Previous literature has shown that attractive faces capture the attention of both males and females, with certain studies finding that males are more strongly attracted to attractive female faces. On the other hand, research has also shown inconclusive results when it comes to the relation between facial distinctiveness, attractiveness and people’s ability to recognize faces. The current study evaluates participant’s facial recognition abilities and then tests whether attentional biases exist among those who have high, or low, facial recognition abilities. Thirty-two participants aged between nineteen and thirty-one years old completed the Benton Facial Recognition test, revised, which evaluated their ability to recognize faces. Participants then completed a visual search paradigm where they were tasked with finding an emotional face in a grouping of neutral faces, and to correctly indicate the present emotion. Inconsistent with previous research, the current study finds that attractive faces are not effective at capturing attention, regardless of sex. The current study also finds that participant’s performance in a facial recognition task does not allow for significant predictions of their fixation duration on attractive and unattractive faces.