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where popular demand here are the 10
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most important facial features for
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looking attractive according to
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Scientific literature Although our
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ranking of the top 10 features is based
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on scientific literature the order of
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importance will obviously vary from
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person to person and also quite
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significantly varies by gender ethnic
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background in environment as we've
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covered so many times on this channel in
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the past
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10. are your lips your lips are not as
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important for looking attractive as you
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may think that's why they stand in at
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the 10th position while the lips only
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have a level of importance usually
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they're not the feature that make or
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break the face that is unless they are
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unnaturally thin or full
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usually most people don't lie towards
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either extreme and nor are the lips a
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highly noticeable or Salient feature of
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the face also the lips are just one of
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the isolated features for the most part
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unlike some of the others which come
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together with other facial
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characteristics
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still the lips have a few different
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components to them like the lip volume
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proportionality and the shape and lips
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that are overly full or disproportionate
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in relation to the lower third can
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certainly make you look less attractive
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but it won't make you look ugly quote
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unquote on its own the Cupid's bow has
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been a historically sought after facial
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feature as it adds Harmony to the lips
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and enhances their shape
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there are also many ethnic variations to
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lip size and shape that one specific lip
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shape cannot be the universal Beauty
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standard which is why it doesn't have a
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large impact on the face because there's
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just too much variation overall lips are
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important enough to make the list but
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certainly not the most important facial
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characteristic or looking attractive a
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lot of Instagram models over emphasize
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how much getting lip Thriller will give
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them a boost in their attractiveness but
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in reality sometimes the results
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actually work in their disfavor where
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they actually have a glow down
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the ninth most important facial feature
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arguably for looking attractive is teeth
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and dental health your smile is
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undoubtedly one of the most expressive
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and important facial characteristics
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where Henry and Brewer know that the
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teeth are an ornamental display or a
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rich source of genetic and environmental
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information about a person's face and
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their health
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everyone knows what bad teeth look like
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they may be stained they may be yellow
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crooked or even decaying in some cases
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we associate unpleasant breath with bad
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teeth even apart from the visual
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unpleasantness so you can imagine how
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there are multiple negative associations
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from just one facial characteristic
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which we don't see in other facial
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features like the lips for example
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still it's possible to have an
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attractive face with teeth that are not
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perfectly pearly white researchers know
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that it's just the yellowing of the
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teeth that makes a subject less
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attractive winding Beyond a natural
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level also doesn't provide any
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additional benefit for this point we
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aren't really talking about having an
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underbite or improperly aligned teeth so
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we're not talking about orthodontic
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issues rather just the teeth and the
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color themselves as that would be a much
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higher point on the list which we'll
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cover in just a second we're referring
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to the Aesthetics of the teeth like
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tooth caps chipped crooked yellow teeth
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and we've made a video on teeth
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Aesthetics here which will explain all
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of those factors in more detail but even
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then your teeth won't make or break your
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facial attractiveness in most cases
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because you can always just keep your
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mouth closed if you're insecure about
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your teeth and it doesn't have this
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permanent effect on your face as some of
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the other features I wrap on the list do
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most people take for granted just how
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important skin health is for looking
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attractive and that's why the largest
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organ in your body is the eighth most
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important facial feature but why is it
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only the eighth well you've seen acne
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Transformations especially after going
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on Accutane it does have a significant
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impact but at the same time it's not as
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important as some of the other factors
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which are arguably more significant
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fixing acne especially if it's severe
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will result in a significant glow up and
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that's undeniable this is because acne
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shrouds the beauty of facial features
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like the nose the jaw the eyes and it
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does hide the underlying bone structure
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by detracting away your attention to the
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redness of the blemishes or the pustules
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the nodules the scars even only that it
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also gives you an unhealthy appearance
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but it does detract attention from your
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facial strong points still as long as
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your skin is not severely acne ridden
