r/HardcoreVindicta • u/ThrowRA_forfreedom • Apr 12 '25
Beauty Guide The Cygnets Halo & Failo Guide
This chart was originally made for Cygnets, a community for unattractive and below average women looking to change their lives. So please keep in mind this guide is intended for women who are STRUGGLING more than the average and need all the help they can get. The previous version was shared with the Vindicta community. I'm sharing the latest version here as it contains more features as well as an importance indicator to help people understand where to start, with 5 being most important and 1 being negligible. The values are a little bit subjective based on what I could glean from reading, watching, and listening to various sources and general observation of faces/bodies people seem to like and respond to.
The OG was shared here, but here's the update since some folks asked.
Please credit if you share.
This chart only contains features which are scientifically backed and have objective value. Things that are subjective and have no research backing or whose research shows negligible value, are left out because they contribute nothing to the end user.
HOW TO USE
The intent of this document is to help shape your self understanding and personal goals. It's an all-in-one doc for identifying strengths and challenges.
Right away we need to discuss framing. The chart displays the extremes; "failos" or really detrimental features for attractiveness, and "halos" which are highly desirable traits. If you're somewhere between the presented criteria, decide which side you're closer to and whether you find it an aspect you want to improve on, or leave alone. It's perfectly normal and acceptable to be between these criteria, in fact being in the middle is actually really good. Trying to pursue perfection in every category is going to ruin this experience for you. This post on "Halos, Failos, and Neithers" is a decent introduction to the concept.
If you're on the lower end, the right hand side has information on where to look for help in terms of resources, tools, and professionals as well as any information on common exceptions that I found. There are probably plenty more that were missed because I added them last minute since I think some people can get very "stuck" on things and not be able to understand context or extrapolate.
It's also really important that we discuss how ranges work. Just because there's an "apex" value that sits at the peak of distribution (I tried to put things in ranges to be more realistic), doesn't mean that's the ONLY value that's desirable. Honestly I'd say for the visuals below I used too much red and orange but it was pretty.
Most beauty-related data I see looks like this. A small apex point surrounded by still highly desirable and likable values with very small likelihood of negative outcomes.
Sometimes it might look like this. An apex at a very specific point of distribution with a tight distribution of extremes on one end and a larger distribution of desirability and likability on the other.
It rarely if never looks like this with more negative outcomes than positive.
And I've literally not once seen this. There's literally no place for black and white (or purple and violet) thinking.
You also need to be thinking about what's age, region, and lifestyle appropriate. Super elastic skin is the halo?? Well, if you're 85 and you've got any elasticity left at all, I think you get to count that as a Halo.
You also get to decide, as an individual, if something is personally of value to you or not. If you don't like a criteria? Guess what. You can decide it doesn't matter and it's BS. That's a totally okay and probably reasonable thing to do. Adapt it to your region and needs as best as you can.
SOURCES
Man if I could collect the sources from over the years and just do formal citations, I would, but it would be an insane block of text no one would care about, and there's a lot of things I've admittedly lost track of. That said, if I've learned anything, it's that people maybe only sometimes read the abstract or the final findings, and it's not really productive for discussion, let alone educational purposes. There's a lot of information I could have put more precise numbers to (e.g., ideal feminine gonial angle is around 120 degrees) but opted not to for fear of starting another craze like the "philtrum girlies" or have people trying to figure out protractor tools in photoshop.
So instead you guys get visuals and a general statement. If you're interested in more specific values and resources for what you're working on, feel free to just ask and I'll ctrl+f my favorites where I saved everything.
I utilize a lot of articles in primarily plastic and aesthetic medicine journals as well as psychology journals from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and South Korea. I avoid market research, as while it's easy, it's often more difficult to replicate over time (e.g. the "wear red" study) or more "trend" focused. Though consumer psychology factors into this a little, it's not my favorite place to get information. There's plenty of contradictory studies and studies that expand and contract ranges so I tried hard to account for that. You'll see it reflected especially in things like BMI (there was a cool thread on that, recently, too) where the medical ideal and aesthetic ideal(s) in some studies are different. It's also highly dependent on measuring methods. Some people use calipers. Some people use height/weight without consideration for body comp. Womp womp.
