Men Say This Habit Instantly Makes Women More Attractive

There are some things people do that are just downright sexy without anyone being able to fully explain why. Sunglasses pushed up on top of a woman’s head after a long day outside is apparently one of them. 

A TikTok from user @lifewithlexi08 kicked off a minor viral moment recently by asking what the female equivalent of a backward baseball cap on a man is. The comments filled up quickly, and one answer kept coming back: sunglasses on the head, specifically the unselfconscious version—shoved up quickly, hair slightly destroyed, zero thought given to how it looks. “My husband says sunglasses on my head (specifically when my hair is down) and/or a milkmaid dress,” wrote one commenter. Another noted it was “something about the way it makes the hair look and shows your face.” The consensus was hard to argue with. 

The psychology behind it isn’t complicated, though it took researchers to actually put it into words. Vanessa Brown, a design and visual culture lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, told Marie Claire that sunglasses enhance attractiveness partly by creating the perception of facial symmetry, the frames are perfectly symmetrical where faces rarely are. But that explains the sunglasses themselves.  

Good to know!

Lana Backman