It was bound to happen. Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by Professor Kang Lee, have discovered the formula to create the “perfect face”.
While we all know that an attractive female face includes full lips, big eyes and a smaller nose, now there’s a formula. Perfection is about the following measurements: the distance from the eyes to the mouth should be 36% of overall face length (which is measured from hairline to chin) and if you measure the distance between the pupils, it should be 46% of the width of the face (measured from ear to ear). This is for the average face only and hairstyles or makeup can be used to create the optical illusion of achieving these “perfect” measurements.
So who’s been blessed with perfection? Move over Angelina Jolie, Adriana Lima and Gisele Bundchen – it’s Shania Twain!
The study included students, who were asked to rate photographs of women’s faces. Photos of the same woman, but with different measurements for length and width altered by photoshop (not by cosmetic surgical procedures like facial implants and injectable fillers), were laid out for the students to be rated for attractiveness. Facial features, such as the nose or eyes, were not modified.
However, the study was only conducted on Caucasian (white) women and men, therefore it does not include a majority of the world’s population. And since it only targeted width and length, we think research still has to be done on the “perfect” size of lips, nose and other features.
news source BBC