Do face masks really make us look more attractive?
Channel: 2 minutes to know
Date: 2022-01-09

Have you ever been disappointed when a person who looked attractive took off their face mask?
A big realisation everyone seemed to have stumbled upon during the pandemic was that people looked more attractive when they are wearing face masks. This idea got so big in the internet that it even sparked a "mask fishing" trend on TikTok in 2021. 

Do face masks really make us look more attractive?

Quick answer: Yes, it does.

According to a new study conducted by researchers in Philadelphia, people who wear face masks were rated as being more attractive than those who weren’t wearing a face mask.

The study was conducted online, where 60 faces were rated with and without a mask from which a total of 496  participant responses were analysed. 

Interestingly, the largest percentage improvements were seen in the unattractive groups, with an approximately 42% increase in ratings for both women and men after they put on a face mask.

This arises because people fill in the missing parts with their positive expectations.
So, your mind will automatically imagine an attractive face beneath the mask that you can’t see under.
Furthermore, in other mask-related studies conducted in Japan, it was shown that those wearing masks were perceived to be healthier than those not wearing masks after the eruption of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to pre-pandemic times. 

Lastly, there was also a survey which found that 88 percent of adult women in the U.S. perceived men who wore a face mask in public during the COVID-19 pandemic to be sexier than those who did not.

So, you can now be sure that wearing a mask will make you look more attractive to others.

In addition, there is another advantage of wearing a mask.
You don't have to make contact with the people you don't like!