Ockham, I AM a western feminist... and I like wearing attractive adornments. However, they are unusual and distinctive, and I wear them for my own sake, not to please others. In the western culture, symmetry is perceived as perfection, and thus a symmetrical face or body will appear to be more beautiful. Take a mirror and cut the face of a movie star or fashion model vertically in half with it, and the reflected sides will still strongly resemble the whole. Our ideal is perfect balance. Memorable faces, however, are often strongly asymmetrical. Look at Abraham Lincoln, and do the same mirror trick. In a world of look-alike models, having a gap-tooth or a mole will often be the means to being remembered, and therefore in demand. Since the basic dials in Poser change both sides of the face, it is easier to get symmetry than to get distinctiveness. Beautiful faces are often young, because wrinkles and the scars of time seldom line up, but if the underlying bones are strong and balanced, the face can retain beauty through the decades. This is all a discussion of surface "beauty". "Charisma" and "attractiveness" are other matters altogether. The surface and the interior are often worlds apart, and those who judge by surfaces alone see only reflected light, not inner light. Carolly