Noses

God, I love noses. Noses are my favourite part of the face. It is a pity they are so hard to draw, though.

I like prominent noses, long noses, Roman noses, Aquiline noses, pointy noses, I think of these as quite... noble noses.

This is pretty much the inverse of mine own nose, which is an annoying little ski jump button of a thing.

I like guys with kinda crooked noses, on the larger side, I dunno, I find strong noses really cute.

I think partly it is because strong bony noses usually go with things like dramatic cheekboney faces hello Peter Murphy.

So are "strong noses" (ha ha) a phallic symbol or what? ;-)

Strong noses on women = k-rowr

Argh dubious x-post

Ha ha ha!

Sadly I still have acne on my nose. I hate it. They all *blink* at me.
I also have quite a "strong" nose. But I guess I prefer taht over a cute button nose as it wouldn't fit on my god damn horse longish face.

A bit too harsh on myself, you say? I guess. To be honest, I think it's okay, my nose I mean.

I've never really been too fussed about noses, but I love the mister's nose. He HAAATES it but I don't understand why.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/81/251359391_a1b6a7b3af.jpg
(Seeing as he posted pictures of our friends on a WDYLL thread without asking, I'm not worried about whether he minds his photo being up here.)

I have a button nose on a horse face and it looks ridiculous. :-(

I've already expressed my esteem for yr Mr's nose, Emil.y and you shouted at me before. ;-)

when i was 11, this boy that i had a huge crush on told me that my nose looked like freddy kreuger's. i've never really gotten over that.

like guys with kinda crooked noses, on the larger side, I dunno, I find strong noses really cute.

-- Trayce, Monday, August 6, 2007 12:31 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

i love hearing things like that. noses are very important to me, i think it can make or break a face, rly. i've always been so self-conscious about my nose. if i can ever afford it i'm gonna get it done, which i feel disturbs most ppl but i have no qualms.

my nose is nondescript
i feel kind of left out sometimes

but, the nose is probably the 19th thing i notice about a person after seeing them for the first time

doesn't that depend on what kind of nose, though? like, if they had a huge weird sunburnt nose, would you still not notice it first?

=) that does not sound very nice

the nose is probably the 19th thing i notice about a person after seeing them for the first time

well, that's what a strong nose is, no? One that bumps itself up in the rankings.

I think I notice the nose second, after hair.

But I am very particular about noses. I have had crushes on boys for their nose alone.

I know, I am a freak.

But it is probably the most prominent article on the face.

my brain's kinda hard-wired to notice certain things first
(my own neurotic thing, then the whole stereotypical male thing)
even if its huge and obvious, i probably wont see it unless someone else points it out

its a face accessory

Why do I suspect Surmonter will be on that MTV Bling Yourself show in a few years time?

Because Pimp My Face just doesn't sound right

A friend of mine was complaining that his nose looked big in a photo I'd taken of him, and my ex said to him "dude if my nose and your nose had a fight, your nose would be leaving on a tiny stretcher"

That really tickles me.

xxxpost so what do you notice first/second?

Ah shit, yeah, Pimp My Ride -> Pimp My Front. Hmm.

I'm a sucker for eyes myself, but thats for another thread I guess. Eyes, bangs and mouths. Sigh.

xp

im probably cheating by saying this but
i notice voice first
but then its things like posture, hair (specifically hairline, if its male), eyes, overall bone structure, etc etc
and of course if its a female its T&A, between 'posture' and 'hair'

xpost boys with bangs are another thread still

Bangs
Above your eyes your hair hangs
Blow my mind your royal flyness I dig your bangs

Bangs
To drape across your forehead
To swing concordant angles as you incline your head

http://www.gloriousnoise.com/images/bangslast.jpg

FRINGE.

(I'm only callin' em bangs for understandability mind you. They're FRINGES where I come from)

Haha snap xpost.

i never understood this american term "bangs".

\:-)

(fringey smiley face)

hehe... i've actually never heard "fringe"

Emo kids r ruining my love of the fringe, but hey what are ya gonna do.

Never heard Fringe either. Do brits say fringe, too, or is it strictly southern hemisphere?

where i'm from, this is fringe:

http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/touchstone_pictures/the_royal_tenenbaums/owen_wilson/royal.jpg

Brits say fringe. Otherwise how would you drool over floppy-fringed indie boys?

i do love a good fringe, i must say. can't u be emo with a fringe?

Absolutely nothing will ever ruin my enjoyment of fringe. Even emo kids.

Current crush has mostly short hair, but with this cowlicked mod swoosh of fringe.

Also has a great, great nose, to bring things back on topic. Really long and pointed.

This is just going to turn into the Kate and Trayce perve thread, innit?

don't perve. just discuss.

so funny how many ILX peeps i've come across who like strong noses... i really didn't know this was a thing

yeah, that emo crap bites ass. I've been rockin the bangs "FRINGE" for years now since i've got some good shitty beatles hair. now my teenage cousins call me "emo boy", despite my reference point being fagadelica.

Don't make me post pictures of Gram Parsons, for maximum "fringe and fringe" cross-continent confusion.

I don't think I ever notice noses. On anyone. My cousin once said something rude about mine but it didn't really bother me.

I also don't like boys with any kind of fancy hair.

I don't like "strong noses" at all, if it means a honking great Manilowesque conk, as I suspect it does.

