Does the beauty engine really make us look better?

Totally agree with you!

He looks great in pic no. 1 and just plain weird in the other 2.

Its the little idiosyncrasies on peoples' faces that make them gorgeous and unique.

At the link site, one thing i've noticed is that the "perfect" faces are not smiling or showing any emotion.

Apparently emotionlessness is perfect?

It kinda trips me out. What's wrong with picture #1 in the first place?

I say be happy with what you've got and move on.

Michael Cera looks fine the way he is. He's one of my favorite actors because of the way he looks and acts and talks.

He just seems like a good person.

Nick and Norah is awesome.

Yep...it just made him look like Baby Face from Dick Tracy.

F*ck the "beauty engine."
Not everyone wants to live in a world populated by squishy maniquins.
What a waste of human ingenuity.

People have become obsessed with beauty because of media saturation. Shit man, just look at classical paintings and compare them to modern day models.

The ideal, beautiful woman back in the day would be like a peasant compared to the goddesses we triumph as "normal models."

Ultimately, a lot of this behavior is perpetuated by the same sex.

Ladies, guys really don't care too much about the looks. Don't get boob jobs or anything like that unless you yourself -really- dislike your own body and NEVER do it if you're comparing yourself to other women. Ask yourself how many guys really care how you look. Has your man ever asked you to wear more makeup or to do your hair better? No, it's always girls and magazines that tell you that.

Same goes with guys too. Most girls I know don't like the decked out, mega muscle look. Yet tons of dudes I know go out and pump iron every day trying to impress who? Not their girlfriends that's for sure. I myself fall into the same temptations, I often want to look like the dudes in 300 or something. But when you look at old pictures, even of military men, none of them look like that. It's important to remember that. The media ideal is unattainable and fake, just be happy with what you personally want to strive for.

CREEPY KID!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING AWAY FROM TWIRP?

yea his face is too small on the left.
this is weird.

think about it, most every image you see in print is changed. How does this affect us as people, what we expect of our mates, of ourselves?

It gets kinda weird.

Maybe Michael Cera is popular because he doesn't look like a J.C.Penny's catalog model.