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The 100 most beautiful faces published every year by TC Candler & the Independent Critics draw much attention in the world. It’s very popular in Japan as well. It seems that the publicity and popularity has been growing rapidly every year in the world.

Here is the YouTube video if you don’t know about the 100 most beautiful faces list.

I wondered how the ranking was determined and whether there would be a relation between the ranking and the number of Instagram followers. So, I analyzed those points briefly.

Selection Criteria

Simply put, the selection criteria for the 100 most beautiful faces are very subjective. Aesthetic perfection, grace, elegance, originality, daring, passion, class, poise, joy, promise, hope and so on are some of the criteria, but how much weight each standard has is unknown. I imagine that the opinion of TC Candler has the largest influence in the selection because TC Candler organizes a group of people and the group put together the list of worldwide beauty with TC Candler.

For more details, I quoted the remarks below related with the selection criteria from the website of TC Candler. Those quotes below are retrieved from the website on July 14th 2019.

Unlike most other annual beauty rankings, The List is not popularity contest and is most definitely not country specific. It is not about the sexiest body or the most famous celebrity. Rather, the list attempts to inform & broaden public opinion instead of reflecting it.

The Independent Critics are a diverse group of approximately 20 people living in various parts of the world, organized by TC Candler, who search far and wide, listening to the many millions of suggestions submitted by the public over the past couple of decades, and they then put together a list representative of the modern ideal of worldwide beauty.

Aesthetic perfection is only one of the criteria. Grace, elegance, originality, daring, passion, class, poise, joy, promise, hope… they are all embodied in a beautiful face. With those criteria in mind, TC Candler and the members select only 100 faces out of the approximately 105,000 female celebrities (which works out to less than 0.0010%).

However, the general consensus has been that the Independent Critics have created a celebratory list that cherishes the feminine aesthetic and opens the world’s eyes to a unique, diverse and international collection of beautiful faces.

as the years have passed, The Lists have been heavily influenced by the rise of international modeling, worldwide cinema, K-Pop, Bollywood, global television, internet personalities etc.

Of course, lists are always very subjective… you will disagree with some of the choices, but perhaps you will find a new favorite.

The Relation between the Instagram Followers and the Ranking

I wondered whether it would help to get in the ranking of 100 most beautiful faces if the person had more followers in the Instagram. I also thought that by being in the ranking and becoming popular in the world, the number of followers of the person in the list may have increased. In order to see the relation between the ranking and Instagram followers, I made the graph below for the top 20 in the ranking 2018. The followers data were collected on July 14th 2019.

However, Tzuyu, Audreyana Michelle, Oktyabrina Maximova, Dilraba Dilmurat, Nancy Mcdonie, and Seulgi among the top 20 did not have a genuine personal public Instagram account. Therefore, I excluded them from my analysis.

Here is the graph. I don’t see any correlation between the ranking and the number of followers. Emma Watson has the most followers among the top 20 at over 51 million followers although she is ranked at the 19th.









Top 10 of The 100 Most Beautiful Faces

I attached some Instagram pictures of the people who were ranked in top 10 of the 100 most beautiful faces in 2018 below. But, again the Instagram accounts of Tzuyu, Audreyana Michelle, and Oktyabrina Maximova are not genuine below. It appears that there are a lot of fans or fake Instagram accounts on the internet.

No1. Thylane Blondeau

No2. Tzuyu

No3. Yael Shelbia

No4. Liza Soberano

No5. Audreyana Michelle

No6. Nana

No7. Hande Erçel

No8. Oktyabrina Maximova

No9. LISA

No10. Banita Sandhu







【Aesthetic theory】4 requirements for a beautiful face

The selection criteria for the 100 most beautiful faces are very subjective. But, there are actually 4 objective conditions for a beautiful face. Please take a look at the page below if you are interested.