Certainly not on a woman. I am often put off women by their big noses! I don't mind stupid squashed ones or turned up ones though.

In profile, I like the line of the base of the nose to closely match that of the upper lip.

This is my nose. I am quite happy with it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/albaalba/nose.jpg

It's a bit snub-nosed at the end. It would be a good nose if it was pointier. ;-)

(Pardon me while I just go and objectify N here... but you must expect that if you post pics of your nose for our perusal!)

I also prefer noses that are slightly convex just at the bridge.

My nose isn't half as snub as most of my (mum's side of the) family. She hates hers. My little neice has just got it too. I think it's cute.

I had no idea Americans called fringes "bangs". How odd. They must just not say it very much. Either that or I just ignore them when they say it.

I am trying to think of renowned female beauties with big noses. I am failing. I think wider society is with me, on the noses issue.

Erin O'Connor? Or whatever the name of that super tall model with the big nose is. But I suppose that's her schtick, she is beautiful despite having this un-feminine nose.

I think perhaps that "society" prefers the retrousse nose on females, but it's one of those issues where I think societal preference is probably wrong or confining or whatever.

I'd much rather have a strong woman strong nose like Katharine Hepburn or Isabella Rossellini than this pathetic little button that I've got.

Hey, there are another two strong nosed women renowned for their beauty!

hence the popularity of plastic surgery, xp

okay but hepburn/rossellini definitely don't have oversized noses! "strong" is confusing.

sarah jessica parker has a big nose but she worked it. anjelica houston(spl)?

anjelica houston definintely worked that schnozz.

http://www.drizzle.com/~lostboy/images/Gillian.jpg

Gillian Anderson has a wonderful nose.

I don't like my nose very much.

I like cute noses.

she's always so intense looking...

yes Angelica always looked great. Umm... Meryl Streep's nose is decidedly crooked

I have a thing about noses. A positive thing. This may or may not have to do with my nose being ... a presence. It's not that it's huge, just that it really ... commands attention. It walks into a room and you know it's there, you know? You may be skeptical about its ability to walk into a room, but consider this: over the past few years, it's begun turning significantly to the right, like there's something over there it's looking for.

I like seeing women with big beaky noses. Often the really defined and protruding ones. Noses that say: "yo." I was once in a store uptown and saw a salesperson with what's still the most amazing nose I've ever seen -- the kind that seems to start at the hairline and run covertly along with the forehead until the point where it LAUNCHES in a slice-y curve way out in front of the face. I wanted to touch it. I wanted to stop the woman and say "hey, I'll bet you have a weird relationship with your nose, and feel like it's ugly, and I'll bet people have told you that it's ugly, and it's clearly like 20% of your body weight, and you've probably even thought about having it changed, but it is absolutely the most amazing thing I've seen in months, and I almost even envy your magnum-sized Biore pore-cleansing strips, don't ever change."

Noses. Yes.

P.S. Also CHINS, they are way more important than anyone ever acknowledges.

o i've always thought chins are important!

I don't think Anjelica Houston or Sarah Jessica Parker are renowned beauties.

I don't think Katharine Hepburn was either.

Please provide pictures of Gillian Anderson and Isabella Rossellini's noses in profile. They are renowned beauties.

I broke my nose twice when I was a kid, so I definitely have a crooked nose. Plus it's large. Luckily I have a freaky girlfriend who's into that, as well as skeleton stick men.

P.S. Also CHINS, they are way more important than anyone ever acknowledges.

I acknowledge chins' importance, though perhaps not to a degree that would satisfy you. I don't like my own chin very much at all. It is too small and pointy, and at the wrong angle.

what? katherine hepburn is definitely more of a renowned beauty than Gillian Anderson.

And i think Anjelica Houston is known as a beautiful woman.

I think Hepburn looked nice, but that wasn't what she was renowned for. When she died, features about her said things like "There were many stars more physically beautiful than her, but..." and "Never blessed with great beauty".

hm... not exactly profile, but you do get a sense of it's geometric anglularity

http://www.iknowchicken.com/chicks/Gillian_Anderson.jpg

Broken noses are interesting. Probably the only ones I take note of.

http://delivery.viewimages.com/xv/3309192.jpg

It is too big.

I am quite happy with it. This is my nose.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1224/1029850639_f57d7c6198_o.jpg

oops:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/albaalba/ilx/3309192.jpg

Apparently I'm a chubby-chaser, only with noses.

alba is right re. hepburn

i never noticed it b4, and i would definitely think of hepburn as beautiful before anderson... just me i guess

I'm with Nabisco on noses, actually... and if any of you have known one or more of my exes, you could see what I mean. It's good to have features that are distinct and remarkable, even if some people will pick on you as a kid because of them.

my nose is a real ski slope

I think I associate big noses with America.

American men, anyway.

I imagine them chasing my pansy-ass Euro-sized nose out of town.

Ha, Kenan, you yourself have reached such levels of ILX TMI that I actually don't feel bad telling you this: I once, umm, googled your ex to demonstrate to someone the Power of Noses.

It wasn't pervy, or anything, I just needed an example.

Aw, just another way I don't measure up.

:-(

And a fine example it is!

Maria Callas?

http://www.cyberium.net/bnguy/natural.htm

american nose:

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060809/060809_statue_liberty_hlg7p.hlarge.jpg

Kenan, please to link pictures of nose in question!

