Style Theory: Can Math Make You MORE Beautiful?

your forehead or your chin. When you perceive that someone has a weak chin, or when you see caricatures of people with huge foreheads, the reason they stand out is because

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ematically their face does not obey the rule of thirds. There are also plenty of ways to get around this rule, such as making a large forehead look smaller by using bangs to lower your hairline. This is also one of those places where Instagram's Photoshop tools get a lot of use and people shorten their chin a little to avoid having their own dream face reveal moment. So with these two rules in mind we went back to our survey results to check a few things, since we already knew that symmetry wasn't the only thing determining attractiveness in the faces in our survey we tried these other rules. instead.

First, we look at some of the top-ranked faces. In this one you can already tell that his face is not symmetrical just by looking at it. One side of your nose is larger than the other. His smile isn't straight, his teeth aren't symmetrical, his hairline is actually a little crooked, and one of his eyelids is slightly heavier than the other. But in the survey, he still appeared as a really attractive face. So let's superimpose the rule of fifths on the face and you'll start to see why. The middle three-thirds of his face line up almost perfectly with our ruler, where his eyes are the same width and his nose is proportionally in the middle, although it's not entirely symmetrical.

The exterior proportions of his head also align almost perfectly with the same division of fifths. The same goes for this face: face 18B, which scored one point higher when not symmetrical. You can see that the rule of fifths works very well here too, with those fifths extremely equal in every way, and this model ranked extremely high in our attractiveness survey. Compare this face to when we

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it symmetrical and suddenly something seems strange, your face feels narrow, your features feel crowded. It's like there's too much going on and not enough facial area. More symmetrical, but numerically less attractive.

We can also apply the rule of thirds to these faces and get the same great results. Our top finisher on face 3 again achieves this, with almost 100% equal dispersion across the face third. This top-notch action, 2A, also had excellently proportioned thirds, making the face appear balanced and approachable. But what about the faces that ranked lower in the survey? Did they obey the same rules? Overall, they scored much lower on both rules compared to our attractive counterparts. This poor guy Face 13 had the unfortunate distinction of being one of the lowest ranked in the survey. At first glance, he seems like a totally normal guy.

But when you divide him into five slices like a loaf of bread, you can see that one eye is longer than the other and his ears stick out even further than the angle of his face. You saw it instinctively when you rated it a three out of ten in your survey. Ugh, I told you guys were brutal. For the rule of thirds, some, like face 45, had disproportionately large foreheads compared to the middle third of the face, or in the case of our partner from last time, face 13, a huge chin compared to a kind of weak forehead and a long half of the face, resulting in scores 50% lower than those of attractive faces.

But what about the faces that society collectively considers very attractive? I took a look at eight of the officially sexiest people in the world, according to the vintage outlet known as magazine. Specifically, I looked at people and FHM or For Him Magazine, very creative names there. But it did give me an official list of people to look at and see if Hollywood stars can even live up to these same standards. And the answer is mostly yes for the men we tested: Chris Evans, Michael B. Jordan, Harrison Ford and Idris Elba and for the women we tested: Rihanna, Scarlett Johansson, Gal Gadot and Halle Berry.

Right away we can see that not everyone is completely even on both sides of the face. Chris Evans' left eye is a little

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closed than his right, Scarjo's smile is a little crooked, and Harrison Ford is absolutely famous for his crooked nose and his uneven smile. However, when I measured everything, everyone did much better with our other rules, especially the women. All the women. But Rihanna passed the rule of thirds, as did all men, with the exception of Harrison Ford, when the rule of fifths came around, again women tended to do better. Although none of our men passed this one.

Some of them were certainly close, but the funny thing I'm noticing here is that when I line up all the sexiest men and women, the symmetry standard is a little shaky. The women on this list seemed to fit these rules much

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than all of our most

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men, who end up being a bit unbalanced. Something tells me there will be a full episode another day. I mean, just take a look at my sexiest man alive: Markiplier. I also didn't manage to reach proportions, but you can't tell me that a man who broke the internet multiple times, including removing only fans in the name of a charity, is unattractive.

You can go ahead and try, but you're wrong. And two, it's your funeral, my friend. And just to show that these are all survey results and measurements, you can also see that my face, both symmetrical and non-symmetrical, is not doing as well. My eyes are technically too big for my face. My ears stick out too far on either side of my head and my smile tilts to one side. The same goes for the rule of thirds. There, no amount of symmetry is going to help the fact that my forehead is too small or my chin is too big.

So, at the end of the day, science is cool. You are not one step away from being attractive. For better or worse.   All our attractiveness depends on much more than that. You may be following the rule of fifths in full, but not quite the rule of thirds. You may be asymmetrical, but you have a perfectly proportioned nose based on all these other measurements that we've proven with

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that TikTok can't tell you if you're attractive or not. So if you see a filter that says yes, look under the hood, see if they're playing with science or just your emotions, and hey, if you really want to test your own face with the math of these ratios. ,   there are parsers that can do exactly that.  The most accurate ones actually require you to take out a ruler and measure parts of your face to see how many centimeters your nose is or how many centimeters your eyeballs are apart, which is admittedly a little strange, but hey, you can do it. .   Spoiler alert, though: you, like me, probably won't find the mathematical formula for beauty, but your face and the math behind it are perfect just the way they are.

But hey, that's just a

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, A THEORY OF STYLE! Still looking good. And speaking of looks, if you're looking to debunk more beauty conspiracies, click here to watch our episode. Pulling back the curtain on the story of why women's pockets are so small.  I promise you that the secrets are so big that you won't be able to fit them in the pocket of a pair of JNCO jeans. Go ahead and click on the video right now. I'll see you on the other side. We have five new episodes today. Binge watch, honey.