Jurema Ferraz, Miss Angola 2010, poses in her swimsuit for the judges during the Miss Universe 2010 Presentation Show held at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada on Thursday, August 19, 2010.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Lesly Pereira, Miss Angola 2008
Lesly Pereira who was Miss Angola 2008 is seen posing in her swimwear at Wonderpark, Tuesday, July 1, 2008 in Nha Trang, Vietnam, for the opening of the 2008 Miss Universe pageant.
Leila Lopes in bikini
Leila Lopes, who was crowned Miss Universe 2011 by the former titleholder, Ximena Navarrete of Mexico in São Paulo, Brazil on 12 September 2011, is the 60th titleholder and the first Angolan to win the title. She is also the second African Miss Universe title winner of African descent following Botswana’s Mpule Kwelagobe who became Miss Universe 1999. However, Lopes is the fourth African beauty to win the title so far since the beginning of the pageant, the others being from South Africa (1978), Namibia (1992) and Botswana (1999).
Leila Lopes reacts on winning Miss Universe title
Leila Lopes, born in Benguela, Angola, on 26 February 1986, was crowned Miss Angola UK, Miss Angola 2010 and later Miss Universe 2011. She was pursuing a business management course in the United Kingdom where she contested for and won Miss Angola UK title on October 8, 2010 and qualified for the Miss Angola 2011 event held later in Luanda.
Aoife Hannon, Miss Ireland 2011
Photo: Aoife Hannon, Miss Ireland 2011, poses in her Catalina - Brasil swimwear on 22 August 2011 at Hilton Såo Paulo Morumbi, Brazil, competing for the next 3 weeks appearing at events and preparing to compete in the 2011 MISS UNIVERSE pageant. The 19-year-old beauty is from Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
Kim Kardashian: A case of Steatopygia?
I often read from experts on beauty and female anatomy that some women among all races exhibit traces of Steatopygia. When I read it first, I was not aware of what it was all about.
So, for those who are still like what I felt initially about it, Steatopygia “is a high degree of fat accumulation in and around the buttocks”. Often fat deposit can extend to the back and front of the thighs, and sometimes up to the knees.
Historically, Steatopygia is a genetic characteristic of the Khoisan people (also spelled as Khoesaan, Khoesan or Khoe-San). Khoisan is a name coined from the names of two ethnic groups of Southern Africa.
Though Steatopygia is prevalent conspicuously among women, it can also be observed in men. Pygmies and the Onge tribe of the Andaman Islands (India) also are reported to have this genetic characteristic of, possibly, evolution.
As is well known now, human beings were initially quadrupeds like apes, but in the course of evolution, possibly taking many millennia, Homo sapiens started to become bipeds, presumably when they wanted to stand up to pluck fruits from trees, to have a vision over a wider area than quadrupeds, and many more reasons.
So, as can be seen in the case of four-legged animals trying to stand up on their hind limbs, with awkwardly protruding buttocks, in the course of evolution, when the humans first tried to stand up, their buttocks were more protruded out.
Also, in the case of most Homo sapiens, females have a tendency to gather more adipose tissues in the buttock area than the males.
Anthropologists are of the opinion that Steatopygia was a characteristic of women who inhabited originally in an area extending from the Gulf of Aden to the Cape of Good Hope, but now the characteristic can be seen predominantly among the women of the Pygmies and Khoisan. Sometimes Steatopygia is also noticed among people from other parts of Africa, not essentially among women, but more among male Basters than among Khoikhoi (Khoisan) women.
With due apologies to the anthropologists, I would stress that Steatopygia-like characteristics can be observed among a small percentage of women of all races, places, etc. For instance, if you are familiar with art/ paintings, you must have noticed that almost all women in the art of Peter Paul Rubens showed characteristics of Steatopygia. It suggests that this characteristic was a symbol of beauty for European women.
The extreme case is the animal-like treatment given to Sarah Baartman (Saartjie Baartman), the most famous Khoikhoi woman who was given the derogatory title “Hottentot Venus”. She was forcefully imported to Britain, then taken to France, and shown around to Europeans as if she is a circus animal, until she died at about the age of 25 years.
Notting Hill Carnival Dancer - Aug 2006
A Trinidadian girl, a Carnival dancer, dressed up in white carnival costumes, poses for photo at the The Notting Hill Carnival.
Held since 1964, The Notting Hill Carnival, the annual carnival event led by the members of the West Indian community, especially the Trinidadian and Tobagonian British community, is reported to have attracted over two million people in the past. It has become the second largest carnival street festival in the world, second only to the carnivals held in Trinidad and Tobago. The carnival derives its name, probably, because was held in 1964 on the streets of Notting Hill, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, UK.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Anna Kournikova in yellow bikini #25909
Anna Kournikova wearing yellow two-piece bikini, with a bath-towel and shoulder bag, seems to go for a cool dip. Her expression is one of expecting a lot of fun times.
Friday, June 3, 2011
Young Asian women in bikinis
By chungkeng ryu from taipei, taiwan (bikini-8518) [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
The ‘Young Asian women in bikinis’ are from Taipei in Taiwan, and as the title suggests, they are taking part in a beauty contest.
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