Beautiful? I don't get it.

[Bandito]

Lets stick on famous ones, because there's no point of talking about random people we know.

You all heard it before.

"Oh, jeez, he/she is gorgeous"

Coming from various people, you know that tastes differ from person to person, but you just don't get it. You look at the photo of that individual and see nothing more than an average, even ugly person, but a lot of people seems to find him/her very beautiful.

Is it just tastes, or does constant mentions actually change our mind towards someone's beauty?

I, personally, don't get why people find these folks attractive:

Javier Bardem

http://www.malextra.com/image-library/port/376/j/javier-bardem-awi.jpg

Ok, he seems like a macho, some are into that, but seriously? Average at most.

Salma Hayek

http://movie-gazette.com/images/gallery/albums/People/salma+hayek.jpg

Yes, she does have a nicely curved body and nice hair, but all I do is keep staring at her big chin.

Britney Spears

http://www.nickcannon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/britney_spears.jpg

Her appearance makes me vomit. I really don't get it how someone can find her attractive.

Richard Gere

http://www.thecinemasource.com/moviesdb/images/Richard_Gere%20-%205%20-%20Bee_Season.jpg

My mother and my aunt still consider him as a very beautiful guy. Seriously...I look at the guy and see nothing. Well, he's a bit annoying, but that doesn't count.

[An archist]

Madonna, seriously? She looks like she's made from plastic

Katy Perry, she's just kinda... average isn't she?

[Il Medico]

Well, personally, I think it has to do the fact that they're celebrities a lot of the times. It seems to me to be some sort of collective idea we have in our society that celebrities are always more attractive than average people. Which is of course nonse, but I think it may be the case.

There is also societal standards of beauty, which are usually ridiculous, but at the same time are easier for the rich and famous to conform to. Thus making them seem more attractive in the public eye. But honestly, I know numerous people who are very beautiful but don't fit what is considered beautiful by the media and society in general, which of course often means that people don't recognize just how beautiful they are and get down about themselves.

And then of course there is personal taste. I for one find Michael Pitt very attractive (so much so that that I had a crush on a guy in my high school who looked like him), but I rarely meet others who think he is.

[Magón]

I think all hispanic people have large chins, famous or not.


DON'T BE RACIST AT BIG CHINS!!! :lol:

[Lord Testicles]

Beautiful? I don't get it.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder...

[gorillafuck]

If you saw Salma Hayek in real life would you honestly not find her attractive?

[bricolage]

If you saw Salma Hayek in real life would you honestly not find her attractive?
This.

[gorillafuck]

People hold higher standards for celebrities. As far as celebrities go people are just gonna find flaws like a big chin or whatever. But imagine if you met her in real life, Bandito. She would seem outrageously attractive.

[ed miliband]

People hold higher standards for celebrities. As far as celebrities go people are just gonna find flaws like a big chin or whatever. But imagine if you met her in real life, Bandito. She would seem outrageously attractive.

I don't think that's really the case; I personally don't find Salma Hayek that attractive and I don't think that would change if I saw her in real life or not. I've never attempted to analyse whether this is because of the size of her chin or not, and I certainly wouldn't describe her as ugly or anything.

It's interesting tho. Like I think the model Daisy Lowe is "outrageously attractive" and I've heard people describe as "ugly", a "butterface", etc. In a way I'd say that vindicates your thing about people having higher standards for famous people, but then I also think it just reflects that people having different understandings of beauty or whatever.

[L.A.P.]

Salma Hayek

http://movie-gazette.com/images/gallery/albums/People/salma+hayek.jpg

Yes, she does have a nicely curved body and nice hair, but all I do is keep staring at her big chin.


Holy shit, fuck you man.


I think all hispanic people have large chins, famous or not.


DON'T BE RACIST AT BIG CHINS!!! :lol:

Salma Hayek is actually Arab but was raised in Mexico. Just look at her name, it's a bit obvious.

[Magón]

Holy shit, fuck you man.



Salma Hayek is actually Arab but was raised in Mexico. Just look at her name, it's a bit obvious.

She's actually only half Arab, the other is Spanish. Her whole actual name ends with Jimenez, not Hayek.

[Pirate Utopian]

Sarah Palin
Johnny Depp, I like some of his movies and he's not hideous but he's not as hot as some people say. He looks best in Ed Wood.

[Tablo]

I see more attractive people walking around campus than on tv. Beauty standards set by the media are really messed up.

[Il Medico]

Slema hayek looks like my friend's aunt. attractive, but not outrageously so.

[Meridian]

If you saw Salma Hayek in real life would you honestly not find her attractive?
Not particularly.

[Vampire Lobster]

Hayek kind of looks like Teemu Selänne and that kind of bothers me. Otherwise, a fine lady indeed.

also internet beauty standards are absolutely ridiculous, I mean you seriously just can't post a somewhat natural looking woman in a somewhat natural situation without someone being all "haha ugly butterface"

[Vanguard1917]

I, personally, don't get why people find these folks attractive:

Salma Hayek

You need a trip to Specsavers ;)

But seriously, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and all that...

[ZeroNowhere]

Coming from various people, you know that tastes differ from person to person, but you just don't get it. You look at the photo of that individual and see nothing more than an average, even ugly person, but a lot of people seems to find him/her very beautiful.As an asexual, I can probably sympathize with this. Certainly, it happened fairly often in India with Bollywood, and the West doesn't seem much of an improvement in the field of incomprehensible collective crushes.

[Quail]

I think that people do have very different tastes, which isn't really a bad thing.

I also agree that people set ridiculously high beauty standards for celebrities. If a famous woman has the slightest hint of a muffin top or something it will be all over the tabloids and magazines, even if she only has a muffin top because she's trying to squeeze into a size six.

[Jalapeno Enema]

I know several people who have a crush on Alan Rickman. Considering what I know about these persons' tastes, I'm sure they mostly have a crush on the various characters he portrays.

[Bandito]

http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2008/news/080218/gisele.jpg

Gisele Bundchen. Highest earner in the fashion world. I don't get it.

[Magón]

What's not to get?


http://cdn2.holytaco.com/wp-content/uploads/images/2009/gisele_bundchen_hot_girl_oil_0.jpg

[southernmissfan]

I see more attractive people walking around campus than on tv. Beauty standards set by the media are really messed up.

This. I could randomly pick 5 people from my Facebook and 5 from a celebrity site and chances are the FB friends will be more attractive.

I've read from several people who have seen Katy Perry up close that she is really not attractive. Especially beneath the pounds of makeup.