Sentences with phrase «facial contrast»

The research team found that while there were some small differences, several aspects of facial contrast decreased with age in all four groups of women, including contrast around the mouth and eyebrows.

The study also shows that observers perceive women with increased facial contrast as younger, regardless of the ethnic background of the women or the observers.

New research suggests a link between facial contrast and looking younger.

The women were aged from 20 to 80, and the researchers analyzed their facial images using computer software to measure various facial contrast parameters.

This indicates that at least some aspects of facial contrast naturally decline with age in women from around the world.

The participants chose the high facial contrast face as the young face almost 80 % of the time, regardless of the cultural origin of the participant or the face.

When volunteers were asked to compare pictures of human faces, they rated those with more facial contrast as looking younger.

Makeup artist James Kaliardos believes that a strong set of arches creates an automatic air of confidence, and a 2013 study seemingly backs up his claims: Scientists discovered that women with «greater facial contrast» — specifically in the eyebrow region — were perceived as «younger» than those whose arches were not cosmetically enhanced.

This is the abstract of a research article titled «Aspects of Facial Contrast Decrease with Age and Are Cues for Age Perception,» and it should give a professional woman some good reasons to seriously consider wearing makeup at work and in profile pics.

«People of different cultures use facial contrast as a cue for perceiving age from the face, even though they are not consciously aware of it,» says Porcheron.

Previous studies have shown that increased facial contrast is a cue to perceiving increased health, youthfulness and femininity.

«Facial contrast refers to how much the eyes, lips and eyebrows stand out in the face in terms of how light or dark they are or how colorful they are,» says Aurélie Porcheron, a researcher involved in the study.

Because facial contrast is increased by typical cosmetics use, we infer that cosmetics function in part by making the face appear younger.»

Porcheron and her colleagues speculated that the relationship between facial contrast and aging might be similar across different ethnicities.

Facial contrast decreases with age in women around the world.

Aspects of facial contrast, a measure of how much facial features stand out in the face, decrease with age in women across a variety of ethnic groups, finds a study in open access journal Frontiers in Psychology.

This suggests that facial contrast is a cross-cultural cue to age perception.

A French research team, in collaboration with American researchers, have discovered one such aspect of aging — facial contrast.

«Women seen as younger when eyes, lips and eyebrows stand out: Facial contrast, a measure of how much facial features stand out, is a cross-cultural cue for age perception.»

Here we report that aspects of facial contrast — the contrast between facial features and the surrounding skin — decreased with age in a large sample of adult Caucasian females.

These findings show that facial contrast plays a role in age perception, and that faces with greater facial contrast look younger.