Women are exposed to impossible beauty standards every day. But the harshest judgments often come from themselves. So Dove set out to explore the gap between how women see themselves and how others actually see them.

Working with an FBI-trained forensic sketch artist, we asked women to describe themselves to a stranger hidden behind a curtain. Later, strangers they had just met described the same women again. The difference between the two portraits revealed a powerful truth: women are often far more beautiful than they believe.