Most Attractive Facial Shape

Most attractive facial shape? What affects head shape?

It is interesting to see these different classification of facial shape, and my current area of research that shows just how intimately the shape of our faces are affected by our lifestyle.

Which face is most aesthetic?
I think most will look at the art and pick the top left, the oval shape as that appears most normal or least exotic.

But if you compare oval shape face to square shape face, which one has the more wider and horizontal mandible? Which one has the more defined cheekbones?
I would argue that the square shape face has the best structure out of all facial shapes, and it is the one that chewed more than anybody else growing up.

Notice how the oval shaped face has the lower jaw that is slimmer and tapers to a point, this is sign of narrowing of the mandible as well as mandible hinging back because of vertical growth of maxilla.

I think there is a myth that favors slimmer jaws on women as having more elegance and beauty, while this may have been true back in the old days when everyone had stronger jaws and the slim jaws were sign of wealth as money gave access to softer foods, and it was also rare.

On basis of supply and demand, the rare faces probably do get favored, to a certain degree.

But in this modern world, I think people are beginning to favor towards more broader faces now. It is a sign of good development which is becoming the rare thing, well at least in the western cultures, as everyone was industrialized.

I have found that many plastic surgeons in Asia, especially Korea, create slim jaw faces and it seems to be the more preferred face over there.

SNSD or Girl Generation is a famous girls band in Korea.

Which girl is the hottest?
I guess within Asia the popular ones are:
5- Yoona and 7- Taeyeon

From stand point of who has the best structure, in my opinion it is 3 – Sooyoung, but she is not regarded as the most beautiful in the group by S. Korean standards.

#3 – Sooyoung has the broadest face amongst the members, notice the distance between her eyes is the widest. And you can see the broadness of her smile. She has the most “square” face out of the members, notice oval face of rest of the members, the more oval the face the less distance between the eyes.

Sooyoung’s broad face, I believe makes her look more mature than other members with slimmer faces.

For example, the popular 5- Yoona and 7- Taeyeon have slimmer jaws indicating they had more vertical growth, this makes them look a bit more child-like, which seems to be the preference in Korea. There seems to be more preference towards cuteness, naivety, and dependence as desirable qualities in women.

While #3 – Sooyoung with (imo) better structure seems more independent and leader like.

It is interesting to note that in one of the interviews all of the members voted #3 – Sooyoung as having the best natural beauty, meaning the most beautiful without make up. Members commented that they are often shocked when looking at her waking up out of bed because she naturally looks beautiful.

Make Up Covers up the Downswing of Maxilla?

Here is group photo of them with less make up. Notice most members now begin to show bit of darkness under the eyes and the face became a bit more “plain”, but what is interesting is Sooyoung still seems to look just as good as before? (top row second from the left)

It may be bit unfair because she’s smiling, but again it is clear she has the wider face with a great wide smile.

Yoona – who is regarded as one of the most beautiful of the group, with less make up has dark circles under the eyes, the maxilla has dropped down and the cheekbones are thin. Her tongue posture is low.

Taeyeon – The stronger vocal of the team & quite popular. The maxilla has dropped as evident by the flat frontal cheeks. more vertical oriented lower jaw which shows weaker muscle tone.

Sooyoung – Girl that’s more closely approaching Victoria secret type structure, with wider, broader face with more horizontal lower jaw.  I put her picture next to Rosie Huntington (V. Secret Super model) to show the resemblance.

Nice horizontal lower jaw – evidence of good muscle tone. She’s the tallest member so it’s possible she ate more growing up, causing her to chew more. Perhaps… 

Sooyoung’s maxilla is further up and forward. Maxilla the cause of natural facial beauty, it seems to determine the winner of better face when no make up is involved quite dramatically.

To study above picture is to understand the effect of maxilla on the face, notice the difference in nose sizes. Because Sooyoung has the better muscle tone that kept her maxilla up, her nose is nice and small. The distance between the eyes is wider because of it, and she has more orbital support, she will also have straighter teeth naturally. The two girls to the left might of had ortho work done. Nose is bigger because as the maxilla fell it dragged the cartilage of the nose down.

