To ask how often you’re complimented on your looks

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

Never.

I do but by five year olds 😂 The children often say I'm pretty or look like a princess but that is because they are five. In the real world- not since I turned 30 and had kids. Woman will compliment me on my hair or clothing but that's it.

Hardly ever, does not bother me. Compliments tend to be about other things, such as in presentations at work.

Very occasionally when I was much younger. It made me wonder what was wrong with the person, if they thought that.

Never, aside from on my wedding day but then who goes up to the bride and says nothing?!

Daily which is lovely but I don't believe a word

Surely if someone in mn asks then it’s not full of themselves for people to answer. Or are the only people allowed to answer the ones saying no?

Yeah this is not the norm for me, I’ve never seen it happen infront of me either. I’m not old but most people would find it slightly weird where I am. Sure you see an appreciative look at someone but I’ve never been anywhere where men are outright going around telling people they are stunning etc. it’s really odd.

I don’t get compliments on my looks ever.

Oh I don’t care if people tell people they are beautiful etc or people know they are beautiful. Some people just are, lucky sods.

Never. I’m not unattractive but have never had people behave that way around me, males or females.

Never, not even when I was young.

Why are you thinking this is strange. It’s not strange at all. They are clients who are with the poster for beauty treatments so it’s completely understandable that they would comment on looks. It’s hardly random strangers discussing out of context.

Not really ever. I'm attractive but I have attitude which I suspect puts people off making personal comments about my appearance.
I often get compliments, ie praise, at work for my attitude and performance though, which is far more important to my sense of self than if someone random thinks I'm attractive or not.
I think I'd find men paying me compliments about how I look a bit creepy and I'd get a bit snarly. I was an early developer and received a huge amount of unwanted attention when I was a child, hence the attitude about it.

Seriously do strangers come up to you and tell you how great you look?
I just understand the social etiquette of the people you mix with if this really happens and you regard this as normal.
Are all the people you mix with just so obsessed with appearance that they go round commenting on how beautiful everyone is or are you some descendent of Helen of Troy?
I'm amazed you are spending time posting on MN and aren't just admiring yourself in the mirror.

Never. I am staggeringly ugly.

Some pissed man complimented me on my collar bone last weekend!

What would they say? Strangers or ppl you’d see every day saying you look nice? Same ones every day?…

Same here bloody horrible!

Yeah, I’m a beauty therapist and often people just say this because they haven’t really thought about what brows they want they have just booked in because they know they want something doing, they see the therapist who has had hers done and say “just like yours”. I think people have a preconception that we take great care of ourselves (even when in reality we are the same as them and have little time between work and family) and they automatically think we look better than we do!

Nope, not that I can remember.

Not that much but even when I am complimented I just always assume they are being disingenuous.

I am not that fussed on being complimented for how I look tbh.

Honestly OP this thread is just so divisive : either people boasting about how wonderful they look and people are always telling them that. Or normal people saying no one ever tells them they are beautiful.
If you started the thread because you feel crap you will have succeeded in making a lot of other people feel equally crap and made the " beautiful people" even more full of themselves and smug

Same - it was so much it felt uncomfortable and like there must be something wrong with me. These days, it's a distant memory.

It wasn't pleasant at all, I felt like meat.

Never but tbh if I look in the mirror I can see why!

I'm totally average looking. I scrub up quite well when needed, when I wear make up on a night out or whatever - but otherwise pretty invisible. Not offensive looking but certainly not a head turner.

I'm often told i'm beautiful by dh but of course he's biased.

From others - a friend of a friend told me I have amazing eyebrows at the weekend 😂 (it was relevant, we were talking about eyebrows!). In the same discussion a friend said I have lovely skin and I don't need much make-up.

I occasionally get something like 'oh your hair looks lovely today, what have you done' or 'that's a lovely top' from someone at work.

I've been told I'm beautiful or stunning several times over the years by pissed men in clubs or bars, who could barely stand let alone assess my looks 🙄

I've never been approached by a (sober) stranger and told I'm beautiful or similar. Whether you are or not that's a very odd thing to do I think.

Never. I wonder if the people who are getting complimented regularly are quite obviously putting more time and effort into their appearance, such that people who see them realise that they care about their appearance and would like to be complimented on it? Versus people who just go about their day as normal and would perhaps find it a bit odd to have conversations about respective appearances.