How to take the perfect selfie

Bring Your Phone Closer to Your Face

To get the best selfie with your phone move the cell phone closer to your face. Bend your arm slightly more than a 90-degree angle. By bending your arm you center your face in the frame. This provides added stabilization to your cell phone.

For selfie with a perfect smile, pay attention to your face shape. For a slightly oval face, big smile highlight side to create a more oval face shape. For face shape tends to be round, create a wider smile down to show teeth and smile wider to balance the shape of the face with a sharper chin shape.

If you want the picture to be more mysterious and cute – look to the side. If you want it to be funny – roll your eyes. However, in the majority of cases, people prefer to see a selfie where you are looking right into the camera lens.

* Have a fuller bodied upper lip? Try showing off a little bit of your teeth when smiling and if you have a thin upper lip try smiling so the bottom edges of your upper teeth touch your lower lip.

Cut your teeth

This study found that open-mouth smiles can easily be mistaken for a sign of fear or contempt—the two lowest rated smiles were both pretty toothy. Better to go with no teeth, or just show your chompers off a little.

The ‘Sideways Look Up’ Smile: Both men and women will love you. This type of smile is considered the most attractive to both men and women. For men, it evokes masculine feelings of protection while women will naturally feel warmth towards you.

The truth is that most people show at least 8 upper teeth when they smile and at least 6 lower teeth when they talk!

Over time, many people feel their teeth are not visible when speaking. To make matters worse, as we age the upper lip tends to “sag” down making the upper front teeth harder to see. In these situations, diagnostic wax is used to create fuller and longer teeth and then transferred to the patient in temporary crowns.

Many people love the look of large front teeth. This can make your smile look youthful, and it can give your smile an attractive central focus. Especially if people feel their own teeth are too small, they might compliment you on the appearance of your smile.

Scientists conducted a study into the perfect smile and found that people without broad smiles tend to hide their teeth the most when smiling. Showing that wider smiles are valued as more attractive due to the correct balance of asymmetrical teeth.

Research has shown that men rate women as more attractive if their first impression is their beautiful, smiling face. But women’s preferences for men are exactly the opposite– they find that the most attractive first impression is when a man is brooding and mysterious (see here: “the smolder“).

Practice your smile.

Try smiling in the mirror in the morning before you leave to go about your day. Practice smiling with your mouth open just so, and remember to engage your eyes. The more you do it, the more natural it will feel to smile at people or for pictures.