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One study by Carol Gilligan (1988) about the psychological development of teenage girls revealed that most of the girls experience a major drop in self-esteem as they reach adolescence. As Gilligan said, this miss-confidence is due to the conflict between the image that a woman has of herself and what the society tells her a woman should be like.

However, what a woman need is pride in herself. If a woman wants to look beautiful, she should be herself and not something she thinks other people want her to be. Ki Sawung in The Secret of Inner Beauty said that every inch of a woman’s body is the precious. Not only what a woman has outside, but everything she has inside also influences her beauty pretty much. Sawung also said that the inner beauty of a woman is more important than the outside beauty. A woman could improve her physical appearance as the way she likes (from hair, body shape, perfumes or clothes), but she should not forget to have a good personality. She should be confident, strong, down to earth, sociable, cheerful and smart. And of course all of these are very important for a young woman to build good relationship to men as they will see her with a full sense of affection and respect. Read more