Alright, it’s getting toward the end of summer, and before it’s over I thought I’d do something entirely superficial. The placements are based purely on looks alone, I’m just going to be entirely shallow. These are just my opinions, they’re weird, I know. This is going to get very long. The pictures are their prettiest shots in my opinion.

11. Merida
*Blows out a deep breath* Merida. (Read in same intonation as Nostalgia Chick uses when she says “Anime” in her top ten hottest animated guys countdown- watch it, it’s hilarious.) I want to like the way Merida looks, I really do. She has the best hair of all the princesses. Her eyes are perfect. Her smile is precious. She has enough flaws to still be interesting. She would be one of my top, maybe even my prettiest. There’s just one thing that keeps her down here- her dang face shape. There are people who have round faces. There are beautiful people with round faces. But so far I’ve yet to come across someone with a face wider than it is long. You give Emma Watson that face shape, and she’ll look odd. Also, sometimes her hair becomes more of a mane and overpowers her face.
Best feature: HAIR!!!
Worst feature: Face shape (interestingly, I think she has the best of her best feature of the princesses and the worst of her worst feature)


10. Belle
What is there really to say about her? Other than her changing appearance every few shots, there’s just nothing really remarkable about her. She’s plain. Not ugly, not- not pretty, just… plain. There’s just nothing about her to make her stand out. She looks like someone you’d see on the street and think, Oh, she looks nice, but think nothing else about it. I might even say Belle is the most flawless of the princesses. However, remember what I said in Merida’s section about having flaws that make her more interesting? All of the other princesses- ALL of them- have flaws, from Merida’s invisible eyebrows to Aurora’s super-pointy chin to Jasmine’s nose to Mulan’s boomerang lips (thanks fiina!) and plenty of others, which make them more interesting to look at, which makes them prettier. Other than just being drawn badly at times, Belle is pretty much just a blank slate of prettiness. The scenes where she looks the best are when Gaston comes by to propose and to lock up her father (strange, Gaston bringing bad news seems to enhance Belle’s appearance) because there’s just something about her that’s more interesting in those scenes, something that makes you want to look twice. In those scenes, she has what she lacks in the others- that unidentifiable something that’s intriguing. Plus I think her hair in general is just bad. Why do her bangs look like jelly-rolls?
Best feature: Lips, they’re so perfectly pink and glossy!
Worst feature: Hair, it always looks greasy (and I should know)


9. Rapunzel
There are a lot of times Rapunzel looks like a Barbie. Like this shot:

In general, I’m not a fan of Barbie-like looks. Also, she looks like a bobble-head with Dobby eyes. Rapunzel is pretty generic looking. I also feel like there are a lot of shots where she’s very pretty objectively, but it just isn’t my type (for example, when she asked Flynn Who are you and how did you find me- the same thing happens with Anastasia, interestingly.) However, in the scene after she left when she was talking to Flynn, she is absolutely STUNNING. So that put her up in place nine.
Best feature: Smile
Worst feature: Okay, no one will agree with me here- Hair. I’m not a big fan of- well, Rapunzel hair.


8. Aurora
I know, I know, the princess gifted with beauty in eighth place. I just- I don’t think she’s all that special (well, other than the violet eyes.) She’s beautiful, that’s for sure, but it’s just not really my taste. Like I (sort of) said before, I’m not really a fan of blonde hair. Maybe it’s because here in America our typical beauty ideal is blonde hair/ blue eyes and it’s just gotten boring and generic to me. Also, there are a few shots where she simply looks psychotic, like when she is first pushed out of the cottage by the fairies and when she first wakes up. She definitely looks the best in the forest (no wonder they blew their whole budget on that scene.)
Best feature: Eyes (when they don’t look psychotic)
Worst feature: Eyebrows, I guess


7. Jasmine
Ahhhh, Jasmine. Another interesting case. There are many times in the movie where she is absolutely beautiful. She’s also undoubtedly the sexiest princess (or at least one of the sexiest.) Not only does she look very exotic, but she’s got the attitude to back it up. However, when it comes to beauty- she’s not as high. And her sultry attitude won’t get her any bonus points. There are absolutely shots where she looks like an alien if you just cover her nose. There are plenty of shots where you can see her entire iris. There are just a lot of shots where she just looks- unusual. This shot’s a very good example:

I personally am not a big fan of her hair when it’s down. I don’t like the way it clumps. I like it much better in the sectioned ponytail, I think it looks much more realistic. When her eyes are drawn well, they are very pretty and warm (though still rather larger than normal.) I personally don’t mind her nose, again, it makes her look more interesting. She often looks very sultry. Two good examples are when she puts her hood back on in the marketplace and looks out of the side of her eyes and when she leans against Rajah when Aladdin is on the balcony. In both, she’s very sultry and alluring. Jasmine is very seductive and alluring, but also looks very unrealistic a lot of the time.
Best feature: Eyelids (strange choice, I know, but you’ve got to admit they make her look seductive)
Worst feature: Eyebrows (I like thick eyebrows, but hers are just plain- and hey, I had to pick something)


6. Cinderella
I just decided to switch her with Jasmine. Cinderella is really beautiful. She looks like a classic beauty from the 1950s- which, of course, she is. There’s something really gorgeous about that classic, very sophisticated look. Women of the 1950s in general were more beautiful than women of today- look at Audrey Hepburn, Barbara Billingsly, Maggie Smith, and Rosemary Clooney, who I think Cinderella looks most similar too. She is simply beautiful. However, it’s not true that she has no bad shots. Strangely, when she’s dancing with the prince is one of her worst- I’ve seen it best described that she looks like a “dirty Barbie.”

