Garlic nose means that the nose wing is too wide and shaped like garlic. The standard nose type is the proportion of three courts and five eyes. Brigitte Lin's nose length is equal to 1/3 of the face length, and the nose end width is 1/5 of the face width, which conforms to the characteristics of the standard nose type, so it is not a garlic nose.

Garlic nose is often caused by excessive cartilage angles on both sides of the alar, thick subcutaneous fat or fibrous tissue on the alar, alar cartilage hyperplasia or nasal bridge retraction, which is a normal physiological phenomenon and generally does not need treatment.