Comprehending what makes faces seem beautiful is a long-standing human preoccupation. For centuries after its creation, the sculpture of Aphrodite by Praxiteles was held up as an aesthetic ideal. However, what is taken to constitute an ideally beautiful face has evolved over the centuries. Humans have built-in preferences for certain features, whilst other ideas of beauty stem from artistic representations and philosophical discussions. The contemporary media landscape is one in which our icons both inform and are informed by the prevailing aesthetic ideals. In talking about facial aesthetics, it is essential to understand what makes a facial feature disharmonious or disproportionate. Disproportion occurs when the dimensions of a feature are not within two standard deviations of the mean dimension. Even where a feature exhibits disproportion, provided the overall facial features are attractive, harmony may still be preserved. It is surprising to learn that there is considerable intercultural agreement on what constitutes a beautiful face, which is the result of selective pressure whereby physical attractiveness correlates with greater biological fitness and social adjustment. A number of studies have confirmed that attractiveness in women’s body features is the result of being in good health and able to reproduce and arise from the actions of oestrogen.