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Human Art: The different faces of feminine beauty

By Fussy Tongue

Human Art: The different faces of feminine beauty

The different faces of Feminine beauty: A poetic prose-letter to all women

Feminine beauty has no perfect colour, no perfect shape. She knows no race, she knows no boundaries. She embraces her thousand and one faces, her infinite personalities: her sexy and her unattractive, her make-up and her nature, her whimsical and her logical, her risk-taker and her comfort-dweller, her independent and her assisted, her motherly and her lolita, her so many more and the infinity between these opposites. The sulky pouts,  poses and moves, the whimsical, find even in her darkness the sparkle of her light.

She has no perfect colour, no perfect or one shape. She is more than the some of her parts. She never stops at her face and she runs in a spiral around her body to her toe, varying slides of miscellaneous forms, all as feminine and amazing as their non-identical sister. She can be so bewitchingly sexy and so casually. effortlessly attractive. She captivates the eye of the sighted beholder, the observant perceiver and gives its sense to ‘classic elegance’.

  • Aishwarya Rai

    Aishwarya Rai

  • lupita nyongo

    Lupita Nyongo

  • Zhang Ziyi

    Zhang Ziyi

  • Liza Soberano

    Liza Soberano

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    Charlize Theron

  • Maisa Abd Elhadi

    Maisa Abd Elhadi

  • Tanaya Beatty

    Tanaya Beatty

  • Jayne Kennedy

    Jayne Kennedy

  • Ju Xiaowen

    Ju Xiaowen

  • Amber Heard

    Amber Heard

  • Duckie Thot
  • Adwoa Aboah by John Hardy

    Adwoa Aboah

  • Deepika Padukone

    Deepika Padukone

  • Khoudia Diop

    Khoudia Diop

  • Nastya Zhidkova

    Nastya Zhidkova

  • Golshifteh Farahani

    Golshifteh Farahani

  • Vanessa Williams

    Vanessa Williams

  • halleberry

    Halle Berry

  • Romy Schneider

    Romy Schneider

  • Jasmine Sanders

    Jasmine Sanders

  • Fatima Said

    Fatima Said

Feminine beauty: Powerful

She seldom minds a bit of a change, sometimes riding on the wave of fashion, at times, trying on another facet of herself. No matter how at times it decorates her, fashion never defines her. In fact, many a time, she redefines fashion before it collapses in the bored web of its routine patterns. She has been the epitomy of La Femme fatale or just La Femme, Lolita, or simply Elle.

  • Marilyn Monroe

    Marilyn Monroe

  • Priyanka Chopra

    Priyanka Chopra

  • Ni Ni

    Ni Ni

  • salmahayek 1

    Salma Hayek

  • Eva Mendes

    Eva Mendes

  • Mahlagha Jaberi

    Mahlagha Jaberi

  • Angelina Jolie

    Angelina Jolie

  • Kerry Washington

    Kerry Washington

  • brigitte bardot 011

    Brigitte Bardot

  • Scarlett Johansson

    Scarlett Johansson

  • Margot Robbie

    Margot Robbie

  • Stacey Dash

    Stacey Dash

  • Alyssa Milano

    Alyssa Milano

  • Tyra Banks

    Tyra Banks

  • Liv Tyler

    Liv Tyler

  • Laetitia Casta

    Laetitia Casta

  • Emily DiDonato

    Emily DiDonato

  • Denise Richards

    Denise Richards

  • Carla Gugino

    Carla Gugino

  • Tsunaina

    Tsunaina

  • Eva Green

    Eva Green

Feminine beauty: Effortless

There is straightforward simplicity in her beauty that contradicts the mystery that she inspires. She plunges the observer in a state of wonder. She could be a neighbour yet she is so out of reach.