It’s bit of a shame Sooyoung is not regarded for her true beauty qualities, it could be that Korea is still relatively new developing country economically meaning not too long ago many of them still lived more natural farmer type lifestyle where people had more broad features, so Sooyoung is more representing traditional face of Korea and as the country became modernized the new, slim type of modern faces became more popular, and regarded as more beautiful.

I see many older Korea women up in the 50’s + often have these broad faces, as I am sure their childhood was a lot different than modern times.

But in the west is the preference now towards more strong features?

For example, many stars get involved with increasing volume in the cheeks and lower jaw to make the structure appear more defined.

So this means the square type of face is more desirable than the oval face?

Our ancestors had square, robust faces. Almost to insane levels as I have heard their inter-molar width went up to 52 mm. While modern average is 28-33 mm, with the occasional super rare, greatly developed individual in the 42 mm range, that often came from 3rd world countries.

Because when your jaw muscles are very strong, overtime it sort of crushes the skull and makes it wider. When your jaw muscles are weak, it begins to elongate.

Traditional good looks are the square type of faces that looks good on a movie screen.

Oval faces can look cute with make up, but what makes the most aesthetic face the square jaw seems to be important, meaning good muscle tone.

The cartoon artist is not truly representing the actual difference of a square face, because he is not accounting for square faces having:

§  larger distance between the eyes

§  smaller nose

§  shorter face

§  possibly larger eyes, as maxilla gives more support for the eyes

He is showing that the side cheekbones are larger which is correct, but again with simple drawing he is not able to express the difference in the front cheekbones.

Quick opinion on how other faces are developed

Oblong – the person left their mouth open as a child and caused vertical growth of the maxilla, when they got older they learned to keep their mouth closed and started developing some muscle tone that began to square off the lower jaw. To make the face shorter again needs more extensive strengthening of jaw muscles and tongue posture correction.

Round – the lower jaw is weak, not very good muscle tone. The person may have tongue between teeth posture, causing vertical growth and suckle type of swallow where the cheek muscle is used to suck food down, this is causing enlarged cheeks and the not the hollow cheeks adults are supposed to have.

Pear – Larger lower jaw than the round face, better muscle tone. Could have the same improper swallow causing enlarged cheek muscle, or obese.

Diamond – low muscle tone and low tongue posture, face is slimming down and going vertical.

Heart – not entirely sure the cause of difference in forehead size, but again low muscle tone leading to set back lower jaw. The tongue posture may be good so the person may still have good front cheeks that support the eyes and midface, but the lower jaw just melted away.

These are general speculations based on my current knowledge and not to be considered absolute truths, studying each individual’s real face will serve better reading on what is actually going on, because its the combination of few factors, the main ones being 2 factors:

The balance between the biting muscle and the tongue posture & function.

Conclusion

in my opinion short, square faces produces the most beautiful faces.

Which requires a child to live a more natural lifestyle. I have found that people that grew up on farms when they were younger a lot of time grow up as pretty attractive individuals, like Victoria Secret model Rosie Huntington and this other girl I met the other day that had nice wide mandible, great face, and told me she grew up on a farm… I was thinking, dang that makes a lot of sense…

Also I can think of several football players I met in college that grew up on farms, all had broad faces.

On the farm you are gonna do a lot more outdoor activities and chores, what does that do to the child.

Give them hell of an appetite.

And farming household most likely live on more wholesome foods perhaps foods they get off the land, and won’t need to go to the supermarket as often.

So less likely to have high, calorie soft foods in the house like sugary treats that ruin appetite.

Therefore the farmer child will be actually eating larger volumes of food compared to modern kids playing gameboy, also chewing through more real foods with more fiber, volume + fiber = a lot more masticatory effort.

Over the course of few years this difference in lifestyle could make significant difference in jaw development, direction of maxilla growth, muscle tone, and facial shape.

Source From: http://claimingpower.com/facialshape/

5 Deep Wrinkle Treatments That Actually Work

While creams and over-the-counter treatments can be helpful for prevention and for treating fine lines, deep wrinkles need more serious attention. Even the expensive creams won't make a lasting difference on wrinkles. Instead, you need professional intervention.

