Pick the best models on a Latvian casting site (choose 25)

[Komintasavalta]

I searched the website of a Latvian casting agency for models whose sex was listed as female, whose current age was listed as between 27 and 30, and whose nationality was listed as Latvian: https://www.balticcasting.com/en/database/item/women/.

I then selected models who further matched these criteria:

- Their ID was between 18,500 and 24,000, which means that their profile was added maybe around 2010-2012. I chose the lower range because for models with a lower ID, the first photo is often not a mugshot-style photo. I chose the upper range so that I would have a total of 100 photos.
- Their first photo was a mugshot-style close-up photo, where they were facing the camera at a fairly direct angle, where they were smiling so that their teeth were visible, and where their facial expression was otherwise relatively neutral.
- In their first photo, they were not wearing glasses, their face was not covered by a prominent piercing, and their hands were not placed on their head.
- Their profile had not been updated later with photos from 2014 or later.
- In the case of two pairs of twins, there was one profile for each twin and a third combined profile for both twins, but I only included the profile of one of the twins.

The population of Latvia is about 30% Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian, so even though the nationality of all models was listed as Latvian, many of them are probably not ethnic Latvians.

You can download the original photos by running this shell command:

printf %s\\n https://www.balticcasting.com/img/{18633,18635,18645,18648,18649,18899,18914,18915,18969,19102,19195,19287,19428,19459,19460,19523,19599,19667,19807,19813,19997,20011,20018,20048,20104,20143,20145,20208,20233,20236,20237,20254,20272,20379,20422,20446,20515,20626,20673,20674,20722,20827,20886,20935,20942,20943,20956,21164,21165,21168,21176,21181,21223,21227,21490,21492,21495,21521,21561,21563,21624,21626,21761,22050,22132,22189,22214,22333,22407,22410,22420,22453,22505,22509,22511,22512,22567,22686,22701,22760,22762,22816,22818,22837,22840,22876,22906,22910,22987,23074,23104,23460,23613,23658,23693,23729,23840,23845,23995,23997}_1.jpg|xargs -n1 curl -sO

Please pick a total of 25 models, and list their numbers like this:

3 8 12 15 16 24 27 31 34 36 40 47 53 54 56 58 60 63 72 76 80 84 87 94 95

Don't just choose one or two models. I will later make morphs of the models grouped by how many users selected them.

[barnumandbailey]

I honestly couldn't pick twenty five off of this list . . . most of them are somewhat pretty, but only a few have the "wow" factor. Regardless, here's what I came up with:





15 16 26 31 71





And that's it. That's the list.

[XenophobicPrussian]

Legit a cool idea. I'm going in order by attractiveness and not in numerical order.

71, 21, 38, 35, 55, 41, 93, 24, 92, 31, 100, 37, 95, 66, 23, 61, 15, 43, 49, 89, 6, 42, 39, 69, 30

28 and 58 for bottom 2/last place imo.

I would lower the number to 20 or 15(would be cool to atleast see a morph of my top 15 or 5) as after 15 it was more just trying to pick out the least unattractive ones rather than most attractive, and also so more people participate. You should do more threads like this with other countries too. Also, crown a most Uralische morph winner.

[Komintasavalta]

I honestly couldn't pick twenty five off of this list . . . most of them are somewhat pretty, but only a few have the "wow" factor. Regardless, here's what I came up with:

15 16 26 31 71

And that's it. That's the list.

I knew people would reply like this, but it will be harder for me to make morphs if only a few users reply and all of them only pick 5 models. I want to get a distribution where only a minority of models receive zero total votes.

Anyway, here's your picks compared to my top 5:



The morph of my picks has more archaic or Mongoloid-like traits, like bigger cheekbones, a wider face, higher canthal tilt, lower upper eyelid exposure, less prominent lines of the lower eyelids, a lower nasal root, a shorter chin, and bigger teeth.

[Komintasavalta]

Legit a cool idea. I'm going in order by attractiveness and not in numerical order.

71, 21, 38, 35, 55, 41, 93, 24, 92, 31, 100, 37, 95, 66, 23, 61, 15, 43, 49, 89, 6, 42, 39, 69, 30

28 and 58 for bottom 2/last place imo.

I would lower the number to 20 or 15(would be cool to atleast see a morph of my top 15 or 5) as after 15 it was more just trying to pick out the least unattractive ones rather than most attractive, and also so more people participate. You should do more threads like this with other countries too. Also, crown a most Uralische morph winner.

I picked this Latvian casting site, because it's the largest collection of photos I know where the photos are taken under relatively standardized studio conditions, and where the photos are coupled with data about attributes like age and nationality.

I might do some sports league or tournament next. For example there's high-quality photos taken under fairly standardized conditions for Swedish soccer leagues (https://www.svenskfotboll.se/serier-cuper/elitfotboll/) and for hockey world championship tournaments (https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2019/wm/teams).

Compared to a morph of 25 randomly selected models, the morph of your top 25 picks appears to have a shorter and less downturned nose, lower canthal tilt, and a longer chin, but it might partially be because the photos of your picks were taken at a lower angle on average. I think your picks look somewhat Germanic, which could be partially because of the fairly long chin.



Here your top 5 picks have a more narrow and elongated face shape than your top 25 picks, and your worst 2 picks have a bigger face than your top 5 picks. For me it's the opposite.

[barnumandbailey]

I knew people would reply like this, but it will be harder for me to make morphs if only a few users reply and all of them only pick 5 models. I want to get a distribution where only a minority of models receive zero total votes.

Anyway, here's your picks compared to my top 5:



The morph of my picks has more archaic or Mongoloid-like traits, like bigger cheekbones, a wider face, higher canthal tilt, lower upper eyelid exposure, less prominent lines of the lower eyelids, a lower nasal root, a shorter chin, and bigger teeth.

Your average is prettier than mine.

[barnumandbailey]

I knew people would reply like this, but it will be harder for me to make morphs if only a few users reply and all of them only pick 5 models. I want to get a distribution where only a minority of models receive zero total votes.

Anyway, here's your picks compared to my top 5:



The morph of my picks has more archaic or Mongoloid-like traits, like bigger cheekbones, a wider face, higher canthal tilt, lower upper eyelid exposure, less prominent lines of the lower eyelids, a lower nasal root, a shorter chin, and bigger teeth.

Your average also reminds me of Florence Colgate:

[travv]

5, 6, 7, 12, 15, 16, 23, 24, 25, 27, 30, 34, 38, 40, 42, 53, 61, 66, 67, 71, 72, 84, 86, 87, 92

[Nurzat]

I didn't count them while choosing, and didn't look at the numbers chosen by the others.

ended up with these 17 ones:


4, 6, 7, 15, 16, 17, 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, 40, 84, 86, 87, 96, 97

[Komintasavalta]

5, 6, 7, 12, 15, 16, 23, 24, 25, 27, 30, 34, 38, 40, 42, 53, 61, 66, 67, 71, 72, 84, 86, 87, 92

Compared to a morph of 25 random models or a morph of all 100 models, the morph of your picks appears to have:

- A shorter and less downturned nose, even though like in XP's case, it might partially be because the photos of your picks are taken at a lower angle.
- A wider nasal root, a lower nasal root, and a lower nasal bridge.
- A more round and less elongated face shape.
- Lower UEE and lower darkness of the skin under the eyes.
- A more round instead of elongated shape of the cheeks, with a higher position of the nasolabial folds (even though it could also be because the photos were taken at a lower angle).
- Thicker lips.