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What Makes a Face Look Feminine?

Posted February 11th 2018

When you think of the word “feminine”, what comes to mind? It’s a difficult question to answer, yet when we see a face, our minds can almost immediately determine whether that face belongs to a man or a woman. When transitioning, it is important to understand the various features that your surgeon can help you create with several unique facial feminization procedures.

A Curved Hairline

For most people, the hairline is a telltale characteristic of a female face. Men often have an M-shaped hairline, sometimes even with the “widow’s peak” feature, while women have a more curved hairline. Men’s hairlines are this way naturally from birth, but for women, this is not the case. In some situations, women who develop female pattern baldness may slowly develop the M-shaped hairline over time. Sometimes procedures like brow lifts can feminize the forehead and round out the hairline. In other cases, it may be as simple as choosing the right hairstyle to maximize your femininity.

Wider Eyes

The term “doe-eyed” says it all; female eyes often appear larger and wider than those of their male counterparts. That’s because a woman’s orbital bones are less pronounced, which means the browbonecasts less shadow over the eye area, making it appear larger – even though it is roughly the same size. Eyelid and brow surgeries can provide this appearance, and carefully-applied makeup can enhance that femininity and make the eyes truly stand out.

Rounder Cheeks and Jaw

Just as men have a more pronounced browbone that protrudes further from the forehead, they also have longer jawbone and flatter cheeks. Women, on the other hand, have soft, curved jawlines and high cheekbones that add curves and symmetry to their faces. Procedures to fill the cheeks and even reduce the jaw are available, and once again, these can be highlighted with cosmetics post-surgically to enhance femininity.

Fuller Lips

When comparing images of male and female lips, it becomes quite clear that men have thinner lips while women have fuller lips. Though women do often enhance the appearance of their lips with makeup, the truth is that they are naturally fuller and more delicate-looking. In many cases, women have smaller mouths in general, and this is due in part to the natural shape of the jaws. Simple minimally-invasive and noninvasive procedures such as a lip lift can enhance lip fullness and provide a more feminine smile. Finally, one of the most pronounced features that distinguishes a male face from a female face is the Adam’s apple. Though not technically part of the face, the appearance of an Adam’s apple immediately makes all other facial features look more masculine because the human eye is conditioned to associate the Adam’s apple with masculinity. Procedures such as a tracheal shave to reduce the size of the Adam’s apple exist, and these enhance femininity even further. It’s easy to tell the difference between a feminine face and a masculine one, but it’s’ often difficult to describe the actual physical characteristics. These five things are the most common indicators of femininity, and there are procedures available to enhance each one.

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Women in both experiments rated the male faces with feminine traits as more attractive than the distinctly masculine faces.

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Michael B. Jordan’s smooth, supple skin. George Clooney’s big, soulful eyes. A young Mark Harmon’s thick, wavy hair and small, pointed chin. Such facial characteristics—which scientists who study human perception rate “feminine”—may well be why each of the three actors at one time or another was named “Sexiest Man Alive” by People magazine. Clooney even won twice. This aligns with findings by New York University postdoctoral scholar DongWon Oh; Natalie Grant-Villegas, who was a PhD student at Columbia at the time of the research; and Chicago Booth’s Alexander Todorov. Their experiments asking heterosexual women (most of them white and from the United States) to rate the general attractiveness of male faces suggest that such women typically prefer men’s faces that have more feminine shapes, which can include big eyes and small chins. In aggregate, the women participants in Oh, Grant-Villegas, and Todorov’s experiments preferred male faces that signaled stereotypically feminine personality traits such as warmth, honesty, and nurturing, the researchers find. They conclude that straight women are often more attracted to men they perceive to have more feminine personalities. Does this mean personalities literally show up in our faces? Not necessarily, Todorov says. Instead, we tend to hold stereotypes of others that link personality with the masculinity or femininity of their faces. The researchers cite previous research suggesting that men with very masculine features tend to be perceived as cold, dishonest, violent, and uncooperative. Other research demonstrates that feminine facial traits, even on men, signal warmth, honesty, and cooperativeness.

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