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I find that a feature of a lot of good eye areas, not necessarily all, is a laterally wide glabella, and ideally one that tapers more dramatically as the nose bridge moves into the brow. It does not even have to necessarily be anteriorly projected. By extension, this would all be more likely to happen on people with a wider nose in general.
This seems to be an effect of the upper nose bridge beginning to merge with the brow at a point lower down on the nose bridge. I shall baptize this point the plane of glabellar expansion. Any work done to the brow and supraorbital rims must consider the way it will harmonize with the glabella and plane of glabellar expansion.
For example, the guy pictured below is an extreme example of a wide glabella, which is even more necessary in his case given his wide IPD. In fact, it is what saves his wide IPD, since if his glabella was narrow you would perceive more space between the eyes than there actually is.
From the profile view, I might add, his browbone is entirely flat, no bump at all.
The red lines in the below pic is what I am referring to. The green lines would represent a worse glabella shape. You can see with the red lines, the glabella begins expanding outwards more towards the bottom of the eyes, whereas with the green lines, the glabella begins expanding outwards at the middle of the eye. If he had the green lines, he would have less positive hooding and otherwise lose a lot of harmony.
The reason a lot of supraorbital implants end up unsatisfying is that they leave this area untouched. This accounts for the frequent complaint that they produce an unnatural horizontalness. In the implants below, for instance, remedying this would amount to augmenting some part of the red area. Not only on the front of the glabella, but basically alongside the upper nose bridge. A
In general, a lower brow would mean a lower plane of glabellar expansion, and a lower brow would mean more hooded eyes. The lateral edges of the implant below should also not be as low. You want the implant to feel almost like it's "rotating" your supraorbital rims inward, so that they are lowest towards the glabella rather than away from it.
As we can see, this discussion of what makes a good eye area returns, rather unexpectedly, to one thing: having a nose wide enough for your face. In order to have no UEE, you need to have a low brow. In order to have that, you need a low plane of glabellar expansion. In order to have that, you need a wide nose bridge. Those who have a low brow but a higher plane of glabellar expansion risk having negative hooding; those who arrive surgically at a low brow but still have a high plane of glabellar expansion risk looking unnatural.
This seems to be an effect of the upper nose bridge beginning to merge with the brow at a point lower down on the nose bridge. I shall baptize this point the plane of glabellar expansion. Any work done to the brow and supraorbital rims must consider the way it will harmonize with the glabella and plane of glabellar expansion.
For example, the guy pictured below is an extreme example of a wide glabella, which is even more necessary in his case given his wide IPD. In fact, it is what saves his wide IPD, since if his glabella was narrow you would perceive more space between the eyes than there actually is.
From the profile view, I might add, his browbone is entirely flat, no bump at all.
The red lines in the below pic is what I am referring to. The green lines would represent a worse glabella shape. You can see with the red lines, the glabella begins expanding outwards more towards the bottom of the eyes, whereas with the green lines, the glabella begins expanding outwards at the middle of the eye. If he had the green lines, he would have less positive hooding and otherwise lose a lot of harmony.
The reason a lot of supraorbital implants end up unsatisfying is that they leave this area untouched. This accounts for the frequent complaint that they produce an unnatural horizontalness. In the implants below, for instance, remedying this would amount to augmenting some part of the red area. Not only on the front of the glabella, but basically alongside the upper nose bridge. A
In general, a lower brow would mean a lower plane of glabellar expansion, and a lower brow would mean more hooded eyes. The lateral edges of the implant below should also not be as low. You want the implant to feel almost like it's "rotating" your supraorbital rims inward, so that they are lowest towards the glabella rather than away from it.
As we can see, this discussion of what makes a good eye area returns, rather unexpectedly, to one thing: having a nose wide enough for your face. In order to have no UEE, you need to have a low brow. In order to have that, you need a low plane of glabellar expansion. In order to have that, you need a wide nose bridge. Those who have a low brow but a higher plane of glabellar expansion risk having negative hooding; those who arrive surgically at a low brow but still have a high plane of glabellar expansion risk looking unnatural.
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