When you’re young, you come to know quite quickly who’s pretty and who isn’t. If you’re pretty, people will tell you often and upfront. And if prettiness isn’t your overwhelmingly defining feature, ...

This story was originally published on Richland Source as a history column in 2016. Back in the 1980s an older woman in Mansfield was interviewed to learn more about the 1930s, when she operated an ...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It is totally subjective and what is breathtakingly gorgeous to some can be average to others. Still, there are some people who are considered "universally pretty ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. In a world that remains highly fixated on outward appearances, the phenomenon ...

Richard Gere and Julia Roberts charmed audiences with this classic rom-com from 1990 Kate Hogan was Director of Digital Specials and Features at PEOPLE. She started at PEOPLE in 2008, leaving in 2025.

Take a deep breath, we're going to talk about ‘pretty privilege’, AKA the term the internet has coined to describe the benefits associated with conforming to society's beauty ideals. It's conditional ...

The boy pretty vs. girl pretty TikTok trend divides women into two categories: “Girl pretty” women are attractive to women, while “boy pretty” women are attractive to men. The first social media post ...

Are you mesmerizingly feline, exquisitely vulpine, gracefully sylvan, or delightfully lapin? If these terms leave you perplexed, you might have missed out on the latest trend sweeping TikTok over the ...

Kelleher is the author of The Ugly History of Beautiful Things, an essay collection that illuminates the darkness hidden behind our prettiest purchases The other week, my four-year-old daughter and I ...

Artur is a copywriter and SEO specialist, as well as a small business owner. In his free time, he loves to play computer games and is glad that he was able to connect his professional career with his ...

Justin Kelly’s film casts the 'Clueless' star as an executive whose dalliance with working-class hunk Karl Glusman spirals out of control. Attraction proves problematic if not fatal in “Pretty Thing.” ...