The secrets your face can reveal about your health

Based on European and Asian belief systems, Standop claims the shape and complexion of a human visage can reveal everything — from a person’s true nature to the state of their health.

Wellbeing: six ways to put a smile back on your face in 2020

The best ways to improve your happiness and inner worth, from expressive writing to self-affirmation

Could You Love Someone Without a Face? Making Facial Transplants Common Practice

In the field of facial transplantation, the person-defining portion of our frontage is referred to as the "critical central face." These features -- eyes, nose, mouth, and chin -- are critical because they comprise the part that others recognize, the part responsible for expressing emotions and for facilitating human connections.

Facial appearance and metabolic health biomarkers in women

Although perceived facial attractiveness is widely recognized as such honest cue of an individual’s health, there are relatively few studies testing this assumption directly.

Facial Icing: Is Ice Good for Your Face?

This simple trick can seriously reduce puffiness.

Facial Nerve Disorders

People with facial nerve disorders or facial weakness often don’t know they have options for addressing the functional and aesthetic effects of their condition.

Facial Recognition Is Everywhere. Here’s What We Can Do About It

Facial recognition—the software that maps, analyzes, and then confirms the identity of a face in a photograph or video—is one of the most powerful surveillance tools ever made. While many people interact with facial recognition merely as a way to unlock their phones or sort their photos, how companies and governments use it will have a far greater impact on people’s lives.

How to Stop Touching Your Face

We know it’s hard. Try these four tricks to help limit the number of times you touch your face each day to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Humans may be able to pick out sick people just by looking at their faces

If you want to stay healthy, it’s a good idea to avoid people who are sick. But little is known about humans’ skill at identifying people who are under the weather. Now, however, a new study offers evidence that humans can detect whether someone is sick by looking at their faces. That new info may help reduce the spread of infection, and eventually help doctors better diagnose patients, researchers say.

Meet The Mites That Live On Your Face

It might give you the creepy-crawlies, but you almost certainly have tiny mites living in the pores of your face right now. They're known as Demodex or eyelash mites, and just about every adult human alive has a population living on them.

Perception of health from facial cues

Impressions of health are integral to social interactions, yet poorly understood. A review of the literature reveals multiple facial characteristics that potentially act as cues to health judgements. The cues vary in their stability across time: structural shape cues including symmetry and sexual dimorphism alter slowly across the lifespan and have been found to have weak links to actual health, but show inconsistent effects on perceived health.

Selfie face distortion is driving people to get nose jobs

Selfies make our noses look 30 percent larger than they really are, plastic surgeons warn.

The Best Skin Tips And Beauty Products For Each Area Of Your Face

This week my guest is celebrity facialist Michaella Bolder. This is her second time on the podcast and this time, she is back to talk about each key area of our face and how we can use treatments (both at home and professionally) and beauty products to look and feel healthy and glowing. In this episode we talk about:

The influence of shape and colour cue classes on facial health perception

Facial appearance signals information about an individual, and one trait in particular is vitally important for social interaction and mate choice decisions: physical health. Facial cues to health can be divided into two broad classes - facial shape, which is linked to previous health and is relatively fixed; and facial colouration, which changes over the short-term, reflecting current health.

The lowest-effort skincare routine that will still make your skin glow

Know the difference between what your skin needs and what just feels nice.

What Does Acupuncture Do to Your Face?

It can help relax wrinkles, for starters.

What Does Your Face Say About Your Health?

You’re really familiar with the face staring back at you. But a closer peek may show clues about your health -- if you know what to look for.

What our faces can tell other people about the state of our health

Our facial appearance influences how we feel about ourselves – and other people’s faces influence who we choose to approach or avoid and who we’d like to form romantic relationships with. At a glance, a face reveals a wealth of information about how we are feeling, or the kinds of behaviours we might be about to engage in – but what does it say about us when we aren’t expressing emotion? As it turns out, it’s more than you could imagine.

Why is it so hard to stop touching your face?

It is, collectively, our favorite hobby, face-touching, and we didn’t even know. Most of the time, it is unconscious, which is part of why it is so hard to give it up. How can you quit what you don’t even know you’re doing?

You Asked: Should I Get a Facial?

It’s also important to differentiate among the many different types of facial treatments.