NegativeNorwood
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Let's say that you have a midface ratio of 1.05, with 68 mm IPD and 65mm midface lenght. There was a measurements data base posted of male model faces here and it said that Sean O'pry had those measurements, give or take 1mm.
This is very close to ideal on paper, 65mm midface is not a short face, you even show a small amount of gum and all your teeth properly when smiling. 68 mm IPD is on the high side, but is well proportioned, which gives you that coveted compact but not stunted look many would kill for.
All of that is meaningless if the rest of your features give the illusion of a short face.
The most important are:
- Zygos: wide and low set gives you a worse ES Ratio, and as such the illusion of a short face.
- Lack of eyebrows: their main purpose is to frame the face. With thin eyebrows more of your upper third is visible, which again makes your face look wider and shorter.
- Upturned nose with a low nose bridge: low nose bridge gives a 2d illusion at the front of the medial canthus, making the face look flatter and more spread out. Upturned nose tip makes the nose shorter, making your philtrum more visible in a bad way, which also contributes to the illusion of facial shortness. The nose is the central element of the face and is of great importance for the perception of it.
- Temporalis muscle: if it is too big, it makes your head bigger, and as such you'll look wider and shorter faced. It is activated with chewing, so keep chewing gum like a retard if you want to look bad
- Temples and hairline: like the eyebrows, they frame the face. Recession means more face visible, resulting in the perception of a bigger head.
- Eyelashes: lack of eyelashes makes the eyes look smaller, affecting the perception of PFL and ES Ratio even if those do not change.
- Bloated masseters: the muscle grows, jaw doesn't (keep coping with chewing lmao, huge looksmin), and as such the jaw becomes rounder and bigger, giving again the perception of bloat and a shorter, wider face. Small masseters and gonial eversion is what you want for a top tier lower third, not big masseters.
- High body fat %: self explanatory, extra fat deposits on your face make it wider, and as such the illusion of a shorter face.
Enough theory, let's take a look at Sean O'pry:
Look at how much shorter his face looks with same midface lenght and IPD but: bigger temporalis muscle, receeded hairline, sparse and short eyebrows, wide and low set zygos and upturned nosebridge (and it could be worse, has half of the failos I mentioned earlier):
Bonus pic, same morph but fat (even bigger difference):
If the morph were real and posted here for a rating, he would be told that he is a short face syndrome slavic mutt that needs Lefort 2.
Couldn't be further from the truth, and to be a super male model with normal face proportions he would "just" need:
- Temporalis muscle reduction
- Hair and eyebrow transplant
- Cheekbone reduction surgery
- Augmentation rhinoplasty
- Weight loss
TL;DR: there's more to looks than bimax, Lefort 2-3 and CCW rotation. Looks are way more complex than what your peanut brain that thinks chewing is a good idea can comprehend.
This is very close to ideal on paper, 65mm midface is not a short face, you even show a small amount of gum and all your teeth properly when smiling. 68 mm IPD is on the high side, but is well proportioned, which gives you that coveted compact but not stunted look many would kill for.
All of that is meaningless if the rest of your features give the illusion of a short face.
The most important are:
- Zygos: wide and low set gives you a worse ES Ratio, and as such the illusion of a short face.
- Lack of eyebrows: their main purpose is to frame the face. With thin eyebrows more of your upper third is visible, which again makes your face look wider and shorter.
- Upturned nose with a low nose bridge: low nose bridge gives a 2d illusion at the front of the medial canthus, making the face look flatter and more spread out. Upturned nose tip makes the nose shorter, making your philtrum more visible in a bad way, which also contributes to the illusion of facial shortness. The nose is the central element of the face and is of great importance for the perception of it.
- Temporalis muscle: if it is too big, it makes your head bigger, and as such you'll look wider and shorter faced. It is activated with chewing, so keep chewing gum like a retard if you want to look bad
- Temples and hairline: like the eyebrows, they frame the face. Recession means more face visible, resulting in the perception of a bigger head.
- Eyelashes: lack of eyelashes makes the eyes look smaller, affecting the perception of PFL and ES Ratio even if those do not change.
- Bloated masseters: the muscle grows, jaw doesn't (keep coping with chewing lmao, huge looksmin), and as such the jaw becomes rounder and bigger, giving again the perception of bloat and a shorter, wider face. Small masseters and gonial eversion is what you want for a top tier lower third, not big masseters.
- High body fat %: self explanatory, extra fat deposits on your face make it wider, and as such the illusion of a shorter face.
Enough theory, let's take a look at Sean O'pry:
Look at how much shorter his face looks with same midface lenght and IPD but: bigger temporalis muscle, receeded hairline, sparse and short eyebrows, wide and low set zygos and upturned nosebridge (and it could be worse, has half of the failos I mentioned earlier):
Bonus pic, same morph but fat (even bigger difference):
If the morph were real and posted here for a rating, he would be told that he is a short face syndrome slavic mutt that needs Lefort 2.
Couldn't be further from the truth, and to be a super male model with normal face proportions he would "just" need:
- Temporalis muscle reduction
- Hair and eyebrow transplant
- Cheekbone reduction surgery
- Augmentation rhinoplasty
- Weight loss
TL;DR: there's more to looks than bimax, Lefort 2-3 and CCW rotation. Looks are way more complex than what your peanut brain that thinks chewing is a good idea can comprehend.
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