14 Easy Ways to Become More Attractive (as a Woman or Man)

They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But what if you don’t feel beautiful or attractive when you look at yourself? In this blog post, we give you tips to help you become more appealing to the eye in order to feel good about yourself and draw people to you.

Whether you’re a woman or a man, feeling beautiful, handsome, or attractive can hugely impact your self-confidence and sense of self-worth. For this reason, finding ways to improve your appearance, maximize your best qualities, and change your feelings about yourself can do wonders for your life.

Since what attracts one person to another is subjective, it could be difficult to determine how to become more attractive. If you’re in this predicament, this article has got you covered.

Read on for some easy beauty hacks that will help you become more attractive to the right people, without breaking the bank, losing your authenticity, or risking your health. And they aren’t just about working on your physical appearance.

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How to Be More Attractive

Smile and laugh more

Most people don’t like interacting with people who are always grumpy or serious. A smile or laughter can transform your entire face and affect how people perceive you.

Smiling and laughing more often (in appropriate situations) is one of the easiest things you can do to be more attractive and approachable.

Maintain good personal hygiene

Someone can tell when you don’t maintain personal hygiene, and most people don’t like to be around unhygienic individuals. To become more attractive, start being more meticulous with your hygiene. For instance,

Bathe everyday
Brush and floss your teeth after every meal
Wash your hands before preparing or eating food, after using the toilet, or any time they’re dirty
Keep your nails clean, trimmed and without chipping nail polish
Shave unwanted facial or body hair
Wear clean, well-fitting clothes
Cover your nose and mouth when coughing or sneezing

Start a skincare routine

Having soft, smooth, even-toned, healthy skin can make you look better. Starting a skin care routine, even a basic morning and night one, will do a lot of good for your body’s largest organ.

Get the right skincare products for your skin type to use in cleansing, exfoliating, moisturizing, toning, and protecting your skin. If your skin has blemishes or acne, you may also need to use spot treatments, skin creams, or medication to get the kind of skin you want.

Dress well

Being over- or under-dressed can impact how people view you. To look more attractive, check what you wear before stepping out of the house (or in the house if you live with the person you want to attract).

Dress in clean, color-coordinated clothes that fit your body type and age, and are suitable for the season, occasion, and activity, while still reflecting your personal style and taste and showing off your best features. Ensure they aren’t wrinkled.

Smell good

Many people struggle with bad breath and body odor. Unfortunately, even when one might be beautiful on the outside, smelling unpleasantly can make them unattractive to those they interact with.

Some habits you can adopt in order to get rid of body odor, smell good all day, and be more attractive include;

Bathing often
Drinking a lot of water
Wearing deodorant
Wearing clean, fresh clothes
Using nice-scented products such as hair and body spray, lotions, perfume, or cologne
Brush your teeth at least twice a day
Avoid foods such as garlic, asparagus, onions, beets, and some cruciferous vegetables
Avoid smoking or drinking strong alcoholic drinks

Wear makeup

When it comes to improving one’s appearance to feel more attractive, wearing makeup is usually the go-to solution, especially among women. Though a lot of women can appear beautiful with a natural look, wearing makeup can accentuate their best facial features and enhance their beauty.

However, the makeup shouldn’t be so heavy that it makes you unrecognizable.

If you don’t know how to properly apply makeup, there are hundreds of makeup tutorials on the internet you can use to learn, or if you can afford it, hire a makeup artist to do it for you whenever you need it.

Get your hair done

Your hair contributes a lot to your appearance. Unkempt or damaged hair is unattractive. So, to increase your aesthetic appeal, get your hair done. Brush your hair, let it down, put it in beautiful hairstyles, have it trimmed, curl it, or do anything else that makes you feel attractive.

If your hair is damaged for whatever reason, find ways to repair it or style it in a way that still looks good.

