4 Interesting Facts Behind The Most Perfect Nose In The World

Illustration of nose shape (Unsplash / Marina Vitale)

JAKARTA - The nose is located in the middle of the face, this is the part that most steals the focus on the face. The term beautiful because of having a proportional nose often triggers the desire for a nose job or rhinoplasty. From various literatures, actually the most perfect nose shape varies.

First fact, Sara Lipton is a Dark Mirror writer and professor in Stony Brook University's Department of History. He wrote that artists in the 13th century began to depict bodies in a more realistic way and scientists began to pay attention to bodies.

Lipton's statement refers to a nose that is described or called perfect or less attractive, always followed by certain pretensions.

Lipton analyzed that the first image found was of a Jewish nose. It is large and does not convey love or affection, says Lipton.

This image builds the assumption that people with big noses are cunning, evil, and other assumptions based on caricature.

The second fact, the perfect nose has the golden ratio comes from Ancient Greece. The golden ratio was called Phi by sculptor Partheon Phidias based on an irrational calculation which was roughly equal to 1.618.

Launching from Rhinology Online, in a journal entitled What is the Perfect Nose? Lesson Learnt From the Literature, irrational numbers are also known as Fibonacci ratios. The golden ratio occurs naturally and is widely used in architecture, art and applied to facial beauty.

The proportions of the nose according to the figures mentioned above are said to be aesthetic. Eyes and brain unconsciously apply the concept of beauty and judge about the ideal facial proportions, perfect.

The third fact, the perfect nose always changes according to facial surgeon, Daniel J. Liebertz, MD. Each face shape and structure has different benchmarks. Liebertz also discussed the noses of celebrities which he thought were the most proportional according to the shape and structure of their faces.

For example Zhang Ziyi, actor in the film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. According to Liebertz, Zhang Ziyi's nose shape is the most common reference for his patients who want a rhinoplasty.

The fourth fact, in a study conducted at the University of Toronto and UC San Diego in 2011 examined why someone with a proportional nose is called beautiful. This study considers that the golden ratio does not always tell you what is beautiful.

Pam Pallet, one of the researchers in the study, explains that if someone spends a lot of time around white people they will find Caucasians to be the most attractive.

It's different if you grow up and get close to Chinese faces. Maybe you will judge that Chinese people have the golden ratio of the right nose. That is, what is seen will feel close and shape the way a person sees the world.

So what about the most perfect nose in the world? Plastic surgeons will work based on their fields, even with scientists, historians, and celebrities who perform plastic surgery.