Why are many gypsy women thought of as ugly compared to Eastern and Western European women?
the findings show that highly attractive faces deviate systematically from an average shape. But this theory has recently been disproved by Dr David Perrett, of the University of St Andrews, who found that individual faces were judged more attractive than the composites. http://www.viewzone.com/attractiveness.html we view averageness as fundamental and necessary to facial attractiveness. Averageness is not the only component of attractiveness, but without it, no face will be attractive. http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/group/langloislab/newformat/whatisattractive.html This study concludes that symmetry & dimorphism is attractive in all cultures. http://anthropology.net/20