I don't like my nose much at all. I've taken to wearing my specs low to hide a big old lump halfway down.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/79/208606076_5ee54802da_m.jpg

I have a wide nose which I don't think is quite what people mean when they talk about big noses.

Madchen, your nose is the kind of nose I'd kill to have. It'd look a lot better in my face than my little skijump.

hehe, i love this lesson in "the grass is always greener" :-)

Smug old-world noses of drunk ILXors:

http://www.rotovibe.com/images/nyc/bnw_nts_spn.jpg

Note how my nose has noticed something to the left of the frame and is about to drag me over toward it, Toucan Sam-style.

Lovely noses, all of them.

yea they look good =P

nabisco's dream nose:

http://www.colum.edu/images/StoryWeek07/jcrispin.jpg

Yeah, if I ever get around to making a nose pin-up calendar, that one's in contention for August.

I like guys with kinda crooked noses, on the larger side, I dunno, I find strong noses really cute.

Broken noses are interesting. Probably the only ones I take note of.

On the having side, a deviated septum really sucks. I basically can't breathe out of one side of my nose. Doctors always ask if my nose was broken and I have to tell them that if it was, I don't remember when.

I like the line of the base of the nose to closely match that of the upper lip.

I can't picture what this means.

The angle of the two to match, though I didn't say angle because it's OK to have a matching curve.

How did you ever discover that as an attraction factor?

nose discourse always seems irretrievably racialized/ethnicized to me so I get defensive when people talk about "good" ones. mine is not inconsiderable.

The angle of the two to match

Sorry, still opaque to me. There's only one angle, right, between the two surfaces, so what's matching what?

Do you mean you like the distance from the base of the nose to the tip of the nose to be equal to the distance from the base of the nose to the tip of the upper lip?

And i think Anjelica Houston is known as a beautiful woman.

I thought we all agreed a while ago that she was the epitome of a "handsome woman."

plastic surgeons are always measuring and comparing angles - it wld seem that's where the 'perfection' is - in proportion and relativity to rest of face more so than the actual nose itself
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the really annoying TV writer for the New Yorker observed recently that Anjelica Huston, Glenn Close, and Meryl Streep all have unclassic noses (I forgot how she put it) and advised young actresses not to get nose jobs.

You don't like Nancy Franklin?

I really hate her, probably to a disproportionate degree. but you know, I support her anti-rhinoplasty campaign.

hepburn is beautiful, i think
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i totally totally love 'strong noses' (but not too angular nor too insane but not nec 'classic') - it's one of the first things i notice abt people esp men
(nabisco you have a great nose)

this is prob b/c i used to be overly self-conscious abt my nose, thinking it too big or too upturned, but even though it's 'prominent' it fits with my face, i think, whatever, it's my nose mine mine and this pretty solid 50-50 blend of my mom's nose and my dad's nose. in truth, i feel like i don't even really know what it looks like b/c it looks different from every angle, sometimes look big sometimes looks not-so-big:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1240/1030710312_cf04e20e1f_o.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1224/1030710298_71c3027716.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1240/1030710312_7f7042c8ac.jpg

nosesnosesnoses!

meryl streep is another woman with a perfectly enchanting nose

can't werk copypaste uh
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1227/1030710268_a81b438947.jpg
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yes

Here's the Franklin quote, at any rate:

Glenn Close is an actress whom people respect but don’t give their love to, the way they do to, say, the living national treasure Meryl Streep, who is roughly Close’s age peer and one of the few other American actresses who have some degree of majesty. (Anjelica Huston is another, but the list is short. All three, interestingly or not, have notably irregular, majestic noses. You aspiring actresses, cancel that consultation with the plastic surgeon.)

Meryl Streep had enough of the other signifiers of widely-agreed upon beauty when she was younger that I think no one was going to fixate on her nose.

xpost yeah, majestic is totally the word to describe everything about Huston. love!

http://www.myclassiclyrics.com/artist_biographies/Meryl_Streep_Biography_2.jpg

I think he's saying he likes the bottom-of-the-nose line to be parallel and identical to the top-of-lip line. Like if the bottom of your nose were a dramatic V, then you should have a corresponding V in your upper lip. And if the bottom of your nose were an upturned ^, you'd need a cupid's-bow ^-lip to match. Etc. Wavy lines in parallel.

I disagree with that request in many cases, though.

I would like to enjoy my nose-o-philia in a post-ethnicized world where we marvel at all the amazing architectural structures that can emerge from the collisions of widespread genes. Nose criticism is always racialized if you say "noses should look like this, and that nose is too XXX" -- but there is room for a better class of nose appreciation, where you just go "wow, look at that nose, it's doing something really interesting!" The nose needs to come out of the shadows of being expected to just be minimal and unobtrustive and symmetrical -- we should celebrate noses with AGENCY, noses that PERFORM.

people should post more pics of their noses
(^ not being fetishistic! i just like images)

nabisco, one day I will join you in this utopian nose-neutral world. I freely admit a lot of this is my baggage.

"agency" is a good word

Noses: Beauty in Three Dimensions

yes Huston is HANDSOME. i was going to say handsome but i felt it was so obvious, and i really do think she is beautiful, as well!

the problem is that you can think you're living in noseutopia and innocently comment one day on how pretty Sophia Coppola is only to have your, uh, WASPily-nosed friend also innocently comment that Coppola's nose is "too big."

and then you are impotently mad. hypothetically.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/210/526438962_334214d854_m.jpghttp://farm2.static.flickr.com/1015/527881772_79581015ce_m.jpg

you looker, you!

