What is "facial
femininity?" What personality traits do you believe it is correlated with it? Certain facial
features in women are seen as attractive, and appealing and we may see these
faces indicating innocence. Symmetrical facial features, large eyes
(Theory attracted to features similar to an infants that effects the limbic
brain) and larger upper lip than lower lip and red enlarged lips (similar to
engorged labial lips) paler skin, glowing skin, skin free of spots and other
facial blemishes. (facial symmetry is about measurement; recent psychology
research from the University of California, San Diego and the University of
Toronto has found that the distance between a woman’s eyes and the distance
between her eyes and mouth are very important in whether people find her
attractive. When the vertical distance between the eyes
and the mouth was approximately 36 percent of the face’s length, and the
horizontal distance between the eyes was approximately 46 percent of the face's
width, the students judged the faces as more attractive. This study shows that the structure of faces -- the
relation between our face contour and the eyes, mouth and nose -- also
contributes to our perception of facial attractiveness. Those findings also
explain why sometimes an attractive person looks unattractive or vice versa
after a haircut, because hairdos change the face shape thus the ratios."
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Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at
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