Should we aspire to be beautiful?

From What is Beauty:

These coupe of quotes did make me think that maybe making the best of yourself is what everyone should aspire to and if that meaning using makeup or if you dont like something, getting it fixed, then why not?

Makeup as body armour, "a chance to connect with people while still protecting yourself." This makes it sound like life is a battlefield for women, which is probably is for most, always batteling against nature, weight and competition from women all around us everyday. Maybe if we didnt have things like cosmetics to help us look our best and also act as a shield, and mascuine clothing to enpower ourselves then maybe we'd all fall to pieces...

I also liked the ideas addressed about were supposibly broadening the definition for beauty such as "ugly beauty" and how "beauty takes its cue from fashion and fashion's new direction is pared down" I really do think that this is a load of rubbish, as it almost seems like a cruel way to make people feel worse about themselves, I do believe that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and to call someone an ugly beauty is just sick, and almost seems like another means of socially grouping people. Also to say that beauty takes it cue from fashion is ridicules, for fashion to ever take credit for beauty... beauty was here even before fasion existed!

I found it quite amusing how something so simple as a beauty spot could turn into a fad in the victorian era and have all kinds of different meanings. I thought it was a bit unfair if my chance you had a beauty spot on your nose you would then be labeled as "shameless"