Beauty ideals have changed throughout history. What was the beauty ideal 150 years ago is no more today. Beauty, in this case external appearance, is always influenced by several factors, the way of life and the view of cultures on the concept of beauty. Humans constantly strive to be beautiful and admired. After all, we are visual creatures. Check out how the perfect male body has changed over the past 150 years.
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Do you know how old you really are? Not how old you are, but how old your body is. Aging isn't fun, but if you're active from time to time and eat relatively healthy, you're probably a lot younger than you think. At least as far as the age of your body is concerned. And you can calculate that below.
It is not for nothing that they say that water is the source of life. Finally, it represents about two-thirds of the body's weight. It enables the functioning of our organism and performs a function similar to that performed by the sea on Earth. It relieves the fatigue that occurs during metabolism, maintains body temperature, transmits information throughout the body, increases the body's defense capabilities, prevents friction between tissues and maintains the moisture of the mucous membrane. Now that you know what it all does, check out 6 things that happen to our body if we don't drink enough of it.
As much as we women love to hate our stretch marks, now here's a viral campaign encouraging women to show them off. Love Your Lines (#LoveYourLines) is more than just an Instagram account or "hashtag", it's a global initiative for women to love their bodies and not be ashamed to show it. Supermodel Chrissy Teigen is also one of the many women who proudly shows off her stretch marks.
Our body is extraordinary. He works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, without a break. He has no days off, no weekends, he breathes a little easier only when we sleep. But what actually happens to our body on a daily basis? Huge. And since we like to peek into the lives of others, this time for a change, let's look inside ourselves and take a look at a typical day in the life of our body. We will get an answer and a reason for many feelings that we experience on a daily basis.
Just as the human body has its own charm, so does UV light, and John Poppleton has combined the two in the Bodyscapes art project. Generally, bodyscapes are photographs of naked bodies that give the impression of a landscape, but he gave the term his own twist. He was drawn into artistic waters after sticking to wedding and portrait photography for over 20 years, but it was a combination of boredom, fascination with UV light and the beauty of the human body and the opportunity to express himself through art that gave birth to the series images on bodies that come to life under UV light.
Body painting can be absolutely stunning and certainly one of the greatest masters of this craft is Johannes Stötter, an extremely talented Italian artist. Because if you thought that chameleons are masters of camouflage, take a look at his works, with which he hides a person from your eyes by painting his body and "sells" him to you for something completely different. It took him 10 hours to create the chameleon, which is actually two painted female bodies.
Artist Danny Quirk impresses with extraordinary realistic "bodypaint" illustrations that reveal the inside of our bodies. With extremely vivid paintings, he shows what is hidden under the skin that covers our legs, arms, back and face. So let's check how you would look without your largest organ - the skin.
From the ancient to the postmodern perception of female beauty - watch a video that presents the perfect female body through the ages.
Autumn is our favorite season for pleasant relaxation in the shelter of a warm home. Since we like to know what we're putting in and on our bodies, DIY recipes for homemade scrubs and body butters are perfect for fall beauty indulgences that we're already endlessly looking forward to.
Most of us (especially women) decide to engage in regular physical activity - be it running, fitness, yoga, cycling or some other type of sport - because of the desire to have a more beautiful body and lose weight. Besides this visual effect, regular physical activity brings with it many other benefits: here are 10 of them that have nothing to do with weight loss.