Just a Few Millimeters Make the Difference Between a Plain and a Beautiful Face
A new study has revealed what the lead researchers calls the golden ration for facial beauty. In surveys the women who had these specific ratios always were deemed the most attractive. So what are the perfect measurements? Well, it all has to do with the width between your eyes and the width between your eyes and your mouth.
It all has to do with the horizontal distance between the eyes and the vertical distance between the eyes and the mouth, says Pamela M. Pallett, a researcher who believes she has identified new "golden ratios" for facial beauty.
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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.
That means a woman with a face 5 1/2 inches wide from ear to ear and 7 inches long from hairline to chin ideally would boast about 5 1/2 inches of distance between her eyes and another 2 1/2 inches between her pupils and mouth.
Women whose measurements varied from those markers were ranked less attractive, according to the undergraduate college students who participated in the study. The 126 students, mostly women, were asked to compare paired photographs of young, white, female faces with identical facial features but different distances between the eyes and between the eyes and mouth.
Pamela Pallett says that changing your hairstyle is an easy way to change the perceived ratios in your facial features. In fact a haircut can make a huge difference in attractiveness, because it changes the ratios of the face. The study also revealed that average faces scored as more attractive. After a lifetime of looking at faces, most humans form a composite of what an attractive face looks like.
