On a scale from 1 to 10, 5.5 would be the middle of the pack, not 5.
5 would be the middle in a scale from 0 to 10.
Just a tad overweight but as I’ve aged, I’ve gotten better looking (at least in relation to other men my age.) 15 yrs ago had chemo and lost all my hair. When it grew back it was better than before. It is now that silver color that just looks great. Maybe it’s because of the lack of competition, but women seem far more “interested” than even 10 years ago.
Biggest thing is that I feel “comfortable in my own skin.” I think that when you feel good about how you look it shows in the way you carry yourself.
In my teens, I was positively gorgeous. I wasn’t bad looking in my 20s either. Of course, I’m only realizing this now, in hindsight. I was always terribly insecure about my looks.
(And I know that I sound like a girl now. I’m actually male.)
Now, I’m fat and balding, but I’m starting to exude that aura of quiet confidence brought on by just not giving a shit anymore. So maybe it evens out.
I think I’m around a 2/3, but I’ve been told that others disagree and I know that I have appearance issues, so I chose 5.
Is anyone really good at looking at themselves objectively?
I was feeling generous and gave myself a 6. I’m a 40-year-old guy. I’m balding rapidly, but I’m slim and the shaved head and goatee look works OK for me. I’m probably better looking with a few wrinkles than I was without them. But that might be more because of a little better self confidence and better clothing choices. Anyway, my wife thinks I’m handsome, so that’s all I really care about.
I said 7. I’m aware that not gorgeous but I turn enough heads to know that I’m not invisible* and have gotten enough flack about “not noticing” the attention from female acquaintances to know that I’m not imagining the glances. On particularly good days a guy might stop dead to stare at me.
*even when I wished I was. having red hair that comes from genes instead of a bottle is a lot like carrying around a sign that says “look at me!” which was less fun when I was young and shy and only wanted to not stand out.
The celeb people think I look like is Rick Moranis - but I disagree. He looks better than I do.
Not fat, not balding, not saggy, just not put together quite right. My daughter has a lot of my features, but in her it all came together, so I’m close.
This. Who cares what I think about what I look like? Other than me, of course.
Sorry, this wasn’t intended as threadshitting.
My husband says I am an 8. I rate myself a 6, especially after 3 kids and being 60lbs heavier than when we met. I think I could get to an 8 if I lost that weight. I have great hair, a nice smile, and a good body even when I am overweight because I am tall and well proportioned. The only part of me I really hate are my arms. I used to cover them up at all times with long or 3/4 length sleeves but I eventually realised most people could care less about my arms so now I wear what I want.
The backs of your upper arms all jiggly? 
Is that what you really hate? I find that’s the usual complaint from women in regards to not liking their arms.
I’m a 3. Fat with no sense of fashion, don’t wear makeup and can’t shake the adult acne. Plus I’m just big all over - big hands, big feet, 5’8". So I can’t even be “cute” (read: petite)
But, I’ve got nice teeth and facial features, if I put minimal effort into it my hair looks good, and I look young for my age. So I’m not hopeless, I’m just a 3. Which, whatever.
Yep. Hate it. But it could be worse so I got over hiding them
I went for a three. I think I have a pleasant (if not pretty) face, but being as overweight as I am probably rules me out of being any higher in the ratings.
It is such an interesting thing to see what other folks think about their appearances, especially as adults. I am fairly certain that many people here carry over earlier self-conceptualizations from when we were much younger and not fully ourselves. This is not surprising. Intelligent folks like us (and stop wincing… you know we all are pretty dang smart or we wouldn’t be here) are trained by our environment to consider ourselves to be inherently unattractive especially those of us who are female. This may be less true now than it was in the middle of the 20th century, but I daresay it still applies now.
For the most part (for all of us hopefully), we have already met at least one other person who thinks that we are attractive enough to form a close and intimate bond with. When I was a teen-aged young man in high school, I was pretty sure that the Soviets were going to bomb us all to oblivion before I was ever able to convince a woman to make love with me. You may laugh, but it was the 60s and … well suffice to say it was a very unpleasant and paranoid time in which to come of age. As a geeky looking guy, I was fairly certain that I was going to die a virgin.
That didn’t happen. Quite a number of women (and some men, actually) have told me that I am attractive. I look in the mirror and see a much older (and somewhat flabbier) version of the same guy who stared in the mirror and wondered… will I die a virgin? Then I laugh at myself and feel true happiness. I have a wonderful and beautiful red-headed woman who thinks I am ‘all that and more’ and personally I don’t give a rip whether anyone else thinks I am attractive.
I want to be healthy and I want to live a long time and when this body does die, I want to look like an old and wizened man grasping a staff and counseling others to not give a hoot about whether they think they are attractive physically or not. True beauty comes from within as they say. But, they also say (who are ‘they’ anyway) that beauty is skin-deep, but ugly goes to the bone. I can imagine confusing the ever-loving daylights out of some young folks with that kind of wisdom. Heh heh heh.
And I ranked myself a 7 because my lady-love wouldn’t have let me vote myself lower than that. So there. 
It occurred to me here in the middle of the night in the eastern time zone of North America that many of you have posted pictures of yourselves on the gallery.
So, I did so as well.
I looked at the gallery and honestly we are pretty dang good looking group of folks.
Maybe I look for that ‘light in the eye’ but nobody in that gallery should feel ‘ugly’ or even ‘plain’. And that includes you, Jragon. Yeah… horrible looking guy. Children scream when they see you and dogs bark and the skies cloud over. Sheeesh.
I meant I avoid mirrors and being photographed. I’m very self critical.
Jragon is far from hideous.
On my own scale I’m a 9. I’m pretty, I have nice hair, I’m the weight I want to be, my teeth are ok, I have good proportions. The only thing that could be better is my skin, so I deducted a point for that. I don’t have hideous skin or anything, but it could be better.
To adhere to ridiculous beauty standards I’d also have to have a flat tummy (which I find freaky, so I don’t want that) and thin calves (which would be useless for walking up a mountain).
I see myself naked in the mirror every morning, and I really do think: “wow, I’m pretty hot”. I wasn’t always like that, it took some work. It’s weird that it did, because I actually am pretty. Most of the work was done by my SO, who thinks I’m beautiful. The rest was done by working really hard at considering how ridiculous it is to think it’s important, and not trying to be pretty anymore. I don’t read beauty magazines and I don’t compare myself to others.
Another thing that helped me see how pretty I am is seeing friends, and so many of the teenagers I’ve worked with, just utterly unable to see how beautiful they are. It just doesn’t make any sense. All these beautiful people who don’t see their beauty. Stop being so blind! It really hurts when someone I think is beautiful can’t properly see themselves. (Jragon!) I’ve seen so many stick-thin girls, gorgeous people with pretty faces, push their food around their plate and finally confess to me how they feel about their body. It hurts me that they hurt, and it’s over something imaginary. And I guess I saw some of that in me, and I learned to be realistic about myself.
But hey, I guess that’s all easy for me to say, because I’m pretty. So I dunno…
I’m decent-looking, but never been a standout. I gave myself a 6 - a half-point above the 5.5 midpoint, rather than a half-point below it.
I really don’t worry much about my looks, though I’d like to lose some weight off my belly, but that’s as much about long-term health as about vanity. If I was vain about my looks, I’d have been dyeing my beard, which has gone almost totally white over the past few years, while my hair is still largely dark with some gray mixed in. I’d probably look 10 years younger if my beard matched my hair - and 10 years older if it were the other way around. 
My face is OK to me (Plain Jane 6, I usually don’t wear makeup)
Good body with big jiggly boobs (a personal 8 for me)
So 7 it is!