I'm not good looking at all. Without makeup and doing my hair, I look like the back end of a mule. I'm butt ugly. But, when I do my makeup and my hair and put on clothes I like, I feel fairly nice looking. This gives me confidence. That makes me look better to others.
I also have one of those personalities where I'm engaging and fun to talk to and my personality can be attractive even if I'm not. I'm interesting. Not here usually, but out there where I'm talking to people. Here I usually just b***h, or be snarky, or give advice, or just ramble on about nothing.
My worst quality is my teeth. I had terrible teeth growing up. Huge overbite, made Freddy Mercury look like he didn't need braces so bad. They were also brownish yellow because I had all those respiratory infections from the constant second hand smoke in my home, so I was on Tetracycline almost constantly. This made my permanent teeth come in brownish yellow. Nothing could be done about it. My mother wasn't all that concerned about my overbite and crooked teeth so when I was 17 I made an appointment at the orthodontist, went and got braces put on and had them send her the bill. She hit the roof. Well, for 12 years she was all over me and doing everything she could because I was so "sick" and "fragile" but when I grew up and was healthy she could give a rats ass about anything else I actually needed. After I got my braces off I had straight teeth but they were still ugly brownish yellow. My choices were caps, which I was afraid would feel funny to me, or a new technique called bonding. This was 1985 or so. I went with bonding. They ground the fronts down and then put on some sort of porcelain wannabe. They were white. I finally had white teeth. I did not smoke or drink coffee back then at all. I was warned not to because they would stain, but I didn't anyway so it wasn't a problem. However, I wasn't told that over the years they would naturally yellow and have to be rebounded. They have done so. By the time I started smoking and drinking coffee (5 or so years later - you're supposed to replace bonding every two years they said then) they were already yellow. They haven't gotten any worse even though I smoke and drink coffee and tea. They are yellow now, even though I take great care of them. Whitening stuff doesn't work on bonding. They don't do that anymore really and now my choices are veneers which are too expensive. So, I am very self conscious about my smile, but I don't think about it much in public anymore. I'm sure that people notice, but they don't stare. If I could get my teeth white again, and possibly fix my big ole dago nose, and maybe get an eye lift and my jaw skin tightened a little I'd look much better.
But I can't, so I work with what I have. Tanning makes my teeth look whiter, which is why I go to a tanning bed when I can. But yes, confidence and personality can cover a multitude of flaws.