The best wrinkle erasers are found in your cosmetic surgeon or your dermatologist's office. These include lasers, chemical peels, Botox, and fillers.
A Facelift or Eyelift

While facelifts used to be a hidden secret, more and more women are going this route. The secret to a good facelift is in the doctor. You never want to scrimp and save when it comes to your face. Ask for recommendations, go in for a consultation and arm yourself with knowledge before you go under the knife.

The lift you get tends to be permanent, so the hefty price tag ends up being less than you'd spend on 20 years of regular Botox and fillers.

Botox

Botox works by targeting and "freezing" muscles that cause wrinkles, runs about $300-$500 per treated area, and lasts three to six months. You can fix lines between the eyes and diminish smile lines along the eyes with Botox.

Too much Botox and you can be left with an over-arched eyelid or a frozen forehead. Also, the results are short-lived, especially since you will need to keep up the treatment for 30 years!

Chemical Peels

Ever notice how your foundation looks when it's applied to scaly, dry skin?

It makes you look older and more drawn. You can shave a few years off your face in under an hour with a professional chemical peel. Chemical peels work by removing the damaged top layers of skin while helping increase cell turnover at a deep level. You can book a light peel or sign up for a series of them.

A mild, glycolic acid chemical peel will set you back $150-$300, but you can get similar results in just one month with over-the-counter peels.

Injectables

Hyaluronic acid injectable fillers such as Restylane, Juvederm or Juvederm Ultra Plus (for deeper lines) work by replacing the fat loss as you age. These are best used in the lines that run from your nose to your chin (called the "nasolabial folds") and to puff up the fat loss in the cheeks.

Procedures must be done by a professional and the cost is $600-$1,000 per needle. Results can last up to six months.

Lasers

As we age, collagen production slows down significantly making our faces appear thinner and more gaunt.

Lasers such as Fraxel — currently the most popular laser on the market — are able to penetrate deep within the skin to treat damaged skin and boost collagen production.

Non-ablative lasers work by fixing age spots, bumps on the skin, scars and uneven skin tone. You may experience redness afterward, but this usually recedes within a few hours.


Source: https://www.liveabout.com/how-to-treat-deep-wrinkles-for-beautiful-skin-345649

Do hairs know they've been cut?

Question

Hello,

I have a question about body hair. When we remove unwanted body hair by plucking/shaving, we know that they grow back more or less to its natural length.

When we trim them, the hair also seem to grow back to its natural length, but this has mystified me for some time. a) How does the hair know it's been cut without stress caused to the hair follicle, and therefore start growing again; and

b) How does it know when to stop growing when it reaches the intended length?

Many thanks,

Maki Aoyama

Answer

Ginny - So, the short answer is that your hair doesn't know that it's been cut. This is a really common myth. People think that if they trim their head hair when they're trying to grow it, that it'll make it grow faster and people say that if shave your legs or your face, it makes it grow back faster, but that's not actually the case. The only thing that affects how long your hair is and how fast it grows is the hair itself and your genetics. So, hair goes through 3 phases when it's growing. There's the anagen phase which is the growth phase and this is when it actually grows, when it gets longer. Now, on head hair, that can last between 2 and 6 years and how long that phase is, counts as how long your hair could grow to. So, some people seem to be really lucky and they can grow hair down to their waist whereas other people, no matter how hard they try, it will never get pass shoulder length.

Chris - Not their eyelashes though, surely.

Ginny - No, not their eyelashes. Now, that's a point because body hair has a much shorter anagen phase. It's only a couple of months and that's why it never gets as long as head hair. I think there are few exceptions of weird people who've managed to grow their underarm hair ridiculously long in the Guinness Book of Records, but with a couple of weird exceptions, it doesn't get as long as the hair on your head because this anagen phase only last a couple of months. Now after that phase, what happens is the hair is cut off from the blood supply so the follicle sort of dies and it enters a dormant stage and then a bit of time after that, it'll fall out as a new hair begins to grow. So, what you're seeing is you're trimming say, your leg hair while it's still in the anagen phase - it's going to continue growing. But it can only ever get to a certain length because that anagen phase will end and it will fall out.



