“Beautiful eyes” can be defined as youthful, brilliant, vivid, and attractive. Regardless of race, attractive faces have wide-set eyes and a lower brow position than average faces. Attractive Caucasian and African faces have a relatively narrower palpebral fissure height and width than average Caucasian and African faces.

Attractive Asian faces have a less steep slant of the palpebral fissure compared to that of the average Asian face, but attractive Caucasian and African faces have a steeper palpebral slant than that of average Caucasian and African faces. Attractive Caucasian and African faces have an acute or keen shape to the eyes like the jaguar’s eye. Attractive Korean or Asian faces do not have an epicanthus and there is a lot of exposure of white in the medial and lateral area of the eyes. Attractive Korean faces have larger but not ptotic eyes than those in average Korean faces and they have a narrow double fold line however, attractive Asian faces have a slightly higher double fold line. The results of our study found that attractive Korean faces have relatively wide-set eyes and that the medial and lateral eye fissure height is greater than that in average Korean faces. Fourteen distance measurements and five angular measurements were performed for analyzing the morphological differences in the configuration of attractive and average faces.

Using seven composite faces of different races or ethnicities, photogrammetric measurements were performed to determine the relative differences in the average and attractive configuration of the eyes. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there are any actual differences in the configuration of beautiful eyes among different races. There are few studies that evaluate the differences in the perception of beauty and attractiveness of different races or ethnicities.

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