October 24, 2006
Women's Skin Tone Influences Perception of Beauty, Health and Age
The study, published in the latest issue of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, used three-dimensional imaging and morphing software to remove wrinkles and furrows from pictures of women, leaving skin tone as the only variable. Researchers were then able to determine exactly what impact facial skin tone has on how young, healthy and attractive people perceive the women to be. Faces with more even skin tone were judged to be younger.
The researchers took digital photographs of 169 Caucasian women between the ages of 10 and 70. Then they used specialized morphing software to "drape" each subject's facial skin over a standardized model, in effect, taking 169 different skin tones and applying them to a common canvas.
"An even skin tone can give visual clues about a person's health and reproductive capability, so it is considered most desirable."
P&G Beauty (a division of Procter & Gamble that funded the study)
~Dermabrasions, cream and paint, Momma.
I wonder what visual clues there are for healthy, reproductively capable (i.e. wealthy?) men?
>maybe related this Newsweek promo Brush With Perfection
~"Tits on Sticks".
[photo google: alpha male/ not P&G Beauty]