Beauty is only skin deep

[anupumh]

Hi,

What does this phrase mean?

Beauty is only skin deep.

Thanks

[Barb_D]

Hi,

What does this phrase mean?

Beauty is only skin deep.

Thanks

People who are beautiful to look at may not be nice people.

While a beautiful person may indeed be a fine person, there is no guarantee of that. Therefore their beauty stops at the skin - it goes no deeper. There is no connection between a beautiful face and a beautiful spirit.

[konungursvia]

I see it as meaning that beauty is external, shallow, relatively unimportant.