People Are Wondering If These 11 Celebrities Look Any Different After The Golden Ratio Is Applied To Their Photos
Golden ratio can be seen everywhere in nature.
Some photos make celebrity faces look instantly familiar, while others make you stop and compare every angle. That is exactly what happens when the golden ratio gets applied to famous faces, turning a simple beauty concept into a very public before-and-after experiment.
In this roundup, Salma Hayek, Dua Lipa, Megan Fox, Monica Bellucci, Billie Eilish, Zoë Kravitz, Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, Blake Lively, and Carrie-Anne Moss all get the golden ratio treatment. The results are subjective, but that is part of the fun, because beauty standards and facial symmetry do not always line up the same way for everyone.
Scroll through the photos and decide for yourself which looks feel more balanced, and which ones are better left untouched. The comparisons get more interesting the farther down you go.
1. Salma Hayek
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? Invision/Invision/East NewsThe "golden ratio" is a unique mathematical relationship. Two numbers are in the golden ratio if the ratio of the sum of the numbers (a+b) divided by the larger number (a) is equal to the ratio of the larger number divided by the smaller number (a/b).
The golden ratio is about 1.618 and is represented by the Greek letter phi, Φ. It is best approximated by the famous "Fibonacci numbers." They are a never-ending sequence starting with 0 and 1, and continuing by adding the previous two numbers.
To illustrate, the next numbers in the Fibonacci sequence are 1, 2, 3, and 5.
That is the math behind the trend.
3. Megan Fox
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4. Monica Bellucci
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5. Billie Eilish
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The story of these numbers is interesting. Leonardo Fibonacci came up with the sequence while he was calculating the ideal expansion pairs of rabbits.
Its emerging patterns and ratios may now be seen at all scales, from the micro to the macro, and from living systems to inanimate objects. While the Golden Ratio does not account for every structure or pattern in the universe, it is undoubtedly a significant factor
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The comparisons only get more subjective from here.
6. Zoë Kravitz
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7. Zendaya
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8. Jennifer Lopez
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9. Lady Gaga
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10. Blake Lively
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11. Carrie-Anne Moss
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Some of the most common examples of the golden ratio are:
1. Flower petals
2. Seedheads
3. Pinecones
4. Tree branches
5. 6.Sea shells
6. Spiral Galaxies
7. Hurricanes
8. Faces
9. Fingers
10.DNA molecules
Beauty standards have never stayed still for long.
Just take a look at all those plastic influencers on TikTok and Instagram. That's the best example of shifting standards.
They would be forced to wear ugly-proof hoods over their heads during Renaissance. If you are wondering what’s the average value - one study has shown that most people score between 4 and 6, and no one has ever been a perfect 10.
So, which version looks better to you?
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