Lips as a major factor in the beauty of a face

The most moving part of the face is the area of the mouth, which includes the lips and the surrounding soft tissue, closing the mouth opening (mouth). The lips on the inside form the space, which is separated from the actual mouth dental series. 


A mouth made the most important functions: eating, breathing, speech communication, emotional expression, kissing and other vital functions. As of the lips, combined with the expression of the eyes and other features, you can judge the moral qualities of man and his physical and mental condition. Through even less visible lip movements, their tension or relaxation, of corners of the mouth, the man expresses joy or pain, peace or awe, anger or kindness, pain or tenderness. 


If the experience pleasure, his mouth ajar, if painful - is closed and compressed. If you are going to cry, the man pulls the lips into a tube, and rejoicing - stretches into a smile. Change the position of only the corners of the mouth, changing the expression of the whole person: in the quiet corners of the mouth position are arranged horizontally, with sadness - are omitted, in joy - raised. 


The lips have a surprising variety of plastic expression, this is due to their shape, color, size, profiling, fullness, traffic and other criteria. 
Shape of lips made to determine the height, width and thickness. The width of anthropologists distinguish four types of lips: convex, thick, medium and thin (Fig. 22). 
  

  


Fig. 22 The thickness of the lips: 
I-thin, II-medium, III-thick, IV-inverted. 

Through the closing of the lips and corners of the mouth position, distinguish horizontal, concave and convex configuration (Fig. 23). 
The shape of lips depends not only on the thickness of the muscular layer, but also on the type of bite, the provisions of the front teeth, and varies depending on the individual and racial characteristics. The shape of the upper and lower lip varies. Depending on the above-mentioned structural features of the upper lip, changing its configuration in the profile and podnosovoy angle 
(Fig. number 24). 

  

Fig. 23 Form lips. 

  

Fig. 24 The contours of the upper lip in profile 

The height of the upper lip, a red border line (line of Cupid) and the deepening of the midline (Lactofiltrum) - may also be different, and in combination with structural features of the other parts of the face, is his individual (Fig. 25). 


Tolstoy fifteen times using different descriptions of the upper lip for the characterization of the heroes of his works: during the small talk, joy, sadness and other emotional states. 


Depending on the functional problems and emotional state, his lips can change shape and volume. This occurs when the compression or stretching of the lips, while deterring coughing or laughing, with a smile or yawn. In men, the size of the mouth slit at rest averaged 50 mm. When opening - 55 mm., Women - 40 and 48 mm. respectively. In children, the size of the lips and mouth slits is much smaller and proportional to age (Fig. 26). 

  

Fig. 25 Height and shape of the lips podnosovoy fossa. 

The representatives of yellow (Mongolian) race lips are usually tight, people blacks - thick, convex. Europoid lips of medium size. However, the fullness of the lips is not absolute racialized persons of the white race, and among them there are many variations of this feature. 


Full lips indicate positive qualities: honesty, friendliness, simplicity and emotion of their owner, as well as increased amorousness and sexuality. 

  

Fig. 26 Value lips men, women and children 

Beneficial for men is a wide mouth with full lips, well-defined, completely closing the teeth and with a slightly upturned corners of her mouth. 
Plump lips and small mouth girls are more likely belongs to flirt, usually windy and unstable. 


Small mouth with full lips in boys is rare, and for the seeming simplicity and good nature is hidden tricks of their owner. 
Established that the kindness - and the main feature of bright people with full lips. Full lips are the average of the classical form. 
Big mouth - belonging natured people, but the tightly compressed lips with drooping corners - Certificate touchiness unlucky man. 
If the mobility of the lips during a conversation is limited and teeth are not visible, then the holder of such features rather cold-blooded, clean and decent man. 
People with thin lips are usually reticent in feelings and emotions, purposeful, with a sober calculation and cold reason. Thin lower lip indicates a trick and the unreliability of their owner. 


The girls with thin lips, considered to be cruel boy, but according physiognomists, this feature - not absolute. The combination of thin lips and small mouth, nervous and touchy issue person, but at the same time, sincerely devoted and faithful. 


As shown by recent studies of American Scientists, a man can learn more by studying the shape of his lips, than talking MRC few hours. 
The woman's upper lip is greater than the lower - as the actress Julia Roberts - is peerless mistress. At the same time, really thick upper lip - the sign of the hypocrite who has no patience. 


But plump sexually promising sponge, like a supermodel Naomi Campbell, in fact, suggest that it is a great friend and like to enjoy the pleasures of life, but as a lover she could. 


Heavy lower lip, as an actor Kean Reeves, he created the image of «displeased». People of this type is absolutely necessary to be loved, even though they themselves «devoid lovers». 


Small plump lips means that you are generous and sexy man, but small and narrow - indicate the presence of doubt in myself, a sense of inferiority. Wide and thick lips are a person with the makings of a superior and sponges bow - a person tactful and responsible. 
Interestingly, the combination of different fullness of lips. People with a full upper lip and a thin bottom, usually temperamental and rarely go first to a truce after a quarrel. They are very proud, but at heart the good temper quickly subsides and people. 


Their character trait is hesitant in his actions and constant concerns. 
Total lower lip - a sign of stubbornness, manifested in decision-making in achieving this goal, the mastery of knowledge, but at the same time, and a sign of capriciousness. 


Observations revealed that during the conversation the mobility of the upper and lower lips are different and often more moving are the lower lip. 
Man with a very mobile lips, dissolving in an open, expansive smile, normally open and very emotional. With such people is easy and pleasant to communicate. 


It was noted that people who not only corners of the mouth alone, but during the smile dropped down - the skeptics, but they are not prone to displays of anger. 
If his lips into a smile stretched in the form of an arc, bowed down, with the rise of corners of the mouth up, this person is good-natured, not prone to quarrels and conflicts. 
The mobility of the lips is determined by the activity of muscles around the mouth, which physiognomists called «spiritual» facial muscles. Tommazeo argued that «lip movements are not determined by the rules of good form, but only the properties of the soul». 


All fat phlegmatic are flabby, half-open mouth, and constantly closed mouth, not open for a smile and rarely - to pronounce the words is a sign of melancholic. However, women whose lips are not compressed, but almost never opened and barely move when speaking, differ coldness, arrogance and antipathy to people if these properties are not a sign of a morbid condition. 


Evidence of arrogance and malice are the lips, the perpetrators of the vibration and sudden movements. On these say: «grumbling» lips, but the people who commit disorderly «lax» movement in the home called «mumbler», with their inherent characteristics of rudeness and vulgarity. 
And, finally, the color of the lips also has some information about their owner. Evidence of profound fatigue or illness is pale, sometimes with a bluish tint lips, scarlet or pink glossy lips - a sign of physical health. 


Founder of the incredibly popular around the world macrobiotic, doctor-diagnostician Mishio Kushi, found that different parts of the lips indicate the functional state of different parts of the digestive and genital systems. The upper lip meets the stomach: upper lip - the upper part of the stomach, the middle part - the middle and the lower part and the corners of his mouth - the duodenum, liver and pancreas. Condition of the lower lip indicates the status of the intestine. (Fig. 27). 
Field of the upper lip above the red fringe corresponds to the testicles. If the smile on the upper lip with a horizontal crease, it indicates a lack of functioning of the reproductive organs: in males - a weak potency, and for women - the problems with menstruation. The appearance of vertical wrinkles in this field talks about the expiring of sexual function. 

  

Fig. 27 Compliance with the lips of the digestive organs 
a-upper part of the stomach, b - middle part of the stomach in - duodenum, g - intestine.

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