I wasn't intending to do re-enter my fashion lab. I have a couple nice long rants I could go off on about how fashion is sending today's society down the drain, but that's not the point of this article.
After last week's article, "The Case of the Race", I saw that many people did agree with me. Yet I also got a few inquiries as to how exactly to make one's face proportional without looking like your diet has consisted of pizza and cheesecake for the past three years. We understand that faces should be narrow, they say, but how do you make it narrow? It never seems to work out!
Well I'll give my advice on it, for what it's worth (a lot). The heads you have now at Akbar's are generally circles or slight ovals. You don't want that. You want a head-shaped head. And even if you DO get one, chances are that the hair you purchase will end up changing the shape of your head or leaving a gaping hole right beneath it. Neither of those do you want - so how do you get your face not to look like it's been run over by a truck? (Yes, all ye sensitive Whyvillians out there, I believe I did just 'diss' those with racing lips. Now send me the hate mail and get it over with.)
Let us enter my Fashion Lab, and my friend Genius and I will show you precisely how to make a face look normal.
Here we have a regular hair and a regular face from a regular store on a regular page at ol' regular Akbar's in regular Whyville. What I did is I took a few irregular diagonal lines (in this case it was barrettes, since no other specially designed parts were available. Although, a very strong hint to all face part designers out there, since subtle hints don't usually register with the Whyvillian community - some people might be needing something to substitute for my rather clumsy version of barrettes.) and put them right over the curved spot in the cheeks, as you can see. Then all it took was a click on the hair to bring it on top, and now you've got a good foundation.
Eyes should go in that general vicinity, as seen - and you can go right ahead and stick a shirt piece of your preference in the usual place. Meaning under the chin, for those of you who don't know where necks go.
Voila, chin. Buy a couple round thingies and see which one fits. The chin line should continue smoothly down from the face to round off on top of the neck.
Place the lips as so. Note that I edited the barrettes to appear a bit smoother. There are two excuses I have to escape those who want to hate-mail me for that: One, a face doesn't usually appear so big in chat rooms, so I smoothed it out to give you an idea of what it will look like when smaller. Two, I have a feeling that some very, very wise and clam-sensitive designers will create some smooth face pieces that will look exactly like my smoothed-out barrettes. It's just to give you an idea.
Put the nose on and you're done. Whalah.
Now of course you can test different alignments; you can see what height of lips you like best, or the eyes or whatnot; go ahead and elaborate on chins, or figure out how wide you want the cheeks, etc. But that is the basics of it, the trick to hauling your lips off your neck and pulling your eyes back to the start line.
Now I DO understand that not everyone thinks this is attractive (though you can certainly tweak the eyes and lips to see if you can get it more beautiful than the example I provided) - but the point of this article was not to persuade you that this structure is the best. The point was just to show you HOW to follow this method.
Now go try something new.
Antier
