How do you get that natural look after undergoing cosmetic surgery? Check out this presentation from The Victorian Cosmetic Institute to learn about the principles of the Golden Ratio.

1. The Golden Ratio:
How Not to Look ‘Weird’
After Having Cosmetic Work

2. How do we do all this without making you look weird? One of
the tricks we use here to train our aesthetic eye is the Golden
Ratio. So, one might argue that beauty is cultural and in fact,
one of my very best friends is an anthropologist. I think he
was a bit sad when he found out that I went into cosmetics
instead of life saving. He would argue with me that beauty is
cultural and he traveled the world, every place he went, there
was something different that made people beautiful.

3. Certainly there are many things that will make someone
attractive. Of course there is, but they have done studies and
have found that most people find the same sort of dimensions
attractive. It doesn’t matter whether you’re Caucasian, Asian,
African-American, there are measurements in the face that
will make someone more attractive just to the first glance than
someone else. Leonardo da Vinci knew this and he crafted, I
think, all of his works around this ratio. The little smarties at
Apple know this and all their logos are done to this ratio too.
It’s found in nature and when a few of the celebrities are
matched up against the golden ratio mask, you find they all fit
the mask beautifully.

4. So what does this mean to the average person? What does it
mean? It means that if you fill a cheek outside of that ratio,
someone’s going to look weird. We can measure where your
cheek should end and we try and keep it within those
boundaries. This is what I said, some people want to enhance
their beauty while others just want to look the same. But we
can use it to improve your dimensions in your face.

5. Now, the key point is that once your face is fully grown, what
stays the same for the rest of your life is the distance between
your eyeballs, it’s your intercanthal distance. We can measure
that. This we learned from a very fabulous Canadian cosmetic
surgeon, so it’s not my idea. He spent a lot of time studying
his patients’ faces. What we would do, can I demonstrate on
someone? Or I’ll just do myself? Stab my eyes. Stephanie.
Yes, Stephanie. I will show you how we do this with Steph.

6. We measure the distance between her eyes. Stephanie is
very attractive now. I can tell you that most of these are going
to match up. Her forehead should be from there to there.
Which it is! If her forehead is too high, bigger than this ratio,
she needs to cut a fringe because I can’t fix that. Her
eyebrows should end where they are ending and they should
peak basically where she has got them there. They could be a
little bit more peaked there.

7. Her nose, I think is probably about the right size which it is.
You can tell if your nose is too short, we can extend it with
filler or you can have a nose job. You know that if your nose is
too small, it actually makes you less attractive. Everyone
thinks you want a really small nose and you don’t. I have
people who think and worry that their noses are too big for
their faces and they’re absolutely perfect on this. So, her
cheek distance is lovely. Now Steph is very young.

8. She measures up in the chin as well. A lot of people are short
on the chin and by building your chin with dermal filler, it really
enhances. There you go. She’s cheating already. She has
dropped it with the anti-wrinkle injection. So there are a few of
the points we measure up on the face. Because if the cheeks
are too flat, I know I can fill up to this particular point and it
should enhance your beauty rather than take it away from
you.
So these are some of the things we do to try and keep you
looking natural at The Victorian Cosmetic Institute.

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