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FACIAL COSMETIC SURGERY FOR RE-SHAPING FEATURES

What characterizes a beautiful face and attractive facial features?

Facial beauty is primarily a matter balance and harmony of the facial features. Although beautiful proportions can be subjectively appreciated, beautiful proportions can also be mathematically determined. The mathematical analysis of the face uses the “golden proportion”.

ABOUT THE GOLDEN PROPORTION

Beauty is inherent to the human mind

The human mind perceives some forms as beautiful and others as unbalanced and less pleasant. This sense of beauty is inherent to the human mind and is not learned. Newborns recognize their mother by facial proportions. Infants respond to beautiful forms. Very young children can identify attractive faces. Even across different ethnicities and cultures there is a common understanding of who is attractive. Different cultures and eras have slight difference in perception of an attractive face, but these variations are more a matter of style than a change in the underlying concept of beauty.

Beauty can be described mathematically in the “golden proportions”

We now better understand the underlying mathematical and scientific basis of beauty. The mind perceives beauty, if they are harmonious with the nature’s laws of energy, motion and growth. The first reference in western culture to the pleasure derived from mathematical proportions came from the Greek philosopher Pythagoras. The first mathematical formula for beauty came from Italy in the 1495 from Fibonacci who described the “golden ratio” which is 1.618:1. This ration is often designated by the Greek letter phi and is used to create geometrical forms including the golden rectangle, golden triangle and the golden spiral (Nautilus shell). In 1509, Pacioli published a dissertation De Divina Proporcione (divine proportions) that related these proportions to human form art and architecture. Leonardo da Vinci illustrated that dissertation. Subsequently, the art and architecture of da Vinci demonstrated the use of golden proportions and golden spirals.

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In summary, I am aware of the importance of facial balance, I have an inherent aesthetic appreciation and I can mathematically reaffirm my vision. Finally, I can use computer imaging to show you what may be possible.