body vs. face

which is more important when it comes to physical beauty?

 

neither, its whats inside that matters and no i dont mean like your guts and stuff like that

 

i prefer a balance of the two

 

wow, this debate sure is gonna get heated. :V





You can't just say beauty is down to how you physically appear.

 

So yeah, both are important.

Also, lol "it's the inside that matters". Honestly, I wouldn't date a beautiful girl that I couldn't stand because she's a dumbass/rude/arrogant/miscellaneous bad personality aspects, but I'd never date an ugly girl with a great personality either, and I kinda doubt any of you would either (though I'm just naturally skeptical of a lot of things, I don't claim to know any of you). I'd probably be her friend no problem, but she'd never be my girlfriend.

So I guess basically there has to be a middle ground between the two for me (outside and inside).

And yes, I'm kinda shallow.

 

The correct answer is neither but i choose to keep this to the superstitial opinions and say Body... There is a little name for it here where i live and its called paper bag syndrome. the body is hot but the head needs a paper bag so that it doesnt distract you.... another term for it is but-her-face or butterface it means that its all hot but her face :)

 

From a practical and cliche view, If you're a stereotypical guy who's only interested in sex, it would usually be body, yes. But only unless it's been purposely intended for people to look at your body first, your face is the first thing that somebody's drawn to. I would say because your face is the one part of your body that is a full representation of who you are. It's how people recognize you. It's(in some cases) how people can be attracted to you. It's how we are made individual from everyone else, because everyone's face is different.

I've heard this from so many people. And although your personality has a huge, huge, impact on who you are, it's only going to truly shine for people who are willing to stay and realize that. Unfortunately, especially if you're a teenager, nobody's truly going to sit around and spend time to apprehend what that person truly is as a whole. It's just how things happen.

 

In all seriousness, HadesDragon is right, you gotta have a good mix of both. However at our age when we're all horny buggers we tend to find the body more important :V You can get away with having a slightly unattractive face if you have the perfect figure, apparently.

What I said before, I wasnt going down the whole "beauty is inside" route - I was thinking back to something somebody said before, when they said I was a beautiful when I was dancing... I wasnt thinking so much about attraction :V

 

As long as her vagina is hot, then I don't care about the rest.

Seriously though, it's both. But phsyical beauty isn't all there is. It's good for porn, but I really wouldn't want a shallow person.

 

Personally I think it is a balance of the two, both are important. Having a good body is definitely a positive thing, but I like kisses, if someone was very unatrractive in their face then I wouldn't be able to kiss them. Similarly, if someone had a very attractive face but had a really bad body I would find it hard to date them because the physical aspects of a relationship are just as important as the mental and emotional. Or at least IMO they are. So for me neither is more important than the other, it is a combination of the two that is the key.

Its true that what is on the inside counts as well, personality stands for a lot, but can any of you say you would deliberately seek someone who was unattractive out so you could find out how their personality is?

I read in a magazine once that the reason we are friends with who we are is because on some level we are attracted to them :v I think that that's bullshit, but in some ways it is true, in society we tend to stay away from and avoid people that we see as unattractive. It isn't a very nice thing to do, but it is part of human nature.

 

I didn't vote. A balance between both is indeed preferable.

Good point, one rarely decides to "check out" an attractive person. But it's perfectly possible to fall in love with someone that's generally considered unattractive. (S)he might even come across as more attractive to you because you are in love with him/her.
It happened to some of my friends at least.

This is true in some ways indeed. But sometimes the opposite is also true.
I easily associate with sloppy dressers with unkempt hair, perhaps even more easily than with a succesful-looking suit. I think it's because I'm unconsciously prejudiced: the more meticulous a person is dressed, the higher I think his/her standards must be. I may of course be paranoid but I know I'm not the only one having this sentiment.

 

everyones beautiful in their own little way...

 

I like a balance of the two, though face is more important than body. I would date someone with not-the-greatest body if they had a wonderful face (and wonderful personality), but if they were the hottest person alive yet had a horrible face... I wouldn't be able to look at them :p

 

For some reason, that sounds like something you would say to consolate a person who can't get any. I'll be frank with you, my face is ugly, my body is bad, so what should I pick?

Well, the thing is, I cannot expect people to come and say "He's ugly, but his personality is the best!" because it doesn't work like that.

Looks are the hook, personality is the keeper. So in a way they have to compliment each other. Same with the face and body.

But most of the time, if you have a healty body, your face reciprocates, so its not a matter of face or body, its more of a matter beetwen attraction and unattraction. For different tastes, a different color.

 

Hmm, going on just a purely physical side of things, I can say that I'd rather look at the average girl with a decent face and body than to be looking at one that has either a gorgeous face or body. It would seem weird to me to see someone who has a really hot face or bod and yet the other is countering it. It kind of would make me wonder, unless I could tell something bad happened like scarring or burns, as to why the person doesn't try to make the other thing to look nicer too. Most people to me don't seem 'ugly' in features unless they seem to be trying for it, such as they don't take baths or let themselves go.

The most important thing to me, for some reason, tends to be the eyes of a person, so I guess I'd have to say face is more important, but I also check out how the female dresses and is she clean, how does she stand, and does she seem to care about herself and others; not just her appearance, but her actual self.

 

i love the inner beauty of a girl. it lets me know how her spiritual state.

 

personally, i think that the face is most important because i like women with a nice smile and soft blue or green eyes.....oh ya

 

okay i know that Nicole Kidman is of a higher standard than most girls because she has a smoking bod and an awsome face but she has the body and face that most people want... i am srry if i offended anyone...