Facial Features: Does Your Face Meet Sciences ‘Gold’ Standard?
For centuries, the Golden Ratio (1.62) has defined facial perfection—from Egyptian times to Renaissance art and modern Hollywood. Discover how injectables, threads, and fillers can sculpt your features to match this mathematical ideal of beauty. See how icons like Angelina Jolie embody this timeless standard and learn how you can achieve it too.
Beauty may indeed be in the eye of the beholder. However, as far back as the Egyptian era, more than 4600 years ago, it appears that an ideal ratio was chosen to distinguish the ordinary from the extraordinary. Yes, facial features mattered. This rule became known as the ‘Golden Ratio’. It is also known as phi (Φ), a number that, when mathematically rounded off, is 1.62, with which most of us are familiar. The golden ratio was used by Renaissance artists to create their masterpieces, aiming for pure perfection.
It is said that the golden ratio draws attention through the magnetism of perfection and beauty. The golden rule is not limited to physical beauty, though. It also applies to anything and everything, including artwork, buildings and the opposite sex.
Facial Features and the “Golden Ratio”
Today, the golden ratio can be used by those who seek perfection in their appearance, with the help of injectable muscle relaxers, threads and fillers, the face can now be tweaked according to the desired ‘golden face’.
How the Golden Ratio Shapes Beauty
- Ideal facial proportion – length vs width.
- Streamlining facial features and contours – nose, cheekbones and jawline.
- Lifting and contouring to give a more defined silhouette.
This process is attainable through both surgical and non-surgical procedures, which are readily available and can be tailored to the individual’s bespoke requirements.
What Does the Ideal Face Look Like
Here is a look at the ‘golden ratio’ facial mask, developed by Dr Stephen Marquardt, as a measurement of classic beauty and also to help plastic surgeons align facial features. This gives a more symmetrical accuracy based on a series of rectangles, triangles and decagons. See our images to view this facial mask as applied to Lauren Bacall and Angelina Jolie, two renowned Hollywood beauties.