The photo on the left makes my nose look much smaller than I perceive it to be, perhaps because the glasses obscure the bump near the top.

when people critique a strong nose on a woman, there's also the vector of insufficent "femininity." /issues

jaymc's hair makes me think of an uzi

I grew up thinking I had a disproportionately large, beaky nose. Haven't really changed my mind about that, although I've grown to accept it:
http://i9.tinypic.com/4zk31bb.jpg

http://www2.stopthenra.com/images/guns/uzi_2.gif

oh christ

my nose is really as large as that photo
sorry

mortified

you look nice

your hair makes me think of no weapons though

manda is a v pretty girl, don't let her talk you out of that

Amanda, your nose is lovely! And I dig a beaky nose, too, but you don't have one. (I don't know how to post these things without sounding creepy.)

Yes, I can see it, RJG.

Those people are not allowed in my Nosetopia, horseshoe! They are people who would look at a beautifully designed building and say "eh, it's too BUILDING-y."

One of many nose-traits I find interesting: when the nose comes down normal, or a bit narrow, but then on the end of it there's like a little cubic box? (I think that is my shout-out for certain noses of the British Isles, since the other nose-traits I've praised here have been more mid-eastern or Mediterranean. There are good noses in every gene pool.)

I wish I had a picture of the huge-nosed salesgirl I mentioned upthread. I think her nose had more forward projection than it did height -- i.e., its angle was closer to horizontal and vertical. It was really gorgeous. She looked like a cartoon, or a sailboat, or a cartoon sailboat.

OMG: Lechera-nose = October in the nose-pinup calendar. I shouldn't talk about nose-traits in isolation -- it's all about how they work with the face, and that is a MATCH.

She looked like a cartoon, or a sailboat, or a cartoon sailboat.

i'm sure she'd be thrilled to hear that

She would be thrilled, assuming she hasn't been brainwashed by the NoseHater-Industrial Complex.

not to make this thread all about me, but a friend once told me I looked like a cartoon dinosaur, which I'm pretty sure was about my schnozz on some level. it's nice to have that confirmed at least. but yeah, not my favorite description.

i don't know that there's anything remarkable about my nose at all. But if there is, plz tell me.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/rainface.jpg

I cannot deny that my nose is prominent. Maybe this photo will illustrate how it sort of eats the rest of my face. Having large teeth offsets it a bit, but still. Thing is pretty big.
http://i10.tinypic.com/63jr5vn.jpg

I was told once that my nose was "interesting." I took that one and ran with it for a while when I felt bad about my nose. I'm ok with it now.

i think it is great and suits you!

"your nose is interesting" should mean "everyone else's nose is BORING and pedestrian, you're a sensation" -- that's how I would translate that one for you

but also, who says "your nose is interesting"?

jesus kenan that picture is terrifying!

probably me
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also, kenan we need a side view or partial side view to really determine the interestingness of yr nose

aw, rrobyn I'm sure when you say it it's lovely. I need to stop being all confessional in this thread anyway.

The person who said that to me also said that he would like to "sculpt" my nose, which I declined. I figured that he tried to determine the feature that a girl/woman likes least about herself, compliment it noncommittally and then offer to "sculpt" it. He was not plastic surgeon.

jesus kenan that picture is terrifying!

haha

I got caught in a rainstorm, and was none too happy about it.

I can't find any side views... probably have some at home.

ahahaha! "sculpt"

Cynthia Plaster Caster stylee

I know -- I pictured this horrible replica of my nose sitting on his dresser or something.

Until today, that was the only nice thing anyone has ever said about my nose.

Now, NOW? I am going to be in NASAL CALENDAR.

yay for the internets!

Upper lip parallel to the bottom of the nose? I can do that but then I can't breathe.

Alba is referring to the profile view, remember.

Sorry, still opaque to me. There's only one angle, right, between the two surfaces, so what's matching what?

I think nabisco had it right. Quite simple really, though having it questioned has made me clarify it in my own mind. It was just something I consciously started noticing a year or two ago -- that there could be this pleasing equivalence to the two lines. And I figured it must fit into some model of classical beauty. But maybe I have invented it myself!

I found this example on Flickr. I hope the girl doesn't mind my posting it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/albaalba/ilx/noseinline3a.jpg

Here she is with the lines drawn on:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/albaalba/ilx/noseinline3b.jpg

I think it's not just about the lines being the same angle. It's also about the length of the lines too. I suppose this tends to shape the space between the mouth and the nose* into a mini-version of the nose above it! I like that.

Many things can throw it off. A too-big nose, a too-small or downturned mouth, flared nostrils interfering with the simplicity of the line. Meryl Streep, above, is a good example of someone who doesn't have it.

See??

*is this called the upper lip?? If it is, then my reference to the "upper lip" above may have caused confusion - there I meant the top one of the two lips!

Upper lip parallel to the bottom of the nose? I can do that but then I can't breathe.

Parallel doesn't mean adjacent.

*Alba folds white coat and quietly returns to Face-Lab 3000*

(I think "top lip"/"upper lip" nomenclature may indeed be at the root of the confusion)

wow that is nice

yea i definitely don't have those lines.

she's pretty

Aha, thanks. Yes, I was picturing the "upper lip" being the part between your two lines, the mustache zone, hence the "parallel" confusion.

philtrum

That's the groove at the front, though.