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Sun damaged or dry it won't necessarily
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make or break your facial attractiveness
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which is why it's placed as a one pimple
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here and there won't make say a model
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less attractive your skin does also
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signal youth so it is really quite
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important to maintain that throughout
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drinking water wearing sunscreen and
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other skin regiments like Retin-A but
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overall having a homogeneous or a smooth
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and consistent skin tone is going to
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boost your facial attractiveness by
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quite a bit but from a distance you
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can't really tell the health of your
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skin and it doesn't really matter all
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that much
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men and women alike hair is quite
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underrated when it comes to looking
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attractive that's why we rank it as
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number seven on this list of top 10. we
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all know that losing hair or balding is
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really a big detractor for men's facial
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attractiveness in most cases even in
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women hair length style and volume have
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been shown in our previous videos with
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the scientific literature to drastically
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alter facial attractiveness for example
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mesco and berseke note that the long and
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medium length hairs had a significant
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positive effect on ratings of women's
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attractiveness as individuals who can
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afford the high cost of long hair are
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those who have arguably good
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phenotypical and genetic quality because
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long hair has both social costs and also
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Health costs to maintain
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this is why hair is a significant but
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maybe not the most important facial
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feature it is expressive in terms of
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signaling our usefulness our health and
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fertility and with the vast amount of
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hairstyles out there a bad hairstyle can
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completely alter the perceived
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proportionality of your face for example
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a top heavy hairstyle can make a long
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face look even longer but is also a
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stylistic and personality indicator too
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the men facial hair also falls under
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this category and it can add some extra
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masculinity or mask a weaker Jewel for
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the faces that needed so it does have
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this benefit but it's not again the make
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or break
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just look at some of the most attractive
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actors or models out there and they
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almost always have gray hair again this
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is just one of those features that won't
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make or break the phase if you are
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otherwise attractive but it is still
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very important as providing a little bit
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of a boost here and there having unkempt
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hair can make you look less presentable
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and attractive and hair is especially
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important for those of us who don't have
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the bone structure of runway models in
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providing some facial adjustments
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the sixth most important feature of the
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face is arguably the cheekbones also
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called the zygomatic bones these are
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what most people think of when they
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think of runway models or any highly
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attractive face this is the point in the
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list where it starts getting away from
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the more superficial traits and into the
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actual bone structure of the face
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because this is quite literally what
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makes you you unsurprisingly they rank
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high on the list because your cheekbones
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sit near your eyes and provide support
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for the mid face they just make you look
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more alert and Youthful when they're
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higher at the same time having Hollow
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cheeks or incredibly sharp sculpted
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cheekbones are not a prerequisite for an
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attractive face because we've covered on
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the channel plenty of cheekbones that
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are lower less defined but nonetheless
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still there some level of cheekbone
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development is designed but they don't
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have to be overly sharp high cheekbones
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are desired but not everyone has them
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they just give more lift to the face and
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they make you appear more striking and
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thus the cheekbones rank high in terms
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of importance but not that high up
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because they're not their prerequisite
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for attractive faces this isn't to
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downplay the the importance of the
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cheekbones but mogilski and Welling in
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their study also know that some of the
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other features on this list are more
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Salient than cheekbone prominence in
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terms of partner attractiveness they are
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important but just like the lips they're
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often over emphasized because they are
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also identifiable
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the nose seems to get a lot of attention
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in terms of being the most important
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facial feature especially by women but
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that's not actually true it is indeed
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quite important but it ranks as the
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fifth most important feature in our list
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being attractive for a very good reason
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this includes things like nasal tip
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projection or how far out the nose
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sticks the nasal tip shape the
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bulbousness the nasal base width those
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are all factors that matter as well when
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you're talking about the nose but with
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that being said there is a great deal of
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variability in attractive in those
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shapes there isn't a one-size-fits-all
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nose but most attractive faces have at
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least an acceptable nose that is within