  • Gong Li

    Gong Li

  • Natalie Portman

    Natalie Portman

  • Gabrielle Union

    Gabrielle Union

  • Jessica Alba

    Jessica Alba

  • lucyliu2

    Lucy Liu

  • Beyonce

    Beyonce

  • Kate Beckinsale

    Kate Beckinsale

  • Jill Stone

    Jill Stone

  • Alexis Bledel

    Alexis Bledel

  • Thandie Newton

    Thandie Newton

  • Izabella Scorupco

    Izabella Scorupco

  • Akosua Busia, Ghana

    Akosua Busia

  • Jun Ji Hyun

    Jun Ji Hyun

  • Kiara Kaburu

    Kiara Kaburu

  • anne hathway 759

    Anne Hathaway

  • Connie Chiu

    Connie Chiu

  • Bar Rafeli

    Bar Rafeli

  • Anna Diop American Senegalese actress

    Anna Diop

  • Cameron Diaz

    Cameron Diaz

  • Kelly Hu

    Kelly Hu

  • Gugu Mbatha-Raw

    Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  • Masha Telna

    Masha Telna

  • Ella Thomas

    Ella Thomas

  • Alicia Vikander

    Alicia Vikander

  • Paula Patton

    Paula Patton

  • Penelope Cruz

    Penelope Cruz

  • Tomiko Fraser Hines

    Tomiko Fraser Hines

  • Kenia Martinez Honduras

    Kenia Martinez

  • Arlenis Sosa Peña

    Arlenis Sosa Peña

  • Sade Adu

    Sade Adu

Feminine beauty: Fresh

In her dawn, she sparkles in cuteness, waiting to prove herself more with time and age, maturity and struggles, with wrinkles and greys. She does not dishonour or disavow her bud but rather cherishes and works it with the effortless energy of youth that birthed it.

  • Zoe Kravitz

    Zoe Kravitz

  • Kaia Jordan Gerber

    Kaia Jordan Gerber

  • Selita Ebanks

    Selita Ebanks

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    Kristen Stewart

  • Kandyse McClure

    Kandyse McClure

  • Jelly Lin or Lin Yun

    Jelly Lin or Lin Yun

  • Isabel Correia

    Isabel Correia

  • Constance Wu

    Constance Wu

  • Cara Delevingne

    Cara Delevingne

  • Gigi Hadid

    Gigi Hadid

  • Han Chae-Young

    Han Chae-Young

  • Zendaya

    Zendaya

  • Kendall Jenner

    Kendall Jenner

  • lola Chull

    lola Chull

  • Lily Collins

    Lily Collins

  • Keiko Kitagawa

    Keiko Kitagawa

  • Kiara Kaburu

    Kiara Kaburu

  • Thylane Blondeau

    Thylane Blondeau

  • K.D.Aubert

    K.D. Aubert

  • Sophie Turner by Matthew Brookes

    Sophie Turner

  • Kyoko Fukada

    Kyoko Fukada

  • Tina Kunakey

    Tina Kunakey

  • Taylor Hill

    Taylor Hill

  • Laurianne Ekwalla-Essaka

    Laurianne Ekwalla-Essaka

  • Satoshimi Ishihara

    Satoshimi Ishihara

  • Chanel Iman

    Chanel Iman

  • Zhou Jieqiong

    Zhou Jieqiong

  • Kim Domingo

    Kim Domingo

  • Lauren London

    Lauren London

  • Molly Bair

    Molly Bair

  • Melvnin

    Melvnin

  • Liya Keyede

    Liya Keyede

  • Erika Sawajiri

    Erika Sawajiri

Feminine beauty: Timeless

She is impossibly timeless, ageing with wonderful grace. The self-assurance that only time adequately develops, the relaxation that experience teaches, the confidence that maturity blossoms, these are only some of the crop that beauty harvests with age, provided that our bodies are given the R.E.S.P.E.C.T., tenderness, love and care they deserve. And what delicious power comes with such assurance.

