March 20 is the International Day of Happiness, proclaimed in 2012. The presence (or absence) of a smile on the face is one of the key indicators of how happy a person feels. It is difficult to sincerely enjoy life with a gloomy face.
At the same time, the ability to smile beautifully not only helps you look better in photographs, but also changes the tone of your speech. Radio DJs know this - they always smile when speaking into the microphone. At the same time, learning to smile is not so difficult - the main thing is to regularly practice this habit.
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.
A smile is your business card
A smile can decide the outcome of a business meeting or a first date, so you need to learn to naturally and beautifully bloom all over your face. Let's look at effective techniques for getting into a smiling state.
- Go to the mirror, smile, then freeze, take a good look at yourself, assessing the flaws in your appearance.
- Look how visible the teeth and gums are, what the curvature of the lips is.
- Next, try to blur without exposing your gums.
- If your teeth are yellow, get them in order.
- Pay attention to the lips. They should not have repulsive cracks or unpleasant peeling. If your lips are peeling, start treating them immediately. Perhaps you are lacking vitamins.
- If your lips are thin, do not try to enlarge them with lipstick. Upon closer inspection, they will not look aesthetically pleasing.
- Use chapstick or lipstick in natural shades.
- If you are talking to someone, imagine that a camera is watching you and you need to look charming. A light smile must “glide” across your lips.
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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- Smile in front of the mirror;
- Assess the condition of your teeth;
- If the condition of your teeth is not satisfactory, try to limit your smile to your lips, without showing your teeth;
- If the number of teeth is not enough, restore them. To straighten teeth, you can use braces;
- Lips should not have peeling or cracks;
- To make your lips look good, you need to watch your diet and drink a complex of vitamins.
What to do if your bad mood won't let go
You don’t always have a good mood; how can you keep your face up if you want to cry? Try to have a slight smile on your face, not to glow like a copper teapot, but to “bloom” sweetly and easily.
Even if you are in a bad mood, there is no need to frown; cheerful, friendly facial expressions will act on others like hypnosis.
You will see that people will treat you with care and kindness. And this attitude will make your mood much better.
Try to remember a funny joke or a pleasant event, such as your baby's first steps. A kind smile will involuntarily play on your face.
How to determine a sincere smile?
Do you think this is a sincere smile?
When we encounter faces in everyday life, our brains instantly compare their geometry with thousands of others we've encountered before to retrieve the appropriate expression from memory. Next, we evaluate the context—is the smile expected? Finally, automatic facial mimicry allows us to put ourselves in the place of the person smiling.
Niedenthal cautions against overemphasizing context. “It is important to give up the belief that the smile you see in a situation that does not make you smile is false. It may be authentic to a person in that culture or situation.”
There are other signs too. Conscious smiles may be too sharp or too long, or disappear quickly, or appear long before the phrase they are supposed to accompany. A confident smile is more than squinty eyes and shiny teeth.
Spectacular smile in the photo
- Make it a habit to smile for the camera in any situation, regardless of your mood. The photographic device detects a change in mood, resulting in an unsuccessful photo.
- In front of the camera, remember a funny incident from your life; this move will allow you to show a natural, beautiful smile without falsehood in the photo. Your eyes will also transform and sparkle.
- Teach yourself not to get hung up on the lens, try to be as relaxed as you were in the happy moments of your life. Learn more about how you can express emotions through your eyes.
- In this case, the photos turn out bright and vibrant. Practice in front of a mirror often. Take your own photos if necessary. After which you will be able to clearly evaluate all the nuances.
Getting started on your perfect smile: healthy teeth
A Hollywood smile means, first of all, absolutely healthy teeth. Therefore, at the first stage, the doctor examines the oral cavity and prescribes the necessary additional examinations. After this, you will be prescribed dental treatment.
When teeth are severely damaged, conventional filling is not always advisable and it would be more correct to make a restoration with a crown:
- If the tooth is severely damaged, even a high-quality filling will not last long. It destroys itself and affects nearby tooth tissues and the root. An attempt to fill such teeth may lead to the need for extraction and prosthetics.
