Honestly, a good appearance (both sexes) would definitely be helpful for the opposite sex feeling more comfortable to know you more. But otherwise, it really takes time and it's a challenge of patience to others to spend time to know you more. And only if your personality is nice (or can fit into them well), then they're happy to accept you as their friend or even willing to go further relationship without minding your unpleasing appearance.
ha ha .. I thought .. you were talking about TURTLE shell .. etc tim ..
From our friends .. 一個外殼 is very important to girls .. as before they decide to date with a guy . they always ask their other friends " DUCK NG DUCK ? " first ..
Sigh ... why do girls care so much about 一個外殼 ? and care so much about how other people look at your other half????
For guys .. usually .. they just go for what/who they like !
appearance isn't that important with friends as long as that person looks clean and is well mannered..
but with bfs it's actually quite important to me... the odd thing is that it did not become important until i got a little older. (or should i say until i met my current bf. but now that i think about it i think he's the reason why i've raised my standards.)
i honestly believe that my honey of 6+ years is better looking than the majority out there =D and i have been warned by many ppl in the beginning that because of his looks he probably isn't the type who'd be happy in a long term relationship. hey but they were wrong~ he isn't only one of the best looking guys, he's also one of the best guys out there as well. <3 ^^