Scarlet, I love the way you phrased that: "equal opportunity loving of beauty". Thanks for making my thoughts crisper

Elisabeth, I agree with what you said about judging celebrities more harshly than non-celebrities by about a billion percent.

I really don't find so called conventional pretty and beauty boring at all. To my eye, it's just a different type of beauty - just like Jolie-Laide is a different type of beauty.

I recently saw something that talked about jolie laide male characters on TV -- someone mentioned being quite attracted to Lane Pryce on Mad Men, more so than the much more conventionally-attractive Don Draper (personally, I'll take Jon Hamm anyday!). And someone else mentioned Theon Greyjoy on Game of Thrones (I guess you'd have to overlook what a turd he becomes!). I'm not attracted to either of those men, but it was interesting to look at them after that discussion and consider their faces and what makes them distinctive, and how that can be attractive. Look at Seal or Lyle Lovett too... Part of what makes these people attractive is the talent we also associate with them.

I just find all kinds of people and faces attractive in different ways. Part of why I love people-watching!

In the mid 2000's, the French clothing store Kookai launched an add campain addressing the jolie-laide :
Je ne suis pas jolie, je suis pire" (I am not pretty, I am worse).
http://static.lookbooks.com/ca.....uis-pire-1

As in: Being just plain pretty is so yesterday.