- Filling materials darken over time. External factors and bad habits, such as smoking, can change the color of a tooth filling. On the front teeth, the dark filling stands out strongly. As a result, a smile, into which a lot of effort and time has been invested, ceases to be beautiful.
Modern dental crowns are visually indistinguishable from your own teeth. Everything corresponds to an ideal smile - shape, size, shade.
We recommend using ceramic crowns to restore the smile area. Why ceramics:
- Aesthetics. In a Hollywood smile, the crown should not stand out against the background of the teeth, and this can only be achieved if the material used matches the tooth enamel in color and transparency. Dental ceramics remain the best choice for these indicators.
- Strength. Teeth crowns used in the smile area do not require the same strength as molar dentures. But at the same time, the crown must be able to withstand the load while eating. Otherwise, the artificial tooth will simply collapse.
- Biocompatibility. Dental ceramics are biocompatible, so they do not cause allergies, and galvanic currents do not occur while wearing crowns. Biocompatibility is important to create the perfect smile. Patients with ceramic crowns do not experience problems such as cyanosis or swelling of the gums, or discoloration of the gingival margin. The teeth and gum edges are beautiful.
A mandatory step in creating an ideal smile is professional oral hygiene. Plaque, soft dental deposits, and stone are removed from the surface of the teeth. They shouldn't be on beautiful teeth.
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.
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.
How to smile beautifully, or the light from within
A very important point for a beautiful smile is how natural and positive it is. Even the smoothest smile will not bring results if there is no good mood in it. Hence, not only physical exercise is important, but also psychology.
- What does it mean? It's simple - train, remembering bright and fun moments from your life. When it was easy and good for you. A kiss from the man you love, a big bonus at work, the smile of your child, buying the shoes you dreamed of, a wonderful beach from your travels. In such cases, a happy and beautiful smile pops up on your face as if by itself. There are no such emotions - it doesn’t matter, invent them. Why do you learn to smile beautifully? To meet a man? So that your business goes uphill? So imagine your date, how he says that he admires you, or a business partner/employer who signs a contract with you on the most favorable terms. Here it is, a joyful, beautiful smile that brings light and goodness.
- An important point that girls rarely pay attention to. A beautiful smile is great, but each specific case requires its own beautiful smile. You won’t smile at your employer the same way you smile at your beloved man, he will misunderstand you. Therefore, you need to master different beautiful smiles - to make it easier for you, we suggest you watch a video on how to smile beautifully with your lips and eyes, depending on the situation. Very interesting.
Why do you need to do exercises?
By strengthening your facial muscles, you will be able to freely use your facial expressions and create a sincere smile.
And sincerity can disarm any enemy, improve relations with a strict boss, and quickly conclude a business agreement.
When you feel like crying out of despair, blur out from your heart and you will feel much better. You will soon feel that your sadness is not so terrible, you will want to have fun and laugh. If you made a mistake, a shy smile will help smooth it out. Children use this technique and everything is forgiven for them.
If a person has grief or sadness, try to help him by simply smiling, encouraging, helping with advice.
Why do we smile?
Let's go back to 2021. Today, smiles are all around us - in the form of smiley faces, refrigerator magnets, advertisements, and even well-meaning strangers. Those who smile frequently are considered more likable, competent, approachable, friendly and attractive.
But the truth is much more sinister. Of the 19 different types of smiles, only 6 are associated with a truly good smile. The rest happen when we are hurt, uncomfortable, scared, sad or embarrassed. A smile can mean contempt, anger or mistrust, a lie or loss.
Of the 19 different types of smiles, only 6 are associated with a truly good smile.
