, of course. I'm a software developer by trade, though I like to write on various topics. I got my start in blogging at MInTheGap in 2004 writing about culture, politics and got started talking about modesty on this site just 3 years ago.