Facial aesthetics have deeply impressed artists for thousands of years. Different characters – good, evil, helpless – all evoke different facial development types, and these are worth observing from an orthodontic perspective.
Art tends to endow figures with harmonious faces with positive adjectives such as innocent, heroic, modest, and beautiful, while characters with protruding jaws and crooked noses tend to embody the antagonist of a fairy tale.
Let's take some well-known fairytale characters and examine them based on facial aesthetics:
Aesthetics of arcs in positive characters:
Snow White
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Almost childlike, naive, well-proportioned, harmonious, round face. Large eyes, full lips, prominent cheekbones, snub nose. The childlike features reflect innocence, naivety and gentleness, like the character's „personality traits”. |
2. Cinderella
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A proportionate, beautiful, feminine face. Cinderella is characterised by a narrow, protruding jawline, full lips, a proportionate nose, and wide cheekbones, and she is kind, modest, and obedient, yet brave, as she sneaks away to the ball. |
3. Pocahontas
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Beautiful face, with suitable proportions. Not a round face, but rather more angular, conveying a sporty character raised in nature. A more angular, muscular face than, for example, Snow White or Cinderella. Her cheekbones are high, her lips are full. Her jawline juts forward and is wide. |
Compared to the above, negative fairy tale characters have a different facial development from a harmonious one.
The evil stepmother or witch is mostly long-headed, pointy-chinned, with her nose curved downwards because she is unsupported, as her upper jawbone is too far back and does not grow forward. Also, the midface grows downwards, not forwards.
Harmonious facial development can deviate in two directions:
It will be too short.
For example, the witch from Snow White – a deeply hooked, gaunt nose, or no teeth and thus no support for the lipstick.
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The jaw protrudes and, in relation to healthy proportions, does not maintain distance from the teeth. This facial shape develops because there isn't sufficient distance between the upper and lower jawbones when biting, for example, due to teeth wearing down over time or the absence of molars, causing the bite to collapse as one ages. |
2. Long, elongated face
For example, the wicked stepmother
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His face will not be short, but too long, but he also does not have sufficiently full lips, as they are not supported. His nose is also hooked. This type of facial development occurs in those who have teeth extracted during childhood for orthodontic purposes. Lip support does not develop, the lips become narrow, later the nose becomes pointed, and the chin collapses and becomes more pointed. |
(Image source: Google)
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