Interesting thread.

"How do we pursue surreal beauty, if pictures like mine (where I simply tried to make as beautiful a face as I could make)are refused? The most beautiful face imaginable and "computer-makeable" will have an "apparent age" of appr. 14 years"

My .00002 cents:

Beauty is more than skin deep perhaps?  Showing the person behind the face might be just as important?

There's a mini series hosted by John Cleese called "The Human Face".  In one of the episodes they discuss what makes a face beautiful.  You might find some answers there.  Here's a link to it on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280262/

For what it's worth there's a theory that it's an evolutionary reason that younger faces are considered more beautiful.