How should beauty be measured? Should cultural norms affect your personal perception of beauty or is it all relevant? Find out one girl's experience of beauty in India.

Whoever said "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" was right. However, they forgot to tell us who that beholder is. In an attempt to answer an unanswerable question, I would like to argue that the person is me. That’s right!

There are no universal characteristics of beauty. Every culture, as well as every individual in that culture, has his or her own ideals of what is beautiful. Not only do these ideals vary across regions, they also change over time.