Side view - Lips

Upper lip (Burstone)

How far the upper lip sits forward of Burstone's line from the nose base to the chin, in millimeters. Lips slightly ahead of the line are the classical norm; large values read protrusive and negative values recessed.

What counts as ideal

The ideal band is -5.2 mm to -1.8 mm for both men and women. A reading anywhere inside the band scores a full 10.

Ideal range

-5.2 mm to -1.8 mm

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 -12.0 mm and 1.1 mm: 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.

Upper lip (Burstone) 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 -11.5 mm to 1.2 mm, with a median of -3.3 mm. 55 of 84 land inside the ideal band.

#	Name	Upper lip (Burstone)	Score
1	Adam Driver	-2.7 mm	10.0
2	Adriana Lima	-4.2 mm	10.0
3	Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez	-3.1 mm	10.0
4	Alyssa Liu	-2.2 mm	10.0
5	Amy Schumer	-2.8 mm	10.0
6	Ana de Armas	-3.7 mm	10.0
7	Anya Taylor-Joy	-3.7 mm	10.0
8	Audrey Hepburn	-2.5 mm	10.0
9	Barack Obama	-4.7 mm	10.0
10	Benedict Cumberbatch	-2.2 mm	10.0
11	Brooke Monk	-4.0 mm	10.0
12	Brooke Shields	-3.8 mm	10.0
13	Charles Leclerc	-3.8 mm	10.0
14	Charlie Kirk	-1.8 mm	10.0
15	Chico Lachowski	-3.1 mm	10.0
16	Cillian Murphy	-4.7 mm	10.0
17	Clavicular	-3.4 mm	10.0
18	David Laid	-3.7 mm	10.0
19	Domhnall Gleeson	-1.9 mm	10.0
20	Donald Trump	-4.5 mm	10.0
21	Doutzen Kroes	-4.8 mm	10.0
22	Dylan Sprouse	-2.1 mm	10.0
23	Eminem	-2.1 mm	10.0
24	Emma Stone	-2.3 mm	10.0
25	Gio Scotti	-4.3 mm	10.0
26	Grace Kelly	-2.4 mm	10.0
27	Hayden Christensen	-3.2 mm	10.0
28	Henry Cavill	-3.2 mm	10.0
29	Ian Somerhalder	-3.6 mm	10.0
30	Jared Leto	-2.3 mm	10.0
31	Jeremy Meeks	-4.8 mm	10.0
32	Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson	-4.0 mm	10.0
33	Justin Bieber	-3.6 mm	10.0
34	Kelly Slater	-3.5 mm	10.0
35	Kristin Kreuk	-4.3 mm	10.0
36	Lauren de Graaf	-3.5 mm	10.0
37	Machine Gun Kelly	-3.3 mm	10.0
38	Madison Beer	-3.4 mm	10.0
39	Margot Robbie	-2.4 mm	10.0
40	Max Verstappen	-2.8 mm	10.0
41	Megan Fox	-2.6 mm	10.0
42	Michael Jackson	-5.2 mm	10.0
43	Olivia (Livvy) Dunne	-4.0 mm	10.0
44	Rachel McAdams	-1.9 mm	10.0
45	Ryan Gosling	-3.4 mm	10.0
46	Sabrina Carpenter	-2.8 mm	10.0
47	Sam Dezz (Samuel Dezzani)	-4.7 mm	10.0
48	Selena Gomez	-5.1 mm	10.0
49	Shawn Mendes	-1.9 mm	10.0
50	Sydney Sweeney	-3.3 mm	10.0
51	Taylor Hill	-3.9 mm	10.0
52	The Developer	-4.6 mm	10.0
53	Tom Holland	-2.7 mm	10.0
54	Tom Welling	-4.1 mm	10.0
55	Vinnie Hacker	-4.3 mm	10.0
56	Barbara Palvin Sprouse	-1.8 mm	10.0
57	Chris Hemsworth	-5.3 mm	10.0
58	Billie Eilish	-5.4 mm	10.0
59	Jon-Erik Hexum	-5.4 mm	10.0
60	Taylor Swift	-1.6 mm	10.0
61	Emma Watson	-1.6 mm	10.0
62	Gavin Newsom	-1.7 mm	10.0
63	Thomas Brodie-Sangster	-1.6 mm	9.9
64	Natalie Portman	-1.4 mm	9.9
65	Zendaya	-5.7 mm	9.8
66	Dua Lipa	-5.8 mm	9.8
67	Matt Damon	-5.8 mm	9.8
68	Anne Hathaway	-0.9 mm	9.4
69	Jahseh "XXXTentacion"	-6.2 mm	9.1
70	Isabeau Levito	-0.8 mm	9.1
71	Bella Ramsey	-0.7 mm	9.1
72	Matt Bomer	-1.2 mm	8.2
73	Robert Pattinson	-6.9 mm	7.5
74	Josh Hutcherson	-1.1 mm	7.3
75	Chris Evans	-1.0 mm	7.0
76	Zayn Malik	-0.8 mm	4.5
77	Mark Zuckerberg	-0.6 mm	3.5
78	Jeff Bezos	-0.5 mm	1.8
79	Andrew Garfield	0.0 mm	0.0
80	Glen Powell	-0.1 mm	0.0
81	J D Vance	1.2 mm	0.0
82	Ron Pearlman	-11.5 mm	0.0
83	Serena Williams	-10.4 mm	0.0
84	Timothée Chalamet	0.6 mm	0.0

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