What is your beauty ideal?

[Salento]

Wonderful. A proper Lady.
Absolute Nobility, Indisputably Regal!

Lady Cheddary

[Salento]

Nicole (23andme commercial)

imo She has a very interesting and fascinating look.

All those ethnic combinations make her unusual, but not really (I can’t find the right words) LoL

She’s a different kind of beauty, and she doesn't seem boring at all.

[Angela]

I agree with you, Carlos. I think some Spanish women also have that "small Med" kind of look, and can be very beautiful. In fact, I think they have more small Meds than Italians do as a proportion of the population.

I have to say, though, that obviously tastes differ, because I don't think Ariana Grande is a particularly beautiful example of that look. You can go to any mall and see girls who look like her. Plus, she never grew into a woman's body.


A really beautiful Italian example of that kind of look was Gina Lollabrigida, I think. Even middle aged she was a stunner.



I've always loved the way Pier Angeli looked too:




And then, of course, there's Monica:


Beauty for me comes in different forms, though, even with much stronger facial bone structure. Manuela Arcuri:


I absolutely adore the way Caterina Murino looks too.




Youtube chef Laura Vitale (from Napoli) has a bit of that look, I think, although much softer, and I think she's quite pretty.



Now if this isn't Italian, I don't know what is....

Another one occurred to me.

Lawyer and tv commentator Emily Compagno.

She is really beautiful imo, especially given she's almost 40.



Same Southern Italian type as Miss America and then Miss Universe, Olivia Culpo:

[Salento]

Statuesque
.. and she can play soccer too.







Alex Morgan

For a long time I just admired her as an athlete, and only recently I realized that she is also a beautiful woman.

Athletes like her should be celebrated for their victories, the beauty factor is just a bonus :)

(I’m saying all this to keep the PC Police happy, ...)

[Salento]

Dear Alex Morgan,
don't apologize to the losers for being such a great athlete.

No mercy,

You haven't humiliated anyone by scoring 5 of the 13 goals,
and ones you've achieved this amazing results, you have the right to celebrate however you like.

They weren't ready for you, even after I warned them months ago in my music posts, I told the World to get ready for you ‘cos You're on Fire.

Keep your flames burning.

No Mercy unless you're gonna play against .... :)

https://www.espn.com/soccer/united-s...up-on-thailand

[Angela]

Speaking of Calabrians...another example of beautiful Mediterranean women...Stefania Bivone.

[Salento]

/╲../\

[Angela]

A different type...which I adore...Tiziana Piergianni, Miss Liguria in the Miss Italia contest.

[Messier 67]

A different type...which I adore...Tiziana Piergianni, Miss Liguria in the Miss Italia contest.

How about Jeannie de Gouveia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMNOKqG2F7g

She is one of South Africa's most famous females, and she is Portuguese.

Most women hate her for being able to pull off many feminine traits and make that successful.

[Angela]

How about Jeannie de Gouveia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMNOKqG2F7g

She is one of South Africa's most famous females, and she is Portuguese.

Most women hate her for being able to pull off many feminine traits and make that successful.

She would have fooled me in a guess the ethnicity. :) I would have sworn she was Greek. She looks like a Greek goddess.

[bigsnake49]

She would have fooled me in a guess the ethnicity. :) I would have sworn she was Greek. She looks like a Greek goddess.

Sorry Angela, not one of ours . This a nice list of the 10 hottest greek women: https://www.herinterest.com/hot-greek-women/

Some beauties from the past: http://beauty-around.com/en/tops/ite...sivyue-albanki

[Salento]

Mariah Watchman (Umatilla Indian Reservation - Oregon)







The Golden Man from Varna (ANI152 / VAR43)

That's how I think he actually looked.

He’s got my Haplogroup, so There's no way he was that miserable, besides the fact that he was “loaded $$$” :)

[Salento]

... Serena...



She's likely to have the same reaction around me.

... or maybe not :) lol

[Angela]

Two gorgeous actresses from Turkish films:
Fehriye Evcen


Tuba Buyukustun-long hair, short hair, no hair, make up, no make up, it doesn't matter...

[Carlos]

Some girls from northern Spain























Cantabria

[Carlos]

Some girls from northern Spain























Cantabria

Some girls from southern Spain

Almería


Cádiz


Ceuta


Córdoba


Granada


Huelva


Jaén


Málaga


Melilla


Murcia


Sevilla


Jaén, Córdoba, Huelva, Melilla, Murcia,

[Palermo Trapani]

For me Claudia Cardinale in her youth. Modern, Monica Belluci to me is the most beautiful women I have seen in the last 30 years, (other than my wife!!!). Others would include any of the recent Miss Italia's from Sicilia (sorry for being too tied to the ancestral homeland,), Anne Valle, Francesca Chilllemi and Miriam Leone. To broaden out a bit more again, Roman Michela Quattochche and Neopolitan Alessandra Mastronardi. So I think it is obvious I like the Southern European look, and partial to the Italian look from Umbria (Monica Belluci) to the South

[Carlos]

Oh well, and my cousin by mitochondrial dna haplogroup Ximena Navarrete.

