which side of your face is more attractive?

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and which side is the vacant, slightly evil side? do you know, and if so, do you put the knowledge to any use? eg. constantly being photographed from the same angle a la kylie minogue

i was flicking through this kids book about science (startlingly named 'the science book'), and i happened upon a section about the human face + symmetry.

nobody's face is perfectly symmetrical... frinstance, when you smile, the smile is sort of concentrated in one side of your face and the other side just kind of goes along with it. i guess it works like preferred hands.

you can find out which side is the active side by getting a picture of yourself photographed straight on, smiling, and taking a mirror and placing it down the centre of your nose to produce two identical halves. when you do it for the happy smiling side, it looks like you except bizarre because you're way too symmetrical. but the other side... that's really quite sinister. it's like there are two totally different people in one face, one friendly and open, the other held back and just plain scary.

― minna, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

my left.

― ethan, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Neither, can't say one looks any better than the other. I don't have the Mariah syndrome.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My left. My hairline is neater and my left sideburn doesn't have a gap when I've just got my hair clipped.

― electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

my ass

― Queen G, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I tried the mirror thing but both look pretty much like a smile to me even though my smile pulls a bit to my left. I think I'm just funny lookin from all angles.

I think it's funny how sometimes I don't even pay attention to the mirror at all. I'll get out into the car in the morning and realize my hair's all over the place because I forgot to flatten it out.:-)

― Ron, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My left. I've got a crooked smile, the right side doesn't curl up fully.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

'Sfunny. The left side of my face is the one where my eye droops more, my hairline looks stupider and I have more blemishes, but if you do the mirror thing, 2 x lefts = friendly, crinkly-eyed smiley chap while 2 x rights = bulging-headed trainee nazi. 'Sfunny.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Pete once informed me that my left-handedness also translates into left-facedness and that I tend to use the left of my face to make expressions & stuff. I cannot tell if this is a Pete Lie or not as I don't gaze into a mirror all the time but I can see this might be true. I don't know which side of my face I prefer as whenever I stare at myself in the mirror my face starts to look so weird that I have to stop and indeed avoid mirrors entirely for the next few hours.

― Emma, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Currently my left side because I have a large spot on my right cheek which mysteriously appeared a few weeks ago. I don't normally get spots but it's fucking huge, if I shaved my head and fell around some buses I could pass for a heroin addict. So the left yes.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I think maybe my left side.

― jel --, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

inside my brain

― , Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

both sides of my face are attractive.

― di, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The front.

― Ally C, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i have to agree with Di. i like both sides of her face better
*rimshot*

i smile/make expressions with my left side [and can even curl my left lip, weeoo], which generally makes it look scrunched-up/crooked/ sinister/downright evil. and all the cuter for it. muahaha.

― petra jane, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

eight years pass...

my right side, which is weird because i even have a quite noticable scar on my cheek. there's just something off with the left

― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 31 August 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link

The back.

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 31 August 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link

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