Facial feminization surgery (FFS) includes surgical procedures that alter the face to feature more classically feminine characteristics, such as a softer brow, cheeks that are more full, less pronounced Adam’s apple, and others.  Facial feminization surgery is popular with both transsexual women and non-transsexual women, to help feminize masculine features.  For the transsexual woman, facial feminization greatly enhances the socialization process as a woman.

COMPARE CLASSICAL
FEMININE AND MASCULINE FACIAL CHARACTERISTICS:
Note, most people have a combination of male and female features.

Classically Feminine Features

  • Low straight hairline
  • Short flat forehead
  • High, arched tapered brows
  • Absence of frontal bone bossae
  • Large eyes, not deep set
  • Short upper lip with well defined philtrum complex
  • Full everted vermilion
  • Non-projecting thyroid cartilages
  • Wide or narrow cheek and jaw bones
  • A more delicate nose

 

Classically Masculine Features

  • High, curved hairline with “widows peaks”
  • High obtuse/angled forehead
  • Low, straight, heavy brows
  • Frontal bone bossae
  • Prominent supraorbital rims
  • Small deep set eyes
  • Strong, long, prominent nose
  • Acute nasolabial angle
  • Long upper lip
  • Narrow lip vermilion
  • Square straight teeth
  • Prominent chin
  • Prominent thyroid cartilage
  • Adam’s Apple
  • Facial hair
  • Wide or narrow zygoma (cheek bone) and mandible (jaw)

Non-Surgical Options

  • Hormones
  • Restylane
  • Juvederm
  • Artefil
  • Hair removal
  • Laser
  • Electrolysis
  • Cosmetics
  • Hair styling or wig

Surgical Options

  • Hair transplantation
  • Scalp advancement
  • Frontal bone contouring
  • Reduction of bossae and supra-orbital rims
  • Chin augmentation or reduction
  • Mandible contouring
  • Thyroid cartilage reduction
  • Rhytidoplasty
  • Blepharoplasty
  • Rhinoplasty
  • Upper lip shortening
  • Lip augmentation

 

Facial Feminization Before Facial Feminization After
   

Appropriate grooming does a lot to feminize ones appearance. Here is a photo showing the final result of facial feminization and a happy, satisfied patient.