Saturday, September 1, 2007

it's not your eyes, baby




When people get to say why a person is attractive, likely they give the set of eyes as specific reason. Guess what – it isn’t so.

I have had long and deep search for what makes a person facially appealing. And as requisite for my Masters education in Psychology, I wanted to know if the eyes do make serious justification in making a person eye-catching. Afterall, the eyes have been always a ready reason whether real or not in explaining why a person is particularly attractive.

Apparently, there have been several theories on facial attractiveness that may employ the eyes as accompanying feature. But that is just about it, an accompaniment.

For instance a male person who has babyface would be most likely considered attractive. Neonate features such as big round eyes have to be accompanied with round face and small nose.At times even the eyes are not as significant in the components of the attractive face. It is said that a male who has feminine face like having softened jawlines and perfect complexions would have attributes of being good fathers and cooperative in relationships.For the ladies, symmetry of the face is essential. And that means the eyes together with other facial features need a delicate balance in order to create a beautiful whole.

And in my research methodology, when the different sets of eyes were isolated and regressed with the accompanying faces, the pair of eyes made a feeble predictor of overall attractiveness. Components which strongly predicted attractiveness were shape of the face and surprisingly - the mouth.

Shape of the face which frames the overall structure of the face is pretty understandable. Usually gorgeous people have definitely nice facial bone structure. And more often than not, fashion and advertisement lady models have this classic oval look.

But a face’s attractiveness being dependent significantly on the attractiveness of the mouth area is somewhat peculiar. My findings also just validated other references which say it is the mouth that determines facial attractiveness – even more than the eyes.

Anecdotally, ladies who don’t have attractive mouths are largely unappealing. And those who have outstanding, luscious lips seem to be more fine-looking. So if there is an area worth the change just in case you need some facial rehab – try to look at the lips and the teeth, and not so much the overemphasized eye area. They just may do the trick.

Now who said that months with braces and retainers were just a waste.

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