This is What the World’s Definition of Female Beauty Looks Like

This is Priscilla Yuki Wilson, a biracial woman with a Japanese mother and a black father.

Following in the footsteps of her white college friend Esther Honig, who recently posted PhotoShopped images of herself that represented 19 different countries’ idealized concept of beauty, Priscilla sent off her own make-up-less photo to artists in a variety of different nations. 

The images that were returned back to her show just how differently each country defines beauty. Some have given her a thinner face, others piled make-up onto her, while India covered her up with a dress. Our personal favorite is the USA “artist” who went completely overboard with his/her moment in the spotlight.

Speaking of the project on her website, Priscilla said: “The question “what are you?” regularly influences how I experience the world. It serves as a reminder that I am living in a culture that’s still adjusting to my kind of face. Growing up my Japanese mother would often tell me to wear sunblock and to stay out of the sun to avoid getting “too dark”.

“Being that my father is black, this paradox always troubled me because I was clearly a product of a radical racial union. In these subtle ways I was taught that my natural self did not comply with conventional standards set forth by society, saying fairer skin is better, straighter hair is more attractive, and that skinny tastes good. For that reason I decided to carry out a reproduction of the project Before & After because I wanted to see how a face like mine would be transformed on the digital surgical table.”

Scroll through the images in the gallery below:

Photos: Priscilla Yuki Wilson