omg sorry for the 3rd pic i look like a set extra on LOTR or something...

Hey methos!

Well, i don't know if you should 'settle'. I guess everyone is better off not looking at people in terms of 'attractiveness' like that. It's unfair to whatever girl you might come across next, to be comparing her to your gorgeous ex, know what i mean?

See? you DO have something special about you, you just have to remind yourself of your good points.

Physically i was paranoid about my skinniness too, and was actually kind of proud of my face. I thought it was the one thing that was ok about my appearance. And now that i'm not THAT skinny anymore and i don't worry about that like i used to(i used to be waaay more skinny), NOW i realize my face is all picasso like. Ugh.

About the boring thing, well, my xbf used to think that anything we did together would be GREAT if he did it with someone else, or with friends. And the things we did together he would say they were 'ok' but not a great thrill. Well, duh. Watching movies, playing videogames, walking the dog, etc... etc... aren't exactly a big rush. Aaaah, screw him. I'm just not the party type, but neither is he. That doesn't make me boring. If he didn't enjoy my company it's his problem.

TooMas: ok, yours is total paranoia. I just took your pics and did the whole line thing on your face, and EVERYTHING is symmetrical.
Mmh.. point out something i don't like? Tough!! I actually think you look very cute. I don't find anything 'wrong' with your face.
About the age thing, i would guess you're anywhere between 18 to 24.

On the first pictures it's kinda hard to tell if your nose is crooked or not because of the light on your face. On the indoors ones it's a lot easier... and trust me, you're perfectly normal.

well i meant more in the sense that lets say theres one girl that likes me and is very very attractive. its like should i even pick up on her signals. should i bother at all? or just ignore her because i feel im too hideous or not worthy lol.

or wait till an average looking girl does the same thing. to where i would feel like ok shes more in my league.
cause usually when i like a girl, its always the personality that clicks first. and from there i base whether spending time with this person is the thing that seems natural. and the way they look is just a plus. but i mean appearance does matter, because u have to look at that significant other each time they are around you. so its not like u can quickly dismiss their physicality. which is why im always contemplating whether i meet the standards of being a semi attractive guy that would match with so and so person.


yeah i later became aware of why people even like me. or call me their favorite. so i honestly like myself. and i think my build is ok. just gotta workout more and itll get there. but my face is what i think is ok aside from the crookedness. i mean my mom says i enherited a big nose. but i think my nose is the right size. so im not too picky about things like that.

i was paranoid about my body too. being skinny isnt really what you perceive as people being drawn to. so whenever i hear girls all drooling over some guy with the big muscles and what not. well it just makes it seem like theres no place in the world for a skinny frail person.
i dont mind my skinniness as long as im not all weak and frail. cause i see myself as easily getting a hernia or pulling something from lifting something heavy that wouldn't be heavy to the common man.but unlike the face, people dont really see your body on a daily basis. cause ur always wearing clothes or a coat and such. while the face you cant hide at all. sunglasses is about the only thing thats accessible.

hah damn. this ex-boyfriend sounds like such a drag.
the only thing i ever did with my ex-girlfriend, was watch movies at either her place or mine. sometimes hang out with people. but we didnt really do anything in terms of epic activities. i was just happy spending time with her and talking to her. just overall enjoyed her company.

cause ive never gotten drunk or done drugs of any kind. never partied hard. i was always the silent type. sometimes seen as anti-social. but i just never really had anything to say.
theres certain topics and subjects that its like yeah i could carry on for an hour just saying stuff. but for the most part i just kept to myself.
and there are other people that are the same way, and thats what has them go and seek me out. cause they know i wont get them into trouble or joke around with them.

so its probably more of him wanting more excitement or just be plain reckless. i dont see it being your fault at all. so i still dont know how it is that your boring. you may not be the life of the party, but that doesnt really put you in the place of dull ,boring,and uninteresting.


well i saw an orthodontist this morning. and he looked me over first. and said that when i bite down everything is symmetrical, but when im not biting down, that my lower jaw shifts to the left. causing the asymmetry.
once he took the x-rays he was explaining to me. that my right side is longer than the left side. that the 'neck' as he called it, is like 1 and a half centimeters (i think it was centimeters) shorter than the right.
that he doesnt know what could have caused that. maybe a hit to the face on the left side. i told him i dont recall ever being hit in the face or falling on my face. i bruise easily so if i had a punch to the face, i think itd show up somehow.

