My Type

Having an interesting discussion with my boss (who is female) today at the office. It's kind of a slow day, so we were talking about attraction. We were comparing photos of two girls, one who I find attractive, and one that I don't. To me, there's a huge difference. To my surprise, my boss actually found the other girl to be more attractive! Not only that, she found that there to be little difference between their levels of attractiveness. To put it mildly, I was shocked. There was a girl who use to work for our major client that I had a HUGE crush on. My boss knows about it, she told me that she never understood what I saw in her.

From here, we started to dissect people's features, common threads amongst people we found attractive. It was interesting, because we both looked for very different features. My boss was all about the bone structure and skin tone. Where I was more about the eyes and smile. Her argument was that you could always put make up on a girl, but you need a structure underneath, and that most girls wore make up anyway. I said that I want a girl that I find attractive without make up, because most of the time if you're at home, the girl isn't going to be wearing make up.

Whenever people ask me what my type is, I usually say the girl next door type. But after our conversation, I guess it got even narrower. This isn't to say I wouldn't stray from these features, but I guess they are what I find ideally attractive.

I guess our findings were that I like a girl that is more on the cute, fresh faced, girl next door type. :P My boss called it the youthful wholesome type. Larger eyes, full lips, rounder cheeks, pointy chin. I thought about it for awhile, then compared those features to people I found attractive, and it sounded about right. Reese Witherspoon, Keri Russell, Anne Hathaway, it kind of all came together! Weirdness.