The Face

[dreamer_easy]

I've often wondered why women wearing makeup - I mean in the media - look pretty much identical. A titbit in New Scientist suggests the answer: "The preference for pretty faces might arise because attractive people have the prototype human face. If hundreds of faces are merged, the resulting 'average face' is very appealing." So the makeup could literally be trying to create a generic face - like that faintly creepy bit in Understanding Comics about the Smiley.

(The brief news item is about a study of babies' apparent innate preference for attractive faces, but neglects to tell us how "attractive" was defined. I have a sneaking suspicion that, say, baby!Jeff Goldblum's physiog doesn't come any where near the human average. And yet, flange.)

Rock on, Kay Howard.

Comments

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

They do have fantastic skin, don't they...