Front view - Facial thirds
Middle third
The distance from the brow line to the base of the nose as a share of total face height. A middle third close to one third of the face keeps the nose and midface in proportion with the forehead and lower face.
What counts as ideal
The ideal band differs by sex for this measurement: 31.40% to 33.40% for men and 32.20% to 34.80% for women. A reading anywhere inside the band scores a full 10.
Male ideal
31.40% to 33.40%
Female ideal
32.20% to 34.80%
How it is scored
Everything inside the band scores 10, and the penalty accelerates the further a reading falls outside it rather than dropping off a cliff at the edge. For the male band, the falloff is measured against bounds of 26.52% and 37.90%: a reading out at either of those has spent its full allowance and scores about 3. The curve keeps going past them, so an extreme reading still separates from a merely poor one.
Middle third is one of 67 measurements in the harmony pillar. No single measurement decides a face: each one contributes its own shortfall to a weighted mean, and one hopeless measurement costs a full measurement's worth and never more.
How 84 celebrities measure
Every profile in the library, measured from hand-placed landmarks and scored against the band for that person's sex and ancestry. Readings run from 28.04% to 38.30%, with a median of 32.51%. 42 of 84 land inside the ideal band.
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