THE APPEAL OF FRECKLESdavid
There are features that people traditionally tried to hide but that, over time, have ended up becoming precisely what makes a face attractive.
Freckles are probably one of the best examples.
For years, the beauty industry got us used to faces with completely uniform skin: the same tone, the same texture, not a blemish, not a mark, practically no sign that there was an actual human being underneath all that makeup. And the funny thing is that when freckles appear scattered across the nose and cheeks, the exact opposite of what you might expect happens:
instead of seeing them as an imperfection, a lot of people feel they actually make a face more attractive.
Maybe it’s precisely because they break up that uniformity. Freckles add little points of contrast, make your eyes wander across the face, and can especially highlight the eyes, cheekbones, or nose. They’re a kind of natural pattern that can make a face more recognizable and give it more personality.
There’s also that sense of naturalness.
Freckles remind us that real skin isn’t a perfectly smooth surface created by a computer. It has pigmentation, pores, subtle differences in tone, and characteristics of its own. And very often, those little irregularities are exactly what make two equally beautiful faces feel completely different in terms of how interesting we find them.
In fact, in recent years we’ve reached the curious point where some people
draw freckles on with makeup or turn to semi-permanent treatments to get something that others spent a good part of their lives trying to hide. The supposed imperfection has become a desirable feature.
And then there’s the part that’s impossible to measure. Attraction doesn’t work according to some mathematical chart where a pair of lips adds two points, a nose subtracts one, and twenty freckles add another three. Some features simply trigger something in the person looking at them.
That’s what happens to me with freckles. Especially when they’re concentrated around the nose and beneath the eyes.
I’m not entirely sure why, but far from making a face look messy or taking away from its beauty, I think they give it character, naturalness, and an especially attractive touch.
In the end, maybe part of beauty lies precisely there: in those little characteristics that stop a perfect face from also becoming a completely forgettable one.
Because sometimes an imperfection doesn’t take anything away. It’s exactly what was needed to add something more.
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AMATEUR FLESH: GLITCHY BRATSome people dream of starting their own business, traveling the world, writing a book, or buying a house by the sea.
Glitchy_Brat has slightly different ambitions.
On her Reddit profile, she introduces herself with a line that pretty much sums up her intentions:
“Just a girl, following her dreams of being a thot”.
For anyone not completely fluent in internet slang,
“thot” originally came from the acronym “That Hoe Over There.”
Not exactly the most flattering term at first, but that's the internet for you. Over time, the word took on a life of its own, becoming a label for sexually provocative women or girls who enjoy showing off online, and
plenty of women eventually embraced it and started using it about themselves in a playful, ironic way.
So when Glitchy_Brat says she's
“following her dreams of being a thot”, she's basically telling us that
she's just a girl chasing her dream of becoming an internet thot.
And you have to give her credit for one thing:
she doesn't seem like the kind of person who sits around waiting for her dreams to come true on their own.
Glitchy Brat only opened her Reddit account a few months ago, and since then she's been doing her part to achieve such a noble goal.
And as we always do whenever we find someone out there chasing their dreams,
we figured the least we could do was contribute our own little bit to the cause.
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