[AnonymousBosch]

(06-28-2014 05:49 AM)Cyr Wrote:  

It hadn't occurred to me before you said that, but almost no one I know (I'm 17) actually smiles in photos. Everyone does some stupid face, (rape face, cross eyed, triple chinned etc), and they think its outgoing, but its really just that they're too insecure to actually be judged fairly on their looks.

I mean, if you're wearing makeup/ dressed well, you obviously want to be thought of as attractive, so why delude yourself and do an ugly pose?

Because you can't control and veto spur of the moment photos, so you hide any possible negative judgments of your looks by being false and exaggerated. If you scroll back to her profile pic at the top of the page: I'm guessing she took 20 or so photos before picking the one that made her look pretty, intelligent and smug on her own power.

If you can read body language, you can cut through the bullshit. Take this happy bike riding snap: "Look at the fun we're having!"



It's 'performed' for the audience by insecure actors. The smiles are fake:

- The smiles are horizontal - true smiles curve upwards at the corners

- Both rows of her teeth are showing - true smiles only show the upper row of teeth if the mouth is open

- Cheek bones raise left and right, without much vertical movement. Cheekbone height controls the subtlety of the smile. With little cheekbone movement, lowered eyebrows and upwards corners, you get one of the most powerful girl game tactics: the coy smile.

- Eyebrows are raised, rather than coming down, like in a true smile. Usually, the dead giveaway.

Compare with confident girls:



- Upwards corners, one row of teeth, cheek bones pushing up towards eyes, lowered eyebrows

Learn to read the difference. False smiles come from social insecurity or boredom / apathy. Even with the prettier girls, there's something really wrong with younger people, because every girl I knew in my teens and twenties was capable of smiling like a human being, and now, doing a quick google search for 'young women smiling', I can barely find anything that isn't 'performed'.

The wider the mouth, the higher the eyebrows, the faker it is. Babies smile like this, because they haven't yet learnt to read and mimic facial expressions.



What I'm seeing is an entire generation that seems to have been socialised to not read genuine human emotions, and learns its facial cues from awkward celebrities, which is why we get Miley Tongue. What the fuck happened?

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Even with the cheekbones down, the eyebrows and lips say it. Coy smile. Girl game recognised. Real:



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