The Perfect Human Face

JUDGEMENTS OF FACIAL BEAUTY

Judgments of aesthetic value clearly rely on our ability to discriminate at a sensory level. Aesthetics examines our affective domain response to an object or phenomenon. Many see natural beauty folded within petals of a Rose. Immanuel Kant, writing in 1790, observes of a man "If he says that canary wine is agreeable he is quite content if someone else corrects his terms and reminds him to say instead: It is agreeable to me," because "Everyone has his own (sense of) taste". The case of "beauty" is different from mere "agreeableness" because, "If he proclaims something to be beautiful, then he requires the same liking from others; he then judges not just for himself but for everyone, and speaks of beauty as if it were a property of things."
Aesthetic judgments usually go beyond sensory discrimination. For David hume, delicacy of taste is not merely "the ability to detect all the ingredients in a composition", but also our sensitivity "to pains as well as pleasures, which escape the rest of mankind." (Essays Moral Political and Literary. Indianapolis, Literary Classics 5, 1987.) Thus, the sensory discrimination is linked to capacity for pleasure. For Kant "enjoyment" is the result when pleasure arises from sensation, but Judging something to be "beautiful" has a third requirement: sensation must give rise to pleasure by engaging our capacities of reflective contemplation. Judgments of beauty are sensory, emotional and intellectual all at once.
Viewer interpretations of beauty possess two concepts of value: aesthetics and taste. Aesthetics is the philosophical notion of beauty. Taste is a result of education and awareness of elite cultural values; therefore taste can be learned. Taste varies according to class, cultural background, and education. According to Kant beauty is objective and universal; thus certain things are beautiful to everyone. The contemporary view of beauty is not based on innate qualities, but rather on cultural specifics and individual interpretations. What factors are involved in an aesthetic judgment? Mathematical considerations, such as symmetry and complexity, are used for analysis in theoretical aesthetics. This is different from the aesthetic considerations of applied aesthetics used in the study of mathematical beauty.

Stephen Marquardt Phi (Golden ratio) mask

The big problem with Marquardt's mask is that it describes the outline of a masculinized white woman even though most people prefer above average femininity in the looks of women. http://www.femininebeauty.info/aesthetics/marquardt..Dr. Stephen Marquardt has studied human beauty for years in his practice of oral and maxillofacial surgery. Dr. Marquardt performed cross-cultural surveys on beauty and found that all groups had the same perceptions of facial beauty. He also analyzed the human face from ancient times to the modern day. Through his research, he discovered that beauty is not only related to phi, but can be defined for both genders and for all races, cultures and eras with the beauty mask which he developed and patented. This mask uses the pentagon and decagon as its foundation, which embody phi in all their dimensions.

What is Facial Beauty anyway?

Is the symmetry really the determination for defining beauty, in today's age MAYBE. I personally feel that facial beauty is in the eye of the beholder, its beauty varies from culture to culture, person to person, it facets are far greater then our personal reach. Many believe that facial features were responsible for the outcome of your personal beauty but in the world of symmetry, especially facial symmetry, is one of a number os aesthetic traits, including averageness and youthfulness, assoicated with health, and physical attractiveness. When the shape of facial features is varied (with skin textures held constant), increasing symmetry of face shape increases rating of attractiveness for both male and female faces.

Read for reference - - Symmetry and Human Facial Attractiveness By David I. Perrett

Facial Beauty/or perfection according to commenters..

Anonymous writes..."have been a professional portrait painter and teacher for over thirty years. I have spent literally thousands of hours observing the human body and faces as actual visual and spatial relationships and the world I do requires visual measurements. I've found that faces and for that matter all other body parts are not symmetrical on anyone I've met. Any photograph could be set up or manipulated to make a face look almost symmetical. I have found through teaching others to see that most people (99%) imagine what they see and don't observe actual visual relationships. Beauty as perfection is an imagined ideal; only truth is real and truly beautiful.

Terry Bayer writes...."Ah I see. So in simpler terms, facial symmetry is one of the most influencing factors for determining the physical beauty of a person. Well, with modern mthods available - botox and other cosmetic surgeries, and image and personality development in glittering cities like Los Angeles, achieving facial beauty is relatively easy to achieve.