I spent ages finding that example from Flickr and then I realised my desktop wallpaper was Oksana Akinshina in The Bourne Supremacy.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/albaalba/ilx/OksanaAkinshina.jpg

wow that's impressive

More noses, please.

http://wbztv.cityvoter.com/GetImage.ashx?img=00/00/00/00/51/23/5123-78843.jpg&w=361

"What's that you say?"

i love both these people's noses

http://www.filmreference.com/images/sjff_03_img1079.jpg

as far as they go so well with their faces and their demeanours obv

Monica Vitti, Anouk Aimee. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sofia Coppola.

We may have had insufficient nose discussion on the Joan-from-Girlfriends Tribute Thread:

http://www.nsbe.org/images/convention/2004/tross.jpg

Except her huge eyes and mouth keep the nose pretty subdued. Add in the largish hair, and it's kinda ... it's like a theater face, where the main features have been enlarged to scan from a distance!

I don't get this notion that Sofia Coppola has a particularly large nose! Or at least I half-get it, but the main notable thing about her nose isn't its overall size, in either direction -- it's that it has a thickness. Like her nostrils seem smaller than you'd expect, as if a standard nose has just been accreting layers all around itself without really growing.

^^ based entirely on google image search

her nose also looks like a different nose from different angles!
i like how she looks

Page 3 of yr image search

it is like human + koala bear nose :D

I have quite the nose:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/128/387225171_72dac91eeb.jpg

Mark, you have a fine nose indeed.

That picture nabisco posts (who is she?) reminds me of a genuinely renowned beauty with a large nose.

Natascha McElhone.

http://images.killermovies.com/s/solaris/poster.jpg, I mean.

(but it's not that big)

Looks bigger here:

http://www.taorminafilmfest.it/2003/gallery/images/girl.jpg

That's a v good nose. Nick, can you use your powers to find a good profile shot of Amanda Ryan? She has a great nose.

her nose is great!
i like kate blanchette's nose, and kate winslet's as well (neither are actually big - i am just talking abt nice, distinct noses)

mark i don't consider your nose big! it is v nice

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/189/500141049_caed352bc5.jpg

this is my nose, looking rather frightening but not as ugly as it can look. alba is there too but I don't think he is photographing my nose, specifically. I don't dislike my nose when I look in a mirror, but when I see it in photographs I am horrified. I think my face would be far more attractive if I had a smaller, more regular nose. but I am used to it and it doesn't bother me, really.

I was photographing your nose, specifically.

all these great noses on pretty girls!

one of my favourite celebrity noses:
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/1/12/180px-HB_Korea_2006.jpg

totally!
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cathy you and yr nose look lovely - yeah, photographs/tv/movie screens change one's perception of what the world is really seeing when they see yr face
yeah, i know i wld def be "prettier" if my nose were scaled down or whatever but it's ma nose! and do i really want to be "pretty"? i guess when i was younger i thought abt it more but now i know that different people like different things (oh the simplicity of it yet it can be so hard to grasp)

my nose is kind of long and asymmetrical but relatively flat. it comes from the dutch side of my family. it only really looks crooked head on
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/38/170860586_17a7d4193c_m.jpg

now i know that different people like different things (oh the simplicity of it yet it can be so hard to grasp)

it's hard for me to grasp sometimes, too, but not from a physical appearance perspective so much... more about thoughts and hobbies and jobs and sense of humor and such.

Whole 'nother thread, I know.

I think the exchange where my friend called Coppola's nose big is just one of those responses to a nose that really is about ethnicity. Her nose isn't big, but it's not straight or shaped like a ski-slope or anything. Anyway, I was totally right and it's not like a big nose neutralizes the pretty.

Ha, Cathy, every time I've seen a picture of you it's occurred to me that you're probably one of those people I assume has a complex/conscious relationship with her nose, and therefore I don't get to say "wow, I like your nose," since it's awkward to call attention to features people may not entirely like. Anyway, I think you would be less-cute with any other nose.

Everyone likes the thought of having a face a few notches over toward bland regularity, but faces are just so much more likeable and easier to love when they have their own qualities! Plus we will all of us get old and unrecognizable, except with good active features people will always know and see us for who we are -- oh, everyone says it's the eyes that do this, but I swear it's the nose that provides our continuity in life!

Umm yeah. Bell Linds, your nose has about the exact same mini-deviation as mine.

McElhone profile = zowee. Alba, the picture I posted is an actress named Tracee Ellis Ross, who -- as just disclosed on "Joan from Girlfriends Tribute Thread" -- is Diana Ross's daughter.

it's amazing what you you're NOT self-conscious about until someone points out a particular feature - as i said upthread, i never really gave much thought to the shape of my nose till it was insulted. then i became really aware of it. i would never change it though, because it belongs to *me*. my ex really loved my nose, for some reason, so that went some of the way towards counteracting the freddy kreuger comparisons.

thanks, nabisco, it is nice to have the approval of a nose man.

as a child, I probably would have escaped being teased about my nose if it weren't for having to leave the classroom almost every day because of nosebleeds. I was nosebleed girl for the whole of middle school. I had it cauterized (I thought this was "quarterized" at the time) twice, and it made no difference.

is it a myth that noses continue to grow as you get older? that is worrying. I just tried to look it up but I can't find a trustworthy scientific authority. you don't see too many old people with small noses, though.

