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[feotakahari]

I’m starting to legitimately believe that pretty people don’t exist. Pretty photos of people, sure. Pretty videos of people, sometimes. And if your idea of “pretty” means looking like a Barbie doll, I once met someone who could get there with enough makeup and hair products. But by nature, we’re each kinda fugly in our own unique and special way. 

(Beefy people do exist, but a lot of them use steroids.)

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[discoursedrome]

Ohhh, I see what you mean. Hmm.
My feeling is that the "wrapped around someone's finger" experience is about being infatuated -- what some people might call "in love" or "having a crush" -- and this is fairly correlated with prettiness, but not directly caused by it, because there are also elements of mannerisms and other visible qualities and what they think of you and so on and so forth. I think people can be good-looking enough to get more positive treatment from people in general, but that kind of dramatic effect isn't something you can activate reliably, I don't think. That said, being really good-looking definitely helps.