Shallow Thoughts on Beauty

[beth]

Who do you think best typifies physical beauty. Can be living or not and a photo would be nice.

Since beauty is in the eye of the beholder, we should be able to get a good mix. Criteria for beauty has changed many times throughout history.

Please share your thoughts and preferences.

Right off, I'll pick 3 classic female beauties.

Haile Berry




Jennifer Lopez




and


Audrey Hepburn




I'll need to give a little mor thought to the men who might qualify.

[annaj26]

lol Beth

Pretty shallow I agree.


What I'd like to know is what happened to Brooke Shields. She was the standard for beauty when I was a kid but at some point she changed and became ordinary. Look at the difference in just a few years.





and now

[beth]

Well, she's still okay. In the first one, she had hair extensions and quite a bit of makeup. In the second she's about 20 years older. Maybe part of it is that she isn't smiling in the second. She has a really pretty smile.

Christie Brinkley has aged well. I doubt she's ever out without make up but she has a lasting beauty, too.

[beth]

With men, it's harder because "beauty" isn't always an attraction. Robert Downey Jr for instance, seems to improve as he ages - although not beautiful in the traditional meaning of the word.

As far as beauty goes, I used to think Peter O'Tool in Lawrence of Arabia was the standard. I still think he's close.

[annaj26]

Not sure about beautiful men.

George Michael was pretty when he was young but not anymore.



Paul Walker was very nice looking.




Chris Hemsworth is, too.

[mouse]

sohia loren...

[beth]

She was lovely, wasn't she?




I think she's still an attractive older woman. A little cosmetic surgery.and botox but not as much as many have done.

[beth]

As I was trying to find a good pic of Loren, I ran into this.

lolololololol

It's actually a SL interview .. and, of course, this classic shot of her with Jayne Mansfield.

The interview is at the link and worth a read.




popwatch.ew.com/2014/11/03/sophia-loren-jayne-mansfield/

[ladylinda]

I don't know about beauty but I find Johnny Depp and Ben Stiller incredibly sexy men!

[annaj26]

Nov 4, 2014 17:12:05 GMT -5 ladylinda said:

I don't know about beauty but I find Johnny Depp and Ben Stiller incredibly sexy men!

I guess so, but classic beauties they are not. Johnny's had some cosmetics work done and it helped but it didn't work miracles. Ben is a little short guy and not a pretty boy by a long shot.

Classical beauty is like Princess Grace.




and maybe Harry Belafonte when he was a young man.

[mouse]

Nov 4, 2014 11:26:47 GMT -5 beth said:

She was lovely, wasn't she?




I think she's still an attractive older woman. A little cosmetic surgery.and botox but not as much as many have done.

I was watching the new years day concert from Vienna just a couple of yrs ago..and there was la loren in the audience..still very beautiful and still strikingly elegant
for men..give me Omar Shariff..[please]he was very handsome and very sexy in his younger days
Peter OToole didn't age well

[beth]

Omar Shariff

[beth]

lol The more I look at photos of humans ... looking for actual beauty .. the more I'm aware of how funny looking people actually are.

The Kardasian sisters have had large numbers of surgeries, seeking perfection, and they're sitll far from their goal.



It seems to be all they really do of interest.

Shallow indeed.

.

[ladylinda]

I could point to some older guys as well - in their prime anyway!

Burt Reynolds

Dustin Hoffman

Jack Nicholson

Howard Keel

Leslie Nielsen

[beth]

Lin, I don't see classic beauty there - and that's what we're talking about ... not who you fancy.

Well, maybe Howard Keel or Leslie Nielsen








My brother played a round or 2 of golf with Nielsen in the late 80s. Found him to be a very unassuming, likable guy.