"external beauty" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when talking about the physical appearance of someone or something, such as in the sentence: "Despite her external beauty, she also had a kind heart."
That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside.
That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside, that here is no shade in that beauty".
More into the inner search rather than the external beauty.
Bathsheba clearly has an internal life, not merely an external beauty.
It is a sad thing that we've come nowhere really at all since the fatuous Elizabethan notion that external beauty represented internal goodness.
Its external beauty arises from the thin marble veneers with which the brick surface is coated, just as though it were a piece of furniture….
The fact is external feminine beauty is highly valued, and we are constantly given the message that a slamming body is the most valuable thing a woman can possess.
Personally, I'm gratified that her voice inspires so many, and reminds us of our tendency to judge and criticize based on shallow externals of beauty.
The fact that it is also about a woman dealing with external versus internal beauty has also taken on more resonance in these youth and beauty-obsessed times.
It can often be overlooked, but this holistic maintenance of well-being is directly related to external and internal beauty.
The Greeks developed the concept of kalokagathia - 'external beauty showing an inward nobility of spirit'.
