How can I get him to compliment me

I don’t want this too sound too needy, but I’ve been dating my bf for six months and he never really compliments me. He makes me feel loved and special in other ways, but he never calls me beautiful or pretty. I always see these posts about guys saying that stuff and it just makes me jealous. If anything, my man calls me cute all the time. I appreciate this of course, but it makes me feel like a baby. I want to feel pretty or even sexy. I don’t know how to talk to him about this without sounding needy and desperate or worse, ungrateful.