Er, well I know what I mean anyway.
So, I racked my brains and produced some faces that impressed my teenage eyes. I know, you may not have heard of many of them, but this isn't your blog...
The first one I thought of was Susan Penhaligon:
Hmm, yes, I think I can say that I agree with my teenage self there.
OK, how about Elizabeth Sladen?
Yes, I thought I was on fairly safe ground with that one.
Hmm, maybe Angela Douglas? I remember that my friends were surprised I liked her:
Nope, my friends were wrong.
To cut a long story short, I engaged in this exercise for as many subjects as sprang to mind — Judy Geeson, Sally Thomsett, Nerys Hughes, Rhapsody Angel, Nancy Kwan, Susannah York, Susan George, Cherry Gillespie, Deborah Harry, Alexandra Bastedo, Shakira Baksh plus many others — and gradually realised that I wasn't finding any discrepencies. Women whom I thought beautiful when I was in my teens are still, in my opinion, beautiful (well, based on what they looked like back then; obviously some of them don't look so good now, for example Sharon Tate).
I guess this means either that my opinion hasn't changed over 35 years, or the ones I used to think were beautful but don't now didn't answer the call to come to mind...