What makes a face attractive according to science?

While beauty parameters have become extinct over the years, several specialists have continued to investigate a key question in this regard: what makes a face attractive?

The correct answer for the moment has not been found, but there are scholars of the matter who have approached several guidelines and concepts to understand many people’s search for a different face, through aesthetic processes and facial surgery.

The doctor Valeria Lopez Meclespecialist in aesthetic medicine and director of the Bioáurea center, argues that aesthetics is based on “universal rules of beauty that have to do with mathematical proportions and are governed by a concept known as golden number“.

The appearance of this number dates back to ancient Greece and its main use is to mark a relationship between the concepts of proportion and relationship. According to the doctor, “it’s a number of perfect balance and right proportions that can be found in nature, where harmony and balance generate a virtuous, harmonious, perfect and balanced whole”.

Differences between men and women

To establish the parameters of beauty in faces, López Mecle ensures that it is necessary to mark the differences between men and women: the traits that denote beauty in a woman They are not the same thing the one for a man “In women, a harmoniously perfect face is a face in which we can draw an inverted triangle whose base rests on the cheekbones and its vertex on the chin,” he says.

In this way the figure that is sought for a man is totally different from that of a woman. It goes from being an inverted triangle to a inverted pentagonwhere the most prominent points are at the corners of the jaw and chin.

Another central aspect of this concept is the eyebrows. López Mecle ensures that, in women, they must be elevated above the browbones; while in the male case they must keep their position on said arcs.

Another difference appears in the lip. It is recommended that in women the upper lip protrudes just above the lower one, and vice versa in the case of men.