I find this thread baffling, mostly. I mean, I can look at a picture of a woman, like those posted above, and I assess the way she looks in 2D, static with a weird fixed smile and lifeless eyes and I can appreciate the composition of the face and the shapes in the body.
But so much of what I find attractive in people is small things, and crucially, movement. The way a girl moves, the way her eyes wrinkle at the edges, the way a smile is suppressed, or the head slightly lowered and tilted. The timbre of her voice, the angle her wrist makes when she's writing, her hair when its untidy. How she rolls up a sleeve when flustered, or sits back on her heels. This is the stuff that hooks me in.
All these things could feasibly exist in a person who wouldn't be considered classically beautiful though. And they have in many of the girls I've found myself attracted to. But this is still superficial attraction, isn't it? She might be an awful person and have all these qualities that have somehow come together just in the right way to flip my switches.
I like confidence and proactiveness, passion for the things that excite her. I know we're trying not to generalise here but I think most people probably find those things attractive in another person, whether romantically inclined or not.
I had a point, but I can't remember what it was. Maybe just that I don't get why people are so hung up on overall appearances.
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