BeautyCheck.com

[Kire]

Welcome to the 'beautycheck' homepage!



If you take a look at this picture, you will quite certainly think that this is a very beautiful face. But what makes you be so sure about that? Finding answers to why we regard one face as being more beautiful than another is actually not as easy as it seems.

Nevertheless, at least in the case of the above photograph, it's not a big surprise that you think this is an attractive face. Each pixel of that face has been calculated by scientists using a specialized software program - that is, it has been altered in a special way in order to make people think this is an attractive face.

On this homepage, you will find plenty of information on a large research project on 'facial attractiveness' that has been carried out at the universities of Regensburg and Rostock in Germany.

Find out about

* why some faces are more beautiful than others
* how scienctists help unravel the mystery of beauty and
* the dangerous relationship between a beautiful body and social power


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[doublethink]

1. I've seen prettier ........

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Peace. :)

[yurbud]

2. nope--science can measure it

but after you get past the initial look, personality colors how you see a person--uglier or prettier (ala SHALLOW HAL).

[doublethink]

3. I disagree ....... I have seen prettier women ....

than the above picture without meeting them, so how would I know a thing about their personality? The girl in the picture is attractive but Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Peace. :)

[doublethink]

4. In fact .....

Her nose is fat, her lips aren't full, her face is too round, her eyebrows are too thick, and I don't like the short hair. But that's just me, maybe to the extreme. But this question was about physical appearance, science or no, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Peace. :)

[yurbud]

5. all the things you listed are universally liked

small nose, full lips, high cheekbones, long hair, and dark but not thick brows.

the only one you left out is a small chin--or do you like lantern jawed girls like Tori Spelling or Paula Poundstone?

[lukasahero]

6. wow - I never realized I was universally unattractive

Thankfully my husband believes beauty IS in the eye of the beholder.

This kind of stuff seems so demeaning to me. There's a lot of stuff science can explain, but when we start to remove the individuality of people, we lessen ourselves and promote one idea as normal while anyone who deviates from that norm is wrong.

PS - "lantern jawed" or not, I believe Tori Spelling is considered a sex symbol, isn't she?

[yurbud]

7. Tori Spelling is considered a nepotism symbol

As I said originally, your personality changes how people see you over time (sometimes fairly quickly).

A fairly vivacious popular girl at my high school looked a neanderthal, and I fell madly in love with a girl who was maybe 20% hotter than Kathy Bates.


This research has been replicated a couple of times and they got the same results regardless of race, culture, or exposure to Western media.

[lukasahero]

8. My husband didn't know my personality

when he saw me and decided he wanted to meet me because he thought I was pretty. Yet I have thin lips and a long nose. Guess he's just unusual. I tend to think we all are and thank goodness for it.

[yurbud]

9. there is variability in tastes or range of features guys like

I don't buy into the blonde, balloon boob fetish a lot of guys have.

Ask your husband if he would like you with a shorter nose, just for the hell of it.