  • Jane Fonda

    Jane Fonda

  • Iman Bowie

    Iman Bowie

  • Rekha

    Rekha

  • Judi Dench

    Judi Dench

  • Michelle Yeoh

    Michelle Yeoh

  • Emmathompson

    Emma Thomson

  • Catherine Zeta Jones

    Catherine Zeta Jones

  • Naomi Campbell

    Naomi Campbell

  • Monica Belucci

    Monica Belluci

  • Cindy Crawford

    Cindy Crawford

  • Whitney Houston

    Whitney Houston

  • Sophia Loren

    Sophia Loren

  • Sherilyn Fenn

    Sherilyn Fenn

  • Raquel Welch

    Raquel Welsch

  • Robin Givens

    Robin Givens

  • Honor Blackman

    Honor Blackman

  • Ruth E Carter

    Ruth E Carter

  • Sophie Marceau

    Sophie Marceau

  • Diane Sawyer

    Diane Sawyer, journalist and Television Hall of Fame inductee

  • Janet

    Janet

  • Catherine Deneuve

    Catherine Deneuve

  • Diana Rigg

    Diana Rigg

Feminine beauty: Original

She does not blend in the monotonous similarities but stands out by her unclonable individuality. She has this wonderfully exciting way of being mysteriously unique and ravishingly bewitching. In her mystery, the beholder’s eye wants to dwell longer, yes linger, even explore, answer the question marks frowning its brain, discover the element of difference and of such originality.

  • Bae Doona

    Bae Doona

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    Alek Wek

  • Ju Xiaowen

    Ju Xiaowen

  • Q'orianka Kilcher

    Q'orianka Kilcher

  • Chloe Grace Moretz

    Chloe Grace Moretz

  • Zoe Saldana

    Zoe Saldana

  • Rosie Huntington-Wwhiteley

    Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

  • Zhou Dongyu

    Zhou Dongyu

  • Danai Gurira

    Danai Gurira

  • Zoe Kazan

    Zoe Kazan

  • Chipo Chung

    Chipo Chung

  • Grace Jones

    Grace Jones

World-bending

They are not just another beauty, a rose waiting for her time to expire. They earn their place, our gaze, our admiration beyond their looks, through their tenacity, their achievements, their strength. They gave us a graceful rock to emulate,

  • Malala Yousafzai, activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate - photographed by Mark Tucker

    Malala Yousafzai, activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate

  • Marie Curie, physicist and chemist who pioneered research on radioactivity

    Marie Curie, physicist and chemist who pioneered research on radioactivity

  • Shirley Ann Jackson - Physicist, the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate at MIT, the 2nd African-American woman in the US to earn a doctorate in Physics, the first to be awarded the National Medal of Science.

    Shirley Ann Jackson - Physicist, the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate at MIT, the 2nd African-American woman in the US to earn a doctorate in Physics, the first to be awarded the National Medal of Science.

  • Chien-Shiung Wu, experimental physicist who made significant contributions in the field of nuclear physics

    Chien-Shiung Wu, experimental physicist who made significant contributions in the field of nuclear physics

  • ♥♥ Every single female Registered Nurse on the planet, with a special ♥♥ to military nurses, such as Olivia Pris EE ♥♥

    ♥♥ Every single female Registered Nurse on the planet, with a special ♥♥ to military nurses, such as Olivia Pris EE ♥♥

  • Hedy Lamarr - Actress and co-inventor of a spread spectrum and frequency-hopping radio guidance system used to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers. Her invention's principles were later used in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi; National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee (2014).

    Hedy Lamarr - Actress and co-inventor of a spread spectrum and frequency-hopping radio guidance system used to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers. Her invention's principles were later used in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi; National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee (2014).

  • Laila Ali

    Laila Ali, Multi-title holder, Professional boxer, retired undefeated

  • Patsy Mink, first woman of color elected to US Congress

    Patsy Mink, first woman of color elected to US Congress

  • Winnie Harlow - fashion model and public spokesperson on the skin condition vitiligo

    Winnie Harlow - fashion model and public spokesperson on the skin condition vitiligo

  • Simone de Beauvoir, author, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist. an influence and an inspiration to feminism

    Simone de Beauvoir, author, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist. an influence and an inspiration to feminism

  • Oprah Winfrey, Chairwoman, CEO, CCO, Actress, Author, Talk show host, Television producer philanthropist, and arguably the most powerful woman on the planet.

