Hi everybody. Welcome back to Ask Alicia, the weekly series where you ask me questions and I answer them. Maybe. Let's get to your first question this week. First question this week comes from Saurab Sarday. I hope I said your name correctly. Saurab says, hi Alicia, how are you? I'm good. I always confuse beautiful, pretty and gorgeous. Which words should I use and when?

Okay, sure, let's talk about these three.

Beautiful, pretty, and gorgeous.

So we use all three of these words to describe something

that we see that we think looks good, that looks nice.

We could use these to describe a person,

to describe a sunset, to describe a cake, whatever.

So we can use these words interchangeably, generally.

But let's take a look at a couple of small differences that can help you hopefully decide which one to choose and when.

First, let's take a look at the word gorgeous.

So when we describe something as gorgeous, if we imagine these

three words on kind of a ranking system, gorgeous would mean something that is really,

really special, something that you don't see very often. So for example, if you imagine a beautiful

actress going to an awards show and she wears a very special dress,

she has her hair done in just the right way,

we would probably describe her as gorgeous.

So that's something that's kind of rare.

We don't see that every day.

We don't see this woman looking so beautiful

in this expensive dress with her expensive makeup

and expensive hairstyle.

When we see something that's very rare like that, we would probably describe it as gorgeous.

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