A preliminary study on the key factors contributing to the attractive lips of Chinese children.

OBJECTIVE To explore the aesthetic characteristics of the Chinese children lips. METHODS Frontal and profile photographs of 653 healthy children were categorized as the attractive and the unattractive by three laypersons and objectively measured for comparison. RESULTS The attractive group tended to be smaller in the upper paramedian red lip height, the lower paramedian red lip height, the midline upper red lip height, the central bow angle, and the lip angle, while greater in the Cupid's bow width. CONCLUSIONS Thinner lips seemed to be more attractive than full ones among Chinese children.