The most important view of the face is the frontal view. It is in this view that we generally greet and converse with each other.

For this reason, in order to be recognized as uniquely human, we have evolved to resemble the “Mask” (the visual code of humanness) most closely, and vary from it the least, in the frontal view.

A face will almost always “fit” the Mask more closely in the Repose Frontal view than it will in the Repose Lateral view.

1. CAUCASIAN VARIATIONS - RF

EUROPEAN VARIATION FROM RF MASK

Slightly vertically thin upper and lower lips

Flat eyebrow (very little arch)

Slightly wider nose

Lateral border of the face slightly wider than the Mask

Possible:  Narrow eyes, longer vertical chin, longer nose

2. ASIAN VARIATIONS - RF

ASIAN VARIATION FROM RF MASK

Medial epicanthic fold

Lateral epicanthic fold

Lateral border of the face significantly wider than the Mask

Eye brows slightly superior to that of the Mask with shorter tails

Slightly wider nose and nostrils (nasal ala and nares extend laterally)

Superiorly positioned nasal columella creating a longer upper lip

3. AFRICAN VARIATIONS - RF

AFRICAN VARIATION FROM RF MASK

Lower lip 18 degrees wider from the corner of the mouth and extending to inferiorly to the labio-mental fold

Upper lip 18 degrees wider from the corner of the mouth and extending to the philtrum

Wider nose and nostrils (nasal ala and nares extend laterally) - such that the lateral aspect of the nostril (nare) is on the naso-labial fold

Eye brows in the brow zone superior to that of the Mask

Lateral border of the face slightly narrower than the Mask

4. COMBINATIONS OF THE BASIC ETHNIC VARIATION MASKS - RF

ALL 3 ETHNIC  VARIATIONS  FROM RF MASK

Ongoing research is focused on detailing more specific variations from the mask particularly with regard to the American Indians, Melanesians, Micronesians, Polynesians and Australian Aborigines. 

Many beautiful faces consist of or resemble a combination or composite of subtle variations of ethnic qualities – even if they are specifically derived from or genetically specific to a particular ethnicity that their face resembles. Although physical resemblance implies a probable genetic similarity it does not demand or guarantee a genetic similitude, particularly as a face approaches the “attractive” configuration of the archetypal mask.