I'll tell you a secret

[GiaCat]

Did we just become best friends?

Its not unusual for two women who absolutely hate each other to smile and hug when a camera is around.

 

[Noor]

Did we just become best friends?

Its not unusual for two women who absolutely hate each other to smile and hug when a camera is around.

The girls in those pictures are missing that crinkle eye thing of true smiles. Duchenne it is called.

I don't do that, but maybe I am really a boy at least socially or something. Byron thought I was definitely a total girl, but he could have been wrong

 

[Never]

I see a number of crinkly eyes.

I dislike having to smile for a camera. Actually, whenever someone tells me to smile, I lose any desire to smile at all and typically have to suppress an eye-roll.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

The girls in those pictures are missing that crinkle eye thing of true smiles. Duchenne it is called.

I don't do that, but maybe I am really a boy at least socially or something. Byron thought I was definitely a total girl, but he could have been wrong

Hmmm...never heard this before. After looking this up, it's termed fully as "Duchenne Smile." Totally associated with positive emotions. Wonder if anyone would know this if I were to mention this in casual convo when socializing, the term is interesting.

And apparently there's a colloquial term for fake smiles as well..."The Pan Am Smile," due to the ubiquitous smile given by all the flight attendants of the now-defunct airline, to be later known as the "The Botox Smile."

 

[Noor]

I have been having trouble smiling for pictures even when I like being there, recently.
So I imagine Byron will see it and I smile for him.
I didn't smile for pictures much at all before him anyway but thinking about him made me smile.
I drove my friends nuts, I would just suddenly smile this big smile and they would know I was thinking of him.

 

[DesEsseintes]

Hmmm...never heard this before. After looking this up, it's termed fully as "Duchenne Smile." Totally associated with positive emotions. Wonder if anyone would know this if I were to mention this in casual convo when socializing, the term is interesting.

And apparently there's a colloquial term for fake smiles as well..."The Pan Am Smile," due to the ubiquitous smile given by all the flight attendants of the now-defunct airline, to be later known as the "The Botox Smile."

My mother in law worked for BOAC and then BA for a long time as an air hostess. Still when faced with an awkward but inevitable social situation, she says 'Fix grin for check-in!' It's a useful skill, a believable fake smile.

 

[CandiCame]

That fake smile thing about the eye creases can actually vary from person to person and even among people, from situation to situation. It's possible to be genuinely happy, but when you go to take a picture, the mere presence of the camera can cause the smile to look fake. A /lot/ of people have problems genuinely smiling for posed pictures. Our society has a beauty standard that teaches people from a young age how to take 'good' pictures.

Now, I acknowledge that a lot of people didn't have families as vain as mine, but I guarantee that at /some/ point during your childhood you were taught that your natural expression wasn't the correct one for photos. You had a relative or a wal-mart photography employee say, "Let's get another one, and this time /smile/." "Candi, keep your head up in this one. J, get down, you're blocking your brother's face." "I need the people kneeling in front to look strait ahead." "Let's get another one, the groom had his eyes closed." So then as an adult, you pose; you take 50 selfies and delete 49 because they weren't up to the standards that you were taught to look for.

So of course the photos like the ones on this site don't look genuine. That doesn't mean that they aren't showing genuine friendships, just that they aren't candid shots.

 

[Never]

Or you just avoid selfies as the soul-crushing evil they are.

 

[CandiCame]

Or you just avoid selfies as the soul-crushing evil they are.

But that's where I store my soul. They work like horocruxes.

 

[Never]

But that's where I store my soul. They work like horocruxes.

I've never read the Harry Potter books nor seen any of the movies after the third one, but my memory is telling me that the more you split your soul among horocruxes, the more damage it does to your humanity.

....you take 50 selfies and delete 49 because they weren't up to the standards that you were taught to look for.

I thought it was the smoking and lack of sleep that made you a bit high-strung. Now I know.

 

[CandiCame]

I've never read the Harry Potter books nor seen any of the movies after the third one, but my memory is telling me that the more you split your soul among horocruxes, the more damage it does to your humanity.




I thought it was the smoking and lack of sleep that made you a bit high-strung. Now I know.

It splits in in half every time. So at this point I'd say I've still got about.... Maybe 1/2*10^96 of it left in my body.

There was a creepypasta I wanted to link but I can't find it. About how cameras steal your soul.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

A woman's smile signals she's on board The Nice Game and isn't likely to stab you thru your heart with her nail file. Serious people make you think theyre looking for the fatal spot to stick the file into your heart.

 

[Lancecastor]

I think the smile is required equipment for all slim, long-haired, make-up wearing cleavage displayers.