May
18
Perfect Facial Proportions: The Eyebrow
Filed Under Aesthetic Procedures, Beauty, plastic surgery | 1 Comment
The saying goes’ the eyes are the windows to the soul’, and the eye brows are the window frames. It is important that these frames are fitted correctly and aesthetically pleasing.
MEASUREMENTS FOR A PERFECT EYEBROW
Look into a mirror when you are totally relaxed for best evaluation of your own eyebrow. Tense facial muscles will affect the position of your brows, so it’s best to close your eyes, take deep breaths for a minute or two to relax those forehead muscles, then open up your eyes again.
(illustration from the Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America)
For proportions fitting a pleasing eyebrow:
- The inner brow should start at an imaginary vertical line positioned at where the flares of the nose join the face (the alar-facial junction).
- The outside of the eyebrow should then taper and end at a point where a line extended from the alar-facial junction passing through the outer corner of the eye meets the brow. (see diagram)
- The inner and outer corners should lie in the same horizontal plane (but individuals may have their own preferences).
- The inner edge should have a club head appearance, and the outside end tapering to a point.
There are also differences between the male and female brows.
The arch in a female brow should lie at least 1cm above the upper eye socket rim, with the highest point positioned above the outermost edge of the iris (coloured portion of your eye) when looking straight ahead. In men, a lesser arch is preferred, and should be in a more horizontal plane along the upper rim of the eye socket.
Other interesting measurements for a aesthetically pleasing eyebrow include
- a distance of 2.5cm between the midpupillary line (a horizontal line passing through the centre black portion of the eye) and the lower edge of the brow,
- a distance of 5cm from the upper edge of the brow to the hairline (although this may not be possible in all individuals), and
- the distance between the two innermost edges of the brows to be the same as the distance between the alar-facial junctions on either side of the nose (also corresponding to one-fifth of the face and the size of the eye)
THE AGING BROW
In aging, the brow undergoes many changes and can end up with the problems such as eyebrow thinning, drooping of the eyebrow (sigh, the effects of gravity!), wrinkles and lines in the glabellar region (the area between both brows).
SHAPING YOUR BROW
You may realize that your eyebrows are not symmetrical, but relax, that’s normal. Here’s where shaping of your brows can help to balance both sides. It’s best to get the job done by someone professional to achieve the look and shape that fits your style best. Thereafter you can continue the maintainence yourself, with the occasional upkeep by a brow specialist. The above measurements are a guide to an aesthetically pleasing brow shape, but you may make adjustments as your face and natural brow shape just doesn’t fit into the measurements above.
A brow site I’m totally in love with is The Model Brow Blog by Elke Von Freudenberg. She does an amazing job and her blog and brow tips are succinct and easy to follow. She gives great advise too, like ‘once the arch has been tweezed too far on the outside of the eyes, it can make the eyes look cross-eyed’ and commenting that ‘problem with arching [the brow] too high is that it creates the dreaded ‘happy face’ brow’.
WHAT YOUR DOCTOR CAN DO
- Asymmetrical brows- brow lift, brow correction
- Droopy brows- brow lift, forehead lift,
- Thinning brows- eyebrow hair transplants
- Wrinkles- botox, face/partial face lifts
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