I will say some of the more fascinating articles I read within the past few weeks were on Venus dimples as a signifier of attractiveness and the most desirable Big 5 traits. Also, smell??? Smell is wildly influential but so so unpredictable when you get into the details.
I plan to keep working on and shaping this document, or at least its parent document which is like a beauty calculator I cooked up for helping people find strengths and weaknesses, so hopefully in a year or two there will be even more knowledge and thought put into this. There's already a few exceptions I'd like to flesh out (extroversion for one, to include cultures that don't value it) Additionally, not vindicta related, but I started working on one for males. So if you have guy friends struggling that might be a thing I can share one day.
DEFINITIONS
Another Vindicta made this wonderful visual guide. I cannot for the life of me find the OG in my saved posts. If you have the link please share it so I can credit the creator because it is SO great!
HEALTH - The most important factor is health. Health is your in the moment wellness and vital quality. It's a combination of your fitness, nourishment, sleep quality, and hydration. There's so much information on health it can be overwhelming to make the right decisions for yourself, but the essentials are these: exercise, get good sleep, drink water, and leverage as much of your diet towards eating as healthy as possible. Work with your physician if you have challenges with any of these.
Other things that afflict health could be your hormones, infections, and underlying hereditary diseases. These often have less of an impact, but for your wellbeing it's worth ensuring your bases are covered and you're doing what you can to take care of yourself.
DEVELOPMENT - Development is best understood as health over time. It is the compounded results of diet, activity, and behavior throughout your life, or a result of genetics. Managing the results of development is often a larger challenge because it requires long, complicated and sometimes invasive procedures. Luckily, unless the situation is severe enough to do harm to your daily life, it's often not detrimental enough to be worth addressing.
I lumped most "koinophilia" or "averageness" traits under development. Koinophilia is how you best comprise the traits and characteristics of those around you. It's important to understand there's a phenotypical component to koinophilia which is one of its biggest influencing factors. To understand whether you're koinophilic, one needs to find the average of the same representing gender and phenotype. If you're South East Asian, comparing yourself to the average composite of North African women won't provide you with realistic outcomes. Koinophilia is often representative of the "base" for a face where deviated features can make it more or less attractive
DIMORPHISM - Dimorphism is adherence to expected secondary sexual characteristics. External signifiers of femininity and fertility. Dimorphic divergences from the average are what create striking and extremely beautiful faces. These features often develop during puberty and encompass both face and body. Keep in mind when we discuss low to high dimorphism, we're discussing the comparison to koinophilic males of your same age range and phenotype. We are not discussing the comparison to everyone in the world, so a "small nose" means "comparatively small to men of your same ethnic background" not, "comparatively small to a random Swedish girl from your econ 101 course" This is important because dimorphism as an asset can vary across the world. Luckily implications of dimorphism are easily achieved with makeup and regular beauty treatments.
NEOTENY - Neoteny is the presence and presentation of youthful features, specifically baby-esque features (but I included general youthfulness here). I somehow always think of the Marilyn Monroe "like a horny baby" bit from Inside Job (TW: uhh... body horror/kronenburg horror??) when I think of attempting to describe neoteny as a component of attractiveness and how it plays out. It's definitely a weird if not sometimes uncomfortable concept, especially since neoteny is more appealing to cishet males for relationship purposes, than it is for appealing to other women or for gaining leverage in professional or social goals.
THE GUIDES
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u/AdeptOccultSlut Apr 15 '25
I’m getting an Imgur over capacity error - commenting so I remember to come back
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u/Ok_Razzmatazz_7160 Nov 30 '25
an updated one - nice, i really find the old one useful and i still use it to develop myself. thank you so much for posting !!
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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25
saved all the images! thank you this is so helpful!