# A woman with a mole on her face: Do you find this especially attractive? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 26, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-woman-with-a-mole-on-her-face-do-you-find-this-especially-attractive/766897 "2016-09-26T00:40:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-woman-with-a-mole-on-her-face-do-you-find-this-especially-attractive/766897/1 "2016-09-26T00:40:42Z")
Back in the day (especially, but also today) it was considered very sexy for a woman to have a prominent mole on her face. I’ve never understood this and I always consider a mole to be a huge negative\* I also suspect I am in the vast minority, so I am wondering if there are any others who might like to join my club. What do you all thing of these moled women? [1.](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zXsbKbrVYPo/T0hTSQvlknI/AAAAAAAAB-0/BoaLSRofjxQ/s1600/cindy-crawford.jpg) [B.](http://helpytips.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/embedded_Rachel_McAdams_beauty_mark.jpg) [III](http://images.wisegeek.com/woman-in-a-purple-hat.jpg) mmm \*and before anyone suggests it, let me acknowledge that a mole on my own face would be the _least_ of a long list of my physical ‘negatives’. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-woman-with-a-mole-on-her-face-do-you-find-this-especially-attractive/766897/2 "2016-09-26T01:48:07Z")
To play fair, you are choosing women that are generally considered quite attractive/beautiful. I have two non-pigmented moles on my face that I hate, and am looking forward to getting those suckers razored off soon. But no one else ever seems to notice them, or, worse, they think they are _cute_. Weirdos. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-woman-with-a-mole-on-her-face-do-you-find-this-especially-attractive/766897/3 "2016-09-26T01:48:55Z")
Neither attractive nor unattractive, but I tend to determine attractiveness by personality, not physical appearance. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-woman-with-a-mole-on-her-face-do-you-find-this-especially-attractive/766897/4 "2016-09-26T02:06:32Z")
I always look at women like that and think, “Imagine how beautiful you would have been if you had had that mole removed.” As a woman who has a mole on her fav, I think moles are ugly. I could never understand the appeal, either. And, no mom, calling it a “beauty mark” doesn’t make it better. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-woman-with-a-mole-on-her-face-do-you-find-this-especially-attractive/766897/5 "2016-09-26T02:24:33Z")
Yeah, never really did it for me, either. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-woman-with-a-mole-on-her-face-do-you-find-this-especially-attractive/766897/6 "2016-09-26T05:03:12Z")
IMO they’d look even better without them. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-woman-with-a-mole-on-her-face-do-you-find-this-especially-attractive/766897/7 "2016-09-26T06:51:38Z")
I’m fine with them. It breaks the symmetry and makes a face more distinctive. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-woman-with-a-mole-on-her-face-do-you-find-this-especially-attractive/766897/8 "2016-09-26T08:13:57Z")
Nope, they’d look better without them. Also, freckles are not cute. People, they are SUN DAMAGE. Not cute. On the plus side, if there is one, no one can tell if your face is dirty. _Because it always looks dirty._ ---
**Author:** ![Bibs\_McGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f0a364/32.png) [@Bibs\_McGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bibs_McGee)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-woman-with-a-mole-on-her-face-do-you-find-this-especially-attractive/766897/9 "2016-09-26T09:12:26Z")
Beauty marks just ain’t. I’m reminded of John Candy in _Uncle Buck_ when he tells the principal to take a quarter and go have a rat gnaw her lip mole off. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-woman-with-a-mole-on-her-face-do-you-find-this-especially-attractive/766897/10 "2016-09-26T10:29:22Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > …I tend to determine attractiveness by personality, not physical appearance. OooooooooooKayyyyyyyyy mmm ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-woman-with-a-mole-on-her-face-do-you-find-this-especially-attractive/766897/11 "2016-09-26T11:44:39Z")
It takes a lot to [carry this off.](https://goo.gl/images/alCrD3) ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-woman-with-a-mole-on-her-face-do-you-find-this-especially-attractive/766897/12 "2016-09-26T12:11:41Z")
“Beauty spots” are a contradiction in terms. They definitely detract from looks. I can understand regular folk (male or female) not caring or not able to get them removed, but actors and models? Their looks are part of their job. They have the money, etc. Just get rid of the ugly things. If a role requires one, then a fake one works just as well. I … just … don’t … get … it. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-woman-with-a-mole-on-her-face-do-you-find-this-especially-attractive/766897/13 "2016-09-26T13:02:18Z")
As recently as the 1940s, women would apply a fake mole to their face, as a “beauty spot”. A lot of pre-1940s things quickly went out of fashion, and now seem unimaginable to us. My mother would even wear a veil, if really dressing to the nines. ---
**Author:** ![ASGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@ASGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-woman-with-a-mole-on-her-face-do-you-find-this-especially-attractive/766897/14 "2016-09-26T13:56:51Z")
Numbers 1 and 2 have no impact whatsoever on my perception of them as attractive or not. I would probably _see_ the mole but it is so trifling with respect to the rest of their face that it becomes a zero. By my standards, the mole on number 3 is a visual distraction. The woman is pretty but if the mole were removed she might enter a more attractive category. Should the woman in #3 remove the mole? I would never offer an opinion unless she was a _close_ friend. If so, I would recommend removal. I have had many actinic keratosis blemishes (those brown spots that develop as you get older) removed from my face, scalp and other sun-exposed areas. About ten years ago I intereacted with a young woman who for many years had a prominent 5 mm round mole on her cheek. You could not look at her without seeing this blemish. She had it removed at some point. I barely recognized her after her procedure. It made a world of difference. I apologize for being sexist, but removing that blemish made her beautiful. It’s one of the reasons I started having my keratosis spots removed. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-woman-with-a-mole-on-her-face-do-you-find-this-especially-attractive/766897/15 "2016-09-26T14:00:20Z")
> [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser](#): > > I’m fine with them. It breaks the symmetry and makes a face more distinctive. To me, breaking the symmetry is a minus, not a plus. (I’m not a big fan of asymmetrical hairstyles, either.) ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-woman-with-a-mole-on-her-face-do-you-find-this-especially-attractive/766897/16 "2016-09-26T14:19:52Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > OooooooooooKayyyyyyyyy > > mmm It’s true. He has terabytes of personality porn. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-woman-with-a-mole-on-her-face-do-you-find-this-especially-attractive/766897/17 "2016-09-26T14:47:39Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > To me, breaking the symmetry is a minus, not a plus. (I’m not a big fan of asymmetrical hairstyles, either.) To me, there’s a sweet spot between “Sloth from the Goonies” asymmetry and “creepy photoshopped face” symmetry. Cindy Crawford’s mole, for instance, gives her features some personality, and adds to her beauty, for me. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-woman-with-a-mole-on-her-face-do-you-find-this-especially-attractive/766897/18 "2016-09-26T15:07:18Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > Nope, they’d look better without them. > > Also, freckles are not cute. People, they are SUN DAMAGE. Not cute. > > On the plus side, if there is one, no one can tell if your face is dirty. _Because it always looks dirty._ Freckles are pretty hot, in my opinion. Moles I can take or leave. I like birthmarks in general for their distinction. Number 3 in the OP is more than I usually prefer, but the other two are cute. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-woman-with-a-mole-on-her-face-do-you-find-this-especially-attractive/766897/19 "2016-09-26T20:21:47Z")
Better a mole than [this.](https://www.colourbox.com/image/scary-arachnid-predator-on-beauty-woman-face-sitting-image-6190250) ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-woman-with-a-mole-on-her-face-do-you-find-this-especially-attractive/766897/20 "2016-09-26T23:14:53Z")
No question, they are more attractive to me without the moles. YMMV, of course.