nowing creator of the earth we inhabit. The Bible also says in Genesis 2:25 that "the man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame." For the believers of the Bible, this is the first example of a standard of beauty. This beauty was natural, pure, and untainted. It was the way God had intended beautiful to be. This could explain man's obsession with the risqué, cutting edge, and flesh- revealing fashions of the day, promoting them to the current level of absolute beauty. The desire to be natural or naked may come from the primitive instinct that was given to man at creation.
             While the Bible's creation story may be the very first standard of beauty, one of the first proven examples of beauty, through archeological digs, is the ancient Egyptian pharaoh, Cleopatra. At her time, Cleopatra was the ideal of beauty. She was the Queen of the Nile, the most powerful woman alive. She had a long, bent nose and course, masculine features, far from today's ideal of beauty. However, she has been labeled the most beautiful and seductive woman in history. She had lovers ranging from Ptolemy XIII, the heir to the throne of Egypt, to Julius Caesar, a powerful Roman leader, to Marc Antony, Caesar's right-hand man and possible successor. This period's standard of beauty may have been based on the power of Cleopatra. She was the first and last female pharaoh and carrying that much power over Egypt would be enough to convince any common
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