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Golden Glass
Just want to help my fellow man look better.
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Prelude:
Mouth width is often discussed here. Questions constantly debated are some of the following:
Mouth width is often discussed here. Questions constantly debated are some of the following:
- What the ideal mouth width is? Ratio wise Most people accept a mouth width equal to the distance between your pupils to be an ideal, albeit there are some who argue this wide a mouth is either too wide or unrealistic.
- Another question is what to do if you have narrow set eyes? Should you even try to widen your mouth or will this just exacerbate the supposed aesthetic flaw of a narrow IPD, by making it appear more narrow in comparison?
This post should help put the ideas that...
- a mouth width equal to IPD is too wide
- Narrow IPD individuals would be better off with a mouth not as wide as their IPD
...To bed.
Case Study: Tim Bormann Mouth Width and IPD
•Using Iris as a constant (male iris is 11.77mm t/- 0.37mm)
•and double checking by comparing him and O’Pry (who’s IPD is about 68.2-4)....
Tim’s is about 60.03 mm
Note: Tim appears to be puckering his lips in the image I used to measure his IPD. This doesn’t affect his IPD measurement whatsoever but it makes his lips only looks like they’re wide but still equal to his IPD... but in a truly natural pose and from a proper distance that fully eliminates Lens distortion, they’re actually just as wide as his IPD. AND his mouth looks even better in this picture, where it’s wider.
So Tim is proof that a wide mouth on a narrow IPD...not only doesn’t look bad or topo wide, it can even look fantastic.
Doing these measurements has made me value mouth aesthetics so much more now. Honestly top two most important areas to me are now eye area, and then mouth area.
Edit: Just how narrow is 60mm IPD anyway?
60 mm puts you at over 1 standard deviation below the average for a man.
Also places you only 1.5mm (an IRL unnoticeable amount) off of the bottom 5% of males.
•Using Iris as a constant (male iris is 11.77mm t/- 0.37mm)
•and double checking by comparing him and O’Pry (who’s IPD is about 68.2-4)....
Tim’s is about 60.03 mm
Note: Tim appears to be puckering his lips in the image I used to measure his IPD. This doesn’t affect his IPD measurement whatsoever but it makes his lips only looks like they’re wide but still equal to his IPD... but in a truly natural pose and from a proper distance that fully eliminates Lens distortion, they’re actually just as wide as his IPD. AND his mouth looks even better in this picture, where it’s wider.
So Tim is proof that a wide mouth on a narrow IPD...not only doesn’t look bad or topo wide, it can even look fantastic.
Doing these measurements has made me value mouth aesthetics so much more now. Honestly top two most important areas to me are now eye area, and then mouth area.
Edit: Just how narrow is 60mm IPD anyway?
60 mm puts you at over 1 standard deviation below the average for a man.
Also places you only 1.5mm (an IRL unnoticeable amount) off of the bottom 5% of males.
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