How often are you complimented on your looks

[Gerbil12]

In particular by people you've just met. Have been out with a very attractive friend tonight who has had men fawning over her/complimenting her whilst I was just ignored as usual. I'm probably a 5 but I don't think my physical appearance has ever been complimented by a stranger. Feeling a bit crap. Does this happen to other people?

A lot more often in my 70s than in my 20s.

quite a bit

I'm not "normal" i stand out and it gets mentioned a lot

i also look way younger than my 43 years due to lifestyle choices i made from a teenager onwards

im 6ft, 36 inch legs size 12 feet adult(this was by age 11)
have N cup breasts, used to be a P

i have very long jet black hair (natural not dyed) and very pale skin been like this since a teenager

ie never drunk tea ,coffee or alcohol
smoked, done drugs hung about in smoky pubs(90s/00s era)
done cold water swimming for years(streams and seas)

i live in the forest(seriously)so have plenty of clean fresh air
and 30 minutes away from a beach so i have sea air or fresh forest air(the training ive had the air quality you live in makes a difference to your skin )

my skin age is 31(there is a tool that can test it)

i drink pints of whole blue milk and water
never dieted but don't eat healthily(diet is atrocious)

i do have a pepsi/coke habit thorough and drink way to many cans a week

never wore make up and since a teenager(90s)only used organic soap or serums from lush

im also trained in deep facials and micro needling so do it to myself and have done for years

as ive done this for close to 25 years+ i look years younger than i am

i get commented on looking younger, my hair, my height or are they real(boobs) every day

personally im also my user name so very confident ad gobby

so i stand out physically and personally

It used to happen regularly, but definitely hasn't happened since I had kids a few years ago. Now I'm overweight and almost middle aged and there's zero chance of ever being told again 😄
I get stopped by people telling me my kids are beautiful now.

A friend told me I "scrub up all right" once in about 1998.

😍

Wow! What a generous complement. I hope you didn’t let all that praise go to your head?! 😜

Never, until I lost weight and became 'conventionally' prettier.

I'm treated completely differently now. Really opens your eyes.

Quite often and usually when I’ve made the effort to dry my hair properly or put on some make up.

Nobody seems to think I look nice in my joggers and frizzy curls. Shame as I spend 99% of my life looking like that 😂

I remember turning around once and a bloke saying "my god, you are really lovely"!

On my wedding day, my male friend told me "you've literally taken my breath away with how beautiful you look"
(Maybe should've married him 🤣).

Had a woman stop me last year at a comedy gig "can I just day you have the most beautiful smile?"

And I'm old and fat these days but still het nice compliments.. one of my pupils told me "you have kind eyes" and another one "you are so smiley".

Not since I had my first which was 3 years ago🤣 I’ve since had a second and have put on a LOT of weight so I’m not surprised tbh

I'm absolutely never complimented on my appearance by anyone. One of the posts above reminded me I have received a few random compliments for having a nice voice. Think I'd be suited to working in radio - certainly have the face for it. 😂

I dunno, would I love compliments? From what people say on here it's a bit creepy and unwelcome. I wish I looked a bit better but beautiful must come as a double edged sword. I think I look ok from a distance but close up - eeek different story, from the side? Forget it....

Never

it's because I'm a fucking stunner and my ego is big enough!

About once every three or four months and only ever by people I know - usually friends being nice or DH saying I scrub up well on a night out . I'm nearly sixty.

Used to happen a lot when I was young but hasn't for decades.

Quite often. I really like it in the right context (which is usually when it comes from a woman) but IME if a man you don’t know comments positively on your looks, you’re about two “wrong” moves away from getting a mouthful of misogynistic abuse. Especially if drink is involved.

Probably once every 7 years or something.

My mum tells me all the time.

I have nice eyes and a kind face - strangers have often told me this or pupils I teach ask if I wear contacts to alter the colour.

I don't often compliment strangers on their appearance and may start doing it more. It feels strangely rude or an imposition though.

Quite a lot. Not often by strangers tbf

Never, although recently my toddler saw me putting on makeup and told me I looked like "a perfect beautiful clown", if that counts?

It happened to me a fair bit in my teens and twenties. I wasn't beautiful or even pretty, but I used to be described as striking. I suppose I had a lot of contrasts - black hair, pale skin, blue eyes. I had some nasty insults too though.

Now, at 57, I am invisible. Have been for many years in fact. It's great!

Never, and I prefer it that way.

Never - I am extremely unattractive, in a way that transcended youth and slenderness when I possessed those attributes.

Not a whole lot nowadays as I'm fat. I have a pretty face though and when I was slim I got complimented a lot, but it doesn't happen often when you're fat 😂

It’s not really something I’d register. Plus I look intimidating at any level of attractiveness, so I assume it comes across , correctly, that I wouldn’t appreciate a comment.

The weird thing on this thread is women buying into the idea that there are objective looks marks and classifying themselves. I can’t honestly imagine looking at myself in terms of being ‘a 5’ or having ‘B+ features’. I mean, according to whom? The kind of wanker who shouts at passing women minding their own business on the street, and who has accessorised his low IQ with a visible ass crack and a painted on football shirt?

yes from my lovely 7yo daughter and partner ,
then occasionally i will get wolf whistle'd not sure if it counts as a compliment?