Horizontal facial thirds

The face can be divided horizontally into thirds. The boundaries of each third are:

• Upper: hairline to glabella (lower brow)
• Middle: glabella to subnasale (base of the nose)
• Lower: subnasale to chin

According to aesthetic principles, each third is the same length in the ideal face.

When the thirds are not equal, your face will look unbalanced. Most people have a dominant third, however the absolute size discrepancy is relatively small. People with greater differences in the size of each third often complain of things like a weak chin and a big nose.

Adjusting the horizontal thirds is a highly effective way to improve facial balance, and take the dominance away from certain features.

For example, we can make a dominant nose appear smaller by adding structure to the chin.

We can also reduce the dominance of a big chin by adding projection to your lips.

The rule of thirds is a great aesthetic principle to use when assessing your facial balance. However like all ratios, it is important to use the rule in context with your ethnicity, sex, gender, age, and personal preferences.

Vertical facial fifths

The vertical fifths principle draws from a key measurement in facial proportions: the inter-canthal distances. This is the distance between your eyes, and it has been used to develop a significant number of ideal facial proportions, ratios and distances.

The rule of vertical fifths states that in an aesthetically ideal face, passing 4 vertical lines across the inner and outer corners of the eyes should divide the face into 5 equal parts.

Applying this to the face during an aesthetic assessment allows us to identify parts of the face that are too wide or narrow, and design a treatment accordingly. Often used in rhinoplasty to determine ideal nasal width, the rule of fifths also has applications when augmenting your cheekbones.

The rule of fifths must always be considered relative to your gender, sex, ethnicity, age, and personal aesthetic preferences.

What parts of the face make up the side profile?

Causes of facial asymmetry

Why is my face uneven?

An uneven face is natural, and related to the way our face develops in utero. Some people naturally have more symmetrical faces than others, while others have significant asymmetry that can make them feel self-conscious. A number of things can make facial asymmetry worse, such as smoking, injury and ageing, as can certain medical conditions like Bell’s palsy. The number one cause of facial asymmetry aside from genetics is which side you chew on. This changes the position of your jaw, and makes one side of your face more muscular than the other.

The only natural way to improve facial symmetry is to try and chew using both side of your jaw. By looking after your skin and overall health, you can also slow down the progression of facial asymmetry that occurs with age.

Why is my jaw uneven?

Everyone has an uneven jaw because the prefer to chew on one side of their face. This causes an enlargement of the chewing muscles of mastication (mainly the temporalis and masseter muscles), which can slowly adjust the position of your jaw bone. You can naturally improve jaw asymmetry by chewing on both side of your jaw. As an alternative you can consider masseter slimming injections and temporalis slimming injections to slim the larger side of your face.

Why are my eyebrows uneven?

Most people have uneven eyebrows. The position of your eyebrows is determined by the shape of your brow bone and the strength of your frontalis forehead muscles. Changes in eyebrow hair distribution and thickness can also affect eyebrow symmetry.

To improve the symmetry of your eyebrows, you can style them to be more symmetrical. You can also use brow fillers and brow anti-wrinkle injections to adjust their position.

Why are my lips uneven?

All lips are asymmetrical, although some people have more uneven lips than others. The symmetry of your lips is determined by the distribution of your red lip on each side, the underlying lip volume, your teeth, and the muscle strength on each side of your face. As there are so many factors contributing to lip symmetry, it is impossible to have perfectly even lips.

However, lip filler and a lip flip can be used to adjust the volume and muscle strength of your lips, improving your lip symmetry.

Why is my chin uneven?

An uneven chin is most often caused by mal-position of your mandible (jaw bone) and underlying dental issues. While surgery can be used to improve symmetry, chin filler is a non-surgical, no downtime treatment option to correct chin asymmetry. While perfect chin symmetry is not possible, improving an uneven chin can help to make your face appear more attractive.

Treatments for facial asymmetry

How dermal fillers help with face symmetry

Dermal fillers can achieve significant improvements in facial symmetry. Dermal fillers add structural volume enabling us to reshape facial features. When used appropriately, this allows your cosmetic injector to match the weak (treated) side, with the stronger side. Dermal filler can improve symmetry in almost all areas of the face on the weaker side. If you want your larger, more prominent side to match the weaker side, fillers cannot help. Muscle-slimming injections are a better option in this case.

How anti-wrinkle & muscle slimming injections help with face symmetry

Anti-wrinkle injections can improve symmetry by raising or lowering certain facial features. As they work by relaxing facial muscles they can adjust eyebrow height, change the position of your mouth corners, and add height to your lips. Treating one side allows for an improvement in symmetry.

Muscle-slimming injections can be administered to the masseter muscles along the jawline or the temporalis muscles in the temples. This weakens the treated muscles, reducing their size. By treating one side, or treating one side more extensively, symmetry can be improved. Muscle relaxing injections can make the larger side more similar to the smaller side, because they reduce muscle bulk.

What does a symmetrical face look like?

While symmetrical faces are seen as attractive, a perfectly symmetrical face can be quite uncomfortable to look at. Half-face mirroring studies found that humans find slightly asymmetrical faces to be the most attractive.

Faces with perfect symmetry are less attractive as they do not look real. Similar to the ‘uncanny valley’ effect when looking at life-like dolls.

Fortunately, perfect symmetry is not attainable with facial symmetry injections. However, with this no downtime treatment, you can achieve noticeable improvements in the symmetry of your face.

What are the different face shapes?

The different face shapes are:

• Square
• Round
• Rectangle
• Oval
• Heart
• Diamond

Combination shapes are also possible.

Your face shape is determined by its length, and how wide it is at your temples, cheeks, chin and back of your jawline.

Adjusting these above areas with cosmetic injectables allows us to reshape your face.

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Reshape your face with Cosmetic Connection

Unhappy with the shape of your face? Does your face look too long? Too round? or too square? At Cosmetic Connection, we offer facial reshaping injectables so that you can achieve your ideal facial shape and structure.

It’s non-invasive, has no downtime, and gives natural, yet noticeable results. With high precision, we tailor each facial reshaping treatment to you.

If you’re looking for the best facial reshaping in Sydney, we’re here to help.

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Facial Symmetry Treatment in Sydney & Melbourne

Can you actually fix facial asymmetry? While normal, some people have pronounced asymmetry that affects their self-esteem. If you feel like your face is uneven, there are a number of tests for facial asymmetry you can do at home. The simplest is to take a photo with a good quality camera, directly at eye level, front on. Print it out, and measure out your features with a ruler. The key here is to take the photo as accurately as possible.

If you want to improve facial symmetry, then we can help. We offer the best facial symmetry treatment in Sydney, using non-surgical techniques. With a combination of dermal filler and muscle slimming injections, we can improve facial symmetry safely, and effectively.

If you would like an assessment on your facial symmetry from one of our expert clinicians, send through some photos, or book in for a comprehensive consultation.