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normality for their general population
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nothing too big or too small or too
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crazy looking just generally the average
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you would expect as long as the nose is
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not deformed broken lots of different no
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ships can be attractive which is why
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it's not to make or break for a face but
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there is a very high level of
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sensitivity when the nose is
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disproportionate that's why it's
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perfectly placed at fifth not too
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important but not to be ignored either
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along those same lines as long as your
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nose is not overly deviant from your
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ethnic specific nose shape it will
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harmonize well with your face when it is
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deviant it's very noticeable because the
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nose is dead center in the middle of
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your face most attractive faces do have
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wood noses but the fact that we can find
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highly attractive faces with all kinds
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of no shapes around the world means it
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won't beat out some of the other
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features on this list which are more
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important and less negotiable on
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diversity
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your face shape undoubtedly plays a
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large part in making you attractive
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that's why we polluted at number 4 out
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of the top 10 and when talking about
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phase shapes in this specific context we
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are mainly referring to a very specific
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definition we are talking about the
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clinical definition of the facial index
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which is the length of your face
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relative to its width additionally we
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also have to consider the relative width
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of the facial thirds the upper the
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middle and the lower thirds
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all these different face shapes you've
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heard about such as your oval Square
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long short medium heart shapes all stem
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from those two general dimensions and
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they don't really matter more so because
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there are attractive faces from all of
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those categories
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what does matter is the facial index and
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that basically means an attractive face
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has a proportionate face shape that a
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face that is neither too long or Too
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Short or too wide or too narrow or with
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the jaw or forehead that is not too
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bulbous if we're going to put a number
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to it let's just say according to reneke
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and for Eddie's paper your face should
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be 1.35 times longer than it is wide for
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men and 1.3 times in women which is the
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population average that we see all
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across the world you find the most
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attractive faces around this range with
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some exceptions such as male model
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Jordan Barrett who we've covered in the
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past having a very wide face in line
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with the concept of facial averages your
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bi-temporal or forehead width and
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biconial or the Dual width should also
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be around this similar width of your
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cheekbones usually around 80 to 90
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percent do not appear too wide or too
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narrow
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with all of that being said different
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phase shapes can be quite attractive so
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there is some variability but as a
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general rule almost all beautiful people
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have a pleasant face shape making this a
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highly important factor on the list
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because it does frame the entirety of
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your face and your features
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I don't know if you were expecting this
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but your eyebrows eyelashes and general
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brow Ridge are the third most important
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facial feature for making an attractive
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face it isn't cheating to Bunch all of
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these features together but usually they
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correlate with one another in terms of
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expression in part one we mentioned that
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the cheekbone prominence was found to be
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the least important among the features
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studied by mogilski and Welling among
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the features that beat cheekbone
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prominence was eyebrow thickness keep in
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mind this is simply the vertical
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thickness of the eyebrows there are a
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lot of other parts to an attractive
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eyebrow like the color the shape density
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and position However the fact that
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eyebrow thickness alone was on par with
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face shape in terms of importance and
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beat out cheekbone prominence is very
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revealing about their saliency and
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importance in visual attention and on
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top of that list that the attractive
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feature of dark eyelashes and it's
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obvious why these rank so high on the
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top 10 list women accentuate their
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lashes and bras for a reason it's
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because they completely alter your
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perceived attractiveness your brow Ridge
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or the glabella region is not entirely
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separable from your eyebrows your
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eyebrows sit on your brow Ridge for the
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underlying bone does affect how
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attractive you are they also help make
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your eyes more deep set which is
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generally considered attractive for men
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and to some degree for women too
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the brow Ridge is one of the more
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sexually dimorphic features on the face
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where men usually have much more
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prominent brow ridges we've seen the
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research from 90 and Roads as well as
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others that confirmed the importance of
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sexual dimorphism while being masculine
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looking or feminine looking in facial
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attractiveness the brow Ridge does have
