Attractive people are treated better, have more friends, and are more successful, both in relationships and professionally, than their unattractive peers (Cowley, 1996). Attractiveness does more than give preference in platonic and familial relationships; in fact, Buss et al. (1990) found that it is important cross-culturally in choosing mates. In the animal kingdom, female zebra finches choose to perform extra-pair mating with males who are more attractive than their mates to ensure better genes for their offspring (Houtman, 1992). Historically, poets like Emily Dickinson, Lord Byron, Thomas Carew, and even William Shakespeare have overwhelmed us with words that attest to the power of beauty. Although some aspects of what is beautiful vary from place to place, research indicates that people everywhere, regardless of race, class, or age, tend to agree on who is and who is not attractive (Anderson & Adams, 2008 ; Cowley, 1996). According to the website The Future Human Evolution (2009), those who are attractive appear physically beautiful to others. We consider someone beautiful when we look at them and decide that we want our children to have their genes (Singh, 1993). Physical characteristics are not earned and say nothing about our character; yet we tend to worry about how we look at each other (Cowley, 1996). According to theory and research, attractiveness is more important to men than to women when looking for a mate (Anderson & Adams, 2008); therefore women are highly socialized to meet society's idea of ​​attractiveness (Rich & Cash, 1993). Across genders, cultures, and species, one indicator of attractiveness is symmetry, where the left and right sides of the body and face match well (Cowley, 1996). Because men…center of paper…attractiveness and sexiness were not affected by hair color, blonds reported earning higher tip percentages than non-blonds (Lynn, 2008). Lynn's finding that blonde maids were found no more attractive than non-blonde maids caused speculation that hair color preference might be sex-linked, as previous research had indicated that men find blondes more attractive than women with other hair colors. We conducted an experiment on female attractiveness to evaluate whether hair color really makes one woman more attractive than another and whether or not the gender of the person evaluating her attractiveness influences the results. We hypothesized that male participants would find women with blonde hair the most attractive and that female participants would find women with other hair colors more attractive than blondes...