Somewhat happy.
I’m homely as a mud fence, but I have a *killer *sense of style and am always flatteringly dressed and turned-out. I still have ten or fifteen pounds to lose, so am not thrilled with my weight, but my graying hair and wrinkles don’t bother me a bit. Things could have gone a *lot *worse with me, looks-wise, and I consider myself pretty damn lucky.
I’m 55 and weigh less now than when I was 28 and I was thin even then. So with clothing, I like how I look. I hate what gravity has done to the girls, but I have much fewer skin problems than when I was a teenager, so that’s a plus. I’m doing the best I can with what I got, so I voted 4.
Meh, I’m 54, but I have a full head of hair, it’s still brown, have decent teeth, not fat, and the ladies think I’m handsome. So yeah, I’m good to go.
I lost a lot of weight (~160 lbs), so while I should be happy with my appearance, it doesn’t seem to have made me feel any better about myself in that way. Don’t get me wrong, I’m proud that I was able to do it, but a) there’s all this loose skin that is extremely unappealing and 2) no one else seems to give a crap about it. Add to that the fact that I’m bald and gray, and it’s an overall losing proposition.
I voted the lamest answer. Neither unhappy or happy. Because I really don’t put that much attention on my looks. I never have.
When someone says I’m good-looking, I feel a little something. I guess relief? Because it’s just by accident and good luck…I certainly don’t do anything to make myself look good.
I will say I feel better about my looks than I did when I was younger. I looked okay as a kid, but once I hit puberty…well, I guess no one likes how they did they were in middle school. High school pictures show a very dorky, nerdy looking girl–glasses and bird’s nest hair and physical awkwardness galore. I don’t have too many pictures of me in college, but I wince at the ones I do have. But I’m not thinking I’ll look back on my pictures today and feel quite the same way. So maybe that means I’m happy with my looks. Or at least happier.
I voted “somewhat happy.”
I realize that I’ll never have movie-star good looks, but I’ve been working out a lot after my operation, and I’m starting to get an actual, you know, rockin’ bod. Photos in the gallery.
not happy for I am too fat
I’m neither happy or unhappy. I’m 71 now and things are what they are; not much I can do about it. One thing’s for sure; with me, what you see is what you get: An old guy and that’s about it.
Somewhat unhappy.
I’ve always been very self-conscious, and I think I look hideous, really, but I recognise that I am nuts and that feeling hideously unattractive is part of my nuttiness. And no, you can’t see a photo. I think I’m pretty ugly, but I also think plenty of people are uglier than me and have no aesthetic taste either. I, at least, have some style and panache. So I’m only somewhat unhappy with my appearance when I’m in mentally stable mode, but I’m capable of being extremely unhappy about it at times.
This is part of why I chose to be a musician and perform onstage in front of audiences. A lot of people in the performing arts are overcompensating for shyness and feelings of unattractiveness. It’s really common. And everyone thinks we’re all egomaniacs. Some performers are, but many are the exact opposite.
I voted happy - since today I am happy. Some days less so, but everyone has days like that. I am exercising, and have lost most of the weight that I wanted to, although I have more to go. I used to feel terribly about how I looked, until I realized that if I was unhappy, I should do something about it. I have done what I could, and need to accept the rest.
It also helps when you have a kid constantly telling you that you are beautiful.
1, if not lower. I’ve been overweight since childhood and I don’t like the way I look. I’ve been called ugly more than once in my life so obviously it’s not just me.
I voted “somewhat unhappy”. I’ve lost 40 lbs and I’m a normal weight now but I feel like I can lose another 5-10. But I know that even if I do there’s still something I won’t be happy with. I used to focus on characters’ physical appearances when reading books growing up and I think I still have a misconception that I’d be happier if I were better-looking. Pretty immature but I can’t seem to let it go. I should just be happy that I’m healthy and not freakish-looking or anything.
I voted myself a 5. I’m young and healthy and stylish, so I’m taking full advantage of it (because I know I’m going to lose these looks someday). I could stand to exercise more, though.
Ok hands up who here thinks they have no sense of style.
Somewhat happy right now. At other times I might be somewhat unhappy. I’m not too old-looking for my age or too heavy or too skinny, and I do dress well - strangers quite often compliment me on my clothes or ask where I got them. There are quite a few things I’d like to improve, but it could be a lot worse.
I could lose a few years.
I have no sense of style! I’m OK with that though.
But I’m somewhat happy with my appearance; at 53 probably happier overall than I was 20 years ago because gray hair, emerging wrinkles, the occasional chin-hair and saggy bits no longer bother me. Much. I was never a raving beauty and have never placed a whole lot of importance on my looks, overall.
I’m thin, strong, relatively fit & healthy and am often told I look much younger than my actual age.
I’m sad for the respondents who feel ugly. I suspect none of you really are. Rushgeekgirl certainly isn’t ugly.
Thanks y’all but there’s a reason all my pics are from the same angle and limited to head shots.
But then in that photo you can’t see my real hair either!
My partner and I have been through this many times. There is literally no part of me that I like. This has nothing to do with self-worth or self-esteem or anything else like that, just esthetic. I am simply not the physical type that I respond to positively . . . not in any way whatsoever.
And photographers shy away from me too. I’ve seen lots of photos where I’m just outside the frame.
But I find other ways to create beauty in the world.
I’m almost entirely happy with the way I look except that when someone takes a picture of me I look like I have a double chin and extremely unkempt hair, and am either stoned or walleyed. So if I could look good in photographs as well as when I glance at myself in the mirror, then I’d be satisfied.