Lead a healthy lifestyle

A healthy lifestyle not only benefits your internal health but also your physical appearance. An unhealthy lifestyle will often affect your appearance negatively and result in things such as excess weight gain, ashy skin, wrinkles, red eyes, acne, and bad posture, among other things that can make you unattractive.

To achieve the kind of body you want and be more attractive, embrace healthy habits such as regular exercise, eating a healthy, balanced diet, getting adequate sleep, drinking enough water, and avoiding alcohol, smoking, or other substance abuse.

Have good manners

No matter how beautiful or handsome one is, profane language, bad table manners, rudeness, disrespect, promiscuity, tardiness, phubbing, being a troublemaker, or constantly interrupting when others are talking are some habits that can be turn-offs for people.

Having good manners is important if you want to become more attractive. Words such as ‘Please’ and ‘Thank You’, proper eating etiquette, paying attention and listening to others when they speak, using clean language, respecting others’ personal space and boundaries, and punctuality, among other good habits, can significantly improve how others view you.

Exude confidence at all times

Confidence is attractive; hence, you should always try to show you are confident, whether it is in the way you walk, sit, stand, talk, or make decisions. Even when you don’t actually feel confident, fake it till you make it.

Some things you can do to become more confident and exude self-confidence include positive self-talk, doing sitting and standing power poses, practicing affirmations, having a confident walking style, being assertive, making eye contact, and improving body posture and overall body language.

However, you shouldn’t be over-confident or arrogant, as these can make your attempt to be more attractive backfire. Be self-confident while still being respectful to others and showing humility.

Treat others well

Have you ever gone out on a date with someone, but they were rude to the servers or badmouthed their ex or other people? Maybe you are the one who does these things. Such behavior is an instant turn-off for most people, even when someone looks beautiful or handsome.

If you want to be more attractive as a woman or man, treat others well, no matter who they may be, their social status, appearance, religion, sexual orientation, or age. Instead of being judgmental and unkind, respect other people and treat them with kindness.

Treating other people well is a way to create good karma for yourself.

Maximize your best qualities

People are attracted to a lot of things besides physical appearance. Even if you don’t have the looks, maximize your other good qualities that can make you more attractive. For instance, your personality, character, skills, and talents.

Good values such as humility, loyalty, generosity, fairness, creativity, compassion, empathy, integrity, trustworthiness, and patience are considered attractive to a lot of people. Intelligence, sense of humor, ambition, independence, interests, attitude, and competence also appeal to people.

Be authentic

Even as you try all the above activities to become more attractive, you shouldn’t put on a façade just to fit in with what is considered attractive or what a particular person likes. You shouldn’t have to completely change yourself for other people.

Since you won’t be your true self, you probably won’t like yourself much, plus pretending to be someone you are not would be exhausting. The person you are faking things for may also not like you when they discover you weren’t being authentic either.

To become more attractive to the right people, be authentic. If you have to change something to improve your appearance or behavior, do it mainly for you. It is okay if some people don’t feel attracted to you when you are embracing the true you. You will eventually find the right people who will like you just the way you are.

Consider cosmetic treatments

Sometimes, no matter how much you try, some aspects of your appearance that make you feel insecure may be impossible to improve using the above tips, making you dislike how you look and feel unattractive.

Not all cosmetic treatments are bad. If you can afford it and do adequate research to be aware of all the risks involved in a particular procedure, getting cosmetic treatments can help you correct issues and make you feel better about your appearance.

Check reviews and choose a board-certified professional who will do whatever procedure you want and give you the best results while minimizing the risks. Don’t choose any procedure that will completely alter your appearance, such that you become unrecognizable.

Final Thoughts

As you can see above, attractiveness does not depend on your outward appearance only. A lot of the things that make you who you are contribute to how others perceive you.

Whether you are trying to learn how to become more attractive in order to just feel good about yourself or to attract a particular person or people, you don’t have to make drastic changes to your appearance or personality. Use the above tips to become more attractive while remaining authentic, protecting your health, and not going broke.

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