The Cheap way to look a Million Bucks

Have you ever wondered how some guys have a seemingly irresistible sex appeal, meaning they can practically get any girl they want?

Attractiveness is essentially hardwired into the human brain where certain shapes, proportions, movements and smells have a universal human appeal.

Luckily, by breaking it down, we can formulate an easy to follow approach to hacking your attractiveness to go from a 5 to an 8 or 9.

In earlier articles, I've touched upon how fit is king and that with perfect fit anything is possible. But in addition to fit we can continue to enhance our style and image to influence women. Note: The aim is not to trick women into being interested in you, but rather create an opening in their minds where they are more likely to listen to you and not simply dismiss you based on face value.

1. Traditional Male Characteristics

Increasingly, the gender lines between men and women have been blurred by the Modelling Industry, where male models and clothes are partly influenced by female style. Further, the bodies of these male models tend to be very feminine, especially in the facial region.

However, historically male characteristics include the following:

- Wide Shoulders, with a V- taper to slim hips

- Large Feet and Hands

- Broad chests to match with wide shoulders

- Well-defined jaw line and prominent Adam's Apple

Regardless of changing social constructs, these main characteristics will remain timeless and will appeal to the majority of the female population. This is easily seen through the release of movies such as James Bond, as Daniel Craig as very manly characteristics and not the feminine features seen in Male modelling. Essentially, while movies exist, these characteristics will form the basis for a typical male body.

To relate this to clothing, take a standard off the rack suit jacket. You'll notice the shoulders are wider than the hips, and there will be a taper as you move down the jacket, closing in around the mid region, and widening slightly to create an illusion of slimmer hips.

Now you should be wondering about the lower half of our body. Properly fitted trousers will emphasize the main areas of your leg which is your butt and quads. You'll notice if you choose a perfectly fitted trouser, your butt will have a distinct curvature, than lying flat which is commonly seen with poorly fitted pants. Your quads will also look larger as pants will typically widen or stretch in that area to accommodate larger quads.

2. The Golden Ratio

Also known as the 'Adonis Ratio' after the Greek Deity, put simply the ratio is 1:1.618. Now, this doesn't mean much yet, but this ratio appears naturally between various body parts. Let's say the length of your hand has the value of 1, then the combined length of your hand + forearm has the approximate value of 1.618. Another place where this occurs is your face. But we can't control any of these things.

The one thing we can control is the size of our muscles by working out. The main feature you should aim to control is your shoulder to waist ratio. By letting your hips have a value of 1, you need to make sure your shoulders increase to 1.618 of that value. So for example, your waist is currently 34 inches, and your shoulders measure around 47. This leaves your ratio at 1.382 which is ok, but not that close to the golden ratio. So, there are two ways to control this: either reduce waist size or increase shoulder size. Ideally you'll want to do both to quicken up the process. So in a couple of months, your waist is 31 and your shoulders are 49 inches all around. This leaves you with a ratio of 1.581 which is a lot better than before.

The above process takes time, in excess of a couple of months, and it takes hard work. But everyone wants a quick solution and this is possible with carefully chosen clothing. In terms of shirts, people with uneven limbs can use tailoring to adjust sleeves and cuffs to create a more proportional image. The same thing can be done with jackets, where the taper of the suit can be adjusted to widen the shoulders and slim the waist. This can be applied to trousers which are worn at the waist and fitted close to your legs.

Ideally you want to exercise and get healthier to achieve the ratio as the clothing method is just a transitional solution while your work hard at the gym.

3. Type of Clothing

Perceived wealth and its influence over people is surprising. Regardless of how many people tell you that wealth means nothing and that they don't judge people on their wealth, it still occurs subliminally within these people. There are many studies showing that people are attracted to those in jobs of prestige such as law and medicine over those in lower end jobs such as working at McDonald's regardless of facial appearance.

The good thing is that, you can control your perceived wealth by the type of clothing you choose to wear. And no, this doesn't mean you should wear Designer labels and large watches. Rather, good fitting and solid style sense where you dress appropriately for any occasion will always trump large displays of needless spending.

Wealth is in the details, so if you're wearing a tailored blazer and others are wearing business casual clothes, your perceived wealth will increase dramatically, regardless of the cost of the blazer.

Even something simple as having a well maintained wallet or a sleek metal pen are small investments that can move you ahead of many guys out there.

4. Your Social Status

Your sex appeal isn't restricted to physical appearance, but includes how you are treated by others in society. Being well dressed sends out a higher perceived value as we learned in the previous point, but it also demonstrates your success in the world, or your potential for success, where you are going to outperform the rest of the men around you.

An easy way to test this is to go out for dinner wearing jeans and a basic t-shirt. Repeat this dressed in more formal wear like in a blazer with fitted trousers and a collared shirt. You'll be surprised about the increase in the level of detail provided by service staff as they aim to impress you with their skill and ability as you give off a sense of success.

5. Your Mind

Whilst dressing with class and superiority will get you a long way, your inner confidence plays a major part in selling yourself to others, especially women. You can do everything right so far, but if you go up to a woman and start stuttering or mumble, she will almost instantaneously walk away. Rather, acting like a leader can boost your self confidence and in turn sell the fact that you are successful, and their first assumption about you as someone with high perceived value is correct, thus improving your sex appeal.

From the 5 points above, you can see that sex appeal is quite formulaic and when changing certain things, you will get different results. Instead of wasting money on designer labels, aim to optimize things that are inexpensive like working on your body and your mind, and spend correctly on clothes that accentuate the main male characteristics.