I became acquainted with the Phi Mask and the Golden Ratio when an older man, trying to seduce me, asserted that my hideous visage fit perfectly into the wireframe confines of “ideal beauty”. He was wrong; nobody is a perfect Phi and if they were, they’d probably be dull to look at.
Despite that, most people are so far away from the Golden Mask that being aware of one’s deviations from the pattern is highly useful in the application of hairstyles, hats and makeup. Is your nose too wide? Eyes too far apart? Eyebrows too short? Finding out all the myriad things that are precisely wrong about your face is highly educational and instructive, and like all intellectual pursuits, will fill you with crippling self-doubt.
Me, my mouth is too low and small, my eyebrows too high, my nose too wide, and my face too fat. What’s your excuse?
MBA California [via the Annals of Improbable Research]
