Alcohol makes you look more attractive, scientists claim

One glass of wine can make you appear more beautiful - but don't reach for a second

Alcohol can make your seem more attractive
In the spirit: alcohol can make you seem more attractive Credit: Photo: Rex

If you worry about the effect your daily glass of wine is having on your looks, it’s time to relax – because scientists have revealed that alcohol makes you beautiful.

Reseachers at Bristol University asked a group of sober students to rate photographs of another group of students, who had consumed different levels of alcohol, on how attractive they looked, the website Livescience reported.

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The photos taken after just one drink has been consumed were judged as more attractive than the sober photos. However, if students drank more than one glass, they were rated as less attractive than when they were sober.

“It suggests that, if it's true, people are rated as more attractive once they've consumed a small amount of alcohol," said the study's senior researcher, Marcus Munafò, a professor of biological psychology at the University. "But if they go on to consume more alcohol, they're no longer rated as more attractive."

The scientists suggested that a single alcoholic drink could make people seem more attractive because it caused facial muscles to relax, pupils to dilate and cheeks to flush.

"Rosiness is attractive because it characterizes good physical health characteristics,” said Professor Munafò.

Previous studies have proven the so-called "beer goggle" hypothesis, by showing that people who drink alcohol tend to find members of the opposite sex more attractive than when they are sober.

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The Bristol study was published in the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism.