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The Objective & not Subjective definitions of

Glamour, Beauty, Fashion, Style, Pretty, Handsome and more!

Heads up ladies: Some of this Stuff is a bit dry, but if you hear me out I have a prize for you.
If you look like water, I will turn you into wine!
If you look like wine, I will turn you into champagne!
If you look like champagne, I will turn you into! something addictive!

For you guys out there, I can improve your appearance considerably, but not to the degree I can improve women because of make up. However if you are in media such as television or entertainment I can show you how to do media make up in a video in the future.

Special Note: For a clearer understanding of these definitions you should read “Welcome to What is Objective and Subjective Aesthetics” as well as this section. As you read these definitions, keep in mind you can find other less focused definitions in a dictionary. If you use a dictionary, at least use the “Webster’s New International Dictionary”. By using this dictionary, you will see similarities to my word origin definitions. Please do not use Dick and Jane’s kid’s dictionary or a desktop dictionary or you will think I am a lost ball in the high weeds or maybe smoking the weeds. If you use the definitions I have defined here, it will make it easy to organize and maximize your appearance. For those not clear on the definitions of objective & subjective, here they are. Objective is defined as treating facts without distortion. Subjective is defined as deriving from an individual viewpoint or bias. Having said that, many linguists will tell you, language is a subjective field. However, we must create a logical and objective set of definitions based on word origin if we are going to de-mystify a rewarding personal image for you.

Words get twisted over time for various group agendas, which keeps the average person from having an objective understanding as opposed to a subjective understanding. To give you an example let's take a look at the word “gay”. It used to mean happy and carefree and now it generally means homosexual.

There are many camps of word etymologist (specialist that study word origin and history.) Different camps will confirm or deny depending on their philosophical agenda.

1. Glamour: means to deceive the eye in an appreciated way. Natural looking glamour is the most appreciated by the greatest number of people as opposed to unnatural looking glamour. Glamour comes from Middle Ages English “gramarye” and was associated with learning in general, and was superstitiously associated with magic.

2. Beauty: Has much less to do with features themselves, but rather a blissful happiness with the glamorized features. This is why they say beauty comes from within. Features are what pretty is. How do I know this? Beauty comes from two old English words. The first one is beute (which means pleasing to look at) and the second is beatific (which means blissful happiness).

So when a woman looks at herself in the mirror and is completely satisfied with her look, she becomes blissfully happy and thereby reflects her inner beauty. Let me put that another way.

What are Objective & Subjective Aesthetics?

When a woman achieves her maximum confidence from a glamorized appearance she radiates a synergistic glow that is much more attractive than the un-glamorized appearance. The synergistic relationship is between posture, walk, and a blissfully happy attitude. Actually, this synergy is almost impossible to come by if a woman does not reach that maximum confidence in her looks.

3. Fashion: Comes from Latin factio, which is where faction came from. Literally, it means a faction of people in step, wearing the same thing or acting the same way. Acting as a group does not address concealing your negatives and showcasing your positives, which is what glamour, is. When we are kids in school we tend to act alike but as we get farther away from school we realize we are all more physically different than the same. This begins to happen in college much more so than high school. It is about maturing. Some people think if they reflect the latest fashion they are reflecting modernism in other areas. This would be sophomoric (wise fool) reasoning at best. Remember Fads much like fashion travel from the big city down to the small cities. Trends of practicality start in small cities and go up to the big cities. These are just a few reasons why I say, fashion is for kids and style is for adults.

4. Style: Comes from the Latin word stylus as in a pen used for writing. The way one expressed themselves on paper was known as their style. This transferred over to the way someone personally expressed themselves with their appearance was their style. Personal expression comes in multiple forms. Some want to express themselves in ways that conceal the negative and showcase the positive with a natural look. This is what natural looking glamour is. Some people would rather reflect attitude over natural looking glamour. Natural looking glamour makes you the most attractive to the greatest number of people. By the above definition of style, you can see nothing can be in or out of style but can be in or out of fashion.

5. Pretty: Comes from the fifteenth century meaning of finely crafted and well made. In other words, most pretty is what the natural features are when they are most co-symmetric. If they are less co-symmetric, they are less pretty. For the definition of co-symmetric, see What is objective and Subjective Aesthetics?

6. Handsome: Comes from the fifteenth century, moderately large and dignified appearance, marked by skill and cleverness. More precisely, it means proportionally, the width to height ratios of body features are considerably greater and thereby more physically powerful. Physically more powerful is more functional or handy and
thus handsome. Yo guys (if you don’t already know this next point) it is about complimenting a woman in all ways. Never shine more than her. Never flatter her with lies. Show her that you see what she is and what she can be. If she has a powerful effect on you, let her know, it makes her feel potent as a woman.

Follow this advice and you will be amazed how she will blossom and be even more attracted to you. Especially never flatter her with lies, she will know it before you finish the sentence.

7. Sophisticated: This word is a reflection of wise choices. How do I know this? It comes from the Greek word sophos, which means wise. In other words, sophistication means wiseication. Wiseication is a word I made up to illustrate my point. Wisdom is making the best choices from knowledge. Knowledge comes from experience. In this case you must rely on my experience and wisdom to advise you. I think choosing natural looking glamour, which communicates to the greatest number of people a wise choice.

If you are a kid, you think attitude is everything. If you are an adult, you know making yourself most physically attractive is more important than attitude alone. Now you are more familiar with some of your strengths and weaknesses.

As an adult, you may know that an appearance is a communication and behavior modification tool. A tool whereby, your appearance affects how much people hear of what you say, believe what you say and trust more of what you say.

Fair or not, your appearance has a huge influence on your success in business or personal life. Natural looking glamour is your most sophisticated (wiseicated) choice.

8. Hip: Means awareness of newest developments in relationship to old developments. Hip comes from the West African Wolof tribe word hipacat which meant one with their eyes always open and seeing everything. The descendents of the Wolof tribe brought the term to the US as slaves in the early nineteenth century. Hip was first used in the mainstream English language in 1904. There is another camp of etymologists that do not like this awareness definition. They prefer to claim that hip meant to get in step with a faction of people. They claim it came from hup a conforming military stepping term. This is as in hup one, two, three, four.

9. Vanity: comes from the word vain. Vain means empty or a waist of time. It comes from Latin “vanus” which means empty. Some people may mistake you working on your appearance as vanity. If your resulting appearance does not get a most positive response from you as well as others, your efforts are in vain and thereby, vanity. Your efforts are never vanity if you achieve a most positive result to you and and the ones that matter to you. This is true, however much time it takes if it is worth the time to you. Do not let anyone intimidate you into not being all you can be with your appearance.

 


I am here to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and help you achieve natural looking glamour much better than by yourself in front of the camera and away from the camera. Lastly giving you high quality photos you can be proud of any where in the world.

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