The Windows to the Soul

Considering all the attention grabbed in the world of Beverly Hills plastic surgery by breast and buttock augmentation, it's perhaps not surprising that we sometimes fail to look upwards at other body parts that just may say a little more about who we truly are. Today, we're thinking about the eyes, often called "the windows to the soul." They fascinate everyone, including the best plastic surgeons in Southern California here at We Know Beauty.

On Wednesday of this week we had two separate beauty-related news items relating to eyes. The first was actress Zoe Kravitz's appearance at the premiere of this week's big possible tent-pole release, "Divergent." One writer described her look as "two-toned, off-white-and-pewter cat-eye."

Meanwhile, fashion designer Marc Jacobs, plugging a new line of make-up, rhapsodized about his favorite body part:

There is a feature that I always notice; the eyes. I love eye makeup so I guess if we were to talk about the feature I notice first it would be a good eye.

There's no doubt about it, while the eyes aren't quite eternal -- they can definitely be impacted by age and health issues -- their beauty does not have to fade. At the same time, the way in which they are framed is crucial. Eye make-up is important but, alongside such procedures as facelifts and revision rhinoplasty, We Know Beauty surgeons perform plenty of blepharoplasty to make the area around the eyes appear younger and more attractive. 

In a world that seems, at times, to be obsessed with sexiness in its most crass form, it's kind of reassuring to think that -- more than most other parts of our body -- it's the eyes that can really turn heads.