"Golden" ratios for facial beauty

[archlord]

According to a multiple studies,  the face ratio for female "attractiveness"  should be the following

We found that although different faces have varying attractiveness, individual attractiveness is optimized when the face's vertical distance between the eyes and the mouth is approximately 36% of its length, and the horizontal distance between the eyes is approximately 46% of the face's width.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2814183/

Faces were judged as most attractive when the distance between the eyes was 46 percent of the face's width and when the distance from eyes to mouth was 36 percent of the face's length, according to the study published in the most recent issue of the journal Vision Research.

A matter of inches
That means a woman with a face 5 ½ inches wide from ear to ear and 7 inches long from hairline to chin ideally would boast about 2 ½ inches of distance between her eyes and another 2 ½ inches between her pupils and mouth.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34482178/ns/health-skin_and_beauty/t/ideal-beauty-matter-millimeters-study-says/#.WFcXalPhCUk

After reading this study, im not dysphoric about my face anymore. Always had the feeling that it was a little long but it looks like ive perfect ratios according to study.

my records:

6.5 inch face width / 3 inch middles eyes to middle eyes =  46%
7 inch face lenght ( from hairline to chin) / 2.5 inch eye to mouth = 36%



What about you?

[Harley Quinn]

I've always been an Audrey Hepburn fan. She was stunning. Julia Roberts is another crazy attractive lady... I wouldn't kick either out of bed for eating cookies... I have no idea how they measure up with the study.

[Lady_Oracle]

Yeah when I read about the "golden ratios" I felt a little better about myself and started seeing what everyone else had been telling me for like forever. I have a really well proportioned face and I technically don't fit euro-centric beauty standards perfectly. I'm a woman of color but I do meet most of the "current beauty standard criteria". I just find it difficult sometimes to see the physical beauty in myself cause I don't wear makeup 24/7 and have the dreaded "look tired" face a lot due to lack of sleep. I notice when I do wear minimum amounts of makeup those features of mine really shine. I guess this post sounds a bit vain but I'm kind of tired of being hard on myself. With all that being said I'd have to say the same, it helped quail my face dysphoria when I was still developing in my early years.

On the flip side I can't help but think what a rhinoplasty would do for me but at the same time, it really isn't that big of an issue. Its literally not even a necessity for my transition like it is for others. So I try to remind myself of that and be thankful I don't have to spend thousands of dollars on facial surgeries.

[Wild Flower]

I don't know about all that... I think it plays a factor, but I don't think it's the most important.

I consider Cher a very beautiful woman, and her face is on the longer side.

Christina Ricci also has a very round face and doesn't meet it, and she's pretty too.

I understand the eye factor though, but Kate Moss has wide set eyes.

Sofia Vergara has narrow set eyes...

lol

What one consider ugly is another person beauty too... (sometimes)

[archlord]

I read post so often of transwoman talking about having a long face . After reading this professional study,  I thought it could help some getting rid of this dysphoria like it did for me .

Anyway like wild flower said , attractiveness is not only linked to this

[Dee Marshall]

Just reading the initial post helped me immensely. I measured off my face by finger widths and saw that it measured up pretty well.

[tgirlamg]

I'm not going to measure!!!....This has the potential to send me into lifelong depression!!!! !!!!!

Ignorance is bliss!!!!

[Steph7]

I'm not going to measure!!!....This has the potential to send me into lifelong depression!!!! !!!!!

Ignorance is bliss!!!!

I'm with you!!!!!

[Lyric]

Such attempts to quantify and mechanize beauty always seem to have serious flaws. I spent a good deal of time playing around with one of those online sites where you upload a photo and it evaluates your beauty based on ratios like that. I fed it not only my own pic, but those of many celebrities for comparison. At first it seemed to work pretty well, then not so much. I decided it was fairly pointless when it rated Boris Karloff and the Wicked Witch of the West as better looking than Jennifer Aniston.

[archlord]

Measurement on tape and a "beauty program" with no medical research is not the same thing at all.