Scientifically Beautiful: How Hollywood's Gorgeous Stars Rank Against One Another (INFOGRAPHIC)




How do we figure?

It has a lot to do with symmetry, the distances between certain parts of the face and proportions -- how different features measure up against each other. Dr. Kendra Schmid, assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, uses a formula based on 29 different points on the face. The score starts high and works its way down. Every separate calculation configures into the total: How full are your lips? Too thin lowers the score, but so does an overly thick pucker; How wide-set are your eyes? Is your nose as long as your ears? Etc.

At the end you get a score between 1 and 10 -- 10 being the perfect face. Most people, i.e. non-Hollywood normals, score around 4 and 5. Celebrities rarely, if ever, score below a 6.

But in a world full of extremely proportionate, symmetrical faces, how do these stars rank in comparison? Or simply put, who is prettier than whom?

You'd be surprised.

This story appears in Issue 40 of our weekly iPad magazine, Huffington, in the iTunes App store, available Friday, March 15.

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