Tag: Power

Hammermesh has asked himself the question whether we can do something for our beauty. He answered it with a no. Even the best cosmetics and the most beautiful dress would not turn an ugly duckling into a beautiful princess. What nature gives us is crucial.

Even if the first impression is controlled by our instinctive reproductive mechanisms, there is much more to being attractive to other people in the long run. With the first impression we have only crossed the first threshold, nothing more.

In our experience, attractiveness is clearly associated with youthfulness. Youthfulness does not mean youth or even youth mania. Youthfulness means that all the processes that take place in the face during ageing can be alleviated by therapeutic interventions.

The three main theories of attractiveness research are the hypothesis of the average, the symmetry hypothesis and the theory of sexual dimorphism.

We only want to give some brief indications of the “why”, but these are necessary to better understand the mechanisms involved in meeting an attractive person. Most of the article deals with how strongly attractiveness influences our social environment.

In aesthetic medicine, we are dealing with the optimisation of various factors that our counterpart perceives as “beautiful” or “attractive”. Beauty always has a social meaning and can never be seen in isolation from social conditions. We do not only look at our reflection with our own eyes, but above all with the eyes of others.