Beauty Is Functional
I´ve never spent much time on my beauty routine, I always considered it rather not important which stemmed from my belief that physical appearance is superficial and not worthy of my attention. Maybe, it was just an excuse for me to disconnect even more from my body as I’ve always had a troubling relationship with it. As I´m getting older, I´m realizing how much deeper we can go with the concept of beauty and how interconnected it is with the proper function of our body. When we look at things that are symmetrical, properly aligned and that form a coherent whole, they make us feel at peace and in harmony and we tend to find them beautiful. The classical conception of beauty has always been about order, about a perfect arrangement of integral parts into a coherent whole, according to proportion, harmony, symmetry, and similar notions. This is a primordial Western conception of beauty and is embodied in classical and neo-classical architecture, sculpture, literature, and music where...