    Oprah Winfrey, Chairwoman, CEO, CCO, Actress, Author, Talk show host, Television producer philanthropist, and arguably the most powerful woman on the planet.

  • ALVF (Association de Lutte Contre la Violence Faite aux Femmes) is one of many associations fighting against Violence on Women. Founded in Cameroon in 1991 by 7 feminist women NDOME EKOTTO Charlotte, MEMONG MENO TOKO, ENDALE Esther, DORA ESSAKA DEIDO, NGOBO EKOTTO NDOUMBE, SIKE BILE and Maria MOUEN KALA LOBE (deceased)

    ALVF (Association de Lutte Contre la Violence Faite aux Femmes) is one of many associations fighting against Violence on Women. Founded in Cameroon in 1991 by 7 feminist women NDOME EKOTTO Charlotte, MEMONG MENO TOKO, ENDALE Esther, DORA ESSAKA DEIDO, NGOBO EKOTTO NDOUMBE, SIKE BILE and Maria MOUEN KALA LOBE (deceased)

  • Susan Wojcicki, the most powerful woman on the Internet

    Susan Wojcicki, the most powerful woman on the Internet

  • Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green, physicist pioneering the use of laser-activated nanoparticles to treat cancer

    Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green, physicist pioneering the use of laser-activated nanoparticles to treat cancer

  • Cassandra Naud, a heroine who danced through the mockeries about her birthmark and found her beauty and strength all the same

    Cassandra Naud, a heroine who danced through the mockeries about her birthmark and found her beauty and strength all the same

  • J. K. Rowling - novelist (notably for Harry Potter), philanthropist, film producer, television producer and screenwriter

    J. K. Rowling - novelist (notably for Harry Potter), philanthropist, film producer, television producer and screenwriter

  • Mathematician Katherine Johnson"s calculations of orbital mechanics led to successful U.S. manned spaceflights - She was 1 of the 3 people depicted in the movie Hidden Figures - credit NASA John Glenn

    Mathematician Katherine Johnson"s calculations of orbital mechanics led to successful U.S. manned spaceflights - She was 1 of the 3 people depicted in the movie Hidden Figures - credit NASA John Glenn

  • Indra Nooyi the CEO of PEPSI Co.

    Indra Nooyi the CEO of PEPSI Co.

  • Gloria Steinem - feminist, journalist (New York magazine), co-founder of Ms. magazine, and social political activist. Recognized in the US as a leader and a spokeswoman for the national feminist movement

    Gloria Steinem - feminist, journalist (New York magazine), co-founder of Ms. magazine, and social political activist. Recognized in the US as a leader and a spokeswoman for the national feminist movement

  • Adeola Ogunmola Sowemimong pilot

    Adeola Ogunmola Sowemimong pilot and first African female pilot at Qatar Airways

  • Laverne Cox - actress and LGBT advocate, first openly transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the acting category and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990

    Laverne Cox - actress and LGBT advocate, first openly transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the acting category and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990

  • Mae Jennison, the first African American in space

    Mae Jennison, the first African American in space

  • Professor of environmental engineering; winner of Best Young Scientist award and L’Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women

    Dr Sherien Elagroudy - Professor of environmental engineering; winner of Best Young Scientist award and L’Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women

  • Wendy Okolo first black woman with a doctorate in aerospatial engineering#

    Wendy Okolo first black woman with a doctorate in aerospatial engineering#

  • Rosa Parks, Activitist, US Congressional Gold Medal holder

    Rosa Parks, Activitist, US Congressional Gold Medal holder

  • Angela Merkel - German politician and the longest-serving incumbent head of government in the European Union and currently the senior G7 leader.

    Angela Merkel - German politician and the longest-serving incumbent head of government in the European Union and currently the senior G7 leader.

