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Can Smiling Really Make You Handsome or Beautiful
Smile! You do look beautiful when you smile.
If you tell me you have never heard that very sentence when you were still a kid, I will be shocked.
On my end, I hear it all the time, especially from my old aunt. If there is any moment in the day where I feel insecure, was unhappy, especially if it relates to my look, she'd utter these words like it was an undeniable fact of life. She would always ask me to smile, saying that smiling made me look better. But what she doesn't realize is how my brain perceived her words. To me, it'll mean I was ugly, and it was only smiles that could make me look beautiful. I would ask myself the question, must I even smile when I am walking on the street?
As a kid, I believed her.
As a teenager, I have been doubting her.
As an adult, I finally decided to test and see.
So... was my aunt just being kind, or was she teasing me, or should we say, was there an actual truth behind it?
Let us talk about it, as I as well share my knowledge about it, and the science I found out later years backing what she said.
That One Childhood Comment That Stuck With Me
It was at a family meeting. I vividly remember that. I may have been maybe 11 or 12. The feeling back then? Yeah, I was sitting quietly and feeling invisible at the same time. And in my own skin, I was just a bit uncomfortable. It was not that I was angry, honestly, I was not, but the strange faces around me? It was unbearable.
When she realised that, I mean my Aunt, she looked at me, tilted her head, and said:
You know, you look prettier when you smile
Even just as a kid, when I tried forcing that smile on my face, I still recollect the feeling I had. My face felt heavy and folding😭😢, but Jack, what could I do? Just kept it that way.
Yes, that was a childhood memory, but years later, I noticed something. Should I call it strange or what? I noticed that whenever I did smile, I mean naturally, not that forced type of smile, people reacted differently. Conversations, I think they flowed more easily, and for the people around you, yeah, they seemed warmer, and I myself, I was lighter. Free from the stress.
Don't doubt me, because you see that friend of mine in the photo in this blog, Tricilla, yes, she has that charm. Maybe I should just call her smiley, because you know what, that is what she always does.
Does Smiling Actually Make You More Attractive?
The short answer? Yes, but not in the way Instagram sells beauty.
And for the long answer, well, I think we need to break it down.
Smiling Changes How People Perceive You
When you smile, subconsciously, people see you as:
- Friendly
- Someone they can trust
- A person who is emotionally stable
- And someone confident.
And for those traits, you might not know, but universally, they're attractive. I am not the one making that claim; it is the research from the psychologist.
Literally, Your Brain Loves Smiles
Here is a fun fact I found:
Studies from Harvard University and UC Berkeley have shown that when you and I see someone smile, our brain releases dopamine, which is the same chemical connected with enjoyment and benefits. I am not a doctor, but then, I can literally translate this from my own understanding. It means that
- Smiling makes people feel good
- People can correlate that good feeling with you.
That is not manipulation to me; it is, honestly, human biology doing its thing.
The Truth I Have To Tell You About Smiles
I am not trying to say that smiling has the magic to make your face look different. Smiling does not change the structure of your bones, it does not fix issues that are related to your skin, and it does not replace your sleep with health or self-care. Smiling does improve how attractive you look.
Don't get me on the wrong foot either, smiling will not make you look like a movie star, it could make people look at you longer, and in our real life, day in day out, the places we go and people we meet, smiling matters a lot.
So.. Can We Say My Aunt Was Lying to Me?
No, my Aunt was not lying to me. She was just telling me the truth in a language I could understand as a kid.
Smiling does not make you like perfect without flaws, but then it makes it easy for people to come closer to us, and it makes people feel good anytime they are around us.
If you also want to test yourself, just smile anytime you are greeting people and take notice of how they will respond.
If You Have Read This Far
If you have read this far, then I am sure you have learned a lot of things from this piece of writing. Thank you for being here. GOD BLESS YOU.
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