Palavra-chave Beauty Standards

Em "A SUBSTÂNCIA", uma celebridade em decadência decide usar uma droga clandestina, uma substância que replica células e cria temporariamente uma versão mais jovem e melhor de si mesma.

Num futuro distópico com padrões de beleza impostos, uma adolescente à espera da sua operação estética obrigatória embarca numa viagem em busca de uma amiga desaparecida.

Perante a iminência de um ataque terrorista ao concurso de beleza Miss Estados Unidos da América, o FBI decide infiltrar nesse concurso uma das suas agentes. Porém, Gracie Hart é uma "durona" que não parece ter sido talhada para a tarefa, e que vai ter de passar por uma séria mudança de visual e maneiras a fim de cumprir com a sua missão.

Hal (Jack Black) é um homem que segue à risca o conselho de seu pai e apenas se interessa por mulheres que tenham um físico perfeito. Mas tudo muda quando ele por acaso se encontra com Anthony Robbins, um guru de auto-ajuda que o hipnotiza e faz com que ele apenas possa visualizar a beleza interior das mulheres, em detrimento de seu físico. Sem saber que está sob o efeito de hipnose, Hal então se apaixona por Rosemary (Gwyneth Paltrow), uma mulher obesa que é vista por ele como se fosse uma verdadeira deusa. Até que, após ser retirado da hipnose por seu amigo Mauricio (Jason Alexander), ele passa a ver como Rosemary é de verdade fisicamente e precisa tomar uma decisão sobre seu relacionamento com ela.

No centro da história está Mary Haines, uma perfeita mulher moderna subitamente confrontada com um velho dilema: um marido traidor. As mulheres que lhe estão perto rapidamente se reúnem à sua volta, lideradas pela sua melhor amiga, Sylvie Fowler, uma dinâmica editora de uma revista. Mas quando Sylvie trai Mary num negócio, o grupo todo é sacudido – e as duas mulheres encaram a mais dolorosa separação de sempre: a da sua amizade. Baseado no filme de 1939 de George Cukor e na peça de teatro de 1936 de Clare Boothe Luce, "Mulheres!" transporta-nos para um agitado círculo da sociedade de Manhattan, em que as indústrias editorial, da moda e das finanças estão em destaque.

Lim Ju-kyung is a high school student. Since she was little, she has had a complex about her appearance. To hide her bare face, Ju-kyung always wears make-up. Her excellent make-up skills make her pretty and she hides her bare face in front of others. She gets involved with 2 men; Lee Su-ho and Han Seo-jun.

Once bullied for her looks, Jugyeong transforms herself using the art of makeup. When she joins a new school with a True Beauty goddess competition, offering winners the chance of recruitment by entertainment agencies, she instantly becomes a top candidate! But her new identity is at stake when heartthrob Suho Lee accidentally sees her bare face. Will her elite status be short-lived?

When she suffers from frequent bullying because of her looks, Kang Mi-rae decides to get plastic surgery. However, this leads to more persecution and she tries to rebuild her morale.

Nan Hee is an ugly girl and this has influenced her to become mean. One day, she receives a ring which holds a family secret. Se Gun is handsome, but he has a cold-blooded personality. Due to the magic of the ring, he declares Nan Hee as his ideal woman with a beautiful appearance.

'How to Love Without Losing Myself' despite the problems of career, dating, and friends. The story is about a shy chubby student struggling with low self-esteem and body image issues. The story follows her journey of self-acceptance as she navigates friendships and relationships. With the support of her friends learns to embrace her unique qualities and discovers the true meaning of self-love in a society that often values external beauty.

Documentary about teenagers and young women from the suburbs of Copenhagen.

Miss Naked Beauty is a short-lived, six-episode reality television show produced by Maverick Television, aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. The show, presented by Gok Wan and Myleene Klass, was conceived as a radical "reality" take on beauty pageants. Some 7000 women applied to become the "ultimate 21st century beauty queen". The focus of the program is on natural and diverse beauty, as opposed to surgically "enhanced" and conformist concepts of beauty. In the first episode, hundreds of remaining applicants were whittled down to just twelve finalists, by a panel of judges composed of fashion stylist Gok Wan, musician Myleene Klass, magazine editor James Brown, journalist Kathryn Flett and musician, actress and TV presenter Mica Paris. In subsequent episodes, various issues were explored such as body image, plastic surgery, self-esteem, modern versus Renaissance and earlier notions of beauty, eating disorders, over-reliance on makeup, the fashion industry. Meanwhile, the programme also progressed as a pageant, eliminating contestants in typical reality TV style, down to five finalists.

A series of films looking at the different shapes and sizes of bodies and people's attitudes to them

Extreme Male Beauty is a British documentary series which began airing on Channel 4 and features television presenter Tim Shaw as he explores the various lengths men will go to in order to achieve the beauty standards placed on them. The series criticises the modelling industry and the 'perfect' body images shown in the media and, whilst Shaw attempts to conform to the desirable body images sold by advertisers. Some criticised the show for having an over-complicated format.