The golden section (also known as golden ratio, divine proportion) is a constant equal to 1.61803398875. This number was derived by means of division and has a long history. The proportions of the Great Pyramid, temples, domestic articles and adornments from Tutankhamun's tomb prove that Egyptian craftsmen used the golden section in their work. Leonardo da Vinci used the parameters of a human body corresponding to the golden section before he created his masterpieces. In biological research carried out in the 70s-90s it was shown that the golden section typical of structural proportions and harmony is found everywhere starting from viruses and flora to a human body. The golden section is recognized as the universal law of living systems.

A human face also contains a lot of examples that are close to the golden section. That is why, according to scientists and people of art, painters and sculptors, only people with ideal beauty have exact matches to the golden section.

Facial Shapes

Our appearance is what makes us unique as individuals. Even though we are unique, certain characteristics such as jaw placement and forehead shape determines face shape. There are six different face shapes: Oval face shape, Heart-Shaped face shape, Pear-Shaped face shape, Square face shape, Round face shape, and Long face shape. 1. Oval Face Shape: This is considered the perfect face shape because it is symmetrical. An oval face shape will have wider cheekbones and then narrow down to the jaw line and chin. Oval face shape will also be narrow up towards the forehead.2. Heart-Shaped Face Shape: A Heart-Shaped face is very unique. It will be broader at the forehead and then taper into a small, narrow chin. This face shape is called, Triangle Shape. 3. Pear-Shaped Face Shape: A Pear-Shapes face will be wider at the cheeks and jaw but have a narrow forehead.4. Square Face Shape: A Square face is very common. It will be equally wide at the forehead, cheeks, and jaw line. 4. Square Face Shape: A Square face is very common. It will be equally wide at the forehead, cheeks, and jaw line.. Round Face Shape: Round face shapes are fuller and will usually look younger than they are. It will have a round forehead and a round chin, with wide, full cheeks. 6. Long Face Shape: A Long face shape is similar to an oval face shape but has higher cheek bones and a high forehead.

The Universal Standard of Facial Beauty

There is a Universal Standard for Facial Beauty regardless of race, age, sex, and other variables. Beautiful faces have ideal facial proportion. Ideal proportion is directly related to divine proportion, and that proportion is 1 to 1.618. All living organisms, including humans, are genetically encoded to develop to the proportion because there are extreme esthetic and physiologic benefits. The vast majority of us are not perfectly proportioned because of environmental factors. Establishment of a universal standard for facial beauty will significantly simplify the diagnosis and treatment of facial disharmonies and abnormalities. More important, treating to this standard will maximize facial esthetics, TMJ helath, psychologic and pysiologic health, fertility, and quality of life.

Here are the ten, non-gender specific, hallmarks of the Human Universal Beautiful:

1. Big eyes
2. Small nose
3. Tall and Lean
4. Symmetrical Face and Body
5. Well- defined musculature (men)/or hourglass figure (women)
6. Thick hair
7. Large hands
8. Glowing Skin
9. Full Lips
10. Light skin with dark eyes, Light eyes with tan skin

Those who are born with all ten of the beautiful, univeral, hallmarks are inherently adored and ethereally anointed fro the moment of their conception to lead us but perhaps not righteously and to have dominion but perhaps not thoughtful kindness over the lives of the millions beneath them.

Mirror Mirror on the wall - Whose the Fairest of them all?

A preference for lighter-skinned women has remained prevalent over time, even in cultures without European contact. Anthropologist Peter Frost stated that since higher-ranking men were allowed to marry the perceived more attractive women, who tended to have fair skin, the upper classes of a society generally tended to develop a lighter complexion than the lower classes by sexual selection.Today, skin bleaching is not uncommon in parts of the world such as Africa, and a preference for lighter-skinned women generally holds true for Africans, Latins, Indians, and Asians. One exception to this has been in contemporary Western culture, where tanned skin used to be associated with the sun-exposed manual labor of the lower-class, but has generally been considered more attractive and healthier since the mid-20th century."Although virtually all cultures express a marked preference for fair female skin, even those with little or no exposure to European imperialism, and even those whose members are heavily pigmented, many are indifferent to male pigmentation or even prefer men to be darker." Frost reports that out of 51 different cultures in the anthropology profession's famous Human Relations Area Files, 44 cultures favored lighter complexions on either only women (30) or on both sexes (14). In only 3 cultures was fair skin preferred on men only, and in just 4 cultures was darker skin desired.Lighter ladies were favored in many countries with little exposure to Western beauty standards, such as medieval Japan, Ethiopia, Aztec Mexico, and Moorish Spain, where the dominant culture was darker skinned than the conquered natives. Not surprisingly, men and women often behave in ways that exaggerate the sex difference in color. For example, although sun-tanning was fashionable among Hollywood starlets in the 1960s and 1970s, the current generation seldom tans.Could it all just be social class prejudice? Traditionally, wealthier women who didn't have to work outdoors could avoid tanning more than poor women who had to slop the hogs. That plays a definite role in maintaining the bias, but the cultural fondness for fairer women is even found among hunter-gatherer tribes where all women have to be outdoors every day finding food.

