How do you smile?

My friends who are international students feel the need to document many, many moments, so I have to smile on command a lot.

I just do a regular smile, showing my teeth, BUT I have this weird gap between my lower and upper rows of teeth, so a tiny bit of my tongue always peeks through. Sometimes people look at this in photos and ask me why I was sticking my tongue out. It’s kinda embarrassing, but not too bad. I try to remember not to do that when I’m taking some kind of “important” shot.

My display picture is a good representation of how I smile.
Usually, if the smile is genuine,
I show teeth.
If the smile is sarcastic, it’s with the mouth closed.

If my eyes go wide, I’m really happy.

Great question Dominic!

I’m a closed mouth smiler. I hate forced smiles.

Unless something is extremely funny, usually nothing more than a mouth-closed, controlled smirk.

I can’t smile on command. I may not look it, but I feel like it’s a forced smile when I do.

Dominic you do show a lot of teeth, maybe you just have a big mouth, hehehehe JK. You know you are adorable and cheek tweakable.

But I do think how many teeth you show depends on the width of the opening of your mouth. Much to the astonishment of people who know me, dentists always tell me I have a very petite mouth. I think when I smile you only see some of my top teeth. Maybe I am just dainty, hehehe.

In many of your photos you are always surrounded by good looking women! Maybe that is why your smile is so broad.

@rooeytoo

lol :D

Believe it or not, my mouth is actually pretty small (my head is small to begin with). Most people tell me that, including dentists/hygienists and what not.

I actually used to be a little embarrassed of smiling because of the permanent white fluoride stains on my front teeth. Oh well, there’s nothing I can do and I really like to smile. :)

I smile so hard, my lips hurt. I smile so big, every tooth shows…which can be an embarrassment depending on if its lunchtime or not. My pictures have never looked to inspiring either. In my “on demand” smiles like a gopher grinning; big teeth and all.

A smile more charming then the rest? That would be a relaxed and inviting smile. Flashy, “look-I-just-got-my-teeth-whitened!” smiles have never appealed to me.

I’m too Goth to smile.

With a full-out, big-ass grin lol. It’s very difficult to smile without showing my teeth. And it kind of looks weird

I don’t smile. Ever.

i smile picturing two pulleys are on the inside of my mouth. when the pulleys are in good condition they are able to hinge my mouth in a horizontal crescent, though when they’re feeling down and tired, or rusted, they only heave just enough so my mouth crests a bit of a smile. when my pulleys are feeling a bit cynical, that’s when a downward facing horizontal crescent forms, and it’s never good-looking.

Unfortunatly my facial actuators don’t function like that.

i’d assume they’re like fingerprints, i mean, have you ever seen the same smile twice..

um…that would mean that you would… each person has the same fingerprints as they always do… I think you mean snowflakes.

I find myself smirking and grinning a lot. It’s not very becoming (friends have told me so :[...), so sometimes I try to fake what I assume is a more attractive, toothy smile. It probably looks pretty genuine since I have some practice, but who knows.

@XOIIO haha i thought people would take it that way…i kind of meant, each person has their own smile…but your interpretation is completely valid.

Ah I see.

Just show your top row of teeth and smile with your eyes to make it look genuine. I’ve taken many a headshot in my day… :D just like that.

<—————Like this of course! It melts hearts or so I’m told… :)

I think you can spot a fake smile from 1000 yards.
(Think of catwalk models, politicians and axe murderers)
It depends on the person really, some people have the cutest smiles without showing any teeth, some people have the greatest smiles showing all thier teeth and some folk dont have any teeth, but still look happy smiling!
Personally, I smile closed mouthed, but I grin showing my teeth.
and @sjmc1989 – your smile is cute (any relation to Marty Feldman?) lol.

I do not smile.

@ragingloli – I believe you

@sjmc1989

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggg!| ~thud~

I don’t believe that I have ever been photographed smiling. The closest I can come to a smile is a sort of smirk, generated by sarcastic humor. Even the wedding pictures had no smiles (my dress uniform collar was too tight and Meg was suffocating in that long dress).

@Symbeline Goths are too cool to need to smile. +GA

my smile is really a frown just turned upside down.

I hate being forced to smile with my mouth open. My sister is so sure that I’m not actually happy when I smile with my mouth closed. I think I look best when I smile with my mouth closed.

I smile like I’m the evil Baron Von Rothbart. Like “Heh-heh-heh..”