To think some people are considered prettier in other countries?

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In other words, different countries have different beauty standards/preferences, and so some people might be considered more attractive in one country than another.

I was recently on holiday in Jo’burg with some friends (we’re in our 20s), and the amount of interest/attention my naturally blonde friend got was crazy. She said she’d never felt so pretty.

Equally, I went to Stockholm a few years ago and had never felt less attractive… got zero attention!

I don’t at all and I’m not being contrary. I don’t agree that novelty is always attractive. I don’t think there’s a standard for beauty based on hip and aist measurements. And the hair colour thing was just baffling. I’m not a mindreader!

I'll add Channing Tatum to this list

He looks like every lad from Blackburn I've ever met

I spent a year near Paris as part of my university course. I have long blonde hair and blue eyes and the amount of attention I received was off the scale. It was relentless. Looking back, it was probably from North Africans in the main.

Haha. I am 'hot in Ireland' and very much not in London. But then, I am 'sallow'.

This is so true. I have never felt so attractive as when I was on holiday in Canada 😂On several occasions other women would also come up to me and tell me how nice something I was wearing was.

You mean in some countries even " older" ladies are considered attractive???
Who would have believed it?

I'm white with Southern European colouring but am fawned over and often mistaken for Eurasian by Asian people everywhere from Japan to Indonesia.

I wasn't going to respond to the Egypt thing since the first post is nearly a year old, but seeing as you have... I am brunette and was tanned when I went to Egypt so the same colouring as the locals, and I was still harassed within an inch of my life. I don't think age or colouring matters - all women are fair game in that culture. I had a burly husband by my side and a baby strapped to my front and it still didn't deter them.

A group of my friends went on a charity trip to Africa (can’t remember which country), and one particular member of the group was a very large girl. She got a lot of male attention. She mentioned how unusual it was for her to have all these men after her, because in the UK thin women are considered more attractive. She was told that it’s because being large is a sign of wealth, but more importantly it indicates that you don’t have AIDS.

Hair can get darker with age. My sister had red hair when younger but it's now more brown in her 50s. (She doesn't dye it)

Yes.
in southeast asia having very pale skin and being skinny is positive. In other parts of the world, being skinny is seen as quite boyish and unattractive.

Truth enough - you don't even need face blindness to feel slightly unsure if the lad in the street is or isn't Paul Mescal. Especially now every third young male has the shaggy kind-of-mullet and a tash.

It's not a bad look, and I'm sure I'd love it if I were young now, but Paul Mescal is in reality not as good looking as fame has made him. (We'll also need to ingnore the fact that he's stealing a living (fair play to him) to gain that accolade. 😃)

I get a lot of attention from Caribbean and African men as I’m well padded and also have a very unusual eye colour for my complexion/heritage. I regularly get chatted up (I find it tiresome to be honest and would rather be left alone). Very little attention from European men.

The only time I was fawned over was in Turkey by a ceramics seller who looked like an extra from the Mummy and sported white sports socks and grey slip ones.

As ever, was just after my money 😅

When I went to Japan our tour guide explained what the standards of beauty tended to be over there: tall, thin as possible with little curves, long straight dark hair, dark eyes, pale skin, and thin lips.

I'm 5'2", slim but definitely pear shaped and 32DD, mid-length curly blonde hair, blue eyes, a tan, and lips that I got accused of having filler in (I have done now)

I found the whole experience incredibly hostile, but whether that was due to my appearance or something more broad I don't know

My size 12 friend lived in Borneo for a while and discovered she was known as (translated) Giant Lady. She also came home to find her housekeeper and daughter pissing themselves laughing at the enormity of her bras, which she suspected they’d had on their heads.

Packs suitcase and moves to Blackburn

I am an English rose myself.

Is it that or is it more you stand out when the majority in that country are a different race? For example, black people often get gawped at and even touched in East Asia, that’s pretty well documented. I wouldn’t jump to thinking they’re thinking you’re beautiful, it’s just different.

That's fair, I was thinking more about the fact that we mostly end up as silver or white foxes!

When I was younger I got so much attention anywhere overseas to the point that it was actually unpleasant at times. I am quite standard English/Northern/Mid European ethnicity, with hazel eyes/brunette to dark blonde colouring and slightly olive skin. I think to some you look and sound different and exotic even when you think you blend in.