iamnobody said:
beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What's a 10 for somebody might not be a 10 for another. Not a 10 in my book, maybe an 7.5. However, OP's pic shows a cute girl, I'd hit her as she has something I look for in a chick: easy on the eye while having no or very little make up.
No no no. The other posters had it right. While there are individual preferences, beauty is NOT just "in the eye of the beholder". We overwhelmingly share the same idea of what is beautiful, all across the world. Smooth skin instead of wrinkly skin. Healthy teeth, clear eyes, a straight back, a clear voice, and full, lush hair, etc. All of these are signs of health, therefore signs of a good mate to have children with. Also a small nose and small ears, since these never stop growing with age. And a face that is not elongated, since faces and chins grow with age. That is why cheekbones that are wide in proportion to the chin are appreciated, since they make the face look less elongated, therefore younger. Sign of health and good mate potential.
As for the body, again, we appreciate signs of health. Wide shoulders combined with a narrow waist for men, and a certain hip-to-waist ratio that signals good childbearing capability for women. Firm buttocks, firm muscles on men and firm breasts on women, as these are all signs of health and fitness. There are also other proportions in the body, and in the face, that people instinctively appreciate. For example that the corners of the mouth should be directly under the middle of the eye. Certain proportions that come close to the human archetype, because that is how people recognized another human being in the Stone Age. Look at models. Even when they seemingly look different, you will find that they all are very close to these facial proportions.
And as luck would have it, those who are beautiful are also on average more intelligent. Beauty is a signal of health and intelligence. Science confirms this, by asking people which faces they consider attractive, and finding that most people reply the same way. And then finding that the bearers of those faces on average have a higher IQ. You can look it up in Google, there are several articles about this. Inevitably followed by angry replies in the comment section to the effect of "How dare you! There is no such thing as beauty! There is no such thing as intelligence! Everyone is beautiful! I know this-and-this person who are so-called ugly but still smart, so therefore I will ignore a mass of evidence about statistical correlation, because that makes me feel better!"
I could go into this at length, but no. Never let it be said that "there is no such thing as beauty, it is all in the eye of the beholder." Not here, where we do away with the self-serving feel-good beliefs from the mainstream.