Who is a Beautiful Woman?

For a beauty pageant judge, a beautiful woman is one who could be ugly yet projects womanhood through her elegance, courage, confidence, wit, intelligence, carriage and education. It is, for this reason, that we might sometimes disagree with the judge’s decision on who among a list should have won the contest.
Beauty, as acknowledged in the eyes of a woman, is different from that of a man.

A woman says of another “she’s beautiful” yet a man might not agree with her verdict even though her gender gives her the edge to know beauty. In a man’s eye, a girl that gets his attention is beautiful. She might be a big sack or bag but his lust for her fullness or handiness is his qualification for her being beautiful. Yes, beauty attracts hence her ability to be attractive to a man makes her beautiful. Sometimes, when several girls are previewed from their back-view, one gets an impression of which amongst them one prefers in terms of height, tone of skin, hip ratio and attire. But an opportunity to view them from their front produces a drastic reversal on the decision on who among them is most beautiful. This confirms that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Therefore, a once beautiful girl can suddenly become not so beautiful depending on new impressions created. Now, this asks a question. Is a dethroned beauty queen no longer more beautiful than her runner-up? Some western judges see ‘beauty’ in thinness and height as like being scantily clothed in flesh and closer to the bone while some traditional African societies see ‘beauty’ in the ability to be fluffy in easily rippling fatty tissues.

For the irony of beauty, a beauty queen acclaimed by a panel of Western beauty hunters was subjected to a community’s beauty therapy for their basic level of beauty qualification. A verdict of who is beautiful then becomes a social puzzle. In a general sense, every woman is beautiful if she can, even with her handicap, be attracted to a male or be an admired model in the eyes of her fellow woman. So, just being a woman makes her beautiful.

Now since every woman is beautiful, do we need to highlight beauty among the beautiful? Or whose beauty is most beautiful: the beauty, as a verdict of pageant judges, or the beauty as acclaimed by a fellow woman, a man’s verdict of his great beauty or a community’s moulding in flesh wrapping?

In summary, the indices of being beautiful are:
To have sex appeal: Being pretty in the face but not necessarily beautiful.
Aesthetically fitting in statue (facial beauty is not essential but a good human form and clothing).
Representing the philosophy of womanhood in softness or bonelessness: Community’s perspective or
Meeting the requirements of a set of rules (pageant).