"Flapper beauty"

(collage and oil painting on glass, 11X14, 2009)

"Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her."
Unknown

"The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile."
Sacha Guitry

I believe that each one of us has a purpose in life. Our purpose is to make the best of what is given to us. Physical beauty is just another gift and like all other special gifts it should not to be taken lightly. Beauty doesn’t make people any more special than anybody else. It just sets them on a different path. There are studies that conclude that certain things might be more attainable for the attractive, but it doesn’t mean that their lives are easier.

While inner beauty is a blessing, outer beauty oftentimes serves as a barrier that prevents people from seeing someone’s inner beauty. Some men are more afraid of beautiful women than of bubonic plague. Granted, there are women who could be held responsible for that type of attitude in males, since some good-looking (and if I might add ‘self-centered’) women don’t give a guy a chance to talk to them if he somehow doesn’t match their over-inflated standards. On the other hand, men could also open their minds and see that in most cases beauty has little to do with a woman’s personality. All of us have certain hang-ups and most of them come from our life experiences and not from our appearance. So lets stop stereotyping, because deep down an average Jane is not that much different from Jayne Mansfield…