Visual Facial Beauty
When Beauty meets the Eye
Introduction
What do you consider a beautiful face?
Do you ever look at the face of an attractive newcomer in your vicinity?
If you are not yet committed to someone: What do you notice most in those first few seconds when you look at the face of a potential life partner for the first time?
If you are already in a relationship: What did you notice most in those first few seconds when you met your current partner for the first time?
This chapter focuses primarily on the male perception of women's faces.
However, women can also experience the same feelings of beauty when seeing certain faces. (If you are a woman reading this, check whether the phenomena described below stand out to you in your social environment.)
The phenomena discussed in this topic are universal and exist in both men and women regarding the visual attractiveness of a human face.
Of course, there are many more factors that determine whether a man and a woman feel attracted to each other. In this topic, I describe only an evolutionarily ingrained trait in the human brain. This trait relates to the visual beauty and attractiveness of the human face. With this, I attempt to explain how cybernetic processes influence human evolution through the sexual selection mechanism.
This intrinsic appreciation for beauty arises from 3 life-giving facets of our being (FAP – MAP – GAP) which I will explain later.
The figurative forms of visual splendour and magnificence that I describe below occur in all human races. In some people of colour, they are expressed even more pretty in the beauty of their faces.
I do not want to make my descriptions below too complicated with constant linguistic corrections, such as: "Instead of 'he,' you can also substitute 'she.'" Or "Read 'woman' here instead of 'man' if you are a woman, and vice versa." Therefore, I explain the described phenomena from my perspective as a man: what strikes me—as a man—about a woman regarding attractive feminine characteristics?
Image: Some geometric abstractions of returning patterns and lines in the human face (©RGES).