PERFECTION IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

What are some Stereotypical Facial Features of all Races.

1. Whites: Any eye color, skintone ranging from pale to tan, thin lips, Slim to long noses. 2. Africans/Blacks: Blonde to Black Hair, Skintone Light brown to dark brown, any eye size or shape or color, medium to thick lips, wider noses. 3. Latinas: Any hair color, texture thickness, Any eye shape or color, skintone light tan to medium brown, Thin to medium lips, low bridged noses. 4. Asians: Brown to black hair, monolid/double eyelid small brown/black eyes, Skintone pale with yellow undertones to dark sandy brown, thin to medium lips. 5. Indians: Brown to black hair, Any color eyes, Skintone Pal to dark brown, thin to full lips, High bridged hook noses. 6. Middle Eastern: Any hair color type, Any color eyes, Skintone Olive skin to brown, thin to full lips, High or low bridged noses.

FACIAL BEAUTY

What is Facial Beauty? Beauty is studied as part of aesthectics. An "ideal beauty" is an entity which is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture. Facial Beauty involves the interpretation of harmony of the Facial features. Facial beauty maybe a subjective matter or experience, it is often said that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." In its most profound sense, beauty may engender a salient experience of positive reflection about the meaning of one's own existence. A subject of beauty is anything that resonates with personal meaning.

Welcome to my conclusion on the "Perfect Human Face" after many long years of studying all aspects of the human face their has been many conclusions expressed concerning the beauty of the face and symmetry has been the most publicized by the general public. I still concur that Beauty is really
in the eye of the beholder so do judge for yourself.
Today, this symmetry of THE FACE has been scientifically proven to be inherently attractive to the human eye. It has been defined not with proportions, but rather with similarity between the left and right sides of the face--The Symmetry.
It has long been said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and thought that beauty varies by race, culture or era. The evidence, however, shows that our perception of physical beauty is hard wired into our being from birth and based on how closely one's features reflect phi in their proportions. Take another look at beauty through the eyes of medical science.
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Why you can't overlook a Pretty Face.

Sept. 20, 2007 -- Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but the eye finds it really hard to look away from the physically attractive -- and new research shows why that is.It all boils down to your relationship status, suggest Florida State University (FSU) psychology researchers including Jon Maner, PhD.In a paper titled "Can't Take My Eyes Off You," they suggest that heterosexual singles gaze at physically attractive people of the opposite sex because they're looking for a potential mate. People who are in relationships don't do that, since they're not looking for a mate. But they warily watch very attractive people of the same sex because they may poach their mate, Maner's team observes. Those habits happen in the blink of an eye, flying under the radar of the conscious mind, the researchers report in September's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Can't Look Away.If we're interested in finding a mate, our attention gets quickly and automatically stuck on attractive members of the opposite sex," Maner says in a news release. If we're jealous and worried about our partner cheating on us, attention quickly and automatically gets stuck on attractive people of our own sex because they are our competitors," he adds. These kinds of attentional biases can occur completely outside our conscious awareness," Maner says.In a series of experiments, Maner's team showed pictures of people ranging from "very unattractive" to "very attractive" to 442 heterosexual FSU undergraduates. The students watched the photos pop up, one by one, on a computer screen. Each picture was displayed for a split second, followed by a square or circle that sometimes showed up on another part of the screen. The students were told to press a computer key, as quickly as possible, to indicate whether they saw a circle or square. They also completed questionnaires about their relationships. When the photo had shown a very attractive person, the students were slower to look away from the spot on the screen where that photo had been. Single people only did that after seeing photos of very attractive people of the opposite sex. The researchers call that a "mate-search" phenomenon. People in relationships only lingered after seeing photos of very attractive people of the same sex. Maner's team calls that "mate-guarding" behavior, which was particularly strong among jealous people. The study doesn't show whether people actually act on those instant visual impulses. But the findings may help explain the visual snare of physical attractiveness. By Miranda Hitti (Web MD)

