Kevin Love was never supposed to be good looking.
He had a fully reconstructive double jaw surgery to fix his jaw and whatever else he put in there. Then he probably had some orthodontic work to widen his palate or whatever. Had some hair implants as well.
You don't have to be born a 10 nowadays... you just need to have the motivation to fix whatever problems you have physically and emotionally and know your goals.
You care so much about your looks because you are shallow and you your thinking is non complex. You can't find your self worth and you don't feel you can project it to the opposite sex.. maybe even to the same sex.
So you have two ways to go about it;
1.You go fix all or some of your insecurities cosmetically. Surgeries, Performance enhancing drugs.. whatever that can make you feel better about yourself and help you find that other superficial gal. Fuck it...you are in the US, go enjoy yourself right?
2.You work on yourself and improve your self worth in a more organic way. Try to make real connections. Don't judge people before you get to meet them. Try to build meaningful interpersonal relationship with new people as well as the people that are currently in your life. Attraction builds. Connections grow. If you come with a clean slate and don't judge people before you get to meet them. Find someone that gets you and you get her. Stop judging individual body parts.. I think you are way past that age, and whatever goal you have in your life as far as relationship is concerned, that mindset will lead you nowhere if you want to a long lasting relationship, or even just a meaningful one. Then, try to improve yourself because your care about that person and the relationship...physically and mentally if you feel that it's needed. But be yourself.
What I find is that the first route is the easy route and the route that will net the lowest long term yield. You may never be fully content with how you look and/or feel. You will age and have other issues that bother you because you never actually fixed the core issue.
Relationship for me is first of all to have a connection and be understood. To not be alone. Sure, attraction is important, but it comes from so many traits and things if you actually pay attention to them...I'm not 16 anymore and neither are you. You and I are probably at different stages in our lives with different circumstances, but we are roughly at the same age and I feel like I have experienced a much wider range of emotions,feeling,experiences than the average person in my age, and from my experience I can tell you that there will come a time where you will need that partner to be there for you because of the connection you have and the attraction that is deeper than than the glutes and thighs that may not even be present at that point in time.
Now, I will say that the world has changed. It has become more superficial as a whole...it sucks for some people. so in a way you feel like you have to adapt. But I don't think it's the right choice to force yourself to do something when it feels unnatural. But ultimately it's your decision. However, I do think you need to have a conversation about it with a therapist of some sort to figure out the core issue and work on it.