h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, I don't see anything morally wrong with plastic surgery or whatever. Its your body, if you want to do that then its your choice I think.

BUT...

Consider if you are doing it out of insecurity. If you feel you are ugly because of some feature, well its quite possible that if you change that feature then you'll just displace the feeling and be insecure about something else.

Also remember that plastic surgery is hardly an exact science. No-one can define beautiful, much less attractive. Even allowing for that, the surgery just plain goes wrong sometimes. There may be plastic surgery success stories, but I expect that the majority look at least out of place. Your face becoming an anachronism, how's that for beauty?

And then I'll talk about attractiveness. Now if you want someone (or just peopel in general) to find you attractive then you're certainly not going to find that out in a magazine written for you. You're probably not even going to find that out in a magazine written for them. Callista Flockhart is not all that. Well not to anyone I know at any rate.

So what do people find attractive? Well, I'm not "people", but my general guess is natural and healthy. Speaking as a heterosexual male, "enhanced" breasts especially are very easy to spot and an immediete turn-off when I do. I expect even more subtle ones might have a subconcious thingy. Healthy balanced eating (note eating, not starvation), getting proper sleep and aerobic exercise are good. If you find a way to turn your exercise into a kind of social thing or part of a routine then that works. Oh, and cleanliness is generally good too.

Ok, so that definitely became cliche as it went on. Plus my final solution is the regular, hard way instead of the quick fix that everyone wants. I guess it depends on whether believe in quick fixes.

Oh, I forgot the most important thing. Confidence. Confidence is nice, but quite hard to get hold of. Exercise, healthy eating and proper sleep all help there too. And smiling, definitely smiling.