Khloe Kardashian with Less Chin

So if you compare Khloe Kardashian's face to the Marquardt beauty mask, she has too much chin (like Kylie Jennier used to have) and her nose is wide, short and crooked. So I messed with her face to see how she'd look with less chin. Here are the results... It's strange how having a smaller chin makes her lips look bigger.

Christina Ricci with a forehead reduction - Better? Worse? Masculine? Feminine?

This probably isn't the best photo to start with since Ms. Ricci's hairline looks kind of crooked, one eyebrow looks higher than the other and her smile is leaning one direction too, but here she is...

Christina Ricci "before" (with her naturally high forehead) and "after" (with a shorter forehead)

Does she look less masculine? Some FFS doctors say that women have lower hairlines (although this is not true). So if you believe that, then she should look more feminine, right? But to me her masculinity/femininity seems unchanged. She looks better to me, but not more feminine. I think this is because her hairline has a feminine shape to it. It's not receding at the corners at all.

One thing that COULD affect masculinity and femininity when lowering a hairline is how the overall proportions of her face change. If Christina had a long chin, and we made her hairline lower, her chin would look longer in relation to her forehead. As an example, here's Bill Clinton.

Bill Clinton "before", with his natural hairline, and "after", with a lower one.

Mr. Clinton has a long chin, but it's somewhat balanced out by his tall forehead. It's not the first thing you notice when you look at him. But when you make his forehead smaller, the focal point of his face changes and the balance goes off kilter. He, like Christina Ricci, does not look more feminine with a lower hairline. If anything, I think he looks more masculine with that big chin.

Jennifer Aniston without George Clooney's chin

George Clooney and his very masculine chin

Ever wonder how Jennifer Aniston would look without that chin? Me too. I've even checked out photos of her parents. Neither one of them has it. Anyway, below is the by-product of my curiosity... more before and after photos. Notice that in the "after" photo, her chin is:

• shorter
• pointier
• an extension of her jawline instead of a protrusion from it

I think she's unrecognizable.Maybe I should have made it longer.

Jennifer Aniston "before" Photoshop surgery (with her natural, masculine-shaped, square, long chin) and "after" (with a pointier, shorter, more feminine chin)

Do I think this makes her face more feminine? Yes, I do. If she were my friend, I'd consider her my "pretty" friend, whereas before she would have been my friend with the good body and great legs.

Which is More Important for a Feminine Chin? Length or Shape? - Heidi Montag's Flat, Broad Chin

Not to speak ill of the dead, but I think that Montag's surgeon could have done better when he reduced her chin. Although her original chin was long, it was rounded, as shown below. But after her chin reduction surgery, the shape was squarer and wider, as if the bottom had simply been sawed off. Good FFS surgeons would never do this intentionally since their goal is to make their patients' faces more feminine, not masculine.

But the question I posed was... which is more important in feminizing a chin? Length or shape? I am guessing shape is, because in the 1st photograph below, she's had her nose done, but still has her old chin. But in the before and after photographs, I changed her chin to make it pointier (more feminine), but also made it longer (not as long as her original chin, but definitely longer). The end result? I think the more feminine shape completely trumps the more masculine length and, as a result, she looks more feminine. 

New nose with original chin (longish but rounded)

Before and after photos showing a longer chin but with a better, more feminine shape. This is what she would have looked like if her doctor had retained the shape of her chin, yet shortened it.

Facial Proportions - Tori Spelling with New Facial Proportions and FFS

Once I read something about Tori Spelling looking like a drag queen. Just recently this came to mind and I thought, "Does she really?" And to answer that question, I found the best photo I could find of her and got started.

The first thing I did was draw a head-shaped oval and put a horizontal line through the center. (I was trying to see how the proportions of her face compare to the guidelines used in drawing faces, shown here. In art class, this is how you start drawing a head.) The eyeballs will fall along the center line. So, the distance from her eyes to the top of her head should be the same distance to her chin.... according to how I was taught, which is just a guideline. But Tori is different. Here eyeballs fall above the center line and the rest wasn't lining up well either, so I wasn't sure what to do with that.

On to Plan B. According to the same art class guideline I mention above, the distance from her eyeballs to right below her nose should be about the same distance as that from below her nose to her chin, and her mouth should fall right above the lowest line. But her mouth is a bit low. I can't make her chin THAT short. It would look odd. So that was not working either.

So on to Plan C. I decided to divide her face into thirds as outlined in Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, and shown on this page (my guideline is a little off in the image below but I'm sure you get the point). And this is what I got.

The resulting image has four changes:

1. a shorter chin
2. a narrower, pointier chin (unlike Heidi Montag's chin which appears to have been just sawed off at the bottom leaving it wide and flat)
3. a symmetrical nose (to hide her bad rhinoplasty that has left one side caved in)
4. narrower jaw (just the tiniest bit since her jaw stuck out further than her cheekbones)

Approximate facial proportions in the "before" and "after" photos.

	Before	After
Top Third	29%	30%
Middle Third	33%	35%
Lower Third	38%	35%

I did not raise her forehead, due to the fact that FFS doctors would not do that, but if I wanted to remake her face into perfect thirds, that's what I would have done. Also, if she were male and FFS doctors got to her, I think they might suggest more changes since they are prone to that, but I think think the difference is remarkable. But more about facial proportions another day...

Rumer Willis with a Little Less Chin... a Chin Reduction, Part 2

Not to pick on Rumer Willis again, but I just saw a photo of her from a different angle and her chin is really messed up. So I shrunk her chin and set it back a bit since it juts forward. It used to even be smaller at one time but the smaller I made it, the larger her jaw looked. I think the end result is nice though.

I also noticed that when I glance at the first photo, I cannot help but look at her chin. But in the second one, I seem to take in her whole face and even noticed that her hair is messy, which I didn't notice in the first photo at all. It's like her chin took up all my attention.

Reese Witherspoon with a More Normal Chin (Yes, More Chin Reduction)

So I gave Reese Witherspoon a chin reduction and think she looks a LOT better. It wasn't that her old chin made her look masculine, because it was very pointy, but it was just odd and witchy.

Rumer Willis with a Little Less Chin... a Chin Reduction

OK, just a little distraction. I gave Rumer Willis a chin job.