A study of 1,000 people in 35 countries revealed that the perfect lip shape is all down to symmetry. More than 60% of respondents thought a 1:1 ratio between the upper and lower lip was the most attractive shape. A cosmetic surgeon in London said a heavily-defined cupid's bow is the most-requested lip feature.
Cupid is the rarest of all lip forms. Cupid has a powerful, youthful appearance, and is very prominent in pre-adolescent females. Due to the natural growth process in a female's lips, the fullness of the lips fill in the middle first, then the sides.
The width of the lips should be about 40% of the width of the lower face and generally equal to the distance between the medial limbi. The width-to-height ratio of the face is typically 3:4, with an oval-shaped face being the aesthetic ideal.
Full and red lips combined deliver the perfect pout to achieve male fixation, but women who simply wear lipstick – regardless of their lip type – secure significantly greater levels of attraction than those who do not.
Heavily defined cupid's bows are considered the most desirable lips in the world - and Taylor Swift and Rihanna are the proud owners of this feature.
A study of 1,000 people in 35 countries revealed that the perfect lip shape is all down to symmetry. More than 60% of respondents thought a 1:1 ratio between the upper and lower lip was the most attractive shape. A cosmetic surgeon in London said a heavily-defined cupid's bow is the most-requested lip feature.
Some upper lips are uniform in shape, and others dip down in the middle, revealing two distinct peaks of the upper lip. The latter is known as a Cupid's bow. Taylor Swift has a famous Cupid's bow, and it's generally viewed as an attractive feature. Cleft lips affect approximately 1 in every 600 babies born.
Scientists have found that the size of somebody's lips plays a key role in determining whether they are sexually attractive to other people. Basically, the bigger the better - but, in a warning to those who are thinking about opting for surgical enhancement, it is possible for somebody to have lips that are too big.
They are the source of expressions of love, sexuality, intimacy, and all types of communication. There is a reproductive drive in chasing after full lips, given their connotations with sexual vitality; some have even suggested that lips are attractive because of their resemblance to the labia.
One face expert believes your pout is directly correlated with the way you behave. If you have thin lips you are probably independent and self-reliant. If you have artifically enhanced lips you might have a more sensual side to you.
Full Lips
Full lips are the most common of shapes and typically defined by lips that are plump all-around on both the top and bottom, with no gap between.
It's simply a matter of symmetry
Well, quite a lot, as it turns out that full and sumptuous lips are the most preferable lip shape of them all - but according to a global study, there's one key trait that distinguishes the perfect pouts from their equally plump, yet sub-par, counterparts.
The Cupid's bow is a facial feature where the double curve of a human upper lip is said to resemble the bow of Cupid, the Roman god of erotic love. The peaks of the bow coincide with the philtral columns giving a prominent bow appearance to the lip.
Andrea Ivanova is 24 years old and has spent most of her adult life fashioning herself into the “Balkan Barbie.” And with 26 lip injections, she boasts of having the “biggest lips in the world” — but she isn't done yet. Ivanova has spent thousands of dollars on these cosmetic body modifications.
Normal, healthy lip color varies, depending on skin color and other factors, but should fall in the reddish-pink-to-brown range.
Men of Chinese descent had the largest total lip volume. Regarding upper lip (measured from the midline of the upper lip vermilion border) to lower lip height ratio, Chinese women were found to have a mean ratio of 1:1.25 when measured both by caliper and surface distance.
"Much like how studies show that the higher your hip-to-waist ratio in some African tribal cultures, the more attractive you are, full lips can also make you seem more attractive." One 2010 study in the journal Vision Research backs this up.
Plump Centre:
These lips are more thick and full at the center, especially on the upper lip. Such people are natural performers and enjoy being the center of attention. They can also be very dramatic and their relationships. They love to be pampered by, especially their SOs.
The importance of lip ratio
To achieve a natural result, the lower lip should appear always slightly bigger than the upper one. The ideal vertical height ratio of the upper lip to the lower lip should be 1:1.6.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English rosebud mouth/lipsa mouth or lips that have a small round shape and are very red → rosebudExamples from the Corpusrosebud mouth/lips• Corrie had a short, snub nose and rosebud mouth, and her eyes were a smoky grey.
The crucial cupid's bow. Look in the mirror, under your nose. The highest point of the lips features a double-curve commonly known as a cupid's bow, named for the shape of a bow and arrow carried by Cupid. Some are more pronounced, peaked at two sharp points.
As we age, a multitude of natural processes cause a distinct change in lip shape. Generally, the upper lip lengthens and inverts, the lower lip thins, the corners of the mouth droop, and the curves of the lips diminish.
While some people have a Cupid's bow that is more pronounced (hello Taylor Swift!) others don't appear to have one at all. Nature Wellness tells us that our Cupid's bow is a part of our philtrum — the indent in your skin that starts on the bottom in of your nose in the center and ends at the dip in your cupid's bow.
The philtrum (Latin: philtrum from Ancient Greek φίλτρον phíltron, lit. "love charm"), or medial cleft, is a vertical indentation in the middle area of the upper lip, common to therian mammals, extending in humans from the nasal septum to the tubercle of the upper lip.