My ex is so selfconcious about his face and I love it, he has a strong bony nose and face and a cute snaggletooth. I love cheekbones and interesting features like Nabisco says!

My nose is rather unremarkable. In fact I dont think I have any "interesting" features do I? Maybe my strange eyebrows.

Noses do continue to grow as you get older. This is a relief to me, as my nose is slightly bigger than it was during my teenage years. it's still not big enough for my face.

This is an awful thread for just twitching the nose insecurity. :-(

I don't know, though. As an artist, I do like to look for interesting noses. i.e. distinctive noses, as they are fun to draw. But I don't think I'd ever go up to someone and go "OHMIGOD, I WANT TO SCULPT YR NOSE" not just because I'm a sketchperson not a sculptor, but because that's weird. Even if I thought a boy had the best nose in the world, I'd probably just say "my god, you have such great bone structure, can I draw you?" and leave it at that.

There exist no pictures of my nose in profile. Because I hate it so much.

Kate, that guitar pic I took where you have the "grrr! rawk!" face on shows a cute nose. Relax.

I really like my nose because it is perfectly straight and just pointy enough.

I like prominent noses, long noses, Roman noses, Aquiline noses, pointy noses, I think of these as quite... noble noses.

Yes, to all of that, I also like hook noses, noses with bumps in 'em, etc... I like a woman with a schnozz you can hang on to with both hands.

I wonder if it possible to have surgery to make a nose bigger.

(NB. I am not considering it)

It is not possible. I have investigated. :-(

If they can rebuild squished noses surely they can make bigger ones?

Here's mine:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1005/1037568189_d5b36a7ced.jpg

If I could lose some weight and rediscover my original chin I'd be quite happy with my profile.

Here's mine (pic has been posted before). It's v small and often called cute. I like it fine although think it's too narrow for my roundish face and it often looks pointy at certain angles. In general, I prefer stronger noses on both men and women.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/IMG_0696.jpg

That's a perfect nose to me.

i do like kristen(spl?) scott thomas' nose, rrrobyn (at least i'm pretty sure that's her in the pic above

I have a bony nose due to some combination of genetics and getting hit in the face with a baseball at age 8

ouch

This thread is cementing the fact that I am completely clueless about what makes a nose, err, anything. Strong, aquiline, weak, roman, whatever the hell mine is, etc, etc.

http://www.onlineshakespeare.com/macbeth2.jpg

When the hurlyburly's done,
When the nose is lost and won.

i like ur nose will. v good nose.

Alba - if you meant mine, then thank you! :-)

I did!

This thread is cementing the fact that I am completely clueless about what makes a nose, err, anything. Strong, aquiline, weak, roman, whatever the hell mine is, etc, etc.

-- Will M., Tuesday, August 7, 2007 6:14 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

hahahaaaa

post photos and we will tell you?

x-post

urgh hold on I will try to find a flattering picture (i.e. one in which I am not obviously intoxicated)

best I could do:
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/1270/zenasshitfd3.png

lol aww u look so cute! but i don't know how succesful u were at looking not intoxicated.

nose = very good. right? very good nose, i think.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1171/888416614_9c1e9c2cd1_m.jpg posted on an older thread, reposted for asking: hi i am from canada what is a nose i am from canada thanks.

i remem that pic. okay so i think u have a really nicely shaped nose. it looks like a wide one. like it doesn't come to much of an angle as a ridge, u know? it's more about the surface area. my dad's nose was like that

both good noses. hard to really assess without profile views though.

I like ears more than noses. can we have a thread for rating each other's ears?

I don't think you need anyone's permission.

ears...

I like the larger nose. There's a member of an unnamed London schmindie dancing troupe with quite an emphatic nose who is absolutely beautiful.

My nose is not inconsiderable; my Dad has a more-than-substantial conk but he is 78 and has more than a half-century on the mild behind him.

Here's me, 1 x haircut ago, in approximate profile:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1071/634480351_594d316284.jpg

lookin good

MJ - you have a great nose and a gorgeous daughter!

He has two!

(daughters, not noses)

I know and they're both amazingly cute but I meant the wee one in the pic!

oops - Just noticed who I believe to be the other one in the background!

Both daughters are currently wailing - I wish I could twitch my great big snoz like Elizabeth Montgomery and make them fall asleep. Ner-night.

You all have beautiful noses! I, on the other hand, have a grotesque nose that children flee from in tears.
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/vise-nose.jpg

you do

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/bethdrivingsized.jpg

Big, and getting bigger. Yes, they DO get bigger. More bulbous, bigger pores, redder.

that's less tear-inducing

Then there was this, from the poetry commission thread (some of it is mine—excuse the egotism—goes along with a big nose):

gimme something to write about and i'll write it.
-- it was jody that killed the beast (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, January 4, 2006 1:03 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

How about a poem entitled "I've Never Liked My Nose."

-- Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, January 4, 2006 3:55 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

what are you suggesting?
-- miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, January 4, 2006 3:56 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

"i've never liked my nose":
when i hit the jackpot
(you'll think that i'm a crackpot)
i'm gonna get my kicks-a
and turn into a shiksa

-- miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, January 4, 2006 4:54 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark
Link

"I have never liked my nose"
Solitary fleshblob
wails angrily at Reagan
Dylan Thomas explodes
I am covered in poet's offal

-- Mike Hanle y (mike), Wednesday, January 4, 2006 6:24 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

"I've never liked my nose"
My curséd Parker family nose
Is not as lovely as a rose
And o'er the years, I swear, it grows!