She also looks kind of creepy looking through the bars of the mouse trap. That doesn’t mean she isn’t absolutely ravishing, though. She also has a sweet, gorgeous smile. And even though her hair all moves in one mass, it does move beautifully. She’s just so photogenic. It’s so easy to make her look good and unfairly hard to make her look bad. It may be a quote from a different movie, but: Rags cannot hide her gentle grace. She looks even more beautiful when she’s just a lowly servant than when she’s decked out for a royal ball (at least in the head- not face since I’m including her hair.)
Best feature: Smile (and her nose when she scrunches up her face when she thinks the fairy godmother is about to change her dress)
Worst feature: Lack of highlights in her eyes (I know it’s a cop out- what are you going to do about it?)


5. Snow White
And now we get to my top 5. Snow White may be young and baby-faced and lacking a bit of a figure (but at her age it would be creepy if her body was “hot”,) and she may be far from sexy (again, at her age it would be creepy is she was,) but she is absolutely beautiful. She just looks angelic and like a “perfect porcelain doll” (I seem to be doing that a lot this article.) When she’s asleep, she just looks absolutely stunning, it’s obvious why the dwarfs didn’t club her- you know you wouldn’t. She just looks like a cherub- a much more sophisticated cherub. Her black hair is in perfect contrast to her milky skin. Her eyes are a beautiful color framed by perfect, delicate lashes. Both of her dresses complement her coloring very well, though the red bow is obviously more flattering. She looks beautiful in tattered rags and a beautiful princess-ly gown. Snow White is certainly the fairest in the land.
Best feature: Eyes- They are a perfect color and just wonderful!
Worst feature: Nose- two dots from the front, a bump from the side


4. Ariel
Ariel is another unique situation. Her looks are all the usual unrealistic cartoon-i-ness I normally hate, but Ariel’s just gorgeous. Her big, 80s hair and floppy bangs can only work for a cartoon character. Her eyes are, again, inhumanly large. Her eyebrows are lines. That body could never exist in a world where people are expected to balance their weight so that they can walk. Her hair is literally fire engine red. But somehow, Ariel pulls it off. She more than pulls it off, she makes it look gorgeous. She is so unique and is in no way plain or generic. I’ve always thought she was beautiful and is just so gorgeous. I don’t know what else to say about her, she just makes you want to look at her!
Best feature: DAT HAIR
Worst feature: Her line eyebrows


3. Mulan
My favorite she may be, but I used to have her in one of the traditional places (bottom two.) However, I think a user on Pinterest said it best: I never realized how beautiful Mulan is until I spent a half hour looking through screenshots of her. At first, Mulan looks- plain, nothing unique or interesting about her. However, as you begin to really look at her, she really is ravishing. She has a natural beauty that just seems to radiate from her. I personally think many people don’t give her a chance simply because they prejudge her due to the fact that she can pass as a male. But she can even be beautiful as a male- look at this shot and tell me she isn’t beautiful:

Or maybe I just have a thing for women wearing helmets, seeing as I think the same about Pocahontas with a helmet on- but Mulan looks so perfect with one on! Mulan is simply gorgeous. Her eyes are unique among the princesses. They are wide and slightly slanted. Her nose isn’t especially defined, but the way it is drawn still makes it seem there and realistic. Her lips are nice (except in that one shot where she’s smiling at her dad everyone uses) and have a very pretty rosebud shape. She has thick eyebrows, which I really like. She has a bit of a squarer face, which I love. Her hair is GORGEOUS (well, most Asian people have perfect hair) and moves perfectly when it’s short. She’s just a very unique and natural beauty.
Best feature: Hair- so glossy and deep and swingy and-
Worst feature: That weird line above her eye which obviously isn’t her eyebrow, also her top lip when she does a closed-lipped smile


2. Tiana
Tiana is absolutely gorgeous! She has that gorgeous chocolate skin tone, beautiful full lips, and perfect honey-colored eyes. She has those dimples, that large nose (which I actually think is really nice,) and perfectly rouged cheeks. We may never see her hair down (except when it was short- and that’s so perfect!) but it still looks very nice. She’s got those great sassy hips that don’t lie. Practically everything is flattering on her. The only thing that wasn’t really flattering on her was the blue dress- the way the sash fell made her hips look wider than they are (like, very disproportionally wide.) She’s just gorgeous! She can be classy and sophisticated and professional or she can be sexy and flirty. Her looks are just complete perfection!
Best feature: Oh, gosh- probably her eyes: they are such a pretty color and are so alluring. Or those dimples.
Worst feature: Umm- her hair


1. Pocahontas
Oh boy, Pocahontas- she’s just so gorgeous! She looks like an Amazon (or at least the way I’d picture an Amazon) with her copper skin, toned athletic body, and commanding face. This is the shot most people say is her best:

I actually think she looks quite odd there. It’s the shots where it doesn’t look like the animators were trying to make her look especially pretty where she looks her best (the same is true about Aurora and Mulan.) Her best shots are the ones where she’s talking to John or singing Colors of the Wind. I don’t get why people say her hair doesn’t look thick- I know people with thick hair that is that long and it looks exactly the same as Pocahontas’s does. Her nose is practically non-existent, but it doesn’t really bother me- I don’t pay particular attention to noses. I know people complain about her lips, and in some shots they are very odd, but I have a friend who’s a model and her lips look just like Pocahontas’s. I also actually really like that her eyes are kind of small- at least by Disney standards. I think it just adds to her allure. HER HAIR- it’s so beautifully long and tumbling! It moves incredibly. I love her strong jaw- I really like a strong jaw on a woman. I also really love her strong broad shoulders. Pocahontas has a very strong, some might even consider slightly masculine, body type and features, but I can’t get enough of it. Again, I just think she looks like an Amazon, and I just think it’s gorgeous!
Best feature: Hair and jawline
Worst feature: Nose. Or lack thereof.