What Can Roman Sculpture Teach Us About Facial Balance?

I think it's an absolute must for anybody who deals with the face, facial plastic surgeon, plastic surgeon, oculoplastic surgeon, injectors, anybody who deals with the face, to really study Italian, Roman sculpture. You know, we spent years studying Netter, studying what's underneath the skin, the muscles, the blood vessels, the bones, all that stuff. But the surface anatomy is depicted better than anywhere else by studying Roman, Italian anatomy.

Look, the left cheekbone is higher, the left eyebrow. The way that these artists carved in marble and stone with such accuracy, such incredible accuracy. Here we have somebody showing exactly the proportions to perfect detail, showing every single asymmetry to perfect detail.

Most humans, 95% or greater, prefer the left side of their face. For most of us, the left side of our face is more narrow, it's higher, it's more attractive. The right side is droopier or wider, not as attractive. That's for most people. Now, phones sometimes flip the selfie and create confusion, but the fact remains, the left side is higher, more narrow, more attractive for most people.

Go into a museum, look at Italian sculpture, and you'll see that the nasal bone on one side is longer, pushing the nose to the other side. Extremely common. You'll see all that stuff. So you have to study this. Facial balancing, these new kind of crazy faces we're creating, overfilled, over filler, over fat, over everything. No. Look at Italian art. That's beauty.

Now again, each of them had a dorsal hump, and two of them had a slightly droopy tip. I could correct that. Not on marble, on human tissue. But studying that anatomy is extremely important.