Ladies, you will be ecstatic to learn that we finally have a way to tell whether we are beautiful once and for all. Just when you were beginning to worry that you may never ever know whether your face is a showstopper.

We’ve been wrong all along: the judgment of beauty – it turns out – is not in the eye of the beholder. It is in your index finger.

Yes, according to the Finger Trap test – a craze sweeping China’s social media world – the best way to tell whether you have an attractive face is to take your erect index finger and place it against your nose and your chin (so that it rests lightly against both in a kind of Ssssh position). If it also touches your lips – hurray! You are beautiful. If not, I’m sorry, but I’m sure you have many other fine qualities.

Quite who invents these ridiculous traps to find out whether you are deemed acceptable in one way or another is beyond me but you’ve probably got to admit that you did just raise your index finger to your face and hope for the best…? I did. Yes, my protruding bottom lip certainly hit my finger, but I’m sure this has more to do with years spent pouting, rather than any inherent true beauty that I have.

Plus, when you investigate a little deeper you realise that the Internet is now awash with side profiles of celebs who are usually deemed gorgeous but who now have a line drawn straight from their noses to their chins – and not a lip gets near it – proving they are, in fact, less than beautiful.

These little games to see how attractive you are pop up every now and again: I remember whilst at school there was the test to see how attractive your legs were by standing with knees and ankles together: if your calves didn’t also rub together, then you had fabulous legs. My stumpy legs failed quite miserably.

There was also the thigh gap test a few months ago. There’s one about holding a pencil from the bottom corner of your nose out to the end of your eyebrow to see… whether your eyebrows are long enough. Quite what long enough is, is anybody’s guess, I’m afraid.

Honestly, these games which we find ourselves playing are akin to quizzes where you find out what kind of friend you are, or which Harry Potter character you’d be – and you normally already knew the answer. I remember when quizzes like that were saved for pre-teen magazines and – on some level back then – you kinda believed them.

Now they’re how we procrastinate in the office. And hopefully don’t believe one jot.