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Florence Colgate, 'Britain's Most Beautiful Face' Has Scientifically Perfect Looks

The Huffington Post  |  By Posted: 04/24/2012 11:40 am Updated: 04/30/2012 6:06 pm

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Florence Colgate, 18, the winner of a beauty contest held by Lorraine Cosmetics, is said to have near-perfect facial proportions.

Florence Colgate has been dubbed "Britain's Most Beautiful Face," and there's science backing the claim up.

The winner of a Britain-wide beauty contest sponsored by Lorraine Cosmetics, Colgate has mathematically perfect looks, according to statistics reported by the Daily Mail. Not only is the 18-year-old's visage perfectly symmetrical, but she has the "optimum ratio" between her mouth, eyes, chin, and forehead.

For example, scientists say that in a perfectly proportioned face, the distance between the eyes would be 46 percent of the whole width of the face. Colgate has a ratio of 44 percent, Kent Online reports.

Carmen Lefèvre, PhD student at the University of St. Andrews, weighed in on other factors contributing to the British beauty's good looks, the International Business Times reports. In particular, Lefèvre noted that Colgate's "large eyes, high cheekbones, [and] full lips" are "classic signs of beauty."

The competition, called "Lorraine: Naked," judged contestants without makeup, reports the IBT, and entrants who had undergone plastic surgery were not allowed. Colgate was chosen as one of three finalists, and then decided as the winner by a public vote, according to Kent Online. As the winner, Colgate will be featured on billboards at Superdrug stores throughout England.

The English rose is enrolled in her final year at Dover Grammar School in Deal, Kent, and plans to study business management in the future, the Mail reports. She currently works Saturdays at a local fish and chip shop, but says that she would love to have a career in modeling.

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Florence Colgate has been dubbed "Britain's Most Beautiful Face," and there's science backing the claim up. The winner of a Britain-wide beauty contest sponsored by Lorraine Cosmetics, Colgate has ...
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06:17 AM on 07/11/2012
How about Cheryl Cole then?
06:34 PM on 05/24/2012
She chose to be in this silly contest, and now she'll spend years having people pick her apart. "Oh, she not THAT beautiful." Etc. Etc. A lovely face, even with a crooked smile (sorry I had to notice). But whatever happened to "Beauty Is as Beauty Does"?
09:22 AM on 05/14/2012
I don't see what the big deal is.. She won a contest, that a certain number of women entered, and amongst them, her face was closest to what is scientifically considered perfectly proportioned. I don't think those standards have much to do with race, I think it just has to do with proportion. She's beautiful, no doubt about it. The fact that she is a white woman with blond hair and blue eyes was not a factor in determining her as the "most beautiful" it was based upon the proportions of her face. And calling her "Britains MOST Beautiful" is a bit of a stretch... She is simply put, the most beautiful woman who entered a certain contest.
01:19 AM on 08/30/2012
actually, huffpo omitted Lefevre's comment about her fair skin being a factor in determining how beautiful she was. honestly, she IS naturally beautiful, but if i saw her in public i wouldn't look twice.
09:32 AM on 08/30/2012
I agree, she is aestetically proportionate and pleasing to the eye, but that is not the absolute in determining beauty. My point was, in Britain, where the contest took place, she may be considered very beautiful, and her fair skin may indeed be a factor... however, in the United States, exotic looking women are often favored over European, and tanned skin is symbolic of leisure rather than the necessity of working outside, which is what made fair skin desireable (when it was) it implied that a woman was of a certain social status which enabled her to sit around in a parlor all day sipping tea and chatting with her friends.
08:39 PM on 05/08/2012
So symmetrical...ultimate Magnum
01:25 PM on 05/02/2012
She's doubtless very, very pretty but I wouldn't say she's the most beautiful among Britain's women! This girl has a rather regular face but like someone else wrote it ain't so symmetrical. Note, one eye is visibly closer to her nose. You can notice it in more than one pic. And I don't know why but, even though full lips are considered beautiful, I don't think they fit her face so much. She's got a tiny face, her nose is tiny and that way should be her lips, I mean not too thin but they're a lil too full for my tastes! In my opinion full lips fit better faces with bigger noses, eyes and facial bones in general! Just a personal taste of a girl :) Then I read that she was also chosen for her big eyes...I don't think her eyes are that big, I find them quite normal to be honest. I've seen real big eyes around! She's a beautiful girl for sure but as you can see perfection is only a matter of point of view :)
04:11 PM on 04/30/2012
She's pretty, but her upper lip could be a little fuller. Her upper lip looks a little too thin, but the bottom lip is fine.
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11:58 AM on 05/15/2012
"Her upper lip looks a little too thin, but the bottom lip is fine. "