All stereotypes are true, except... II: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? Published on April 27, 2008 by Satoshi Kanazawa in The Scientific Fundamentalist....They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which means that different people possess different standards of beauty and that not everyone agrees on who is beautiful and who is not. This is the first stereotype or aphorism that evolutionary psychology has overturned. It turns out that the standards of beauty are not only the same across individuals and cultures, they are also innate. We are born with the notion of who’s beautiful and who’s not. On the surface, the aphorism “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” appears quite reasonable. Many introductory college textbooks in sociology and anthropology include pictures of people who are considered to be beautiful in different cultures, and some of them look quite bizarre to the contemporary western eye. However, evolutionary psychological research has overturned this common assumption and widespread belief.Within the United States, both East Asians and whites, and whites and blacks agree on which faces are more or less beautiful. Cross-culturally, there is considerable agreement in the judgment of beauty among East Asians, Hispanics, and Americans; Brazilians, Americans, Russians, the Aché of Paraguay, and the Hiwi of Venezuela; Cruzans and Americans in Saint Croix; white South Africans and Americans; and the Chinese, Indians, and the English. In none of these studies does the degree of exposure to the western media have any influence on people’s perception of beauty. How is it possible for people from such diverse cultures to agree broadly on who is beautiful and who is not? It appears that people from different cultures share the same standards of beauty because they are innate; we are born with the knowledge of who’s beautiful and who’s not. Two studies conducted in the mid-1980s independently demonstrate that infants as young as two and three months old gaze longer at a face that adults judge to be more attractive than at a face that adults judge to be less attractive. Babies are wonderfully hedonistic and have no manners, so they stare at objects that they consider to be pleasing. When babies stare at some faces longer than others, it indicates that they prefer to look at them and find them attractiveIn the most recent version of this experiment, newborn babies less than one week old show significantly greater preference for faces that adults judge to be attractive. Another study shows that 12-month-old infants exhibit more observable pleasure, more play involvement, less distress, and less withdrawal when interacting with strangers wearing attractive masks than when interacting with strangers wearing unattractive masks. They also play significantly longer with facially attractive dolls than with facially unattractive dolls. The findings of these studies are consistent with the personal experiences and observations of many parents of small children, who find that their children are much better behaved when their babysitters are physically attractive than when they are not.Even the most ardent proponents of the traditional view that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” must admit that one week (or even a few months) is not nearly enough time for infants to have learned and internalized the (supposedly arbitrary) cultural standards of beauty through socialization and media exposure. These studies instead strongly suggest that the broad standards of beauty might be innate, not learned or acquired through socialization. The balance of evidence indicates that beauty is decidedly not in the eye of the beholder, but might instead be part of universal human nature.

The Perfect Human Face

JUDGEMENTS OF FACIAL BEAUTY

Stephen Marquardt Phi (Golden ratio) mask

Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder?

The Golden Ratio

Facial Shapes

The Universal Standard of Facial Beauty

Mirror Mirror on the wall - Whose the Fairest of them all?

PERFECTION IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

What makes a Perfect Human Face?

Do you think there is a Universal Standard of Beauty

What Nationalites of People rank the highest Genetically in facial beauty?

Why do Caucasians rank higher in beauty when it comes to other nationalities?

Why are Africans considered the least attractive when compared to Caucasians?

Which Nationalities rank higher in Facial Beauty?

The Photo-shop Era of Beauty Facial Beauty is not always what it appears to be.

Is Photoshopped Imagery responsible for the PERFECT FACE?

What are some Stereotypical Facial Features of all Races.

FACIAL BEAUTY

THE FACIAL SYMMETRY STUDY

Is Aishwarya Rai REALLY the fairest of them all?

Is AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN, the most beautiful woman in the world?

Facial Anatomy