# What's Up With Beauty Moles? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 1, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-beauty-moles/716555 "2015-04-01T23:14:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-beauty-moles/716555/21 "2015-04-03T01:19:47Z")
When I see them I just think that the person must worry less about skin cancer than I do. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-beauty-moles/716555/22 "2015-04-04T04:35:35Z")
> [@Recusant](#): > > Because physically altering yourself purely to suit the whims of others is not a behavior you commonly see in any life form higher up the intellectual totem pole than a possum. And doing so just to suit the _potential_ whims of others… Exactly. Which is why plastic surgeons are so poorly paid. BTW, WTH is a ‘potential’ whim? ---
**Author:** ![Neem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@Neem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neem)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-beauty-moles/716555/23 "2015-04-04T06:43:45Z")
Often one single flaw makes people more beautiful somehow. I’m not sure psychologically why this is the case but I find it to be true. When they do computer simulations of the “ideal woman” in terms of facial proportions and the like, to many people they seem plain and boring. They don’t have anything striking or distinctive. I think moles can be both. ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-beauty-moles/716555/24 "2015-04-04T07:07:15Z")
Ehh? I have a small freckle/mole on my left cheek that I’ve always kind of liked. It’s distinctive. As critical as I am about my own physical appearance, I’ve never thought of having that removed. I’ve got one on my left bum cheek, too, and I don’t mind it either. The one on my face has diminished over time, probably due to exfoliation/peels, and I kind of miss it now. It’s not really visible anymore if I have regular makeup on. I’ve just never thought that others might find it ugly. Oh, well. ---
**Author:** ![CalBak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/258eb7/32.png) [@CalBak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalBak)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-beauty-moles/716555/25 "2015-04-04T19:56:02Z")
I’m still baffled by these questions of what is and what isn’t beautiful to a particular person. It is and always has been a matter of personal taste, ya know, the whole beholder thing. And yes, I find them attractive as long as they’re not huge and covered in hair on any part of the body. ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-beauty-moles/716555/26 "2015-04-05T00:29:03Z")
I have a small mole about an inch from the left side of my bottom lip. I have never, not once, given it any thought. Not as a “beauty mole” or something unattractive. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-beauty-moles/716555/27 "2015-04-05T00:42:05Z")
> [@GreenElf](#): > > a few hundred dollars? Perhaps they don’t have “a few hundred dollars” just to remove a small mole? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-beauty-moles/716555/28 "2015-04-05T04:11:48Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > Exactly. Which is why plastic surgeons are so poorly paid. > BTW, WTH is a ‘potential’ whim? One which isn’t necessarily actual. The repulsion for moles is potential in the general population, actual in those people who find moles repulsive. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-beauty-moles/716555/29 "2015-04-05T04:23:07Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I have two moles on my face and I have never even thought of getting them removed. Why? Why should I undergo surgery - and you talk of a few hundred dollars as if that were nothing -\*\* just because someone else thinks they don’t look good?\*\* I’d think most people who get moles removed do so because _they themselves_ don’t think they look good (as well as for non-cosmetic reasons). (my bolding) ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-beauty-moles/716555/30 "2015-04-05T11:37:37Z")
> [@Recusant](#): > > Because physically altering yourself purely to suit the whims of others is not a behavior you commonly see in any life form higher up the intellectual totem pole than a possum. I knew a groundhog who had a mole removed. The mole was eating all the best grubs and the groundhog finally got tired of sharing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-beauty-moles/716555.md?page=1)