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a role in controlling how masculine or
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feminine your face looks depending on
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your sex your eyes are the second most
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important facial feature for an
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attractive face and some people may put
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this feature at number one but either
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way most people recognize this as one of
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the more important facial features
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perhaps if we lumped eyebrows in this
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then the whole eye region would be
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number one in this case your eyes refer
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to the spacing between your eyes your
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eye shape color Health tilt or how
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upturned they are eyelid exposure and
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other unique deformities or features
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like the limbo ring or under eye
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darkness dark circles hollowing
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generally the whole periocular region
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the distance between your eyes being
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wide or closed said makes a surprisingly
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large difference in how attractive you
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are the whites of your eyes or the
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sclera should also be white and healthy
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looking rather than yellowish or red
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which looks sickly and again does have
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an impact on how attractive you are
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everyone seems to have unique eyes and
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our eye shape is a major part of that
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how sharp narrow rounded upturned droopy
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our eyes are all affect our perceived
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attractiveness there are too many
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specific features to delve into detail
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for just this video but we have made
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videos on this in the past but having
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well spaced almond-shaped eyes is
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generally considered attractive again
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many kinds of eyes can be considered
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beautiful as long as they don't stray
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too far from normality or averageness
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for your ethnic population
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this is why the eyes are so crucial when
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it comes to looking attractive there are
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just too many moving Parts in the
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periocular region and also one of the
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first things you look at is another
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person's eyes
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no surprise here but your jaw is the
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most important facial feature for
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attractiveness this is a broad feature
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as your jawline can be broken down into
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more than five individual Parts such as
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your chin upper jaw lower jaw Remus
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length jaw body dual height anterior of
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jaw length however when somebody says
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you have a nice jawline they're talking
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about the whole lower third or the Dual
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complex as a whole and all of these
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features combined which is what makes
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this so significant because there are so
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many moving Parts again this is
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undoubtedly a very important feature for
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attractive faces I mean just go out on
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your Tick Tock page and virtually every
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attractive person has a well-structured
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jaw
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you will see a bunch of different eye
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and eyebrow shapes among models however
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almost all models and attractive
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celebrities all have well-defined
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well-structured jaw lines which are more
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or less the same which is why we put the
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jaw above the eyes having a defined and
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pleasant your angle is usually a
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prerequisite for an attractive face
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having a sharp jawline with lows of
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mental fat again something we see in
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almost all attractive faces and so with
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the jawline there is much less
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variability compared to the eyes we've
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also touched on how crucial one's draw
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development is for overall health
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indicators along with displaying your
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body fat percentage having poor jaw
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alignment such as an overjet and
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underbite or an overbite or the
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orthodontic definition of your face can
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make simple tasks like chewing and
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speaking more difficult in this sense
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having a healthy and attractive jaw is a
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universal and Timeless indicator of
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beauty because beauty is defined as
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function and so having a dysfunctional
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jaw does make your face less attractive
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this doesn't mean that you need the most
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robust fuel possible but it does mean
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that you need a healthy jaw as the
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prerequisite or being attractive some
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honorable mentions that didn't make the
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list include your ears neck and facial
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Symmetry and these features can
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certainly impact facial attractiveness
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especially if you have really large
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deviant ears but they aren't as
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important as some of the other factors
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that we did put on the list most people
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don't glaringly notice facial asymmetry
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but symmetry is still important enough
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of an overarching feature to have but
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generally these characteristics come
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with all of the others on the list and
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so if you have strong jaw lines chances
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are you're also going to have lower
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levels of facial asymmetry which is a
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topic we've covered in this video
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with that being said if you'd like to
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learn more about your top 10 features
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your jawline your ears your eyes and all
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of these characteristics in deep
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supplementary detail with analysis and
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scientific literature performed by a
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team of doctors and dentists and with
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recommendations for changing your facial
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aesthetic as always that's over at the
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curves website and I'll catch you all in
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the next one
