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About-Face

{Figs. 12-25}

3,378 Years of the “It” Face


Nefertiti A high, regal forehead, small features, and fine jawline.	Venus de Milo A face like a balanced equation, with no part dominating the others.	Botticelli’s Venus A pronounced oval with a longer, less sharply defined nose.	Madame X A jutting chin and tip-tilted nose skew her otherwise classic proportions.	Louise Brooks An early example of waifdom: plump cheeks and a full, pouting lower lip.


Grace Kelly The original nose that launched a thousand ski-jump rhinoplasties.	Audrey Hepburn A triangular face with compressed features; her large, wide-set eyes are almost halfway down her face.	Brigitte Bardot A squarish chin offsets her plush lips and button nose.	Twiggy An oval face, with wide-set eyes, a long nose, and that childishly plump lower lip.	Cheryl Tiegs The trapezoidal face: high cheekbones over a square jaw, with narrow eyes and a broad mouth.


Christy Turlington A long oval divided almost perfectly in thirds: forehead to wide-set eyes and high cheekbones to full, wide lips.	Kate Moss A square-triangle combo with unnervingly wide-set eyes; the slightly squashed nose and plush mouth counter the pointy chin.	Liya Kebede Another long oval, but with a prominent, high forehead and bow mouth.	Angelina Jolie High cheekbones and cushiony lips, a long, sharply angled jawline, and deep-set eyes.

Photo: (L-R) The Granger Collection; Musee du Louvre Paris/The Art Archive; Galleria Degli Uffizi Florence/The Art Archive; Geoffrey Clements/Corbis; Bettman/Corbis; Corbis; The Kobal Collection; Hulton Archive/Getty Images; Justine de Villeneuve/Hulton Archive/Getty Images; Adam Scull/Globe Photos; Ron Galella/WireImage; Terry O’Neill/Hulton Archive/Getty Images; John Spellman/Retna; Steve Granitz/WireImage