-- Americans also believe that beauty exists in everyone and can be uncovered (81 percent teens, 85 percent women and 75 percent men).

  What Makes Us Beautiful?

   -- When asked what qualities make a woman beautiful overall, personality  was cited as the number one attribute by women (53 percent), men (69  percent) and teen girls (53 percent).

   -- When asked to specify what physical attributes are most closely  associated with beauty, the top responses are those characteristics  that most express personality: men were most likely to select eyes (71  percent) whereas teen girls and women cited smile most often (women 61  percent, teen girls 60 percent).

   -- Men and teen girls selected sense of humor (54 percent men, 50 percent  teen girls) as the personality trait that makes a woman beautiful.  Women selected compassion as the top personality trait (41 percent).

  Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

   -- When asked how they develop their own personal beauty, women and teens  cited their own "idea of what they want to project" as the most  important influence. (45 percent women, 50 percent teen girls).

   -- Most women and teens describe their personal beauty style as  "natural." If given the chance to change it for just one day, teen  girls tend to want to try sexy while women want to go for glamorous.

  The Beauty Scale

   -- Women and teens are relatively modest when it comes to assessing their  own beauty. On average, women and teens rated themselves as a 6.1 on  a scale from 1 to 10, (10 being most beautiful.)

   -- Women and teen girls are much more generous about their mother's  beauty and tended to report that their mother is more beautiful than  they are. Using the same scale, most (60 percent of women, 53 percent  of teen girls) rated their mother at least an eight.

   -- When asked to rank beautiful celebrities, over 90 percent of women and  teen girls rated the celebrities at least an eight.

   -- Although women may rate celebrity beauty highly, it is not what they  aspire to for themselves. Only 10% of women strongly agreed that most  women try to look like a model or celebrity.

  Time Will Tell

   -- The age at which most women said they feel/felt most beautiful is the  same age that men consider women to be at their most beautiful: in  their 20's.   * When asked why women felt beautiful at this age, they cited    factors like physical fitness, energy level, active social lives    and having fun.

   -- As a woman grows older, her idea of beauty evolves. The survey shows  that what makes a teenage girl beautiful is popularity (40 percent)  and personality (36 percent). By the time she reaches 25 it's her  personality (38 percent) and self-confidence (36 percent), and by 45  it's not only self-confidence (41 percent) but wisdom (35 percent) as  well. Women agree that by age 65 a beautiful woman is one who has  wisdom and spirituality (66 percent).

   -- Women are three times as likely as teen girls and twice as likely as  men to agree that as women age they feel more beautiful.

   -- When asked how their definition of beauty had changed over time,  women's comments focused on a growing "appreciation of individuality"  and "respect for inner beauty." They also reported that they are less  influenced by the media and rely more on how they feel about  themselves as an indicator of beauty.

  Flattery Will Get You Everywhere

   -- Teen daughters are often told by their mothers that they are beautiful  (52 percent); wives are often told by their husbands they are  beautiful (57 percent of married men claim to often tell their wives  that they are beautiful).

   -- However, despite all of this outside encouragement, it's still her own  opinion that matters the most for both teen girls (49 percent) and  adult women (57 percent).

  Lights, Camera, Action

   -- Celebrities that the survey identified as the most beautiful run the  gamut in terms of age, size and ethnic background.

   -- Among the top-fifteen most beautiful celebrities named by survey  respondents are Julia Roberts, Sophia Loren, Jennifer Lopez, Oprah  Winfrey and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

   -- The top 50 beautiful celebrities included a wide range of women from  Barbara Walters to Halle Berry to Rosie O'Donnell.

  The Hair Factor

   -- More than half of women and teen girls say that hair is important to  their concept of beauty.

   -- More than seven in 10 women and men agree that it is difficult for a  woman to feel beautiful if she doesn't like her hair.

   -- Nearly half of women agree (47 percent) that hair determines when they  feel beautiful.

   -- Most women (58 percent) are happy with their hair.

   -- When asked what part of their beauty regimen they would not sacrifice  under any conditions, women were most likely to pick "styling my hair"  (25 percent).

  Bye Bye Blonde!

   -- Women tend to choose brown as their favorite color (24 percent), while  men tend to prefer black (32 percent).

   -- At least half of teens, women and men pick medium length hair as  favorite hairstyle.

   -- 86 percent of women and 85 percent of teen girls agree that changing  the length, color or style of hair allows women to express different  parts of their personality.

  How Much is too Much?

   -- Most women (54 percent) and teenage girls (63 percent) feel they spend  about the right amount of time on being beautiful. However, men still  think women take too long with their beauty regimens. (60 percent of  men surveyed say women spend too much time.)

   -- Well more than half of women (61 percent) and teenage girls (75  percent) spend time keeping up with new beauty trends.

   -- Most women (70 percent) engage in beauty activities because it makes  them feel good.