Poll: Improved Facial Attractiveness?

[BostonIan]

This is an off-shoot of a discussion in a thread in this folder. This is a set of photos, taken 27 days apart. The question is whether there's an improvement in the facial attractiveness, if so, how much. The right-hand side is the "after".

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[dalidaisy]

I looks like you've taken the pictures in different lighting, but the after pictures do look better. You look like you've lost some weight & your skin tone looks clearer. You look better without the facial hair, in my opinion.

What have you been doing?

[intjdude]

major babe ;)

kiddin

[Vagrant]

Minus the lighting issue, it's clear that you've lost some weight -- your facial structure looks much more masculine.

[altoid]

The right side definitely looks better. Your face looks a little more chiseled. I agree with dalidaisy on the facial hair...:)

[BostonIan]

I looks like you've taken the pictures in different lighting, but the after pictures do look better. You look like you've lost some weight & your skin tone looks clearer. You look better without the facial hair, in my opinion.

What have you been doing?

The off-shoot is from the abstinence thread. Supposedly, at the three-week mark (the time of the first picture), a testosterone surge hits, which I speculated informs the second picture.

I've been more energetic, which I assume has made me more active, but I haven't been on a cardio routine. I returned to lifting weights, seven or eight workouts. Food cravings have also shifted more towards animal products - fats and proteins, away from starches.

The mitigating factors are that the "before" pictures were me being in worse shape than usual, I was coming off recovering from an injury that left me sedentary, so a bounce-back might have been due. On the other side, I noticed my body hardening and trimming before I adjusted my diet or started lifting weights. The major diet adjustment has been in the past week.

[JohnDoe]

I've been more energetic, which I assume has made me more active, but I haven't been on a cardio routine. I returned to lifting weights, seven or eight workouts. Food cravings have also shifted more towards animal products - fats and proteins, away from starches.
I think it is this.

[Rudy]

I think it is this.

Yeah, that's my thought as well. The right definitely looks better, but it is easily explained.

[blatant]

I hope you realize that smiling also improves facial attractiveness as well.

[JohnDoe]

I hope you realize that smiling also improves facial attractiveness as well.

That there is utter nonsense (I didn't even notice this, but its true!)

[Uytuun]

I can only say that I prefer the first set.

The second one is too smooth calculating pretty boy. Yay for facial hair+ you look more authentic/kind in the first one.

Says more about me than it does about you maybe.

[WaeV]

I thought that too.

[Anreader]

Personally I prefer the top right photo. A very small amount of facial hair is attractive. A little more looks somehow unclean. Too much looks like Grizzly Adams. It doesn't look as though you need to worry about Grizzly Adams though.