Paris Hilton with Minor Tweaks to Her Face (Jaw Reduction and Rhinoplasty)

I was just thinking to myself, wouldn't Paris Hilton be a lot prettier without that jaw? So I made it smaller. And when I did I realized something else. Her chin suddenly looked longer and her cheekbones also looked broader. I guess it's all about proportions. So then I made her nose a bit shorter, and voila!

Also, I'm sorry to have to put info on the images but people have stolen a lot of my photos and posted them on their own sites.

Kylie Jenner's New Face

So, as mentioned, I looked for photos of Kylie Jenner so I could do a good before and after. It's hard to find good after photos of her because most of her pics are selfies at bad angles with pouty lips. Anyway, I found these though and even though she doesn't have the huge lips in the after photo, I think the only major difference is her chin and possibly the lips.

A woman who got brow bone implants

Sometimes when I see photos of FFS patients after surgery to their brow bones, I think the results look too flat.  In fact, when people's eyes protrude past their brow bone, they look bug-eyed to me. I've noticed this isn't uncommon in Asians, to have eyes that stick out further than the forehead.

That said, when I saw an article about a Japanese woman, Vanilla Chamu, who had surgery to look like a French doll, I noticed her deep set eyes immediately. I knew she'd had brow bone implants so searched and found an article that mentions them. I don't think the surgeon did a very good job though, but thought I'd post the results here.

So she basically decided she didn't want to look Japanese. She wanted to look like a French doll. She's like an FFS patient, but instead of changing gender, she changed ethnicity.

Ode to Straight Noses - Part 7

More straight noses (reminders that if FFS doctors say you need to have a scooped nose to be beautiful, it is not true).

Jenna Elfman (she is  not beautiful straight on, but is picture perfect in profile)

Loretta Young (she was an actress long, long ago)

This is just a post card. I have no clue who the woman is but thought she had a pretty straight nose.

 

Just a random photo off the internet, but her profile is lovely.

Mischa Barton

 

Nicole Scherzinger. Too turned up for my tastes, but definitely straight.

Ode to Straight Noses - Part 6 (straight profiles by artists)

Since I usually post photos of people I thought I'd post something different. So here are profiles of beautiful women as portrayed by artists.

Charles Dana Gibson

This is Gibson Girl. She is gorgeous. I don't think she could be any more feminine. Feminine, but adult. Not child-like. Full lips, small mouth, beautifully shaped face, perfect nose, high cheekbones... She was the  personification of the ideal woman of his era, but I think she could be the ideal for an era with that bone structure.

Charles Dana Gibson's Gibson Girl

The Gibson Girl in profile (notice the straight nose)

Harrison Fisher

Harrison Fisher was an artist known for his illustrations of beautiful women. This is what the man did for a living. He drew beautiful women.

 

A very beautiful woman as drawn by the illustrator Harrison Fisher.

Another Harrison Fisher illustration (although this woman has a tiny bump on the bridge). Clearly beautiful though. Clearly feminine.

McClelland Barclay

He was another illustrator. I just thought I'd include this since it shows a comparison between a masculine and the feminine nose.

 

Feminine and masculine noses (both straight) by McClelland Barclay

Thutmose 

This is Nefertiti, as portrayed by an artist well over 3,300 years ago. It is believed that the sculptor is Thutmose. Anyway, Nefertiti was an Egyptian queen known for her beauty (as if this wasn't obvious).

Nefertiti - 3,300 year-old proof that straight noses have always been considered beautiful =)

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.

Ode to Straight Noses - Part 4

Yes, more straight noses.... If your FFS doctor tries to convince you that in order to pass or be beautiful, your nose needs to have a scooped bridge and be turned up like a pig snout (ok, my words, not theirs), remember these lovely women and their straight noses.

Rita Hayworth

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Rita Hayworth

It's also worth mentioning that this hairline on Rita Hayworth is not natural. It was created through electrolysis. Her original hairline was lower in the corners. So in order to make her more attractive they gave her a hairline that FFS doctors would consider more masculine, but it worked.

Lucille Ball (She started out as a model and showgirl before doing comedy)

More Lucille Ball

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alicia Keys' great profile (she may look even better than she does from the front) and perfectly straight nose

 

Liv Tyler and her straight nose

Ode to Straight Noses - Part 3

For your viewing pleasure, more non-scooped noses...

Rudolf Valentino (feel free to ignore his nose) and Natacha Rambova (who has a lovely jawline, that is both defined and feminine, to go with her great profile)

Carole Lombard's perfectly straight nose (although I can't say much for her jaw line)

Joan Crawford close-up by George Hurrell (the man's nose has a little bump, but hers is great)

More Joan Crawford

Ursula Andress

Keira Knightley (Her nose is turned up, but straight. Also, I know she's had rhinoplasty but don't know what her original profile was or if it was changed at all.)

Until later...

