Assume Your Characters Are Beautiful

Don't waste your time on typing "beautiful," "pretty," "hot," or any of those words that attempts to enhance the character's beauty. Instead, use them sparingly and for important occassions only.

A reader always assumes that a character, no matter how unimportant, is physically pleasing to the eye in their mind's eye because no one likes imagining ugly characters.

Generally, beauty is in the eye of the perceiver, so it's rather subjective. Use powerful descriptions to get your point across. For example:

Stella hated Nikki the moment she laid eyes on her. The moment the woman was in the room, she was at Brandon's side faster than she could be. She hated her for being her pulchritude antithesis. She had long shining hair dark as midnight with blue eyes that could see into one's eyes and a doll's porcelain skin. She was sexy in a mysterious way, invoking the calmness of the ocean at midnight with a fat moon hung in the sky.

Alternatively, if we're talking about how one character, such as a lover, perceives another character, use feelings to emphasize the fact that both characters love each other, not just lust for each other. A relationship isn't built on sex and sex doesn't always enhance the relationship. For example:

Sky turned to watch Bloom. She was laughing with her friends. She turned to smile at him from across the garden. He smiled back. She made him feel more alive than anyone ever had. She made him feel like a simple man, naught more. How he loved her! He, the Prince of Eraklyon, was utterly and truly in love. There was a time when he thought that love was simply an illusion to make reality more bearable, but he had indeniable proof that it existed.

Kikurukina Bal Des'cagel