Smile

The Impact of a Smile Makeover Do you often feel exposed and self-conscious and uncomfortable around colleagues because of your teeth? Do you end up smiling with your lips pressed together firmly so you dont draw more attention to your mouth? Did you ever notice how your friend’s genuine and radiant smile seems to draw people to her? Studies have shown that people are influenced socially and emotionally by a beautiful smile and that 50% of people notice a persons smile first before the clothes or

To Smile Or Not To Smile In a contest of smiles, who would win—women or men? That answer just so happens to be women. But why women? According to Amy Cunningham in, Why Women Smile, women smiles are automatic (though it can be true for either sex) as they are controlled by society’s expectations. Cunningham has even experienced this herself, from her friends and even her husband. One of her friends told her that they associate her with her smile, calling it her “essence” and that she should smile

A simple smile can mean a lot of things to different people. There are people who just loves to smile and then there are some who doesn't really like smiling at all. Why is it so important for people to smile? Science said that when a person smile, the neuronal signals from the cortex of the human brain travel all the way to the brain stem, which is the oldest part of our brain. The cranial muscles then carries the signal to the muscles on your face that is caused by a smile. So basically, when the

mood and then someone comes along with a huge smile ? Or maybe you were walking around school and stranger gave you a smile? How would this make you feel? Happy, Warm, or put you in a postive mood? This is the impact of a smile. A smile may be something very small and many of us take one for granted but a smile can actually change how someone thinks, feels and interacts with others. A smile is something that is very personal and many people take a smile in different ways. For example, smiling is a

Why Women Smile Everywhere you go you see a smile; whether it is on a billboard or person they surround us. But how many of those are genuine smiles? In the essay Why Women Smile by Amy Cunningham it is stated that women are expected to smile at all times and often these smiles are artificial. What is in a smile? Could there be something in a smile’s physiology to help us better understand a person’s motives to smile? Possibly even health benefits. There is more behind a smile than a forced expression

University of Michigan, expressed his feelings about a smile. "People who smile," he said, "tend to manage teach and sell more effectively, and to raise happier children. There 's far more information in a smile than a frown. That 's why encouragement is a much more effective teaching device than punishment” (Carnagie, 2010). Historical Background One may ask the history of the smile. Wilson (2012) explained some biologists believe that the smile originated millions of years ago as a sign of fear;

automatically smile. However, is this smile considered to be a real smile? Are people honestly happy when they hear “Say Cheese”? The anatomical definition of the term smile, according to the American Dental association is that “The word smile refers to the contraction of the zygomatic major muscle, which retracts the lip corners back and upward” (Ekman 4). What people do not realize is that there is more than one type of smile. Not all smiles are positive and happy either; some smiles have negative

A Real Smile The warmth of the fire consumed me as I sipped my hot chocolate. I glanced at my best friend Avery laughing at someone that I couldn’t quite make out. Suddenly, I heard glass shatter. I quickly sat up in my bed sighing as I looked at myself in the mirror. I felt the cold tear running down my cheek. I rolled out of bed and looked out at the grey clouds, hiding what could have been a sunny day. I looked down at my smokey black boots as I walked down the steep, marble staircase. I unobtrusively

On the road to a new smile on July 21st of the 2009. It felt like a normal Friday, but, I woke up a little nervous knowing it was the day I would get my braces on. Growing up I noticed that my smile was not like the other kids smiles. The other kids were losing teeth and bigger teeth would move into the missing spaces. Their top teeth were all over the bottom straight and their smiles full of teeth. But I was different, my bottom teeth covering my top, many spaces where teeth should be. Before we

Did you smile today? If not, then before you go reading ahead, slap a sweet, genuine smile on your face because it’s the most powerful gesture anyone can have and good things come to those who smile. There may be many reasons for smiling but smile itself doesn’t need any reason “A smile cost nothing, but gives much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.”– Dale Carnegie Have you ever wondered why you