No.1 K-Beauty, Faceline Plastic Surgery Clinic in Korea

You’ve likely came across ‘Portrait of a Gangnam beauty’ or ‘Gangnam beauty’ cartoons on the Internet at some point in your life. They are satires on the phenomena of faces losing their individual uniqueness with plastic surgery, appearing awkwardly monotonous and looking like they’ve had work done. From the viewpoint of a plastic surgeon, it is a portrait that has instilled in me a sense of self-accountability. [Image source: Google] Harmony and balance are the basic fundamentals of beauty. A face is not perceived beautiful if it lacks this harmony and balance. Ideal plastic surgery accurately pinpoints areas lacking harmony and balance, and makes these aspects harmonious and well-balanced. It is in the same context as the ‘natural beauty’ that I emphasized in a previous blog that awkward faces that appear to have had work done are by no means what you would consider beautiful.   There are several reasons for this phenomena of faces all appearing similar after plastic surgery...

You’ve likely heard that physiognomically ‘a developed lower face signifies good fortune in one’s latter years.’ In physiognomy, the face is largely divided into three thirds. The forehead region is essentially the upper part, the nose region is the middle part, and the jaw region makes up the lower part.  Among these, the lower part, which applies for the jaw, is where you look to see your fortune in the later years (from your 50’s on) as well as in terms of your inferiors, in other words, your subordinates or offspring. The jaw is also what sways your fortune wealth-wise. That said, those with well developed jaws luck out when it comes to their offspring, and their fortune when it comes to their work or business is good overall. Conversely, if the jaw is too short or small, you are prone to live in solitude in your later years with little luck when it comes to subordinates or offspring. In physiognomy, a wide and high jaw is ideal. High, here, meaning protruding slightly like a j...

The mobile phone is perhaps the most used thing by modern day people. The latest mobile phones are ceaselessly released in the market at alarming speed. Those with at least a little interest in mobile phones have likely heard of the term ‘zero bezel.’  The outer edge of the screen is called the bezel and the thinner this is, the more immersive it is, and large screens can be placed on small phones. This not only applies for mobile phones but the outer border of TVs and monitors is also called the bezel, and the trend is drifting towards increasingly thinner bezel. The progression of mobile phones is tantamount to the bezel becoming increasingly thinner. Absolutely zero bezel doesn’t exist yet in actuality as there is still slight bezel, albeit very thinly, but this bezel has gotten much, much thinner. When it comes to the face, it is considered aesthetically beautiful if your eyes, nose, and mouth occupy a large proportion of the face. It is for this reason that most surgeries are ...

You can generally tell the gender looking at the face of a person. This isn’t something that was particularly learned, one can just tell without giving it much thought. There are certainly men with pretty faces that appear feminine, as there are women with unwomanly faces that look more masculine.   Why do you think that is? As I mainly deal with the face shape, I will elaborate on the characteristics of male vs. female faces mainly in terms of the face shape. I think you’ll find it interesting to look at the faces of those around you from a gender vantage after reading this blog.   Firstly, it is a matter of whether the facial bones are prominent or whether it’s facial fat. A harmonious face shape is one in which facial bones and fat are well balanced. More prominent bones make a face appear masculine while more prominent fat makes one appear feminine. In other words, little facial fat with prominent bones appears masculine. On the other hand, the bones show little ...

Discovering a child’s aptitude early on and appropriate education for further development, this so-called early childhood education serves as crucial leverage in a child’s life. This is noteworthy as there is such a thing as early childhood education for a beautiful face.   If you were to ask me what I considered the most important element in terms of the face shape, I would have to say jaw development. The jaw is generally known to consist of the bone under the lips but anatomically, it also includes the teeth. That is to say, the upper jawbone (maxilla) including upper teeth and lower jawbone (mandible) including lower teeth. As there are various areas of development during a child’s growth phase, jawbones also develop concurrently. As jawbones include the teeth, any issues in the development of jawbones will result in occlusion issues of upper and lower teeth.    It is considered normal occlusion when teeth are straight and upper teeth line up naturally with lower...

Nowadays, ‘small head’ is one of the most typically mentioned expressions when discussing the face shape of attractive people. A ‘small head’ indicates a small face as the size of one’s face is proportional to the size of one’s head. A small face, and ultimately a small head, is an important factor in discerning whether someone is attractive. For instance, it is aesthetically attractive if the size of the face is proportionally small for one’s height like someone with a well-proportioned figure (i.e., 8 heads tall, including the head). Facial contouring and double jaw surgery are highly recognized as surgeries performed to make one’s face smaller. ‘I want a smaller face’ are the first words I hear from patients who come in to see me. In actuality, facial contouring or double jaw surgery are effective in reducing the face size of those with a relatively large face in proportion to the size of their head. However, facial bone surgery has little effect in reducing the face size if the fac...

Being born into a predetermined social class that you can’t change is unfortunate. Learning about history, you’ve probably come across caste systems such as nobility, commoner, slave, etc. or aristocrat, bourgeois, servant, etc. in the West. You probably found it absurd to have such system of being born into a predetermined social class and not being able to do anything about it.   Society has made headway wherein people now have many opportunities to change one’s social class depending on the effort made. Today, there are no distinctly predefined social classes and you’re not stuck in one for life.   But with the advancement of capitalism, wealth now determines what class you’re born into, and it’s now becoming increasingly difficult to change this paradigm. Classes alluding to such capitalism are coined gold spoon, silver spoon, and dirt spoon. More and more people have been talking about celebrity kids being casted for major roles, not because of their talent but ...