Men with feminine faces tend to be luckier in love as more women are attracted to them than masculine men, according to a new study.
According to research by psychologists at New York and Princeton universities, most women prefer men with feminine faces and darker skin.
The investigation also discovered that men preferred women faces to be feminine with plump lips and wide eyes.
The Daily Mail reported that two groups of men and women were shown a selection of thousands of computer-generated faces of the opposite sex to rate, which had been manipulated to look either more masculine or feminine.
The report said that the computer tested 50 dimensions of facial features, including nose size, plumpness of lips and facial colouring.
Scientists discovered that both sexes wanted their partners to have a feminine shape but women want their men's faces to have darker skin.
According to the findings that will be published by the Psychological Science journal, male and female attractiveness are not equal and opposite and that the appeal of average faces is less straightforward than previously thought.