Source: https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/do-hairs-know-theyve-been-cut 

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The Top 7 Things You Need to Know About Laser Skin Resurfacing

1. When you have laser resurfacing makes a difference

Did you know that autumn is considered “laser season”? Because laser-treated skin is hypersensitive to sun exposure for up to a year following some procedures, many cosmetic surgeons recommend undergoing laser resurfacing during fall or winter months, when daytime hours are shorter and you are spending most of your time indoors.

Regardless of what time of year you have your laser procedure, wear a broad-spectrum SPF 30 or higher sunscreen daily and reapply as needed. This not only helps to keep your results looking their best, it also provides protection against skin cancer and helps prevent additional premature aging.

2. Treatment may hurt—or it may not

Patients and doctors commonly compare the sensation felt during laser treatments to a rubber band snapping against the skin. However, what laser resurfacing feels like depends on the laser, the depth and area of treatment, and an individual’s tolerance for pain.

Deeper ablative (some outer layers of skin are removed) laser treatments may require local anesthetic injections or intravenous sedation to keep a patient comfortable. Examples of ablative lasers are CO2 lasers and Erbium YAG lasers.

Some non-ablative laser treatments (the laser passes through the skin without removing layers) cause little-to-no pain and require only a topical numbing cream to offset discomfort. Non-ablative lasers include pulsed-dye, ND: Yag, and Alexandrite lasers. Following the procedure, some degree of tenderness in the treatment area can be expected. Your provider will recommend safe ways to control discomfort after laser resurfacing when necessary.

3. Having darker skin does not necessarily preclude you from laser resurfacing

A common misconception is that laser resurfacing is only safe for light skin types. While it is true that certain lasers pose a higher risk for cell damage or discoloration in darker skin, there are safe and effective resurfacing options. For lighter-toned African American, Hispanic or Asian skin tones, Erbium lasers can sometimes be a good option, posing less risk for discoloration. Patients with darker brown or black skin may need to consider other skin resurfacing options, such as radio-frequency treatments or microneedling.

The best way to ensure a safe, effective treatment for your skin type? Consult with a provider who has extensive training and knowledge in laser resurfacing procedures and experience working with darker skinned patients.

4. Who performs your laser resurfacing procedure has a tremendous influence on your results

In the hands of a highly trained, knowledgeable professional, laser resurfacing is a safe way to dramatically improve your skin’s appearance. In the hands of a poorly trained individual, lasers can be ineffective or even dangerous. Choose a laser resurfacing provider based on an individual’s experience, training, and qualification. Don’t make your pick based solely on who offers the best deal or has a brand name laser platform.

Choose a laser resurfacing provider based on experience, training, and qualification—don’t simply look for the best deal or the newest laser platform.

Your best bet? Choose a cosmetic surgeon board certified by the Government Medical Department certified surgeon has undergone a rigorous training fellowship that includes non-surgical treatments such as laser skin resurfacing.

5. Certain medications or conditions affect how the skin reacts to laser treatment

Always be upfront and honest with your provider about your medical history and any medications or supplements you are taking. For instance, if you are prone to cold sores or fever blisters, laser treatments may induce breakouts. Acne medications that contain isotretinoin (i.e., Accutane) can lead to poor healing or scarring from laser resurfacing, while common over-the-counter products like aspirin can increase the risk of post-procedure bleeding.

Common over-the-counter products like aspirin can increase the risk of post-procedure bleeding; other meds can lead to poor healing or scarring after laser treatments

Diabetes and other chronic conditions can also impact safety and results with laser resurfacing. You should also quit smoking at least 2 weeks prior to and after laser treatments to avoid complications with healing and provide your body with the best chance for optimal results.

