Facial Profiles

What is a facial profile?

The silhouette of the face from a side view

What is the vertical plane or line?

An imaginary vertical line that touches equally the forehead, upper lip and chin. Any deviation from said line gives us our various profiles

What is characteristic for a vertical/balanced/classic face shape?

-Chin, forehead and lip equally project to an imaginary line
-No feature recedes or protrudes more than the other

What is characteristic for a convex profile?

Forehead recedes, chin recedes

What is the most common facial type?

Convex

What is characteristic of a concave facial profile?

Forehead protrudes, chin protrudes

Which is the least common facial type?

Concave

When labelling facial profiles, the forehead is always ___ and the chin is always ___

1st ; 2nd

Convex concave

-Receding forehead
-Protruding chin

Concave convex

-Protruding forehead
-Receding chin

Vertical convex

-Balanced forehead
-Receding chin

Vertical concave

-Balanced forehead
-Protruding chin

Convex vertical

-Receding forehead
-Balanced chin

Concave vertical

-Protruding forehead

-Balanced chin