  • Shirley Chisholm, the first African American Woman and woman to run for president
  • Madonna, singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman and a uniquely controversial and controversially inspirational feminist as if these words were not associated enough even at the beginning of the 21st century

    Madonna, singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman and a uniquely controversial and controversially inspirational feminist as if these words were not associated enough even at the beginning of the 21st century

  • Serena Williams, tennis player - holds the most Grand Slam titles in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles combined among active players

    Serena Williams, tennis player - holds the most Grand Slam titles in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles combined among active players

  • Toni Morrison - one the main writers of the 20th and 21st century - credit Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

    Toni Morrison - one the essential writers of the 20th and 21st century

  • Marie-José Pérec, 3-time Olympic gold medalist, retired 200- and 400-metre track and field sprinter.

    Marie-José Pérec, author and 3-time Olympic gold medalist, retired 200- and 400-metre track and field sprinter.

  • Steffi Graf, ex pro tennis player; won 22 Grand Slam singles titles; the only tennis player to achieve the Golden Slam by winning all 4 Grand Slam singles titles and the Olympic gold medal in the same year; Held WTA n. 1 world ranking for the longest of any player.

    Steffi Graf, ex pro tennis player; won 22 Grand Slam singles titles; held WTA n. 1 world ranking for the longest of any player.

  • Sherri Howard, Olympic medalist and actress

    Sherri Howard, Olympic medalist and actress

Feminine beauty: Starry

Ultimately, she is the girl next door, that familiarity and proximity might blind the eye to take for granted. She is amongst the last one seen, towards the bottom of this page, but the one whose memory lasts forever. This is because her powering through hardship, her hardwork and self-belief is a perceptible inspiration that endears you to her.

  • Sarah de Vent

    Sarah de Vent, Poetess and Caterer

  • Tanmeet, Graduate Consultant

    Tanmeet, Graduate Consultant

  • Ping Coombes, Chef and Author

    Ping Coombes, Chef and Author

  • Njanjo Rhodes

    Njanjo, beloved Queen of Deido (departed)

  • Krista, Technician of bliss

    Krista, Technician of bliss

  • Marie-Ange

    Marie-Ange, Consultant

  • Sarah Sayeed, musician and actress

    Sarah Sayeed, performing musician, composer and actress

  • Rashida Mustafa, psychoanalyst and playwright

    Rashida Mustafa, psychoanalyst and playwright

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    Geli Berg, singer-songwriter, DJ, producer, broadcaster, actress and champion of introducing the world to Manchester in its music and cultural richness

  • Angeli, Guiding our Youth, Vocal coaching, Panafrican, business owner

    Angeli, Guiding our Youth, Vocal coaching, Panafrican, business owner

  • Sandra, crafter of beautiful movement and Educator

    Sandra, crafter of beautiful movement and Educator

  • Korlan, pianist and composer

    Korlan, pianist and composer

  • Ananze Batanga, singer-songwriter

    Ananze Batanga, singer-songwriter

  • Deanne Heron, Author and poetess

    Deanne Heron, Author and poetess

  • Woman

    Woman, You, Me, All who identify with the strength and fragility, and all the facets of being WOMAN

If you have made it till the end, well done. For the start is great, but without the journey and the end, there is no purpose to it. Because beauty is generally right closer to you still, most of the time unembellished, and by this virtue, also often taken for granted, or worse ignored or unseen. An ugly woman is a woman whose beauty is as yet undiscovered, to whose beauty the world is blinded by the limitations and single-mindedness that their time and space give to their perspective. The whims of fashion, the immaturity of science, the habits of tradition will not allow a woman to be who she is, beauty, unless it benefits them. Because, beauty is most definitely in her, in you. She survives the noise of billboards, the make-up of tides, waiting to be discovered, to be embraced for who she is, unencumbered by the whims of fashion and the boundaries of biology or science. And as you embrace her as she is, as you are, unconditional and loving, wrap her in your skin, then you discover, Beauty is YOU.

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Editor’s notes: this article goes around the world in its diversity but cannot list all the billions of wonderful women out there, making a difference in their homes, in their region, in their countries, in their continent, internationally, by doing their thing. Every drop of goodness a woman plants grows a strong and proud nation. Feel free to add your own list. You are wonderful.

References: Wikipedia, Women of the World.