How plastic surgeons use the golden ratio ![]() “For example, the ideal ratio of the top of the head to the chin versus the width of the head should be 1.618,” says Dr Zamani.Īngelina Jolie’s face resembles the ‘phi’ maskįurther examples of where the ratio is said to be ideal in the human face include the width of the lips compared to the base of the nose, the measurement from outer eye to outer eye to the width of the lips, the distance from the bottom of the nose to the chin to the distance from the centre of the lips to the chin, the distance from the top of the nose to the centre of the lips should be 1.618 times the distance from the centre of the lips to the chin, and the hairline to the upper eyelid should be 1.618 times the length of the top of the upper eyebrow to the lower eyelid. ![]() As the face comes closer to this ratio, it becomes perceptibly more beautiful.” “Cross- cultural research has illustrated that no matter ethnicity or race, our perception of beauty is based on the ratio proportions of 1.618. The ‘phi mask’ has been used to create a clinical assessment tool to determine attractiveness and the result looks quite a lot like Angelina Jolieĭr Maryam Zamani, London-based aesthetic doctor and oculoplastic surgeon, agrees. We may be unaware of it, but subconsciously we judge beauty by facial symmetry and proportion – and not just the features of the face,” she says. However, the science of beauty is much more complex. “There are certain universally accepted features of female beauty, such as high cheekbones, petite nose, good skin and full lips. This may sound strange, particularly if you believe that human beauty is entirely individual and subjective. In the last few decades, it has been applied to facial beauty too and adopted as a guideline for aesthetic treatments. Over the centuries, this ratio has been dubbed the golden ratio, the golden section, the divine proportion or more recently, phi, named after Phidias, a Greek sculptor and mathematician who is believed to have used it when designing sculptures for the Parthenon in Athens. Artists, including Leonardo Da Vinci and Botticelli, are said to have used it in planning their paintings, and it’s also found in nature, in the curl of a shell or the heart of a flower. The ancient Greeks discovered some 2,500 years ago that when a line is divided into two parts in a ratio of 1: 1.618, it is thought to create a profoundly appealing proportion. What makes a face beautiful? Doe eyes? A Grecian nose? A winning smile? Certainly, all of these play a role, but for some doctors the answer is something simpler.ĭr Tatiana Lapa, medical director of The Studio Clinic in London’s Harley Street, says a specific mathematical ratio can explain why some people are considered attractive and others are not. So how can phi – also known as the golden ratio – play a role in contemporary aesthetic medicine? But can an ancient mathematical formula really help make today’s faces more attractive? A number of doctors insist it can. “Wherever there is number, there is beauty.” So wrote the Greek philosopher Proclus.
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