It’s surprisingly easy to find agreement on what is an attractive face and what is not. But “finding answers to why we regard one face as being more beautiful than another is actually not as easy as it seems.” A major research project on ‘facial attractiveness’ by two German universities has been attempting to find out “why some faces are more beautiful than others, how scienctists help unravel the mystery of beauty, and the dangerous relationship between a beautiful body and social power.”