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
Lupita Nyongo
Zhang Ziyi
Liza Soberano
Charlize Theron
Maisa Abd Elhadi
Tanaya Beatty
Jayne Kennedy
Ju Xiaowen
Amber Heard
Adwoa Aboah
Deepika Padukone
Khoudia Diop
Nastya Zhidkova
Golshifteh Farahani
Vanessa Williams
Halle Berry
Romy Schneider
Jasmine Sanders
Fatima Said
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
Priyanka Chopra
Ni Ni
Salma Hayek
Eva Mendes
Mahlagha Jaberi
Angelina Jolie
Kerry Washington
Brigitte Bardot
Scarlett Johansson
Margot Robbie
Stacey Dash
Alyssa Milano
Tyra Banks
Liv Tyler
Laetitia Casta
Emily DiDonato
Denise Richards
Carla Gugino
Tsunaina
Eva Green
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
Natalie Portman
Gabrielle Union
Jessica Alba
Lucy Liu
Beyonce
Kate Beckinsale
Jill Stone
Alexis Bledel
Thandie Newton
Izabella Scorupco
Akosua Busia
Jun Ji Hyun
Kiara Kaburu
Anne Hathaway
Connie Chiu
Bar Rafeli
Anna Diop
Cameron Diaz
Chanel Iman
Kelly Hu
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Masha Telna
Ella Thomas
Alicia Vikander
Paula Patton
Penelope Cruz
Tomiko Fraser Hines
Kenia Martinez
Arlenis Sosa Peña
Sade Adu
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
Kaia Jordan Gerber
Selita Ebanks
Kristen Stewart
Kandyse McClure
Jelly Lin or Lin Yun
Isabel Correia
Constance Wu
Cara Delevingne
Gigi Hadid
Han Chae-Young
Zendaya
Kendall Jenner
lola Chull
Lily Collins
Keiko Kitagawa
Kiara Kaburu
Thylane Blondeau
K.D. Aubert
Sophie Turner
Kyoko Fukada
Tina Kunakey
Taylor Hill
Laurianne Ekwalla-Essaka
Satoshimi Ishihara
Chanel Iman
Zhou Jieqiong
Kim Domingo
Lauren London
Molly Bair
Melvnin
Liya Keyede
Erika Sawajiri
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
Iman Bowie
Rekha
Judi Dench
Michelle Yeoh
Emma Thomson
Catherine Zeta Jones
Naomi Campbell
Monica Belluci
Cindy Crawford
Whitney Houston
Sophia Loren
Sherilyn Fenn
Raquel Welsch
Robin Givens
Honor Blackman
Ruth E Carter
Sophie Marceau
Diane Sawyer, journalist and Television Hall of Fame inductee
Janet
Catherine Deneuve
Diana Rigg
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
Alek Wek
Ju Xiaowen
Q’orianka Kilcher
Chloe Grace Moretz
Zoe Saldana
Rosie Huntington-Wwhiteley
Zhou Dongyu
Danai Gurira
Zoe Kazan
Chipo Chung
Grace Jones
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
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.
Chien-Shiung Wu, experimental physicist who made significant contributions in the field of nuclear physics
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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, Multi-title holder, Professional boxer, retired undefeated
Patsy Mink, first woman of color elected to US Congress
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
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)
Susan Wojcicki, the most powerful woman on the Internet
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
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
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
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
Mae Jennison, the first African American in space
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#
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.
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
Toni Morrison – one the essential writers of the 20th and 21st century
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; held WTA n. 1 world ranking for the longest of any player.
Sherri Howard, Olympic medalist and actress
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, Poetess and Caterer
Tanmeet, Graduate Consultant
Ping Coombes, Chef and Author
Njanjo, beloved Queen of Deido (departed)
Krista, Technician of bliss
Marie-Ange, Consultant
Sarah Sayeed, performing musician, composer and actress
Rashida Mustafa, psychoanalyst and playwright
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
Sandra, crafter of beautiful movement and Educator
Korlan, pianist and composer
Ananze Batanga, singer-songwriter
Deanne Heron, Author and poetess
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. Yous are wonderful.