While our genuine, happy smiles exist as a reward for having done something positive to support our existence, unhappy smiles have less to do with what you're experiencing internally and more to do with what you want to signal to others. “Some smiles have evolved to signal that we are cooperative and non-threatening; others have evolved to let people know, without aggression, that we are superior to them in our current situation,” says Paula Niedenthal, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Many of them are polite gestures that show that we are following the rules. But they can also be an effective way of manipulating others or distracting them from our true feelings. Most often, this universal symbol of happiness is used as a mask.
The thinnest plates: veneers and lumineers
If, in addition to the color of your teeth, you are not satisfied with their shape, restoration of the front teeth or a veneering procedure will help you.
Dentists have both therapeutic and orthopedic veneers in their arsenal. Therapeutic ones are more affordable, but also less durable: they can change color or chip over time. They are made from a composite material directly on the patient’s teeth and require extensive experience and skill of the doctor. In contrast, orthopedic porcelain veneers are made in a special laboratory and can last a lifetime. Different clinical cases require different degrees of grinding of the teeth, and by installing lumineers on the teeth, you can do without grinding and get a high aesthetic result.
Photos before and after installation of veneers at the SDent clinic by orthopedist I.V. Mamedov
What else will help you smile beautifully?
Now do you understand how to smile beautifully? This means smiling evenly (symmetrically), situationally and truly joyfully. You need to remember this state, and then you will smile so automatically, without a mirror. And don’t forget about makeup - dark colors don’t make your face look fun and happy, and beautiful teeth - to smile beautifully, they need to be cleaned, and periodic teeth whitening is always a good idea.
Practical recommendations
- Practice in front of a mirror, achieving facial symmetry. Smile as much as possible, strengthening your muscles. After some time of intensive manipulation, the face will get used to it. The result will become obvious.
- Always try to show a radiant smile, charming those around you. Do it from the bottom of your heart with glowing eyes. Otherwise, the smile will look unnatural, implying malice.
To achieve a stunning smile, you have to work hard. Systematically perform facial exercises to strengthen your muscles. Identify all deficiencies and contact a dentist. Become a confident person, stop being shy. Having achieved a charming smile, do not stop practicing in front of the mirror, also do all the exercises.
Tricks for getting fresh lips
Don't forget to keep your teeth and lips in order and wear appropriate makeup. After all, only fresh lips and white teeth will charm your chosen one. How can a girl achieve fresh and soft lips? This is not possible without constant care.
Try massage first. This manipulation promotes a rush of blood, causing the lips to become plump and beautiful:
- First, grease them with vegetable oil.
- Take a toothbrush and move it across your lips in different directions for 4-7 minutes several times a day.
- Lubricate them with honey, cinnamon oil, mint oil, do not rinse for 5-10 minutes. To get a lasting effect, do the procedure every day.
To add plumpness to your lips, purchase hyaluronic acid at the pharmacy. Grind a couple of tablets, mix with Vaseline, lubricate your lips without going beyond the contour, hold for 10 minutes, rinse with water.
Cosmetics will help you quickly get a fresh mouth. First, outline your lips with a pencil, then apply gloss. Apply a darker shade to the corners and contours of your lips, and paint the rest of the space with a lighter shade. And then smile using beautiful facial expressions.
You can also watch a video on how to learn to smile beautifully:
How to learn to smile beautifully - theory and practice. All about why a proper smile is not just a wide-open mouth with bared teeth.
The smile is from ear to ear, but the eyes are indifferent.
Sometimes you can see a photograph of a smiling person, but something about it confuses you. If you look closely, you can understand what exactly. It looks like a smile from all over the mouth, but it’s insincere. It is very easy to guess this. The lips laugh, but the eyes remain indifferent. A real smile affects them too. The look becomes warm and cheerful. If you can't laugh with your eyes, practice in front of a mirror. Pay attention to your eyes when you smile. The muscles around them should also be involved. Try smiling in different ways, and at the same time you will understand which smile suits you best. You can cover your mouth with a piece of paper, laugh only with your eyes. Here is one of the main secrets of how to learn to smile beautifully. A few workouts will help make your face look natural during a photo shoot.