My grandmother bequeathed it
My mouth in shadows moves beneath it
And ruddiness oft-times does wreath it.

My husband doesn't seem to mind—
The dog as well likes me just fine
Is it possible they're blind?

More bulbous than it's long—
No one sings its praise in song
Yet to change it would be wrong.

To take that step I'm disinclined
For the price to sculpt it fine
Is better-spent on food and wine.

Drink my schnozzy blues away
Imperfection's here to stay
Big or little, all decay.

-- Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, January 4, 2006 4:49 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

'Woke up this mornin', had the shnozzy blues real bad
Woke up this mornin' shnozzy blues had me real sad
Poured me a glass of vino, and started to feel glad
'Cause my bulbous shnozzy tends to red and not plaid'
-- M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, January 4, 2006 5:35 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

Puny mortals flee the mighty nose
Sailors cry in terror "Thar she blows!"
But in my nostrils, dimly lit and warm
Little birds find shelter from the storm.

-- Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, January 4, 2006 6:08 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

when i was 11, this boy that i had a huge crush on told me that my nose looked like freddy kreuger's. i've never really gotten over that.

When I was 15, a group of guys yelled out "Nice body!". I smiled, flattered. There was a pause and another one yelled "SHAME ABOUT THE NOSE!". Not so smiley. :(

Fucking hell! We must hunt them down and bludgeon them to death with our noses!

I didn't notice my nose was large until I almost poked my son's eye out. Two years on and it just keeps growing. :(
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1077/1044621883_2ddd1b0c8d.jpg

haha that's cute! your bubs is gorgeous... but your nose is so NOT big ;)

okay, so I found a sorta profile view; my nose looks a bit bigger in this one, but unfortunately not quite big enough to draw attention away from the rest of my face

http://photos-202.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v56/175/124/61001202/n61001202_31840485_7953.jpg

xpost: that little kid is freakin' adorable!

don't worry, FMP, that is still a million times less dangerous than letting Adrien Brody kiss your kid

I was wondering how long it would be before someone mentioned him. Or posted a picture of WC Fields or Jimmy Durante.

I'm still waiting for the picture of your nose to open up, Bernard. It must be ENORMOUS.

Thanks for comments regarding Kid and Nose.
Adorable kid is 3.5yrs now and even more adorable.

He's so stoic about receiving all those kisses.

I never realised how much of a little buttony nose I seem to have now I really pay it some attention.

http://www.memorygongs.com/bemused.jpg

I shuffled into the bathroom hungover the other day and I noticed A HAIR curling out of one nostril. I was horrified. It had never happened before. I thought it only happened to old men. Had it been poking out the previous night? Will I have to buy one of those mail order nose trimmers? I looked up my nose to pluck the hair out with tweezers and was shocked and amazed at the BLACKNESS and multitude of hairs. Yuck. I've never inspected my nostrils before.

okay they sell those trimmer things for a reason, there is no reason to panic. also, beth, that poem is outrageous.

bernard's nose is NOT that big!!

But I'm a woman!! I thought the nose trimmers were only for hairy, hairy old men. I bought my dad one for Christmas a couple of years ago. He has a full beard.

oh lol, okay fine so your a woman and u have a hair in ur nose. everyone has nostril hair! just make sure you're not talking to someone and all they can look at is the hair sticking out of your nose.

I need a wing man to nose check me for rogue nostril hairs.

Yesterday I discovered a hair growing out of my neck that was about two inches long! I am getting so blind, soon I'm going to be completely disgusting and I won't even know it. And I even shelled out for one of those magnifying mirrors on a, I don't know what you call it, telescoping pull-out-able holder thing that attaches to the wall?

Now I have to look it up to see what it's called.

HAAAAAAAAA that sounds so complicated

Ha, I've got one of those too. I pluck it out all the time. Geez, all I'm missing is a big old wart on my nose and a pointy hat to complete the charming picture.

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41C9FNxnMUL._AA280_.jpg
It's called an "adjustable swing arm!" I never would have come up with that. Never in a million years.

my mom has this hobby of analyzing her face in a small mirror under a lamp while she watches lifetime movies. with a tweezer.

omg adjustable swing arm? that thing is serious

i rly don't think i would wanna look at my nose in that thing.

Because I am taller than most women I worry they are looking up my CAVERNOUS nostrils and seeing my hairs. There are more things to worry about than hairs up there. A petite asian woman told me the other day she could see my "saliva". She was looking up my nose. I had a cold. She was referring to my mucous I think but I pretended I didn't understand what she meant by saliva, gave her a confused look and moved away.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. i would totally think about that if i were tall. i mean i'm pretty tall but not realllly for a guy

I also have one extremely long curly pube-style hair in each ear. It feels really good to pluck them out, so whenever I remember I check to see if they've grown back again. Especially when driving.

i have a thin line of soft, blonde, downy hair that runs down the centre of my neck, and it's reasonably longish (although not really visible) - i like it. although my ex used to call it my 'beard' which gave me complex for awhile. but he was fucking prick, so no credibility.

ear hair i have seemed to avoid as of yet. who knows. well peach fuzz is always kind of likeable, unless it's like all over your face

I love you guys.

http://www.villainouscompany.com/vcblog/home/cassandr/public_html/vcblog/archives/smiley%20face.jpg

no nose!

