{"id":181,"date":"2017-07-05T21:43:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T15:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drstanleyjacobs.com\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2017-07-05T21:43:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T15:43:56","slug":"beauty-plastic-surgery-golden-mask-facial-proportions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qbmarketing.com\/jccsnew\/blog\/beauty-plastic-surgery-golden-mask-facial-proportions\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty and Plastic Surgery: Is There a \u2018Golden Mask\u2019 of Facial Proportions?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a plastic surgeon serving the San Francisco<\/a> Bay Area, Dr. Stanley Jacobs recalled once meeting a PhD\u2014though not a surgeon\u2014whose job was \u201canthropometrics.\u201d That\u2019s the study of the measurements and proportions of the human body. Many who focus on anthropometrics seek the answer to the question of whether there are numbers that explain the distances and ratios that make one person\u2019s face more attractive than another\u2019s.<\/p>\n

This doctor had gathered a group of models and taken their photographs, later scoring the photos and labeling each one as \u201cvery attractive\u201d or simply \u201cattractive.\u201d He then measured a variety of the models\u2019 facial proportions, including lip to nose height, width of cheekbones, forehead height, and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe found some consistent measurements that were more common in the \u2018very attractive\u2019 group,\u201d Dr. Jacobs explained.<\/p>\n

This finding\u2014and others like it over the years, before and after\u2014contributes to the theory that there is a \u201cgolden mask\u201d of ideal proportions for the human face. Think of why some portraits seem classically beautiful, from paintings to statuettes, as with the ancient bust of Nefertiti.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually think that it\u2019s not a perfect proportion of one mask,\u201d Dr. Jacobs countered. \u201cI think that if somebody has too big a chin, too small a chin, the plastic surgeon\u2019s job is to take what art form they know and put it into the proportions of that<\/em> person\u2019s face.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, each individual\u2019s proportions will be their own. Their unique features can be brought in line with their personal proportions to create a more aesthetically pleasing balance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe certainly don\u2019t want people coming in and saying, \u2018I want that person\u2019s face,\u2019\u201d Dr. Jacobs pointed out.<\/p>\n

To that end, Dr. Jacobs regularly makes masks<\/a> of his patients\u2019 faces, which he then scrutinizes from every angle.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really study those masks,\u201d he said. \u201cNot just photographs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reason is because a mask reveals proportions in three dimensions. When you turn them in your hand, you can see angles and get a sense of the person\u2019s facial proportions and balance.<\/p>\n

Will the end result stand in a museum? Probably not, but most people aren\u2019t looking to be immortalized in stone\u2014they just want to look their own personal best.<\/p>\n

For more information<\/a> about Dr. Stanley Jacobs\u2019 work in San Francisco with plastic surgery and nonsurgical treatments, visit www.drstanleyjacobs.com or call his Healdsburg office at (707) 473-0220 or his San Francisco office at (415) 433-0303.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a plastic surgeon serving the San Francisco Bay Area, Dr. Stanley Jacobs recalled once meeting a PhD\u2014though not a surgeon\u2014whose job was \u201canthropometrics.\u201d That\u2019s the study of the measurements and proportions of the human body. Many who focus on anthropometrics seek the answer to the question of whether there are numbers that explain the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[51],"tags":[88,89],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty-and-plastic-surgery-series","tag-life-masks","tag-plastic-surgery"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qbmarketing.com\/jccsnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qbmarketing.com\/jccsnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qbmarketing.com\/jccsnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qbmarketing.com\/jccsnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qbmarketing.com\/jccsnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qbmarketing.com\/jccsnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qbmarketing.com\/jccsnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qbmarketing.com\/jccsnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qbmarketing.com\/jccsnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}