HATHAWAY’S DOE EYES

AfTeR early childhood, our eyes do not change much in size. However, women appear to have bigger eyes because a man’s skull grows much bigger and heavier during puberty, making his eyes proportionally a smaller part of his face.

A woman maintaining a more doe-eyed look serves to maximise her sexual allure, making her look more youthful and therefore more fertile. The distance between the eyes is also important if a woman is to be considered perfectly beautiful.

In a study for the journal Vision Research, scientists asked a panel to rate the looks of the same woman, computer morphed to have her eyes spaced at different widths.

The image that was considered the most attractive was the one in which the distance between the middle of her pupils was 46 per cent of the entire width of her face from ear to ear.

This spacing helps to create a heart-shaped face — or golden triangle — which has been found to be the ratio in nature, beauty and architecture most attractive to the human eye. According to facial maps, which analyse the distances between the features, Scarlett Johansson comes out on top for the placement of her eyes, followed by Rihanna and Hollywood star marilyn monroe. Celebrities with the biggest eyes in proportion to the rest of their faces include Penelope Cruz and Anne Hathaway (above). eyelashes have also been found to be the perfect length on a woman if they are one-third the width of the female eye — which is on average around 3.5 cm long — according to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology.