# How does your nose length (vertical) relate to the length of your face and the length of your head

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 10, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-your-nose-length-vertical-relate-to-the-length-of-your-face-and-the-length-of-your-head/717349 "2015-04-10T16:54:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cathy967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Cathy967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cathy967)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-your-nose-length-vertical-relate-to-the-length-of-your-face-and-the-length-of-your-head/717349/1 "2015-04-10T16:54:12Z")

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I’m studying about drawing human faces, and it just seems like people with longer noses tend to have longer faces/heads. Not exactly sure about this though.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-your-nose-length-vertical-relate-to-the-length-of-your-face-and-the-length-of-your-head/717349/2 "2015-04-11T01:13:31Z")

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Way back when I was in art school, we had to learn about all the proportions of the human body, including the face. The problem is that there are so many exceptions, as to make these rules useless. Everyone is different, and there are plenty of people with long faces and short noses.

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**Author:** ![jezzaOZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@jezzaOZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jezzaOZ)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-your-nose-length-vertical-relate-to-the-length-of-your-face-and-the-length-of-your-head/717349/3 "2015-04-11T03:04:25Z")

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It depends how old you are. Noses and ears keep on growing till death. It’s most obvious with ears.

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**Author:** ![Cathy967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Cathy967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cathy967)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-your-nose-length-vertical-relate-to-the-length-of-your-face-and-the-length-of-your-head/717349/4 "2015-04-13T12:53:42Z")

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The first answer was pretty much similar to what I was expecting. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-your-nose-length-vertical-relate-to-the-length-of-your-face-and-the-length-of-your-head/717349/5 "2015-04-13T15:43:10Z")

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The length of your nose is also approximately the length of your index finger to from the tip to the second knuckle.