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It can be seen by the way she behaves and treats others. It is deferent from beauty. It is considered as outer beauty, then behavior as the inner one.
Because it is disposed to be judged in the way of someone physical appearance, while behavior cannot be seen directly, but it can be felt by the
way someone acts, says and treats to others, as cited from http:ezinearticles.com?The-Outer-Glow-From-an-Inner-
Beautyid=1749144 .
According to Evita 1978:68 as cited byRostamailis, there are three factors that can influence someone behavior. They are characters,
education and social relationship. If they are in one unity, someone can have good personality and behavior. Therefore, it is better because
attractive physical appearance solely will be useless. Besides, Rostamailis 2005:91 said that behavior is more valuable rather than physical beauty,
because it could be vanished as long as someone getting older. Whereas, behavior is not replaceable, even if someone is not beautiful any longer.
Again, she argued that someone appeal is not relay on good looking and ideal body, but people will be more interested in someone
clean, neat, nice and having good attitude. Therefore, to be a fascinating woman, good behavior is needed as the main factor and complete with
other self development, like intelligence and appearance, 2005:90
2.3.5 The True Beauty
Beauty is something subjective and relative, so that it is difficult to be defined exactly. Besides, it can be assumed differently time by time. Sonia Maasik
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and Jack Solomon argued, ‘beauty’ is not universal or changeless. Therefore, in different places or nations, people have different beauty standard also, depends
their background of education, culture, and circumstances they live. For instance, commonly, western people prefer have own skin and that is why they like to
sunbathe on the beach. Meanwhile, Indonesian people mostly prefer fair skin to their natural skin, which is brown skin. It becomes an opportunity for the capitalist
to set up factories or beautician centers that produce a whitening beauty product, like lotion, soap to make their skin brighter, 2006:488
Further more, they explained every generation since 1983 people had had to fight its version of beauty myth. It could be change to be fitted to the ideal
types in certain time. As in the middle age in Western, beauty was defined by fat breast and buttock which symbolized fertility and prosperity. It was cultural
beauty standard at that time. When a woman had a plump and full body, she would be considered as a beautiful. But this perception had changed since
Twiggy, a supermodel and actress who was famous in the 1960s, appeared in the space of public with a slim figure. Indirectly, she influenced people in giving
objectification of ideal body. Before Twiggy era, women were not expected to look so slim. But, in this era, society beauty standard turn to be ideal body shape
like slim, and good-looking. It is a kind of beauty myth that is constructed by the capitalist and believed by people. Unfortunately, they do not realize about this
propaganda. Instead, they believe that it is a part of popular culture. That is why they become fixated on outside appearance, 2006:488.
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Besides, media supports give perception. They take a part in giving affection by presenting beauty images. Gamble stated that image of femininity in
the mass media may not change the way actually act, but they may influence the way we think about what it means to be a woman. Therefore, society is affective
to be biased in defining beauty without knowing what it genuine means, 2006:90.
From this explanation, it is clear that beauty is difficult to be defined because it could be about a matter of physical appearance and personality. As
cited by Rostamailis 2005:85, Jenny Adam, Miss Alaska 1974, stated that the beauty in a woman is the totality of self actualization. It is the result of the unity
of harmony, compatibility, and fit. In other words, beauty is a harmony of physical appearance outer-beauty and personality inner-beauty. Shortly, the
true beauty is about a personal self development including character building, intelligence, and appearance in one unity to embody harmony in personality.
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CHAPTER III METHOD OF INVESTIGATION
In a research, certain methods are needed to support the analysis of the object of the study. Research method is a strategy in collecting and analyzing the
data to get the result of investigation. This study uses the qualitative research since the data is collected in the form of words rather than numbers. This chapter
consists of research design, the object of the study, role of researcher, types of data, procedure collecting data, and the last is procedure of analyzing data.
3.1 Research Design
