Four ideals of beauty should be contemplated when attempting to rejuvenate a face

KOLOA, Hawaii – Four ideals of beauty – symmetry, skin texture and color, dimorphic shape cues and facial averageness – are important when considering aesthetics with a patient, a presenter said here. “When we age, all of these things change,” Joely Kaufman, MD, FAAD, said during the “Principles of Aesthetic Oculoplastics” session at the Hawaiian Eye meeting. “Beauty isn’t necessarily what we call age-dependent, but unfortunately with age, these four things that we find attractive get destroyed and disrupted through our lives.”“I usually sit down in a consultation with a patient and watch the way they speak, the way they animate, which muscles they use and how their face moves when they talk. Those are really important things. You can pick out the best feature on a face very easily and go from there,” Kaufman said.