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In Thailand the beauty standards set are mostly aimed towards their skin. To be "beautiful" in Thailand, the whiter the skin, the better. Light skin stands for youth, health, and wealth in Thailand.

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Another feature that Thai women focus on is how large their eyes are and how thin and long their nose is. It is considered beautiful to have big and bold eyes in Thailand. Thai women should have thin noses and they should be slightly longer than normal and a bit pointy.

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Thai women have been raised to be polite and quiet and to maintain theirselves/reputation in a good way. This is called "rak sa naa". Thai women also have been taught to have good eyes and good face. This is called "naa taa dii". The face of a Thai women is supposed to be slim/slender.

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Skinny is everywhere in Thailand. If you’re above a size eight, you won’t be able to find cute clothes. In Thailand, the people are not afraid to tell you that you are overweight. "beautiful" in Thailand is known as skinny and elongated features

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In Thailand the women are always trying to lighten their skin, so a popular cosmetic product that they use is a whitening cream or collagen.

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This practice is used to elongate a woman's neck to make her more attractive. Females as early as 5 years old are to put on brass neck coils. The amount of neck coils increase one per year. This is a tradition of their culture. The long neck represents felinity thus more brass coils are wrapped around the neck, the higher the level of attractiveness.

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This practice is exactly how it sounds, you get slapped across the face several times in effort to help your face. The benefits of this treatment states that it firms and slims the face, reduces wrinkles and minimses pores.

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This snail facial is supposed to have many benefits on the skin. Many creams and lotions are also made from snail’s mucus claiming to soften, whiten and leaving a firming effect on the face.

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Krachap lips are achieved by removing the left and right tissues of the upper lip to create thinner looking lips. This alteration can cause permanent scars, inability to close mouth and other complications.

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Throughout this search for Thailand's beauty standards, I was taught many shocking facts:

Thai women feel the need to have whiter skin, bigger eyes, thinner noses, and skinny elongated bodies. What I found to be surprising was the practices preformed to achieve these unrealistic body images.

Having cream and collagens for whitening skin is sad because they are trying to change something that was made to make them unique and original. It is sad that they feel like they have to change a part of them that is so large like their skin. The brass coil around the neck is harsh and scary considering they start to use those coils at such a young age of 5 years old. This practice is not only unnecessary but it is also unsafe.

Overall, I feel that the beauty standards for Thailand are very extreme and some dangerous. There are certain aspects of Thai beauty that can be used to maintain healthy skin, but most of it is used to alter the face/body in a certain way, which should never have to be the case.

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