paulie_walnuts
rookie of the year
- Joined
- Jul 12, 2019
- Posts
- 1,438
- Reputation
- 1,470
the lips and mouth region...compared to eyes, zygos and jawline and often overseen feature which is nontheless as an important as the just mentioned zygos
thus i decided the mega thread where can discuss all relevant topics regarding lips - such as: is there even a ideal lip shape for males? are fuller of medium lips more attractive? why does this one guy from here who posts fitness videos has the lip area of an old man? are my lips subhuman - rate my lips? does jaw or chin surgery affect the shape of my lips? do i get nicer lips if i keep sucking nibbas dick?
as a start a bit input
The lips are of great importance for the perception of beauty by humans. The appearance of the lips in part determines the attractiveness of a person’s face. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5952987/
thus i decided the mega thread where can discuss all relevant topics regarding lips - such as: is there even a ideal lip shape for males? are fuller of medium lips more attractive? why does this one guy from here who posts fitness videos has the lip area of an old man? are my lips subhuman - rate my lips? does jaw or chin surgery affect the shape of my lips? do i get nicer lips if i keep sucking nibbas dick?
as a start a bit input
In youthful Caucasians, the ideal ratio of the vertical height of the upper lip to that of the lower lip is 1:1.6 28. The fundamental proportions of the lips change as a person ages, with lengthening of the cutaneous portion of the upper lip and volume loss and thinning of the upper lip vermilion. Gravity, osteoporosis, dental changes, maxillomandibular bony resorption and further soft-tissue volume loss at the oral commissures cause the commissures to turn downward in a perpetual frown. While aging Caucasian males and females have similar hard and soft-tissue volume loss, with thinning of the vermilion and cutaneous portions of the lips, males generally do not develop rhytides of the upper and lower lips. This is because their skin is thicker, with more subcutaneous fat surrounding the terminal hair follicles (as opposed to the fine vellus hairs in females) 13.
Certain ethnic groups, especially Blacks, genetically have greater lip volume. Because the increased melanin in their skin is protective throughout their lifetimes, the skin of Blacks is less prone to solar elastosis. Consequently, they rarely develop radial rhytides in the lips and their vermilion tends to retain its volume even subsequent to aging 13.
Hwang K and Hwang SH reported that the ratio of vermilion size to mouth width was greater according to the Japanese than to the Korean ideals of beauty in the late 18th and early 19th centuries 29.
Go to:
Gender differences in the lips
Anic-Milosevic et al. 30 compared the proportions of the lower facial third segments in males and females. The chin accounted for the largest segment and the lower lip height the smallest in both sexes. Although the vermilion heights of the upper and lower lips did not differ between males and females, upper and lower lip heights were larger in males. In both sexes, the height of the upper vermilion was smaller than that of the lower vermilion. The height of the vermilion of the upper lip relative to the upper lip itself was significantly greater in females than in males. The width of the lips should be about 40% of the width of the lower face and generally equal to the distance between the medial limbi. The width-to-height ratio of the face is typically 3:4, with an oval-shaped face being the aesthetic ideal.
Hier et al. 31 reported that females prefer fuller lips to a greater degree than do males. Czarnecki et al. 32 created androgynous facial silhouettes and asked 545 professionals to evaluate the profiles constructed with various lips, chin and nose relations. The authors found that a slightly convex profile was desirable for females and a straighter profile for males.
The index of the lower facial thirds was unchanged for 2500 years, without differences between males and females. However, in the average contemporary ideal, the female face is shorter than the male face, although the interpupillary distances are similar. The harmonious male face is longer than its counterpart during antiquity. The ideal lower facial height in contemporary idealised females and males is 45% and 48% of the total facial height, respectively. During antiquity, it was 50% for both. The ideal ratio chin height/total lower facial height is 70% on average, with no differences between the sexes, whereas it was 66% in the classical canon. In the lower face, the Vitruvian thirds should be adjusted so as to yield a proportion corresponding to 30% upper lip and 70% lower lip-chin. The contemporary ideal ratios are suitable for use in orthofacial planning 22.
According to Baudouin and Tiberghien 33, full lips contribute to the attractiveness of a female face, together with large eyes, prominent cheekbones, thin eyebrows and a small nose and chin. The centre of the face thus consists of baby-like features, while the periphery implies sexual maturity. In the opinion of those authors, males find this type of female face particularly alluring.
Michiels and Sather 34 attempted to describe the essentials of facial beauty in Caucasian females. They concluded that the chin, upper lip and nose were particularly important factors in the perception of attractiveness.
The big man has a big mouth: Mouth width correlates with perceived leadership ability and actual leadership performance
The big man has a big mouth: Mouth width correlates with perceived leadership ability and actual leadership performance
Previous studies have found that facial appearance can predict both the selection and performance of leaders. Little is known about the specific facia…www.sciencedirect.com
3D Facial Norms Database
FaceBase is the primary data resource for craniofacial researchers worldwide.
www.facebase.org
Last edited: