THE BEAUTY INSIDE OF COMING AGES.

the older the vast majority of women get, the more they feel less attractive, and the ageing body can decrease their confidence and self-esteem. Sometimes it can be really severe enough to cause depression and directly affect women's mental health. It keeps getting worse and worse every year.

In Thailand, the beauty standards can hurt many women due to society's beliefs that you have to look young, and white and inject some fillers to feel "beautiful" and have an "angelic, perfect pretty face". But, we, as human beings, cannot be perfect all the time. Therefore, I would like to illustrate examples of lovely women from my family that "there is always beauty in any age. Ages must not make a difference to see less value in themselves. They do not need to change anything because of too surreal-perfect beauty standards". I am and will be the one who sees elegance in them. Furthermore, these issues tend to happen with women more than men because both genders age differently; men tend to develop more laugh lines while women have more frown lines (Ansberry, 2020).

According to the American Psychological Association (2012), some natural body changes related to ageing can increase a person's risk of having depression.

As you can see from my photos, I decided to do “the beauty inside coming age” with a demographic of women aged 40 and up. I believe that their bodies have changed from young adults to middle-aged adults for my mother, and my grandmother is in the old adult stage. The reason I chose these age ranges is that many people (primarily women) have thought the other genders do not see them anymore or overlook them when they are not young, and it makes them feel invisible. Numerous women have stated, “invisibility is associated with not looking young anymore” since they have gone through being college grads, had interesting careers, have gorgeous marriages and family lives, and some of them have grandchildren (Good, 2020).

Personally, I believe that many societies place too high importance on female beauty, which perhaps, is too much to be able to reach the standards. Whenever some of them could not meet the criteria, they tend to see less value in themselves by saying, “I want to feel beautiful like her." or "Why in the world I could not be perfect like that? Why am I not enough?”. It is a highly wrong perception of beauty in themselves. I would say, “You all are beautiful just the way you are. True beauty should come from within, and that is what matters to me”. It is undeniable that popular notions of beauty cause a lot of women to question their entire identities. A loss of beauty can present itself in other psychological aspects such as depression, anxiety and other mental health issues. Finally, it leads to losing self-confidence and self-esteem.