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Post by jong on Dec 16, 2005 10:37:57 GMT -5
i was thinking about what makes someone good looking/beautiful. some peope say symmetry is what makes someone good looking, but then there are some people who are considered very attractive, but they have quite asymmetrical faces. is it how close the person's face looks to the average person? but then there are some people who have very distinct features, and still they're attractive. anyway, i just wanted here your opinions on this, because if you know then it could be easier to caricature someone who's beautiful and still make them look beautiful even with a lot of exaggeration. okay i'll stop rambling .. ;D
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Post by Lauren on Dec 16, 2005 11:32:52 GMT -5
That's an interesting question Jon.
I think symmetry is generally considered to be beautiful, as well as high cheek bones for women and a strong jaw for men.
I find quirky teeth beautiful though, as I have a terrible memory for faces and instead remember everyone by their teeth. Straight, perfect teeth = vague memory whereas if a person has unusual teeth I'm more likely to remember them and things about them.
As for caricaturing classically beautiful people, good luck with it! I know I'm terrible at it that's for sure.
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Post by donpinsent on Dec 16, 2005 12:07:20 GMT -5
i'd say it's not really something you can qualify, since different things are attractive to different people. some people may find... i don't know, big teeth, for example, attractive, while that feature may be a turn-off for others. so how can we qualify this?
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Post by jong on Dec 16, 2005 12:29:55 GMT -5
lauren, that's interesting about the high cheeckbones and strong jaw. maybe true.  yeah don, i agree it definitely depends on the person. but i guess i'm mainly talking about the general concensus. like take orlando bloom. everyone (atleast the girls) think he's good looking, but his nose is very skew(from what i've seen). is there no general 'rule' that classifies people as beautiful? because usually most people agree whether someone is good looking. |
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Post by Lauren on Dec 16, 2005 13:18:37 GMT -5
There are a few studies about what makes a person physically attractive that we looked at in Psychology a few years ago and the cheek bones/ strong jaw thing is what I remember most clearly from it.
The only other thing I remember is that people tend to look for partners who are equally as attractive as they are (irrelevant to your question but I thought I'd mention it).
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Post by jong on Dec 16, 2005 18:39:45 GMT -5
that's interesting lauren. i'm thinking about taking psychology next year, so maybe learn something about that.
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Post by horate on Dec 16, 2005 22:51:56 GMT -5
hmmmm.....a good looking can be a relative stuff of things, determined by the culture in where we live .......to me a nice face is Madonna, but...maybe Don don´t agree we that, .....i´m a consumer of this american way culture, and my canon of beauty is Hollywood ...and Mtv is my spiritual guidance........God bless America !!(kidding)
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Post by jong on Dec 17, 2005 3:54:04 GMT -5
funny horate ;D
i guess it depends on culture too..
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Post by donpinsent on Dec 17, 2005 11:06:13 GMT -5
true. i spent a year and a half in the philippines some time ago, and found out that there, big noses are considered glamourous and beautiful, where most people here wouldn't agree. most filipinos have wide, flat noses, so anything different from that is seen as exotic. so i had people deluded into believing i was attractive. hah!
so, yeah, cultural background could be part of it. also, there may be something to that exoticness angle as well. are we more attracted to features we're not used to seeing?
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Post by jong on Dec 17, 2005 11:38:27 GMT -5
big noses attractive?? maybe the senegalese here think the same, because they all have really wide, flat noses. i think the exotic thing goes both ways. if someone has an unusually big nose or something, like i've never seen before, i might be turned off. but then sometimes those distinct features make a person somehow more attractive. maybe it's also the personality of the person that expresses itself through their face. like if you like happy people, then a person with a huge smile and excited, smiley eyes is attractive..? even though you can't judge someone based on their looks, somehow a pesons looks can give away their personality. maybe i'm wrong.  |
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Post by horate on Dec 17, 2005 22:33:45 GMT -5
yea, Jong, and maybe David Deangelo is what you need for begin to understand something about the whole of ...hmmm...an atractive person.and i think the only thing that can made somebody atractive is the personality, ----traduced with expresive eyes and sense of humour....flat or big noses ? nah.....you have your ego too high Don...hehehehe |
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Post by jong on Dec 19, 2005 7:23:54 GMT -5
who is david deangelo?
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Post by horate on Dec 19, 2005 11:44:36 GMT -5
you don`t know him ??he is a famous guru in the USA, of the "how to attract women",...hehhehehe...but very interesting indeed in the explanation of mental process differences between men and women...
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Post by jong on Dec 19, 2005 12:57:33 GMT -5
sounds like an interesting guy. i've never heard of him before though!!
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Post by Frank Zieglar on Dec 21, 2005 18:10:22 GMT -5
I heard that at times in the past being FAt was attractive.
It meant you had money and/or enough food to eat when others would go hungry.
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