A person's face is unique and there are no two completely identical faces in the whole wide world. Different nationalities and cultures have their own individual standards of beauty. The standards of attractiveness of a human form are so different that sometimes what is “beautiful” among Europeans is absolutely disgusting among African tribes, and vice versa. But the “language” of a smile is understood all over the globe.
Smiling is a response to kindness, happiness or the expression of positive emotions. Even the wildest tribe in New Guinea smiles and understands the meaning of these mimic actions.
It is surprising that the most ordinary and expressionless face, when smiling, becomes softer and more pleasant. You don’t have to have a full 32 smile to charm others. Remember the famous masterpiece of painting from the brush of Leonardo da Vinci. His Mona Lisa barely raised the corners of her mouth, but overall her image has been captivating curious viewers for many years.
The smile looks symmetrical
The basis of a beautiful smile is symmetry, that is, one half of the lips should be symmetrical to the other. When smiling, about 40 different facial muscles work, but they are all trained differently, which is why the smile often turns out to be asymmetrical.
Facial muscles can be trained with simple exercises (these exercises will not only make your smile perfect, but will also help avoid the appearance of facial wrinkles and improve diction).
- Purse your lips, pull them into a tube and hold them in this position for a few seconds. Then relax your lips. Repeat 5-8 times.
- Close your lips tightly, stretch them forward and try to make a figure eight with them. Then relax your muscles. Repeat the exercise 2-3 times.
- Stick out your tongue, clasp it tightly with your lips and hold this position for a few seconds, then relax the muscles of your lips and tongue as much as possible. Repeat five times.
- Stretch your lips into an unnaturally wide smile, and then relax them. Repeat five times.
Correct smile - theory and practice
A beautiful smile is a relaxed face, happy eyes and the correct width of mouth opening. Remember that the bottom row of teeth should never be visible when smiling, otherwise it will be perceived as an aggressive grin. With a proper smile, teeth need to be shown only partially - in fact, only the center of the top row.
To learn how to smile beautifully, practice in front of a mirror. Relax your face, then smile to show the top six middle teeth (the bottom row is covered by your lip). If your face looks tense, relax your tongue and lightly bite (rather press) the tip between the center of your teeth. Smile a little wider, showing your side teeth as well.
How to smile in a photograph?
The secret to a beautiful smile is regular practice. Having caught the eye of a random person on the street, Americans and Europeans first smile (this is the main sign of good intentions), and only then say hello. The absence of a smile is perceived as an indicator of aloofness and even rudeness.
Maintaining such a “mini-smile” trains the facial muscles, making them more mobile. If you try to squeeze out a smile from time to time, it is not surprising that you do not like the result at all. In order to smile correctly, you need to do it constantly.
How to smile with your eyes?
A proper smile means relaxed facial muscles. Your face should not indicate that you are tense, trying to “pull” a happy emotion onto yourself. One of the ways to relax your face is to touch the back surface of your front teeth with the tip of your tongue - this is what the Hollywood smile technique is based on.
To learn to smile beautifully and correctly, it is best to start by developing the ability to smile with your eyes. Look at yourself in the mirror, then cover your teeth and mouth with your hand. Think about something pleasant and smile slightly (without seeing your smile), carefully monitoring the position of the muscles around the eyes in order to “catch” this position and then repeat it.
The smile looks sincere
They say that stars have been training to smile correctly for years, and some have their smiles even “put on” by image specialists.
To independently find the very shape that suits you completely, you need to train in front of the mirror and, of course, visit the dentist at least once a year.
By the way, on the Internet there are many photographs of stars before the dentist has worked on them thoroughly. Believe me, their smiles were very far from ideal. Demi Moore once admitted that she invested more than $12,000 in her teeth.
However, nothing will help you if your smile is insincere and forced. A positive attitude, cheerfulness and openness to the world will make any smile irresistible.
Liv Tyler
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How to make your smile wider?
If your bottom row of teeth is irregularly shaped, you must learn to smile in a way that partially hides them. It is extremely important to show the surface of the upper row of teeth while relaxing your face and trying to smile sincerely with your eyes.
Remember also that the width of a smile largely depends on the shape of the lips. Unless you have very large lips, an overly stretched and wide smile will create an impression of tension and anxiety. You need to learn to smile so that the canines of the upper row of teeth only lightly touch the lower lip - but are not completely exposed.
Beautiful smile and face type
A smile can change the visual perception of the shape of the face and skull in the same way that a haircut changes a woman's face or a beard changes a man's face. For example, people with a long face are advised to focus on the vertical aspect of their teeth and not smile too widely or too openly - this will not be read as a beautiful smile, but as an indicator of aggression.
For those with square and round faces, a wide smile, on the contrary, will help make the face visually more oval and “correct” - while a smile with a closed mouth will create the impression of modesty. In turn, for people with an oval face type, both a modest smile with a closed mouth and a wide Hollywood smile are suitable.
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The Hollywood smile is not just a wide-open mouth, but the ability to smile with your whole face. In fact, a correct and beautiful smile is a combination of joyful and calm eyes with moderate tension of the facial muscles, allowing only the upper row of teeth to show. In order to learn to smile, it is important to practice.
