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[–]levoyageur718293 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They're both subsets of "good-looking," but they carry the shadow-meaning of "looking like you should." So beautiful means "looking like a good-looking woman," and handsome means "looking like a good-looking man."

You can say "she's a handsome woman," but that's more of a quotation than a real phrase, and in practice it means "she's holding on to her looks pretty well despite her age."