The science of how to maximize facial attractiveness for men is in. And it shows that women find masculine men much more attractive if they smile. And feminine men are much more attractive when they are disgusted or have an angry face.
ONE research article titled “When he smiles: Attractiveness preferences for male emotional faces by females” and published in Cambridge University Press on human attractiveness states the following: According to theories of evolutionary psychology, people find certain features attractive in faces because they signal mate quality.
They conducted a study that came back with some pretty interesting results. So let’s discuss them below:
Maximize attractive features for masculine and feminine men
One thing’s for sure, and there’s no big surprise here: If you want to maximize your attractiveness to women, you need to SMILE MORE.
However, the interesting news is that this works best for masculine men. For those with hard facial features. Unlike more feminine men who have softer facial features.
Science seems to support that feminine men also look attractive when they smile. But nowhere when masculine men do this.
How to maximize facial attractiveness for men with masculine and feminine facial features
In short, women perceive male faces as angrier and female male faces as happier.
The fascinating part of this scientific study is that women, when presented with a smiling expression, prefer the face to have more masculine features than feminine ones.
On the other hand, when you present women with an angry expression, like disgusted, then they prefer the face to have feminine features.
This is because people tend to perceive anger as a masculine trait. And when women see an angry face, they tend to want to feminize his features to balance things out. To make the facial expression that comes from this feeling more palatable. And sexier.
In contrast, people tend to see happiness as more feminine. And when women see a happy female face, they want the facial expression to be more masculine to balance it out as well.
All of this means that to maximize attractiveness when you have masculine facial features, you should smile more.
However, if you are a man who does not have masculine facial features and your face looks more feminine, then you should smile less. Or at least try to look a little more angry and serious.
My thoughts on the study
Reading this study made me realize that many men already naturally compensate for all of this, in some way.
Men who have a dangerous look about them seem to realize that they need to smile more. To appear less threatening so as not to frighten some women. But most importantly, so that they do not frighten and frighten the little children who look at them.
On the contrary, I have seen many effeminate men walking around trying to act all macho “alpha” and cool. Or do the whole “smolder” look. This makes them look more masculine and dangerous than they actually are.
I believe this is a kind of self-preservation mechanism at work. To maintain social relations with people who would otherwise not want to have much to do with you.
That said, I wouldn’t recommend that anyone pretend to be someone they’re not just to please or appease other people.
This is because being attractive and seducing women works much better when you are your authentic and genuine self. That’s why you should try just be yourself whenever you can, for maximum success.
Although I have to say it’s very nice to have a study that confirms what I was already thinking.