that for some unknown reason my left side is just shorter. so if i were to get surgery, he said that they cant shorten the right side, cause my teeth would prevent that from working out at all.
that theyd have to put something to even out the left side with the right. but heres where it gets tricky. from the xrays and when he looked at me earlier. he said my teeth are definitely not straight, but that they align properly when i bite down. that my teeth are just fine even with all thats going on with the jaw.
so if they were to make my left side the same length as the right. that my lower teeth would of course be moved over some and that thatd leave a gap and i couldn't bite down at all. cause thered be that empty space.
so he was kinda baffled by it. he scheduled an appointment for me on May 9th (might have to reschedule that though) , to see the specialists. with the doctor who is like the head chairman and has years of experience and knows all the studies, etc. etc.
that i could very well be a case study to medical students, which would cut down costs lol. not sure if i would want to be a guinea pig. and have my crookedness be seen by all.

so its quite a pickle im in. i asked the orthodontist if my condition would get worse over time. he said he wasnt sure. he asked if i had any issues now. which is like 0_o
i mean aside from the crookedness. my jaw muscles around my whole lower face just seem to get tired (which never happened before unless i was constantly chewing non stop thru out the day) then of course theres the fact that i can no longer move my jaw to the left or to the right. only up and down.
so its like i dunno if i would call those issues. cause its not painful. but from the way he described it. it seems that the left side of my jaw is being held together by all that is in my face. otherwise you could say its just dangling there. but since ive been this way for a few years now. it seems to be tightly held.

so im just like damnit. cause it just seems like a big mess. he knew that more than likely id have to go thru the surgery. cause nobody wants to have an asymmetrical face but then again no one wants to go thru the trauma of surgery and having to fork over thousands of dollars.
he seems very confident in the doctors he referred me to. so they should know whats best for me in the long run.
my mom said that if surgery is needed, that she will do whatever it takes to get the money. and my dad of course will do what he can to help out. cause he knows that itd suck to have a crooked face for the rest of your life. and that id regret it down the road if i have more complications because i ignored the whole thing.

so yeah thats why my face is crooked.

@TooMas
to me your nose seems to point slightly to one side. but you say its not at the tip. so maybe its just from the lighting. but to me it seems like the tip of your nose is slightly over to one side. i notice some difference when i look closely at your nostrils.

but really thats nothing. you shouldn't be the least bit worried about that cause its not noticeable unless someone is focusing heavily on your nose. cause it certainly doesnt stand out just by looking at you. but because u said that something might be off with your nose, thats why i noticed something. otherwise i'd never have thought, 'hey his nose is funny looking'

as to how old you look...to me you seem like your a teenager.

with what i dont like... cant say theres anything i dislike about your face. in some of them you remind me of the actor Ewan McGregor.

I'll make this short
Biani, great to see you posting so confidently. Again I can't stress enough how your positive features(the attractive aesthetics) overpower the asymmetry.

Methos, I've written a few drafts on you but keep being sidetracked...heh Generally I'd say the same thing as I did for eveyone else, When first viewing your photos I notice your hair stlye, glasses, skin tone, "the pizza" way before (seconds/ glances) before I notice the asymmetry.
Also you're right, you do appear thin which stresses the asymmetry of your bone structure which is a factor.
Also the only way I notice your nose asymmetry is under close inspection.

If possible try to post a full frontal with a higher res camera lit either in indirect sunlight or using two lamps on both sides of your face ( no shadows),
that's if you want a more accurate analysis.

For some reason I can't see photos from TooMas at the moment.
Oh and Anenome, feel free to PM me if you ever want my opinion, no pressure however.

hi, I have an asymetrical face too, and it shows when ever i take a picture of myself. Is there any form to fix this problem??Do I have to take surgery and how hard it is??

Hi All!

Methos: about the girl thing... i do think if a very attractive girl likes you you SHOULD pick up on her signals... haha, never consider yourself not worthy. What i meant is to not purposely consider yourself TOO worthy, lol, like to dismiss anyone who is not as attractive as your last gf, not to mean that you shouldn't find the next one attractive in some way too.... well, i hope you get what i mean, lol. Sometimes i'm just bad at explaining.

