cloy \KLOY\, transitive verb:
1. To weary by excess, especially of sweetness, richness, pleasure, etc.intransitive verb:
1. To become distasteful through an excess usually of something originally pleasing.
I have been noticing lately that our definitions of beauty, particularly for people, are disturbingly narrow. Turn on any TV show or movie and you see the same things over and over again — the same clothes, the same hairstyles, the same makeup, and the same bodies.
Why are we so afraid of the natural variation that exists among us? Why can only certain attributes be beautiful?
Last night I watched a reality show that shall remain nameless because I am ashamed of my addiction, and one of the performers was someone who is, by all cultural definitions, beautiful. I looked at her, and suddenly it was all too much. The makeup, the immaculately styled but oh-so-carefully tousled “natural” hair, the skin across the cheekbones a little too tight, the teeth perfectly straight and white…this person who was undoubtedly pretty when she started out just…wasn’t anymore.