6. Different lasers are optimized for different issues and skin types

The reason there are so many different laser options is that no one laser can treat all patients and all skin concerns. Here are a few varieties you are likely to come across in your research:

• CO2 Lasers are generally ablative lasers used to treat scars, warts, wrinkles and other deeper skin flaws.
• Erbium Lasers can be ablative or non-ablative. They promote collagen remodeling, making them popular options for treating fine lines, wrinkles, skin laxity, and age spots.
• Pulsed-Dye Lasers are typically non-ablative lasers that heat the skin and absorb pigments to reduce redness, hyperpigmentation, broken capillaries, and rosacea.
• Fractional Lasers break up the laser energy into thousands of tiny beams to treat only a fraction of the skin in the area, which reduces downtime. Fractional lasers can be ablative or non-ablative, and are used to treat a number of age-related blemishes.
• IPL (intense pulsed light) treatments technically are not lasers, but are often used to treat similar concerns as lasers, such as sun damage, acne, rosacea, and hyperpigmentation.

Rather than get caught up in brand names and laser wavelengths, focus on your individual goals: what skin problems do you want to address, and what results are you hoping for? The good news is you don’t have to determine this on your own: a board certified cosmetic surgeon or qualified skin care professional trained in laser resurfacing will be able to recommend the best treatment for you based on your skin type.

Source: https://www.americanboardcosmeticsurgery.org/skin-resurfacing/the-top-8-things-you-need-to-know-about-laser-skin-resurfacing/

Dark Eyes Circle

How do we get dark circles and how do we get rid of them?
It’s disheartening to look in the mirror and see dark circles under your eyes. You might expect them after pulling an all-nighter, but what if those pesky shadows don’t seem to go away even with a full night’s rest? It turns out it’s not just a lack of sleep that can bring them on with genetics being most at fault. But don’t despair–it’s not too difficult to make them go away or at least appear lighter.


What are they?
In most cases, dark eye circles are blood vessels under the eyes that can be seen through the skin. Since deoxygenated blood is blue, when it passes close to the surface of the skin it gives off a bluish tint.


What causes them?
Genetics
If you’re fair skinned, unfortunately you can add dark eye circles after sunburns to your list of skin-related issues. Fair skin is more transparent allowing more of the blue tint of the blood vessels to show through. Other inherited traits that contribute to dark eye circles are having thinner skin than most, Periorbital Hyperpigmentaiton, and deep-set bone structure which can cause shadowing around the eyes.


Age
As we get older, skin loses collagen and thins out causing it to become more translucent. Skin also begins to sag which can cause shadowing around the eyes.


Allergies
The histamines released during an allergy attack inflame the blood vessels and cause swelling. Rubbing the eyes due to itching doesn’t help either as it can cause broken blood vessels.


Illness and/or Medications
Anemia or an iron deficiency can result in dark eye circles as not enough oxygen reaches the body’s tissues. Liver problems can also be a cause. Any medications that make blood vessels dilate can cause eye circles to darken as well.


Nasal Congestion
According to the Mayo Clinic, nasal congestion can cause dark eye circles due to the veins that drain from your eyes to your nose becoming widened and darker. Try a neti pot or a saline spray to release some of the pressure.


How to treat them
There are some simple steps you can take to improve the appearance of dark eye circles. Doubling up on pillows and sleeping more propped up can stop blood from pooling under your eyes. A five minute cold compress upon waking (or the classic cucumbers on the eyes) can help constrict blood vessels giving a more refreshed look.

There are also a variety of eye creams on the market designed for dark eye circles. Some have caffeine to constrict blood vessels, some have green tea to strengthen capillary walls, some are collagen-building (retinol is the most famous of this kind). Eating a diet rich in Vitamin C, Vitamin E, omega-3 fatty acids and drinking plenty of water can drastically help your skin’s appearance including the skin around the eyes.


How to cover them up
When done correctly, makeup can mask even the darkest circles. First, apply eye cream and let it dry completely. Then choose a creamy concealer slightly lighter than your normal foundation to match the fairer skin around the eyes. Pat it along the circles and blend into the top of the check bone. Top with loose powder to set the makeup and keep it from getting caught in the creases.

If you are unsure the cause of your dark eye circles, try gently stretching the skin under your eyes. If it becomes darker, it is probably due to genetics or aging as it shows the darkness is due to an underlying color and not the skin itself. If the color doesn’t change, it’s most likely due to allergies or UV exposure.