How often do you feel pretty?

[AngryBird6122]

Just that really!

Never. If I’m lucky I think I’m passable at best. But to be honest I rarely think about what I look like.

Every now and then. Last time was probably over Christmas when I bothered to put make up on and blow dry my hair properly!

I think after your teens "pretty" is a low aspiration.
I sometimes feel powerful, I know I'm clever and loyal.
I wish women didn't need to feel pretty to be content.

I don't think 'pretty' is the word for me at any time, but I definitely feel attractive sometimes. It can be when I'm dressed up and made up, in can be just when I'm having a day when my hair looks good and I just for some reason look better than normal.

It's nice but it's not important to me - I'll often tell people I don't think I'm beautiful and that is fine. It isn't sad. Why is there an expectation I'm unhappy or lacking confidence if I don't think I'm beautiful? It's just not where my worth lies (or anyone's really) so I'm totally happy not to be beautiful or to think I am!

I don't want to be "pretty". It's so bland. Like behind "nice". I want to be a fucking stunning vivacious sex bomb.
Pretty bleugh.

3-4 times a week.

I feel pretty every day. I don't wear make up, I don't need it, never have done, but I feel fabulous every day.

Feels fairly vain to say it, but most of the time. Not beautiful necessarily but pretty, yea I think so. I’ve a nice smile and nice eyes and I’m not bad to look at overall. I don’t have men flinging themselves at me quite like I used to, but I like to think that’s because I’m married with a child now rather than because I’ve become repulsive to look at 😂 plus I think character has a lot to do with pretty. If you’re smiley and happy and generally nice, I think it’s hard not to be pretty… if that makes sense?

Never. But I don't really aim to be. Like some others up thread I'm late 50s with grey hair and overweight. I'm not ugly, or even plain..I'm sure if a MUA and a stylist got their hands on me I would look pretty, but that would be my worst nightmare. I love gardening and building and hiking ( taking 2 months off work in April/May to walk 500milies on the camino). I love my job and my kids and my friends and I'm very happy to no longer care at all about trying to make myself look pretty.

Having said that my son is getting married next year and I know I'll be strssing about that. Not to look pretty, just not to look old and frumpy. I hate the idea of my kids being a bit embarrassed by me 🥵

Never, but I’m fine with that. I often feel good about myself, confident, and on a good day I might feel that I look my best. Sometimes even attractive but not pretty. I think of pretty as something more associated with very young women, particularly those who dress in a very feminine way.

Occasionally if the hair's ok and I've got fake tan on (fading ginger) I look pretty enough from the neck up at a reasonable distance and a good light but I'm 63, short, fat and an ex smoker so it's not a given.
I am not pretty in photos though, only in the mirror. In photos my face looks odd and twisted but DH says this is what I actually look like so while I might feel pretty, obviously I don't look it.
I don't give a shit. My granddaughter thinks I'm pretty 😍

I like that idea. I'd be happy to be striking. I just don't want to be an invisible middle aged woman.

Never. I think I look a bit strange most if the time.

Just on a night out, mainly because I don't try to the rest of the time but I do make a little bit of an effort for a night out and I like the result. (I'm pretty average looking but do think I look nice when I try) Wish I could be arsed every day but alas, I cannot

After a fresh hair dye and cut, when my hair is curled too.

I haven't felt pretty since about 1987😂

Gained 12kg when pregnant years ago have since only lost 3kg. I feel fat and ugly all the time.

All the time until some bugger gets a phone out and takes god awful photos!

On a serious note I'm apparently attractive, but such a Tom boy growing up and in my 20s and 30s I never really paid myself that much attention, I went through an awful flirty vane phase in my early 40s and I'm blaming my hormones iPhones and instagram.

But late 40s now and settling into myself more and have good and bad days.

Yes, agreed on the "until someone takes a photo" front!

Without photos - most days, basically whenever I have made a reasonable effort.

I never, ever take selfies. But I feel confidently attractive as I go about my day.

Sometimes I look in the mirror and think that I look good. But 'pretty' is not a feeling to me.

Very rarely, I'm almost 40 and I have awful bags under my eyes, my self confidence has completely gone!

Never these days. I look in the mirror and think to myself ‘God. I used to be pretty’. I now just look haggard, knackered and miserable.

Used to feel 'attractive' pre kids but now just feel old and middle aged... having trouble accepting that the days of looking good are over! Need to do some work on self love etc...

Never 😞 never have never will.

Whenever I make an effort to notice my good features and ignore the not so good. To be fair, this is exactly what I do when looking at other people! I shouldn't have to remind myself to see myself the way I see other people but, hey, I used to zero in on my flaws all the time. I've improved 🙂