I will pick up on Tony's comment:(posted 8473 days ago)I have a video of Imogen Cunningham in which she says the "problem" with portrait photography is that most people don't like themselves.
Edward Weston put a big sign in his studio window in Carmel California stating: "Unretouched Portraits." He grew very tired of trying to make a living making old ladies look like young babes (my paraphrase!)
Does that tell you something?