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How attractive is Idris Elba - Facial Harmony Analysis
Actor - Luther, The Wire, Beasts of No Nation
Idris Elba has high cheekbones, eyes that tilt up at the corners, full lips, a wide jaw on a strong neck and a chin that sits well forward with a sharp jaw-to-neck line in profile. His midface runs long, his upper lip is long over a short chin, his mouth is narrow for his nose, his eyes sit wide apart and his profile runs flat from brow to nose.
- Gender:
- Male
- Ethnicity:
- British Sierra Leonean and Ghanaian
- Eyes:
- Brown
- Harmony:
- 6.3 / 10
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Idris Elba's facial harmony
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Overall harmony
6.3
out of 10
Top 20%
Front view
5.8
out of 10
Top 36%
Side view
7.2
out of 10
Top 3.1%
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Front harmony
Front analysis
34 available measurements from this image.
Analysis reference
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Facial thirds
9.9 / 10
Face shape
7.0 / 10
Eyes and brows
4.5 / 10
Nose
8.6 / 10
Mouth and lips
5.9 / 10
Ears
9.3 / 10
Jaw, neck and lower face
5.4 / 10
Side harmony
Side analysis
34 available measurements from this image.
Analysis reference
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Forehead and brow
2.0 / 10
Profile convexity
7.2 / 10
Nose
9.2 / 10
Lips
7.8 / 10
Chin and jaw
8.3 / 10
Neck
10.0 / 10
Biggest strengths
These measurements sit in or right beside their ideal ranges and carry your score.
Ideal neck width
10.0This contributes to a proportionate frame due to the neck sizing well against the jaw.
Neck width (front view)
Ideal lower lip position (Burstone)
10.0This contributes to balanced lips due to the lower lip sitting classically just ahead of Burstone's line.
Lower lip (Burstone) (side view)
Ideal nose tip rotation
10.0This contributes to a refined nose due to the tip being gently rotated without exposing the nostrils.
Nose tip rotation (side view)
Ideal jaw length
10.0This contributes to a harmonious lower face due to the jaw not lacking length or being overly long.
Ramus to mandible ratio (side view)
Ideal canthal tilt
10.0This contributes to an attractive eye area due to the outer corners sitting gently above the inner corners.
Lateral canthal tilt (front view)
Ideal profile convexity
10.0This contributes to a balanced profile due to brow, nose base, and chin falling in a gently convex line.
Facial convexity (glabella) (side view)
Areas to improve
5 features stand out - fixing what is fixable here moves your score the most.
Narrow midface
-0.53The face is narrow for its midface height, which stretches the center of the face vertically.
Face width to height (front view)
Low-set mouth
-0.41The mouth sits low in the lower third, which shortens the chin's share of the lower face.
Lower third proportion (front view)
Long philtrum or short chin
-0.35The philtrum is long for the chin below it, which can make the lower face read bottom-light.
Chin to philtrum ratio (front view)
Narrow mouth for the nose
-0.31The mouth is barely wider than the nose base, which can make the nose read wide.
Mouth to nose width (front view)
Wide intercanthal spacing
-0.26There is more than one eye-width of space between the eyes, which reads wide-set.
One eye apart test (front view)
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Idris Elba's strongest and weakest features
Idris Elba scores 6.32 overall, and his profile outscores his front: 7.23 side against 5.76 front. His cheekbones, eye tilt, lips, jaw and chin are his strongest features, and his costs come from a long midface, a long upper lip over a short chin, a narrow mouth, wide-set eyes and a shallow step from brow to nose.
From the front, his middle and lower thirds are in band, his temples are the right width, and his cheekbones sit high. His outer eye corners tilt up at the ideal angle. His nose is the right width for its bridge and for the space between his eyes, and his nose tip sits level with his nostrils. His lips are full, and his mouth corners sit well. His jaw angle matches the angle from his nose base to his outer eye corners, and his jaw and neck are the right width. In profile, his total facial convexity and convexity through the brow are in band, and his cheek sits ahead of his eye. His nose's forward length is in proportion to its height, and his tip angle and tip rotation are ideal. Both lips sit on the Burstone reference, and his lips meet the Holdaway line. His chin sits correctly forward, his jaw corner angle, jaw plane, rear jaw length and jaw corner height are ideal, and his jaw meets his neck at the ideal angle.
His largest cost is that his midface reads long for the width of his cheekbones, at 1.69 against 1.96 to 2, which takes about 0.53 of a point. His upper lip is long, taking up 37.3% of the lower third against 31 to 33.5%, which is his weakest single metric at 1.05 out of 10, and his chin is short to match, at 1.59 times his philtrum against 2.15 to 2.45. His mouth is narrow, at 1.19 times his nose width against 1.42 to 1.5, and his eyes are set wide for their length, at 1.32 eye widths apart against 1.05 to 1.1. In profile, the step from his brow to his nose is shallow, at a nasofrontal angle of 140.8 degrees against 107.9 to 119.9, and his face is flat through the nose bridge, at 172.8 degrees against 163 to 166. The fold under his lower lip is open, at a mentolabial angle of 162.0 degrees against 111 to 127.