Unwanted hairs increase with age along with nose size. Best to just associate with myopics.

i know, the hair and nose size thing is SO FUCKING NNOYING.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/smileyface2.jpg

omg ur so evil

!!!! i'm gonna hve nightmares ; )

I should have made the nose bigger.

absolutely.

that's a fucking preschoolers nose!

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/smileyface3.jpg

Here.
Don't forget—men get to look forward to the crazy long curly eyebrow hairs!

thaaaat's better ;) yes yes, thanks for the reminder!

xpost women get to look forward to crazy eyebrow hairs too, if my nana is anything to go by... jesus christ, her eyebrows are INSANE.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/smileyface3-1.jpg
a few years later...

okay that's definitely a family friend of ours

my nana and her crazy brows:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1350/1045320841_db74bec8ca_o.jpg

so i have crazy eyebrows to look forward to AND turkey neck :(

u look like her!

You are gorgeous! And your nana looks so full of good humor!

she does, nice smile

oh christ surmounter, you're right - i DO look like her!! my nana is a treasure - 84 and still going strong (despite two hip replacements, severe arthritis, asthma, a fucked pancreas, and a bad heart).

no no it's just a feature thing! the nose, the mouth and the eyes ; ) ur brows and chin look fabulous. she looks kind

i'm gonna get granny's big nose fer SHER

i remember when i was teenager staying with my nana, and i mentioned something about shaving my legs and she was all like "why the hell do you do that for??". i don't think she's ever owned a razor or a pair of tweezers :).

=) lucky her

That is the cutest pic!

aww.. thanks guys! actually, i don't get to see her very often, and she's been pretty sick lately; my family doesn't think she'll last out the year. the last time i saw her was when that photo was taken, back in april, and she got really sad when i told her i didn't know if i'd be able to make it back up to visit before heading overseas at the start of next year. kinda made me feel like that was possibly the last time i'll get to see her (and her crazy eyebrows).

not a bad profile for a professional douche
http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/blog/uploaded_images/Vincent%20Gallo-776791.jpg

good profile! Ruby that's such a weird feeling. u always think she'll be there kind of thing. i hate when "the last time" comes into the picture. my grandmother would leave a lot of sad ppl in this world.

have you seen his crazy website?? it's totally weird and i just can't figure out if he's taking the piss or really a crackpot.

but yeah, total babe. and a big dick (in both senses).

^what????

ohhh... you need to see 'brown bunny'... it's rubbish, but skip to the final 10 mins ;)

have you seen his crazy website?? it's totally weird and i just can't figure out if he's taking the piss or really a crackpot.

but yeah, total babe. and a big dick (in both senses).

OK, this is going to sound really weird but I can't elaborate, let's just say that I know for certain that he is taking the piss. That said, he's still nuts.

oh, you intriguing woman ;)

now of course i'm DYING to know... are you sure you can't give just a little more detail??

My closest friend from Uni lives in LA and used to know him very very well. But she's a really private person and apparently he's also v private (although it wouldn't seem that way, huh?) so I'm not supposed to talk about it. :-( There have been VG posts before (and also elserwhere online) and I'm always dying to post but normally don't. I'm sick this morning and doped up on cold meds so maybe my judgement is clouded. Oh no, I've said too much! ;-) heh.

we promise we won't tell anyone! really!

Well, I mean there's not too much really. Basic pretty uninteresting stuff - he is actually a conservative republican - that part is real but a lot of the other stuff is a complete pisstake and part of the persona he's concocted. He is also very funny and incredibly smart although a bit shy and awkward at times in person.

And I love his nose/looks in general.

xpost i figured as much. i thought 'brown bunny' was a bit rubbish (except for the ending :)) but 'buffalo 66' is one of my favourite movies.

but back to noses: i found one pic of my nose kind of in profile. plz tell me it doesn't look like freddy kreuger's (lie to me if you have to).

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1286/1050329596_5047e918c6_o.jpg

Not FK-ish at all. In fact, I think that's a great pic of you!

i was on form that day - which was a lucky thing, since they were a bunch of test pics for those new frames. normally i'm the least photogenic person in the world.

I can't remember Freddy Krueger's nose. Perhaps it's quite handsome. On another thread I was just talking about Robert Englund's cuteness on the miniseries "V." Maybe it had all to do with his nose. Can't remember particulars.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1353/1049762167_d4156be8a4_m.jpg

I had a mate in high school who was totally OBSSESSIVE in love with Freedy Kruger. Takes all kinds.

I've never been too sure about my nose. Because I'm of (very) mixed race, it just doesn't seem...well, black enough.
http://l.yimg.com/www.flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif

Inasmuch as its not that flat or flared, I mean.

well if ya need a onceover let us know

Stone, if I remember right, your nose is quite a bit like mine! I seem to recall idly looking through a picture thread and having someone over my shoulder go "is that a picture of you?" and it being ... you.

(I.e., I think Ethiopianose dominates any other genes thrown its way)

http://www.hypebeast.com/upload/2007/07/nike-freddy-krueger-dunk-low-sb-horror-3.jpg

I am also in love with Freddy Krueger but only because these shoes came out.

I will post a profile as soon as I find a good one.

http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2007-01-11/movie_interview-1.jpg

(which is from here, btw)

fun