Does Beauty affect on how well you do in Life?
 

I know one thing: To be a celebrity you gotta at least look decent.
So it does affect your daily life alot. However, perks come with downside, always. The pretty people get judge by their looks more than their skill when they first come in. Surely the guys treat them nicer but still, some guys will just want to take advantages.
Well, beauty doesn't necessary make life easier because everything has a downside. "Even if you are the prettiest girl in the world, as long as you are unhappy, it means nothing." So doing well in life, what does that mean? Does it come down to being happy or just having lotsa money and fans and everything? Or does it mean you will be happy with your life?

According to studies, we make our opinions of someone within the first fifteen seconds of meeting them. Pretty fast, huh?

If you're at a job interview, and you're a decent looking person, rounder, frizzy dark hair, and you have acne covering your face, and the next person to be interviewed for that job is a tall, skinny blond girl with a pretty smile, and clear tan skin and you both have the same recommendations and qualifications, then the blond girl will get it.

Now, if you're a greasy haired older man with a graying, pot belly, a mullet, and mustard stains on your wife beater shirt, and a beer in one hand, then people won't want to be around you. People won't want to hire you, etc.

So yes, they have a large influence in how well you do in life. As do smell, smile, and the way you talk.

For example, someone seems like they'd be a perfect employee and yet, you can smell their BO from a mile away, you won't hire them. You won't put someone who never smiles at a cash register or in a job with people, which ever job works with people at one point, because they make you look bad. If you want to hire someone, you'd be more likely to hire someone with proper English then one who uses double negatives every sentence and can't type, write, etc.

Yup, it does. Good thing oopinions vary, otherwise I'd be doomed to fail. :p

Probably. My mind isn't cooperating at all.

It's just that I'm an underweight dark guy who always wears a ponytail and who basically looks like a coke whore. ._.; If opinions didn't vary, I'd be doomed.

I think they way you look does effect your life outcome, because it poeple only look at they way you look they might think other things. But if they don't look past the pretty face then they don't know what your really like!

Despite the fact that I'd rather answer this question with a "no, beauty in fact does not affect how you do in life", but I unfortunately know better than that in this day and age. ^^;

Most likely, if two people walk into a place for an interview, the first impression is very highly noticed. Let's say both of them are girls. One person is really pretty with long blonde hair, blue eyes, pimple-free face, and she just strikes the interviewer as a model-type of girl. The other one has brown hair, shortish, a few pimples, a bit of purple under her eyes (mostly thought of as lack of sleep, but I believe is actually from a lack of iron in the body), and although she's quite well-kept, she just isn't as pretty as the other girl. They're both pretty bright, although the darker haired girl seems to be much more realistic, and more working towards her goals. She presents herself better than the blonde girl also, but only just. Which one of them will the interviewer likely employ? Most likely, it'll be the blonde girl.

As much as I would love to say it's not all about looks in the workforce and the real world, it actually mostly is about looks. First impressions can mean practically everything, and if there is even one feature that's the least bit off (no matter whether it's genetic or not), that could break the chances of being employed places, having Xx number of friends, or having a bit of a happier life. The reality is sad, but true. Too bad it isn't otherwise. I know a lot of smart people who don't look completely awesome, but they haven't been able to find jobs with however long they've been looking for them (these people having already graduated from college with decent degrees in some fields that can hand out a lot of money every year). I also believe some studies have shown that those without "magazine perfect" features are more prone to depression, mental illness, shyness, and lack of self-esteem.

Oh wow, I didn't even notice. Whoops. ^^; I need to thoroughly read others' responses rather than glancing through them before I respond myself, it seems. xD I was mostly basing my response off of something that had happened to me before, because I had an interview at Bath and Body Works in the mall near me, and it was one of those double interview things. The blonde girl looked like a model. She got hired instead of me. When I went back into that store a few weeks later, she seemed like a complete ditz and she didn't really know what she was doing. She got fired a little while after that, and I was called back for a second interview, but I already had gotten a job at Borders by then, so I declined.

You know what? I'd so like to say no, beauty doesn't have an effect on your life, but I really unfourtantley agree it does. I mean even in school it's like that. The pretty and skinny people are the popluar ones, but also alot of the time, the snotty and mean ones.

I'm one of the "ugly" and "unpopular" ones and alot of times, it makes my life hell actually. I've alwasy been made fun of and all of that by the "pretty and popular" crowds. They were "better" than everyone because they were "hot"

I really wish life were'nt like that and we could all be treated as equals and not be labeled. No "ugly" or "pretty". "fat" or "skinny"

... maybe this all sounded better while I was thinking it.

Great minds think alike! ;D

Yeah, I mean I'm still made fun of because I'm "fat" and all that. Though, alot of peope say I don't look my weight. I weigh like 215 pounds or wathever and I'm overweight, but alot of people say that they don't belive it because I don't look it. Anyway, bit offtopic there, just because I'm not the "bone thin skinny" Type, the people make fun of me.

I wish the collage would mature up and all, but in my opinion, people are always going to be people. No matter how old they get. It's always going to be in them. That's my opinion though.

I don't think so, but it does affect how well you're treated.

I think looks can be an advantage in some ways but it also can be a disadvantage in other ways too. My friend who's really pretty thinks she can use her looks to weasel out of doing things. She always gets what she wants and she can hand in papers late if the teacher is a guy. It annoys me sometimes but I know that life will not always be that easy for her. I mean when you're older and you go to an interview I doubt that she will be able to use her looks to get a job if her boss is a woman (lesbians not included in this example) :lol:

Looks can also be a disadvantage. Another one of my friends has a large chest. She was a Double D at age 15 so you can imagine. Everything is natural btw. She feels like she's getting all the attention at the wrong place. Noone else cares about her personnality or her feellings. Everyone immediately puts a stereotype on her: SLUT... She tried all sorts of things. Like wearing long dresses etc. but then people would look at her even more strangely. She feels like she has to be sexy...

I would hate being defined by the way I look. I mean we don't choose to be born the way that we are.

I think beuty affects how well you do in life, not only in the music/film industry, but also in many other jobs one can have... A lot of people have prejudice and won't hire just anybody, and even if they are the best qualified, some people might not get the job they're applying to because they don't have a "standard" look... I know for a fact that this counts in the sales business, if you want to work in a fshion store... In the service business, you need people who are "pleasant to the eye" so people who come there don't feel uneased (in lack of a better word)

I have also heard about people with hard to pronounce names who got rejections from every job they applied to, only to then change their name and get hired immediately... Strange how prejudice and the fact that we always look for the easy way out affects our decicions often more than we are aware of...

I just read Blink by Malcom Gladwell, which deals a lot with the snap impressions we make about people. Whether we like it or not, those impressions are totally based on our looks.

There is a lot more to our looks than simply our physical features though. The expression on our face, how we dress and carry ourselves, our skin tone, etc. etc. There was a psychologist Gladwell mentioned who studied all the muscles in the face and how they combine into expressions that we read as emotions. We can try to make them falsely, but sometimes not all the associated muscles will move, and other will subconsciously read the insincerity, which will affect their opinion of us.

Another fact that Gladwell mentioned is that tall white men are more likely to become CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. Weird but true.

So, I wouldn't say the beauty specifically effect how well you do in life, but your looks as a whole most definitely will.

Depending on who you are, and what you do, it can. Beauty does not affect human success all the time, but it does quite a bit. Sometimes the beauty can work agaisnt you, but for the most part, I think it helps.