Hey! You're More Beautiful Than You Think
Lord knows, I've done it enough. Look in the mirror and see the wrinkles under my eyes, like scratches in sand; the chin no longer quite as firm as before; the parentheses on either side of my nose. But a new Dove commercial says a friend would describe me very differently. According to Tanzina Vega at The New York Times, women describe their faces much more unattractively than their friends would. This was figured out when an artist asked women to describe themselves while he sketched a face that matched what they said. Then he would ask a friend to do the same about that particular women. Every time the friend's description was much more attractive than the woman's herself. What does this say about us? Vega ruminated about it, to, but when we're constantly exposed to women who eat one meal a month (as Charlie Sheen once said about a girlfriend before he was blown off "Two and a Half Men"), have plastic surgery for rounder butts, o...