Ooh (rubs hands together) this is one of my favorite topics of all time! Please, let me take a moment to compose myself (takes moment).

Ladies often don't realize that there is more to looking good than just being attractive in a photo where you are wearing your best clothes and have your best makeup/accessories/etc. on. There are several other possibilities under which a woman may look good. Some women look better when they are in casual clothing rather than in dresses, and look better when their hair/face is "natural" rather than combed and made up. There are several good reasons why this happens, most of which I think are related to the face. For one, sometimes women put their hair up/comb it off the ears when they dress up, but this makes their face look unattractive as compared to hair down. Or, the opposite occurs; the girl who usually puts her hair in a ponytail puts it down, and it doesn't look as good. Other times, women pick colors that are too strong (black or very dark) for their face, and the face can't hold up to the attention that is directed to it. Once in a while, a woman dressing up will try to hard to cover up what she thinks are weaknesses, but are really strengths (i.e. covering freckles, or adding extra eyelashes when it wasn't necessary, or overtrimming eyebrows). This also results in poor attractiveness when dressed up. Or, she puts too much blush on her cheeks, and that overemphasizes a part of her face that isn't as attractive.

Another reason is that some women have less ladylike/curvy figures than others, and those women may also have poor taste in fashion wear. So when a woman wears tight/revealing evening dress, for example, and she's a bit overweight, she looks bad; clad in a t-shirt and jeans, she looks good. Etc. Also, some women overdo accessories when they dress up, but have no accessories when they dress down. No feminine accessories (earrings, bracelets, etc.) I believe make men feel that a woman is more approachable, more like them, because it makes her somehow less feminine, and yet more feminine. Don't ask me to explain, ha.

Even odder, some women don't look good at all in pictures, but look great in real life. This is usually due to having just one odd face part (big/small nose, ears, or mouth) that isn't that obvious when you're looking at the whole person (or into their eyes) but is obvious in a photograph, where everything is still. The other possibility is that some women look great in motion (i.e. talking and being full of life) but are not so attractive when still and unmoving.

The world is made up of men who mostly have not yet noticed these categories, and thus it means that quite a few attractive women are underappreciated. Good news for me, bad news for those women, sadly.

Ha, am I enjoying this too much? YES!!! And I am the most unstylish, un-relationship-trained man in the world. Forgive my enthusiasm.