Rhee S C
Teuim Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Clinic, Seoul, South Korea.
Skin Res Technol. 2018 Feb;24(1):73-79. doi: 10.1111/srt.12392. Epub 2017 Jul 19.
There are discrepancies between the public's current beauty desires and conventional theories and historical rules regarding facial beauty. This photogrammetric study aims to describe in detail mathematical differences in facial configuration between attractive Caucasian and attractive Asian faces.
To analyse the structural differences between attractive Caucasian and attractive Asian faces, frontal face and lateral face views for each race were morphed; facial landmarks were defined, and the relative photographic pixel distances and angles were measured. Absolute values were acquired by arithmetic conversion for comparison.
The data indicate that some conventional beliefs of facial attractiveness can be applied but others are no longer valid in explaining perspectives of beauty between Caucasians and Asians. Racial differences in the perceptions of attractive faces were evident. Common features as a phenomenon of global fusion in the perspectives on facial beauty were revealed.
Beauty standards differ with race and ethnicity, and some conventional rules for ideal facial attractiveness were found to be inappropriate. We must reexamine old principles of facial beauty and continue to fundamentally question it according to its racial, cultural, and neuropsychological aspects.
公众当前的审美诉求与关于面部美的传统理论及历史规则之间存在差异。这项摄影测量研究旨在详细描述有吸引力的白种人和有吸引力的亚洲人面部结构的数学差异。
为分析有吸引力的白种人和有吸引力的亚洲人面部之间的结构差异，对每个种族的正脸和侧脸视图进行变形处理；定义面部标志点，并测量相对照片像素距离和角度。通过算术转换获取绝对值以进行比较。
数据表明，一些关于面部吸引力的传统观念可以适用，但其他一些观念在解释白种人和亚洲人的审美观点时已不再有效。在对面部吸引力的认知上，种族差异明显。揭示了面部美观点中作为全球融合现象的共同特征。
美标准因种族和民族而异，并且发现一些关于理想面部吸引力的传统规则是不合适的。我们必须重新审视面部美的旧原则，并继续从其种族、文化和神经心理学方面对其进行根本性质疑。