[Duarte]

My countrywoman from Belo Horizonte, Ísis Valverde. In the following video she is characterized as a mermaid swimming in AquaRio - the marine aquarium in Rio de Janeiro. She really is a beautiful mermaid:

[Angela]

My countrywoman from Belo Horizonte, Ísis Valverde. In the following video she is characterized as a mermaid swimming in AquaRio - the marine aquarium in Rio de Janeiro. She really is a beautiful mermaid:

Glad to see some appreciation for hour glass shaped women. :) It must not be a common Northern European trait, because most American made clothes always have to be altered for me: if they fit in the bust and hips the waist and midriff have to be taken in a couple of inches, or in a suit I have to have a jacket one size larger than the trousers or skirts and they often don't let you buy them that way.

The clothes are either built for angular women or, more often, pear shaped women. Even a gorgeous woman like Cindy Crawford was pear shaped, to my surprise, with hips larger than her bust. The clothes also tend to be for short waisted, not long waisted women. It's why I stock up when I go to Italy. :)

Even in her mid fifties, Monica Bellucci can still rock a black dress.


Sofia Vergara's face isn't my ideal, but she has and always had a perfect figure. She said when it came to award's shows before she was famous enough that designers would make her something cut to order she could never find evening dresses that really fit. They always had to be altered.

[Palermo Trapani]

Angela: First Friday of Lent and this picture Monica Belluci is got me mea culpa mea culpa! As an additional note, I must say to me she looks absolutely stunning.

[Carlos]

The male ideal of beauty is a little neglected.

My ideal in masculine beauty is like this, mainly It would be an apparent normality without actually entering into the counterpoint where male and female beauty merge in a certain way.what these images reflect, it has to be a beauty opposite to what I consider or demand in women.


Don't be surprised, one thing has nothing to do with the other.

The men of the Maghreb would be the best example of my ideal.

















It does not have to reach the step where the beauty that we consider universal already appears

As these two images below I already consider that they reach a level where it is not my ideal of male beauty.

[Angela]

The male ideal of beauty is a little neglected.

My ideal in masculine beauty is like this, mainly It would be an apparent normality without actually entering into the counterpoint where male and female beauty merge in a certain way.what these images reflect, it has to be a beauty opposite to what I consider or demand in women.


Don't be surprised, one thing has nothing to do with the other.

The men of the Maghreb would be the best example of my ideal.

















It does not have to reach the step where the beauty that we consider universal already appears

As these two images below I already consider that they reach a level where it is not my ideal of male beauty.

Well, we are completely different again. I think the man in the last picture is stunningly gorgeous. The prior man is too exotic for me. The first ones are of homely men. There are handsome Magrebi's in my opinion, but that's not them.



You're right; we have neglected the men.

I'll add a few; they haven't changed for a couple of years.

Raoul Bova-Calabrian and Neapolitan


Hope this isn't too much for anybody; if it is I'll change it.

Older:




Luca Calvani-Tuscan

older:


Antonio Cupo-Neapolitan


Daniele Pecci-Roman


Fabrizio Zunino-Piemonte and Liguria


Carmine Signorelli- ; He's too dangerous looking to be effeminate looking. From his first name I'd say Southern but I'm not sure.


older and more "normal"; just so handsome and charming.


Cam Yaman-Albanian Turkish actor


Sun bleached and pumped up:

Some Italian actors are almost too beautiful; it starts to get a little effeminate looking.

Giulio Berruti-Piemonte


As he's gotten older he looks more masculine.


Ferran Calderon is almost too pretty too

[Angela]

Well, we are completely different again. I think the man in the last picture is stunningly gorgeous. The prior man is too exotic for me. The first ones are of homely men. There are handsome Magrebi's in my opinion, but that's not them.



You're right; we have neglected the men.

I'll add a few; they haven't changed for a couple of years.

Raoul Bova-Calabrian and Neapolitan


Hope this isn't too much for anybody; if it is I'll change it.

Older:




Luca Calvani-Tuscan

older:


Antonio Cupo-Neapolitan


Daniele Pecci-Roman


Fabrizio Zunino-Piemonte and Liguria


Carmine Signorelli- ; He's too dangerous looking to be effeminate looking. From his first name I'd say Southern but I'm not sure.


older and more "normal"; just so handsome and charming.


Cam Yaman-Albanian Turkish actor


Sun bleached and pumped up:

Some Italian actors are almost too beautiful; it starts to get a little effeminate looking.

Giulio Berruti-Piemonte


As he's gotten older he looks more masculine.


Ferran Calderon is almost too pretty too

How could I have forgotten the following.

Michele Morrone; my husband's type. He is the actor from "365 Days". For all the simulated sex and his gorgeousness, it was a disappointing movie. There was zero chemistry between him and the Polish actress imo, at least on his part; or maybe he's just not that good an actor, but oh what looks. Be still my heart. :)


Luca Pantini:






Enrico Ravenna; he must be an Italian Jew because he is listed as an Israeli.

[Angela]

My beauty ideals from the Golden Age of Hollywood:
Ronald Coleman:


Gregory Peck


Cary Grant

Tyrone Power



Lawrence Olivier



Clark Gable


Clint Eastwood

Louis Jourdan

Not Hollywood, but...Jean DuJardin