Well, on a recent finding, i have been getting together with some friends... and i do make people laugh, haha, so i can't be THAT boring. lol. New people that i've met have really liked me and talked to me a lot, so that makes me feel a little better. Even though most are shocked that i don't drink or smoke, and that makes me look dull to them i guess. But i don't care about that. I am self conscious about if they're noticing that i'm all crooked or something though

About the skinny thing... you would be surprised. There's tons of different tastes. Some of the girls like them chunky, others like them muscular, and others like them on the thinner side. It's like if all of us girls who don't look like a playboy playmate are doomed to have no one like us just cause we don't have the big boobs and booty, lol. Of course everyone drools over those kinds of girls, but they like other types too... i hope. lol. I think you're taking the right approach in this issue. Working out is great, so what if you still look thin? as long as you're not all weak. Plus, yeah, clothes help out a lot.

Mh... so when you bite down you look symmetrical? if that was my case i would be biting down ALL the time!!!
It is all so complicated, isn't it? I haven't gone back to the dentist yet, but i'm sure it's going to be something weird too. I asked a question to a dr. on an online site, and he told me that if indeed i have condylar hyperplasia, braces would most likely just leave me being a jaw cripple. Ugh, i don't know what i'm going to do!! I'm afraid of screwing up my face more... at least now i don't have big issues with my jaws, like locking or pain and stuff. Sometimes they feel tired like yours too, but not all the time.
Oh! and he told me that by the pictures (i attached some too) that it seems that there is something else wrong with me other than my jaw. I got curious about that 'slanted nose' thing, so i checked again. It DOES look more crooked than i was aware of. I don't know if recently it got more crooked, cause the last time i checked it looked ok enough. Maybe it's a degenerative disease that screws up your face little by little over time? Anyone know about a condition like this? :S

Well, let us know what the specialists say, ok?

Opposing: Thank you for your comment, you make me feel better about myself

Sunshine: I guess it depends on what is causing your asymmetry to know if there's any way to fix it. We ourselves are trying to discover if our asymmetry is fixable someway. What's asymmetrical about yours?

Aight here's some pics:

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I have had the same problem and it has bothered me for many years. Oddly enough I have also had a great deal of attention from woman. Friends tell me that some women have not been confident enough to approach me - women I though were too good for me!.
Having this uneven face has always robbed me of confidence and I shy away from relationships fearing that she may someday notice what I see in the mirror.
Moving on, I saw a plastic surgeon who suggested botox citing that it was an overgrown jaw muscle. I began treatment in 2004 and have seen the muscle gradually reduce in size. However hypertrophy has occured with the jaw bone itself - much like weight lifting your bones become thicker to support the increase in muscle size. With the botox having reduced the muscle size, the bone is now gradually going in to distrophy but very slowly, so my face remains uneven but not to the extent it was before. I think further treatments may get me to a point where the difference will be hard to notice.
P.s: Unlike before I seem to be getting away with looking "normal" in pictures now.

Hey!

JBNJ, I really don't think it's noticeable. Well, the first pic i couldn't see, on the 2nd and 3rd one i even wondered which one was you, i definitely couldn't find anything 'weird' about anyone on the pic. On the last 2, you're alone, so i finally knew which one is you. It's really not obvious just by looking at you. Maybe if i did the whole drawing of the lines thing on your pic i would see what you're talking about. I think that in the last pic i can tell a little bit, but i think it's mainly becase i know what to look for. Otherwise i'm pretty sure i wouldn't have noticed.

I want to share a discovery of mine with you guys. I just discovered a girl i know has a deviated jaw as well. I worked with her for a couple of months, and i NEVER noticed. But the other day i was looking at pictures of a gathering we had at work, and i was looking at MY deviated jaw, when i saw her face next to mine, it dawned on me.. heeeey, she's got what i have! Well, i don't know if it's the same reason, but her chin isn't aligned either. And i had looked at those pictures before, but i HADN'T noticed! So I'm hoping just as i hadn't noticed it on her, that most people don't notice it on me, or on you guys either.

