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.