Now we should have more
of a discussion about what narrowing the tip cartilages can do for the
appearance of the nose. The two pictures above, and the two pictures
below, show a nose before and after a rhinoplasty during which the tip
cartilages were narrowed. In the pictures below I have outlined
the profile. The smooth line of the
profile is determined by the position of the nasal bones and the upper
lateral cartilages underneath the thin skin.
If the tip
cartilages are particularly wide, the profile line takes an abrupt jump outward
as the skin drapes over those wide, bulging cartilages, disrupting the smooth
contour of the profile, and drawing attention to the area where those tip cartilages
reside. The black arrow below shows where the profile line stops being
straight, jumping away from the face to follow the wide tip cartilages.
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