PHEW!! THANK GOD FOR THAT!!!
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10:03 AM on 04/30/2012
Idiotic! Good looking but what's the whole package look like?
09:51 PM on 04/29/2012
She's pretty but "MOST" beautiful??? Not for me, but then, I'm not a computer!
10:48 AM on 04/29/2012
the real beauty is a variety, nothing is the same.. a choice.. in 20 years when the companion robots start rolling out.. we'll all have perfect proportioned companions.. I bet we miss that uniqueness that was only possible when there were differences and choices to make. As Far as this ladies looks go.. i'd rate her average.. perhaps she's not my type. There is nothing to me that sets her apart or above any other woman. lol imagine her standing next to halle berry.. Guess this just demonstrates what is one man's garbage is another mans treasure. So we know what this "scientist" likes.. poor guy... whatever toots his horn.
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09:09 AM on 04/29/2012
I dunno...I need to know something about a person before I can find them truly attractive - it's the character, and that shows in your face, which makes your face beautiful even if it's lopsided or something. That face is cookie cutter pretty. Not something or somebody who'd ever draw outside the lines.
09:21 PM on 04/28/2012
She's nic elooking but to say she's scientifically beautiful sounds like Nazi eugenics theory.
12:17 PM on 04/28/2012
she doesn't look symmetrical at all actually, cute but not symmetrical.
08:50 AM on 04/28/2012
Just because this contest named her "Britain's Most Beautiful Face", that's no reason to go attacking her, and saying that she's not. Maybe to those blinded by jealousy she's unattractive, and maybe you can study the picture long enough, and find some imperfection to point out, but the truth is you're going to see what you want to see. You people probably hadn't even got past the title, before you already decided that no matter what she looked like, she was far from perfect. You people should be ashamed of yourself! She didn't ask for this. She entered a contest, and won! She should be cheered not ridiculed. I would like to compliment this LADY on her good looks, and say congratulations on winning this contest. I'm probably the only one who's done this since all you shallow people out there don't have one compassionate bone in your body! Can't you just be happy for her? You make me sick!
02:29 AM on 04/30/2012
Criticism, rational or irrational, as opposed to what the average YouTube angst-ridden middle-class literate-but-uneducated naive commentator believes to be a golden rebuttal, usually does not arise out of jealousy. It would be advisable to write something much more constructive to get your point across.

What seems to be animosity is not hatred against Ms Colgate (silly as some comments are), but what the pageant represents, and the socio-cultural repercussions of science mathematically defining beauty. Cultural brainwashing decides that a person of one race will find its own racial standards of beauty as superior, without your conscious knowledge of it. You are programmed to find post-surgery Rita Hayworth more beautiful than the more Spanish-looking low-hairline Rita Hayworth.

For those of different races beauty has always been a hot topic, seeing as they bare the brunt of being imperfect all the time. East Asian women tend to have lower cheekbones, thin lips and Mongolian eyes. The Classical signs of beauty are nothing but accepted Western standards of beauty. Roman noses, high cheekbones, big eyes and full lips being beautiful simply arises out of popular consensus influenced by culture and media, than simply being scientific.

So, yes, it does peeve some people when a blonde bombshell is officially declared the epitome of perfection, and ethnic variations in facial proportions and features would be deemed scientifically imperfect.
07:53 AM on 03/11/2013
Very well put, Dr Faustus. I am a mixed race woman who is considered quite attractive by non white relatives and people (I have big eyes, olive skin, full lips and a curvy build), but have been told by an anglo that Im definietly below average because of my nose. to be honest, my nose is very medium by eastern standards but slightly wider to whites .
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07:41 AM on 04/28/2012
In multicultural new brave world, somebody measures, and looks for" ARYAN " features? Why?
One man did the same, his name starts with H, YEAR 2012 now.
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10:44 PM on 04/27/2012
She is a very beautiful young woman. I don't know why they had this story under the Weird News because she is definetely not weird.
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07:41 AM on 04/28/2012
oh, it is weird and sick.