Facial Proportions - Tori Spelling with a Higher Hairline and Slimmer Nose

In my last post about facial proportions, in which I Photoshopped Tori Spelling to show what FFS doctors might do to her if they got a hold of her, I did not change two things:

1. I stopped short of raising her hairline because FFS doctors would never do such a thing. The common belief (or mistake?) is "the lower the better" and that high hairlines are masculine. So in the photo of her, her facial proportions were not quite in tune with Leonardo da Vinci's guidelines (that the face is divided into thirds).
2. Also, although I made her nose more symmetrical, I did not make her nose narrower. In art class, it is often taught that the outer edges of the nose line up with the inner edges of the eyes. I'm not sure if that holds true for all ethnicities, but there are other guidelines out there as well. This is jut one of them.

So, although FFS doctors would never raise a hairline, here she is... Tori Spelling with the changes I made to her in an earlier post, and Tori with a taller forehead and narrower nose.

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

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

Do you think the higher forehead makes her look more masculine?

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...

Are high hairlines really a masculine trait?

A while ago I saw photos of a Swedish MTF transsexual who had facial feminization surgery by Dr. Yaremchuk in Boston, Massachusetts. (All the photos and YouTube videos have since disappeared though.) I have to say that I have been amazed at his skill and the quality of work, but I believe he was working outside his level of expertise when he took on this patient because the hairline was left too low, among other things.

But in the field of FFS, it seems that patients are routinely expected to get hairline lowering. I've seen hairline lowering that actually left the hairline looking higher than it had been previously. For example if the patient has a widow's peak (not a receding hairline, just a little widow's peak) and that is removed, it makes a difference in the overall look of the forehead.For example:

Vanessa William with her widow's peak, and without it.

But my question is whether high hairlines really look masculine. I once read a statement on a doctor's web site that it's better to go too low than too high. Alexandra, at Virtual FFS doesn't believe that men's hairlines are higher than women's (she explains why here) and I agree with her. She has visual evidence to back her up, after all. Doctors' web sites don't refer to anything. They don't cite sources. So until I see proof otherwise, I will trust the evidence I can see.

But the one thing that doctors don't mention, but I find true, is that short foreheads look weird. For example, the "before" photo is Teresa Giudice's natural forehead. Her scalp hair grows directly on the flat area of her forehead above her eyes. In the "after" photo, I made her hairline too high. 

I think her forehead looks too high in the "after" photo, but it's not especially weird looking, aside from being huge and unnaturally flat. Also, if a doctor lowers a hairline too much, then it's not like one can remove the hair by laser or electrolysis because a massive scar will show.

Ok, enough on hairlines, but I have one more photo. Tyra Banks with a low forehead like Teresa Giudice. (This is young Tyra, before her nose job and the wigs that cover up her naturally high, very high, hairline.)

Would she have made it in modeling with the very low hairline?

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.

Ode to Straight Noses - Part 2

In an earlier post I asked why the world of FFS is gaga about scooped noses when this concept (scooped is the ideal) only seems to exist among FFS doctors and their patients. So here are more examples of straight noses.

Elizabeth Taylor

Louise Brooks (I know, not the normal profile shot but I just happened to come across it on accident)

Audrey Hepburn (Not classically straight, but definitely not scooped either. More convex, actually.)

 Also, you might be asking... where are all the scooped noses? I have photographs of beautiful profiles on famous women, but why am I leaving out the scooped ones? Well, like I've mentioned before... scooped notices are, historically, not considered an attractive feature. That is why Angelina Jolie had hers fixed. But to be fair, I've included one. Julie Andrews' nose is scooped. Granted, she did not accomplish what she has by her looks. But I've included her still.. And I straightened her nose a bit while I was at it.

Julie Andrews (The 'before' shot is her natural nose... the 'after' shot is my doing. Which looks better?)

Reese Witherspoon #2 - Forehead Reduction

I was looking at my earlier photo of her in which I had given her a chin reduction and thought... if she were to get facial feminization surgery, she would probably also get a forehead reduction as well. So I gave her one (in addition to the chin work).

I didn't change her forehead to match any concept of ideal facial proportions though. I just eyeballed it. It could be a little to short, perhaps.

Ode to Straight Noses

So I'm always hearing from within the trans community how women want scooped noses. It's, apparently, the be-all and the end-all of noses. Why? I've NO idea. I happen to dislike them and find them ridiculous on a 6 footer.

So in honor of straightness... here is my ode to beautiful women with beautifully straight noses (which is the norm, actually). And if anyone has any idea WHY the transsexual community is gaga about scooped noses, do tell.

Let's start with Angelina Jolie, who had her scooped nose fixed to make her beautiful.

Angelina Jolie, before and after nose surgery

Catherine Deneuve - Upturned but straight as an arrow

Ava Gardner

Natalie Portman

Lauren Bacall

More to come...