So what constitutes beauty?
OK, it's 4:30 in the morning on nightshift offshore, I've finished my work, I've had a quick squiz at the "Tits or Arse" thread, and being 500km's from bikes beer or birds I'm feeling deprived of any beauty whatsoever until that fuggin' gorgeous Sikorsky rocks up in nearly two weeks time. Anyway, I've gotten all filis..philasof..fillasoph...thoughtful over what it is that attracts you to someone.
Some people do seem to be attracted to simply bewbs or bums, (pecs or butts for the gurrls) but to me it's neither...and both. I mean how can you say what is when two totally different versions of the same form are both stunning? A long, lithe, athletic body is fantastic...but a ripe lush curvy version can be just as alluring.
Then there is that indefinable something: a woman can be technically beautiful but concurrently unattractive and the opposite also applies, with someone not quite fitting the classic beauty stereotype but possessing that magnetism that draws your eyes to her.
Nicole Kidman is a classic case: she is classically beautiful yet she seems too cool and not particularly compelling, whereas a similarly slim Keira Knightley I find quite intriguing. Jennifer Lopez is a classic curvy latina beauty but she doesn't attract me, yet when curvy Nigella Lawson starts working her hands in that mixing bowl my knees turn to butter.
Even age is a hard one to categorise as no one optimum age seems to apply to everyone. It seems to be more a question of timing. Some people have that flash of beauty at a young age (Pamela Anderson before the surgery) while others seem to grow into it later in life. Lorraine Downs is a classic who I couldn't see the big deal about, but 20 years on I think she's quite something.
Then sometimes you just suprise yourself and go completely against your own norms. I don't mind tattoos but I've always thought they had to be tastefully done until I saw Kat von D off Miami/LA Ink on the Discovery channel. This girl is covered in them....yet somehow she pulls it off and then some.
So from a skinny 20-something Keira to a lush 40-something Nigella it's pretty obvious there is no standard beauty template in my book, except for my missus of course who after nearly 20 years Im still gobsmacked by. (both figuratively and literally).
So who does it for you, and can you actually say why?
Edit: the all brunette pic's are coincidental by the way....
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Originally Posted by marioc
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