Permanently Beautiful

Working women who have struggled for decades to crash through the glass ceiling may be annoyed to find that hard work, long hours and superior business acumen may not be enough to propel them up the corporate ladder. A new research study by finance professors at Duke University found that facial traits play an important role in whether you move up the corporate ladder and can affect your chances of occupying that sweet corner office reserved for the company CEO. The only good news about the Duke study, titled “A Corporate Beauty Contest,” is that beauty parameters seem to apply equally to men and women. Males who lacked certain facial features were as unlikely as their female counterparts to rise in the corporate ranks.

The Duke study asked 2,000 people to rate the facial traits of corporate CEOs, non-CEOs and small business owners. Researchers found that CEOs judged to look competent earned better salaries and held loftier positions even when their companies did not perform as well as others.

Executives with strong jaw lines, small, piecing eyes and low, commanding eyebrows were judged to be competent executive and rose highest in the corporate hierarchy. Less competent executives were baby-faced with large, round eyes, high eyebrows and small chins. Although judged to be less competent, they were seen as warmer, more likable and more trustworthy.

Artistically applied permanent makeup can improve facial characteristics and camouflage facial defects to give you a more commanding appearance and enhance your climb up the corporate ladder.