Quote:
Originally Posted by Jennihul  Attractiveness is 100% a state of mind, barring unfortunate smelting accidents or inbreeding with cousins.
Your mindset will determine, more than any physical factor, how you are viewed. If you believe yourself to be attractive and act the part, people will buy in. If you shirk and shrink and try to hide yourself and metaphorically apologize for your appearance, people will not buy in that you are attractive. |
It would be nice if it were true, but, alas, it's not.
There's actually a real science to it, oddly enough. Something called the
Golden Mean Ratio of 1 to 1.618. Makeup artists use it all the time (and, more recently, Photoshop artists) to make models in magazines appear more attractive. Whether they actually get out the calipers isn't something that I'd know, but there's a wealth of information about how that ratio keeps coming up in nature. More
here,
here and
here.
Seems beauty really isn't in the eye of the beholder. Sucks for guys like us whose faces don't match the ratios.