The Benefits of Beauty

Explore how physical appearance can influence social, professional, and personal opportunities across many aspects of life.

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Love and Companionship

Physically attractive women are more likely to:

Date more often
Marry earlier
Marry successful men

Marry (in one study, 34% of beautiful women, 28% of attractive, 16% of average, 11% of unattractive women were married within 5 years of leaving college)

Social Status and Being Liked

Studies have shown that the beautiful are perceived as:

accessible, honest, successful, content, friendly, intelligent, sociable, exciting, creative, and busy.

Whereas the unattractive are perceived as:

unsociable, discontented, lazy, unintelligent, unimaginative, unfriendly, unsuccessful, boring, non-accessible, dishonest.

Financially

People who look better are more likely to get more job offers and get promoted faster in their jobs. Better-looking people are more likely to earn $230,000 more in a lifetime than someone who is not as good-looking.

Happiness

Time (3/30/2011) wrote an article discussing a new series of studies that show attractive people earn more money and marry better-looking spouses, and that the economic benefits of being good-looking make them happier than their homely counterparts.

Health

There are numerous studies on how happiness is related to better health. Because beauty can lead to happiness, it is highly possible that beauty can lead to better health.

“My goal was to find a method to bring back a person’s natural youthfulness without the operated, unnatural look, and that is why I have my patients bring in photos of themselves when they were ages 5 to 30. My YoungVitalizer helps restore natural and youthful contours they haven’t seen in years.”

— Dr. Philip Young, Seattle Facial Plastic Surgeon

Status and Prestige

Fifty-seven percent of hiring managers told NEWSWEEK that qualified but unattractive candidates are likely to have a harder time landing a job, while more than half advised spending as much time and money on “making sure they look attractive” as on perfecting a resume. Beauty has been commonly thought to have an impact on at least 2 different presidential elections: 1960 Nixon-Kennedy, and 1992 Bush-Clinton, where the more charismatic and better-looking candidate won.

More on Being Liked

The more beautiful people are liked more and found to be more trustworthy. Looks offer a way for us to ascertain a lot of attributes within a person. Beautiful people are typically treated better by others.

In a study from Harvard University, researchers found that wearing makeup, shown to enhance a woman’s attractiveness, boosted people’s perceptions of that subject’s competence, likability, attractiveness, and trustworthiness.

Client Testimonials

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Amazing doctor

Amazing doctor and the result are amazing too.

—S.M.

Dr. Young is very personable

Dr. Young is very personable and was very detailed in his work, with much concern about his patients.

—L.C.

Very happy

Very happy with how my otoplasty turned out. Thanks Dr Young

—J.P.

More than pleased with the fantastic results!

I have had two procedures done by the amazing Dr. Young and am more than pleased with the fantastic results!

—C.V.

Amazingly impeccable after care

Amazingly impeccable after care from all of the staff, including of course Dr. Young who ensures the patient has access to him at all times.

—S.S.

I would recommend him to my family and friends.

My experience with Dr. Philip Young and his entire staff has been really positive! I would recommend him to my family and friends.

—J.Y.

It looks completely natural

Wonderful experience. The doctor did a little Botox around my eyes and it raised my droopy eyebrows - it looks completely natural.

—R.H.

I made the right choice.

I had a great experience. I had some deep scars from acne but now after a scar surgery, my over all skin texture is more smooth. I made the right choice.

—F.S.

A brilliant and amazing doctor.

I would like to share my experience. Dr.Philip removed a mole for me that was disfiguring my face. He removed it with a laser. It was a very wonderful experience. As I mentioned be...

—Allaa Kamill

Dr. Young is not only a superb surgeon, he is a kind, empathetic person

Dr. Young is not only a superb surgeon, he is a kind, empathetic person who values his employees, his patients and the community. He runs a very busy practice, with a long waiting ...

—Angela R.

My experience with Dr. Young and his staff was excellent.

My experience with Dr. Young and his staff was excellent. I had a blephaloplasty (eyelid lift) and from the 1st consult all the way through the follow-up care, the entire experienc...

—Tara Kenneway

The staff was super nice and accommodating!

The staff was super nice and accommodating! They were very informative. Dr Young was also very informative. You can tell he cares for all his patients! He always answers any questi...

—Haystacks Grassy

Dr. Young and his team are spectacular!

Dr. Young and his team are spectacular! They helped me with a scar revision with the utmost sensitivity and care. The follow up is amazing, they truly take time to make sure you ar...

—Amira Beidas

He went above and beyond!

Dr. Young is an outstanding plastic surgeon who is very passionate about his work. He made me feel very comfortable with the surgery I came in for. He went above and beyond!
I w...

—chuck meyer

I trust him and his work and will keep coming back!

I’ve been a patient of Dr. Young for over 10 years and have had several procedures with him, including Asian blepharoplasty, Perma lip implants, Asian rhinoplasty, and neck liposuc...

—Taylor D

Dr Phillip Young and his office are fantastic!

Dr Phillip Young and his office are fantastic! They are thorough, patient, and kind. Particularly, I appreciate Dr Young’s attentiveness and expertise - I previously went to Seoul ...

—Carolyn Chong

Truly grateful to Dr Philip Young

Truly grateful to Dr Philip Young for taking such excellent care of me before, during and after my face, neck and brow lift. I have felt well informed and well cared for through...

—Jennifer Kent

Kindest Doctor I’ve ever met!

I can’t say enough about Doctor Young! He is an amazing person and Doctor! I drive four hours there and four hours back just to see him! He is a perfectionist and loves to help peo...

—Stacia Wright

Studies on Beauty and Its Impact