The perfect female face chosen by women
Men and women have almost entirely different ideas on what makes a woman beautiful according to the latest survey.
Men prefer blonde hair, full lips, and strong cheekbones but also a petite nose, less prominent forehead and finer eyebrows. Women on the other hand see the epitome of beauty as raven hair, a stronger nose and forehead profile, strong brows and narrower bone structure. There were only two things they could agree on which were green eyes and a small chin.
In a survey by beauty retailer escentual.com, men and women were asked to build up their perfect face from the features of some of the most beautiful women in the world.
These two ‘perfect’ faces – created with a mix of glamorous actresses, singers and models’ features – reveal the stark difference between how men and women perceive female beauty.
The most popular features for men were Shakira’s cascading blonde hair, Miranda Kerr’s button nose, the forehead of Jennifer Aniston, Kate Middleton’s pronounced eyebrows and Angelina Jolie’s cheekbones – as well as her famously full lips.
In a visible stark contrast, women’s selections for the perfect female face comprise Freida Pinto’s glossy black mane, Keira Knightley’s refined cheekbones, Cara Delevingne’s bushy bold brows, Natalie Portman’s imposing forehead, Blake Lively’s strong nose and Scarlett Johansson’s voluptuous pout.
Both genders agreed on the appeal of actresses Mila Kunis and Megan Fox, however. Kunis’ alluring green eyes were voted as the most beautiful by 52% of men and 51% of women. They also concurred that Megan Fox’s small, defined chin was the most attractive.
Emma Leslie, beauty editor at escentual.com who conducted the research said: “These two pictures demonstrate the different ideals men and women have when it comes to the female face.
“It seems men are still of the opinion that blondes have all the fun and picked out Columbian singer Shakira’s long platinum waves as their preferred hair style, while women favour a more exotic type of beauty, choosing Freida Pinto’s raven locks.
”And now with Christmas coming up men should look at this and realise that the beauty presents that they should be buying the lady in their life might not be exactly what they want because they have totally different ideas of what looks good.”
Emma added: "Interestingly, the faces are made up of a mix of different ages - 38-year-old Angelina Jolie was men's preferred choice for cheekbones and pout while 21-year-old Cara Delevingne was the women's top choice for eyebrows.
"Meanwhile, Shakira, 36, had the men's preferred hairstyle and a 44-year-old Jennifer Aniston’s was their preferred forehead shape.
"So maybe men are not as bothered by a woman's age as we think they are.
“The differences seen in the results from men and women are quite extreme so when it comes to female looks, perhaps men really are from Mars and women from Venus.”