At the end of each year, TCCandler.com, a movie review website, releases a list of the world’s “100 Most Beautiful Faces.” Though not as reputed as Variety or RogerEbert.com (TC Candler is basically a guy from Minnesota writing in front of his computer), the site’s 100 Most Beautiful Faces list gets a fair amount of netizens’ attention each year—“over 25 million unique visitors from around the world,” the site boasts. It also does a nice job of trying to “inform public opinion rather than reflect it.”
The site first caught our attention in 2010, when YouTube comedienne Natalie Tran (now unfortunately in virtual hibernation, awaking only for the occasional Twitter yawn) came in 88th, beating out the likes of Penelope Cruz and Naomi Watts.
When the 2011 list came out in December, guess who climbed 71 spots to 17? Yup, Natalie. And also joining the 2011 list at number 57 was Maggie Q, the half Vietnamese actress now starring in CW’s Nikita. Other Asian faces who appeared on the list included Song Hye Kyo and Go Ara, South Korean actresses who came in at number 5 and 12 respectively, Chinese actress Qi Shu at number 29, and Japanese model Nozomi Sasaki at 71, among others.
Though this list is obviously subjective and should be taken with a grain of salt, it is kind of cool to see a well-circulated list recognizing Asian beauties alongside some of the more famous Western faces. (African and South American beauties still seem to be lacking from the list, however.) It’s especially nice to see Natalie mentioned again, as she might be considered the only non-professional “celebrity” on the ranking.
With the understanding that beauty is as much an internal characteristic as it is external, who have some of the most beautiful faces in your opinion? (Let’s keep the discussion classy!)
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