1. Why do lips occupy an important position in aesthetics?
Lips have the important functions of speaking and eating, and they are also one of the focal points of facial beauty, especially for women. A beautiful lip shape in women is very attractive to men and has an indescribably charming quality. Beautiful lips can display a person's dignity, sincerity, elegance, sophistication, and infinite charm. This is because there are many facial expression muscles distributed around the lips, which produce many flexible, subtle, and delicate movements that directly express a person's inner emotions such as joy, happiness, sweetness, deep affection, humor, surprise, and anger. Therefore, some people believe that lips are symbols of health, reason, impulse, and purity. Many women go to great lengths to beautify their lips, carefully selecting and purchasing lipstick, which is the best proof. Some even believe that the importance of lips in aesthetics can rival or even surpass that of eyes.
2. What is the standard for beautiful lips?
The shape of the lips varies due to differences in race, age, and gender. There is a significant distinction between the lip shapes of Easterners and Europeans. Generally speaking, Europeans have the thinnest lips, Easterners have medium thickness, and Africans have the thickest lips.
Chinese people belong to the Eastern ethnicity. The average lip thickness for males is: upper lip 8 mm, lower lip 10 mm. If the upper lip exceeds 10 mm and the lower lip exceeds 13 mm, it is considered thick lips, giving an impression of dullness, barbarism, and vulgarity; if the lips are too thin, it may give an impression of meanness and sharpness. Normally, Chinese women’s lips are about 2 mm thinner than men’s. The vermilion border should form a beautiful lip bow with concave and convex curves.
3. How to correct overly thin lips?
If the lips develop too thin, the upper lip will lack a beautiful lip bow curve, and the lower lip will also be unattractive. The correction method involves removing part of the skin tissue above or below the vermilion border, lifting or pulling down the red lip tissue, and suturing it with the skin incision edge.
4. How to correct overly thick lips?
Overly thick lips can be corrected surgically. The surgical method involves making a fine elongated wedge-shaped excision of the mucosa and fat tissue on the inner side of the lip, then suturing the incision.
5. What are double lips?
Double lips, also known as redundant lips or duplicated lips, refer to a condition where an extra mucosal fold appears between the lips and gums when the patient smiles. The cause of double lips is due to excessive development of the mucosal and submucosal tissues of the upper lip, or insufficient skin and muscle tissue but relatively excessive mucosal tissue of the upper lip. Obvious double lips affect the beauty of the lips.
6. How to correct double lips?
When double lips are obvious, part of the mucosa can be surgically removed. The method involves pulling apart the upper lip, cutting out a strip of appropriate width of mucosa and submucosal tissue from the inner side of the upper lip, and then suturing the incision. Generally, satisfactory results can be achieved after surgery.