Pea takes photos of various foreign men with different body types, ages, and looks to local Filipinas on the street and asks them to rate each man on a scale of 1 to 10. After getting their initial ratings based on appearance alone, she introduces a financial twist — "What if he's rich?" or "What if he's poor?" — to see how money changes the equation. The results reveal consistent preferences and some brutally honest admissions about what really matters.
- Pea's method: she shows each woman a series of photos of foreign men representing different body types, ages, hair styles, and ethnic backgrounds, asking for a 1-10 attractiveness rating and then probing why
Facial hair preferences
- Well-trimmed beards are generally liked — one woman rated a bearded man 9.5, saying he looked like her Hollywood crush
- Long beards are universally rejected — multiple women said they don't want anything approaching "Santa Claus" territory
- Clean-shaven is preferred by some women; one said she'd bump a bearded man from 9 to 9.5 if he lost the beard, but not to a full 10
- Mustaches alone got mixed-to-positive reactions
Pointed noses are a recurring favorite
- Multiple women specifically called out "pointed nose" as attractive
- One woman said "I wish I had a nose like that" and mentioned wanting a nose bridge
- This came up with almost every woman interviewed — it's clearly a widely shared Filipino beauty standard for men
Tattoos and piercings are a hard no for most women
- One woman rated a heavily tattooed man a 4, saying "too much tattoos"
- Another gave a tattooed man a 3
- Piercings were even less popular — one woman called it "a no for me"
- Small, concealable tattoos got a pass from some: "as long as it will not show in the public"
Body type: dad bods beat muscles
- One woman explicitly said she hates abs and prefers chubby men
- Her reasoning: she's petite, so she wants someone bigger to feel like a "bodyguard" and to have someone to hug — "I need a daddy inside me... no no, like something to hug"
- Muscular men were described as "too much" by multiple women
- Pea's summary joke: "stop working on your abs and start working on that box of donuts"
Baldness is a slight negative but not a dealbreaker
- One woman rated a bald man 6 but said with hair he'd be an 8
- Another woman didn't mind baldness at all, saying "calbo" is fine
- One woman said a bald man was only missing hair to go from 9 to 10
Age is mostly not a big deal
- One woman rated an older man a 5 but still called him handsome — her issue was "he looks like my father"
- Another explicitly prefers older men because "they have a matured mindset already" and "lots of experiences"
- Younger men got less enthusiasm — "not so much"
Race doesn't seem to be a major factor
- A Black man got an 8.1 from one woman who said he looked "nice" with "good intention" and clean hair — she joked about wanting a "Michael Jordan baby"
- Another woman rated a Black man 10: "tall, dark, and handsome" and "perfect the way he is"
- One woman said she wouldn't want a Chinese man or a Filipino — only wanted the foreigner exactly as he looked
- When asked about dating Black men specifically, multiple women said yes without hesitation
The money twist: finances change everything
- When Pea asked "but what if he's very wealthy?" about men who scored low, nearly every woman revised upward
- A tattooed man one woman hated got upgraded: "especially nowadays, let's just be practical"
- A woman who said she'd never date an older, muscular man reversed course: "let's forget about the muscle one or the old one — let's grab it if it's wealthy"
- One woman rated a man with piercings she hated but then said she'd "consider" him if he was the son of Elon Musk
- Going the other direction: a 9.5-rated man was dropped when Pea said he was poor — "no, even though he's very handsome and can give you handsome babies"
- One notable exception: a woman said she'd date the handsome man even if he was poor and she had to provide for him — "it's fine"
The "presentable" factor
- One man got an 8 and the keyword was "presentable" — neat appearance, glasses, and a watch were all noticed
- Another woman specifically praised how a man dressed and his neat hair
- Grooming and clean appearance came up as much as raw physical features
Height matters to at least one woman
- One woman said she'd marry a poor man who's tall but would not marry a short man regardless of anything else
Pea's wrap-up observations
- Women were surprisingly upfront about their preferences
- Common themes: trimmed facial hair okay, tattoos/piercings not popular, muscles not favored, dad bods liked
- Age and race weren't major hang-ups — facial expression and perceived personality mattered more
- The majority changed their minds when money was introduced
- What surprised Pea most wasn't that money mattered but "how openly they admitted it" — she gives them credit for honesty
