Pretty is a fairly subjective thing. My personal choice for most gorgeous human being ever to walk the planet is my first lover... being at work, I can't call up his (adult-oriented) website, but if you take this guy and add a slightly squarer jaw and blond hair, you'll get the general idea.

(Also, for those who watched MTV's Real World: Los Angeles, Aaron represents a much stronger resemblance than Christian Bale. Like, separated at birth strong.)

I find Charisma Carpenter to be that insanely too-pretty-to-be-human type of pretty

Right there with you. So funny because I Will Remember You is such a tear jerker BuffyNAngle4evahh!! ep - but I rewatch it because - that little tied around the back hanky that CC is wearing?? Double guhhh. . Not human. Too pretty.

Keira Knightley

I said that thing about Tom Welling the other night, but neglected to add the "male or female" bit, when I said it to dh. Dh coughed, in that sort of "what about me" way. I said, "Honey, I mean pretty--boy or girl. Who is prettier than that man? I like your looks better, but he's just the prettiest thing I can remember seeing, male or female."

He didn't see it. Not saying he didn't think TW is prettier than he is, he just doesn't think he's prettier than girls. I suppose I should be glad of that, but I think his eyes done broke.

Keira Knightley

Well. Fair enough, then.

Keira Knightly is *gorgeous,* though in Bend it like Beckham I just kept thinking about how very skinny she was.

But PotC? A triumvirate of extreme prettiness.

Welling's jawling bugs me. It's weird, and kind of lumpy-square.

Keira Knightley

She is very pretty. I remember seeing her and wondering her name, because she's that pretty. I don't know if I think she's prettier than Tom Welling (or Kristen Kreuk, or CC). I would have to see a picture.

Pretty is a fairly subjective thing. My personal choice for most gorgeous human being ever to walk the planet is my first lover

Pretty means something different to me than does gorgeous and/or beautiful. It's feature oriented, but I can't explain it. Beautiful is more powerful, but pretty just hits the eyes. Someone who is pretty is always pretty. Beautiful people are also, of course, pretty, but they are able to arrange their faces so that they're not always pretty.

Tom Welling can be doing anything with his face, and all I can think is "pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty boy".

If I had lips like Keira Knightley, I would do nothing in the world but admire myself.

I'm with you Plei. I can see he's supposed to be pretty, but he does nothing for me.

On the distaff side, I think Emmanuelle Beaurt may be a contestant for "too pretty for this mortal coil." Jaclyn Smith in her Charlie's Angels days would also be a contender.