How to learn to smile naturally with teeth: options for different smiles with teeth
So, we have looked at the main reasons why you may be embarrassed to “show” your teeth in a smile. There is a problem - accept it or fix it. There is no other way to resolve the issue and cannot be. Now let's move on to the question of how to learn to smile naturally with teeth. To do this, you will need a front camera with a timer, free time and a good mood:
- Never, hear, never say “h-i-i-i-i-z” at the moment of the photo if you do not want to resemble a distorted clown. Open your mouth slightly in a smile and say a drawn-out “uh-uh.” First with sound, then when you understand which muscles are involved, you can do it silently. Take a few dozen frames to understand whether this is your technique and the optimal width of lip opening. For some it is better to slightly expose their teeth, while for others it is better to completely expose their teeth;
- A few seconds before the photo, laugh at some joke, but not rolling with laughter, but slightly, showing your teeth. To create this effect, think of a fun event or a funny joke, memes and funny faces will also work. Try different variations of giggles, remember how the muscles work and use this in the future;
- Place the tip of your tongue under the upper front teeth, then smile, opening your teeth. The result is a classic Hollywood smile. But remember, it is important not to put on a grimace, but to smile naturally;
- Close your eyes, relax, think about your loved one and, opening your eyes, smile. You will get the most sincere smile with the least tense facial muscles.
A sincere smile with well-groomed teeth is the best adornment of a person.
A perfect smile means straight teeth
In the case of incorrect bite and teeth position, it is advisable, first of all, to undergo treatment by an orthodontist using braces or a mouth guard to straighten the teeth. Today this can be done at any age. During the treatment process, you can choose a system that suits your aesthetic needs and financial capabilities. For example, metal braces are a classic of orthodontics, and even they have become smaller over time, and therefore less noticeable on the teeth. Among their undoubted advantages are their low price and impenetrable reliability. A huge minus is aesthetics, or rather, the lack thereof. They are contrasted with aesthetic braces: ceramic and transparent sapphire braces. The latter are almost invisible on the teeth. The most aesthetic system for correcting bites in adults today are Invisalign aligners - invisible overlays on the teeth that slowly but surely move them in the right direction.
Example 3. “I just want my smile to be beautiful”
Before us
a girl who was starting orthodontic treatment. Also a teenager, with an uncertain, shy smile.
She didn’t talk about any problems she had because of her shyness in her smile.
No, that didn't happen. It was just that the teeth were growing unevenly. “I would like my smile to be beautiful” - that’s what she dreamed about when she turned to me.
And when we took off the braces, the girl began to shine, smile, and grow up. She began to shine.
Example 5. Smile - shine!
This girl was bothered by two uneven teeth. And, again, we see what a strained smile was before the treatment. Ordinary - standard, “protocol”.
As a rule, when patients have an uncomfortable position of the lower jaw, they already move it a little forward in the photograph. This happens on a subconscious level so that their face becomes more harmonious. And when we finished the treatment, raised the high bite, pushed the lower jaw forward, the girl’s face became very harmonious from a professional point of view and, naturally, a sparkle appeared in her eyes! Shine and radiance appear when the patient cannot (and does not need) to restrain a smile of joy; the patient begins to have a so-called “gum smile”, when he smiles widely, widely.
And here is the patient after a year and a half of our orthodontic treatment - she is already like this, calmer, more confident, and does not smile so widely. But her smile still remains sincere and stable.
What prevents you from smiling beautifully with teeth naturally?
Some people think - what’s the point of learning to smile beautifully with teeth if you don’t apply it in life? There are a number of very good reasons why a person, regardless of age, quite rightly does not smile with teeth. But sometimes it’s just a fictitious problem. How to learn to smile naturally with teeth? First, let's look at what prevents us from doing this:
- Curvature of tooth growth. Pay attention to the smile of Keira Knightley, a world-class star. She has covered this issue more than once and is 100% sure that if the teeth are healthy and do not have significant defects, they do not need to be sawed, straightened and abused on your jaw. Look at your smile carefully - perhaps you have exaggerated your colors too much. No? Then it’s worth visiting a dentist, because you can straighten your teeth at any age;
- Rotten teeth, tartar, missing teeth . A really good reason to temporarily not show your teeth when smiling, unlike Dmitry Dibrov, who is so confident in himself that he does not consider these shortcomings significant enough to hide them from the public;
- Yellowness of enamel. So, let's immediately note that natural yellowness is the norm, and it can only be removed with veneers or dentures. Svetlana Loboda got used to veneers for a long time, painfully, to the point of distortion of facial expressions and speech defects, and changed several options until she found a tolerable one. Visit the dentist, take care of your oral cavity, and remember, no one today perceives light yellow discoloration as a problem in general;
- Bite and jaw defects. The most difficult of cases, since the issue can be resolved exclusively by operations, and even then not in all cases. Therefore, it is better to accept yourself as you are and perceive it as some unique feature. For example, like Ksenia Sobchak. Given her financial capabilities, she did not change anything and left her appearance as it is and at the same time she is no less popular and beautiful lady, and her smile is very recognizable to every Russian-speaking person;
- The presence of a gap between the front upper teeth. You can fight like Drew Barrymore, or you can leave it and make the gap your signature highlight, like Madonna, Lara Stone, Vanessa Paradis and many others did.
In addition, many are confused by their facial expressions when smiling with teeth, “slit” eyes and other facial expressions. Fortunately, you can work with this, and quite successfully. This is what we propose to do in the next section.
Keira Knightley is a perfect example of an imperfect but radiant smile
