GigantorMaxxer
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Hey guys. When I was way younger at 15, I had a fixation on the idea of having hollow cheeks. Despite that, I always had an underlying impression of hollow cheeks being somewhat overly-gaunt looking. Once my aunt said hollow cheeks are an awful feature, so not only I had this impression but now I had a woman properly said stating she dislikes it.
I don't think hollow cheeks look necessarily bad. Nevertheless, visible bone structure is a win for the most part, when you have a face so lean your chiseled (or not) bones are able to be seen, it's a positive. The catch is, hollow cheeks can make you look too slim, too chiseled, or with shadow-light contrast overly stark.
If you aim to appeal to the vast majority, then, you want to have some facial bone visibility while your cheeks are still covered by a very subtle skin/fat pad to keep you from looking skelletal-worth.
The solution to this is cheek dimples. I was fascinated over Tommy Lee's bone visibility and how it looked better than usual hollow cheeks and then I noticed: his dimples allow his bone structure to be somewhat visible while still retaining enough mass to make him look full, even, complete.
The difference between cheek dimples and hollow cheeks is mostly dimples being sunken, hollow areas over your maxillobucal complex, while hollow cheeks being sunken, hollow areas spanning from your maxillobucal complex to your zygomatic bones.
At sometimes Tommy Lee himself looks to be hollow-cheeked, but his case is very subtle and what stems most from it is dimples alone.
Hollow cheeks:
Dimples:
In my point of view, it is a major example of subtle vs overdone: dimples are subtle, hollow cheeks are overdone.
Sure hollow cheeks look more awesome, but more awesome isn't always more attractive.
I don't think hollow cheeks look necessarily bad. Nevertheless, visible bone structure is a win for the most part, when you have a face so lean your chiseled (or not) bones are able to be seen, it's a positive. The catch is, hollow cheeks can make you look too slim, too chiseled, or with shadow-light contrast overly stark.
If you aim to appeal to the vast majority, then, you want to have some facial bone visibility while your cheeks are still covered by a very subtle skin/fat pad to keep you from looking skelletal-worth.
The solution to this is cheek dimples. I was fascinated over Tommy Lee's bone visibility and how it looked better than usual hollow cheeks and then I noticed: his dimples allow his bone structure to be somewhat visible while still retaining enough mass to make him look full, even, complete.
The difference between cheek dimples and hollow cheeks is mostly dimples being sunken, hollow areas over your maxillobucal complex, while hollow cheeks being sunken, hollow areas spanning from your maxillobucal complex to your zygomatic bones.
At sometimes Tommy Lee himself looks to be hollow-cheeked, but his case is very subtle and what stems most from it is dimples alone.
Hollow cheeks:
Dimples:
In my point of view, it is a major example of subtle vs overdone: dimples are subtle, hollow cheeks are overdone.
Sure hollow cheeks look more awesome, but more awesome isn't always more attractive.
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