A woman’s guide to facial aesthetics
Facial surgery is anatomy before aesthetics, and female and male faces are built differently. A woman’s face is generally shorter and narrower through the forehead, with a smoother, less projected glabella (the area between the brows and above the nose) and a gently rounded upper third rather than a squared one. The female brow sits above the superior orbital rim with a higher arch and its peak toward the outer third, while the male brow rests flat on the rim. Women typically have a longer, more visible upper eyelid crease and less fullness in the upper lid.
Through the midface, a woman’s cheek carries fullness higher and more anteriorly, and the nose has a slightly concave dorsal line with more tip rotation and definition — softening a dorsal hump without over-rotating the tip is the difference between a nose that looks like yours and one that looks operated on. Lower down, the jawline tapers to a narrower, more oval chin instead of squaring off, and the ideal is definition without width.
These are the proportions our surgeons work to. The goal isn’t a different face — it’s your face, at rest, without the tiredness and heaviness that time adds.
