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Science says: these 5 things make you truly beautiful

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If I could have skipped my APK'tje alias car wash this week, I'm just realizing now. Being beautiful is a tricky thing, because what makes my mouth water, you might find completely uninteresting. Pardon my French, but that's how it is. That's why we love studies that tell us what we want to hear. This time the five things that make people find you beautiful, regardless of your body, hair color, or what you wear. Look, that's something we can use.

1. Smile, and smile a lot

If scientists say it, then it's true. Let's assume that for convenience. A smile makes a person more beautiful. Not the stingy, silly kind, but a broad one with lots of teeth, please. Oh, and it also makes you smarter.

2. A little makeup makes you attractive

Put two women at a table in a festive establishment, one with makeup and the other without, and the lady with makeup gets attention first. Men (and women) find it more beautiful, but you are also seen as healthy and reliable. Then you know that the next time you, as Toos, walk into the supermarket without makeup in your joggers.

3. Good scent

They have a nose for you when you smell nice. That's why you want a perfume that suits you. It has everything to do with the limbic system, I happen to know. But we women find a man more attractive when he smells good. For convenience, I think it's the same the other way around.

4. Make people laugh

You don't have to be a budding comedian for this, but when another woman smiles at you, men find you more attractive. Yes, it's all a bit roundabout, but take advantage of it.

5. It's really from within

Being attractive is quite handy, but people find you more attractive if you're smart and work hard. A girl in a study at the beginning of the week got 3 out of 7 points for her appearance, after a week of being smart and working hard, she suddenly became a 7 out of 9. And that, that's really beautiful. Right?!