Common knowledge says facial symmetry equates to beauty, that the more nearly the sides of our faces resemble each other, the more attractive we are. But if I divide Halle Berry’s face down the middle and double the left side in one photo and the right side in another, it’s the untouched photo in the middle that is most beautiful.
The same effect works for your classmate Casmir too. Her beauty owes everything to the asymmetry of her face. My personal opinion is that symmetry can only lead to prettiness, the kind a Barbie doll has, whereas true beauty comes from conflict.
Your thoughts? Please weigh in below. (Understand I will keep trying until I find a post that generates some conversation here.)
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Counterintuitive Fall 2022 
I never really thought about it before, but after these morphs I do agree that asymmetry looks the best for people’s looks. When it’s perfectly symmetrical, it actually looks quite strange…
What If everyone was born with a perfectly symmetrical face, do you think that then we’d believe that asymmetrical faces were the ones that looked weird? haha
Yes, I do. What surprises me is that the myth of symmetry’s supposed beauty persists.
I think it’s important to note that the light in the room hits the face in a way that highlights one side more Han the other. That fact probably makes the biggest difference as to why the two perfectly symmetrical faces look so odd. There’s more light across the forehead on the left side pic, while there are more shadows at play on the right side pic.
We could test that theory by starting with evenly-lit portraits, Brandy. I think it would make less difference than you do, but it’s a good suggestion.