I also have a completely asymmetric face....it's like one side of my face grew one way and the other grew another...and one side grew a little more as well. So my entire right side is higher and smaller than the left side of my face.

I had jaw surgery to correct my jaw at least 2 years ago and make my teeth level. The surgeon (or his fool resident who probably did the surgery) did the worst job ever - and every surgeon I have seen for an opinion has agreed. He didn't make it level or fix it at all. Plus he messed up my bite in the process. And I now have no feeling in my bottom lip or lower face.

Well, now I am 29 about to be 30 and the thought of being in braces and going through ANOTHER jaw surgery, breaking the bones, being wired shut, the whole ordeal is horrifying. So I have seen a top cosmetic surgeon about implants and some other things.

But I know that won't fix my jaw and smile and every time I see it, especially in the "reverse double mirrors" thing I cry. Literally cry. The other day I saw myself on video and how my whole face slants...and it looks worse the real way people see me and in pictures, because my face is like running downhill.

So now I don't know what to do, because I know trying to camoulflauge will not really correct the underlying skeletal structure and will still look "off." That's why I HAD jaw surgery in the first place. But I'm about to be 30 and don't really have many years of "hotness" left and I am not spending them in braces and having jaw surgery which may make me more level, but then I'll just be a more symmetrical person who is still not nearly as attractive as any of my friends.

Basically the whole thing makes me hate my looks, hate doing anything socially, hate getting ready in the morning, hate finding a great outfit and good shoes and getting my hair blown out all nice, only to have it all ruined by my face.

And no, I don't think it's "hideous" nor do I feel like I look like a "monster" nor are these "perceived" or " imagined" flaws....there are just some girls who are gorgeous and others who are not....and I am never going to be classified as one of the ones who is and I hate that every single day.

I'm sad for your troubles Marab. I understand what you mean...

Basically the whole thing makes me hate my looks, hate doing anything socially, hate getting ready in the morning, hate finding a great outfit and good shoes and getting my hair blown out all nice, only to have it all ruined by my face.


However despite my asymmetric looks, I've recently began caring more about my looks, hair style, clothing (what's in, what's not for the summer etc..)
Sometimes I wonder.. why even bother...
But then I remember my original child-like fascination with it all, the fact that sincerely feel better when I put effort into these things, and people I care about actually notice these efforts and give me compliments.

As important as the face is, you can't forget how important your confidence is, ( however you decide to show it) you could be one of the "ugliest" people in the world and be absolutely intriguing to people around you.
I really it's that connection with people that we all want... right?, pure looks is one way and perhaps the easiest way to achieve that but I think there are deeper pools we can tap to get that connection.

I hope I made sense. Feel free to post pictures here! You're welcome to PM me if you want my opinion which I love giving too.

JBNJ, oH I just noticed your pictures.
I wouldn't worry about a thing if I were you. When I did notice your jaw issue , I thought "oh, his jaw is a little off", it's not a big deal man.
I wasn't even phased by it.

If you've got more straight on pictures feel free post please.

I appreciate the feedback. It definately helps. I'm gonna see if I have any straight on shots.

Your face looks normal to me. Good jaw line as well.

Okay, my face looks pretty much perfectly symmetrical from straight on, but when I turn it to the left and then to the right, I can see asymmetry, but only with my nose. Everything on my face looks symmetrical except for the nose, and I know I have a deviated septum.

The first two photos are of my good side and the third and fourth pics are of my bad side. And by bad side I mean my nose looks funked up.

What do you guys think?









Now for the bad pics.

This should have been the second photo in the above post.

I have a bunch of videos up on YouTube at www.youtube.com/kirrabeachbum

I think they exemplify how my face looks asymmetrical, er really my nose. My left side is my bad size. Most days I don't really think about it but every week or so I usually have an hour or two where it's ALL I think about!

So have a look and let me know what you guys think.

Cheers.
T

I watched a few of your videos and the only thing I've noticed after really looking hard at your face isn't really your nose as much as it seems like your left cheekbone "comes out" more than your right.

But that's only after close examination and even after noticing that I only did for a second and then never noticed again. Your a funny dude too, the male model video was the funniest so your personality will overshadow any assymetry you feel you have.

Like everyone else has said, you're completely fine and you are THE MOST normal looking person here. lol. Hope this helps man.