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Post by oh oooh on Jun 12, 2022 15:04:41 GMT
...your face?
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Post by Sneelock on Jun 12, 2022 15:08:49 GMT
I never thought about it much until my nose went all lumpy when I was 16 or 17. I guess i’m Used to it now. My Puberty was off to a pretty good start before that happened. It took some getting used to.
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Post by Charlie O. on Jun 12, 2022 15:10:23 GMT
I'm not crazy about it, but it could be a lot worse.
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Post by Markus on Jun 12, 2022 15:10:34 GMT
Nope, no chin even after surgery to pull it forward, and my nose looks like a protractor cut in half.
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Post by oh oooh on Jun 12, 2022 16:01:06 GMT
do you think your face affects the way people interact with you?
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Post by rayge on Jun 12, 2022 16:30:26 GMT
I am now, because, well, if I weren't happy with it, it would still be my face.
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Post by rayge on Jun 12, 2022 16:31:41 GMT
do you think your face affects the way people interact with you? Strangers, you mean? Or people who recognize it from a distance, turn and run?
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Post by cousinlou on Jun 13, 2022 8:30:51 GMT
Not for most of the years upto when I was 22 or so.
At that age I also became more succefull in attracting girls.
In the years upto about 2-3 years ago, I happily dwelled on the idea it wasn't that bad.
Thinning hair and the greying of what's left has catapulted me back to pre 22 year old me.
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Post by cousinlou on Jun 13, 2022 8:31:40 GMT
do you think your face affects the way people interact with you? I do believe that but maybe less the actual features than the expression it has.
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Post by rayge on Jun 13, 2022 9:07:07 GMT
do you think your face affects the way people interact with you? I do believe that but maybe less the actual features than the expression it has. It's a problem for me in that I have inherited my mother's naturally downturned, thin lips, which makes me look pissed-off and disgusted when in fact I'm feeling nothing in particular, while my insistence on not wearing glasses to correct a slight astigmatism (not out of vanity, I just seem to destroy glasses in the way I did wristwatches, before I gave up wearing them) has left me with frown/squint lines in my forehead that make me look mildly pissed off all the time. People who know me don't react of course, but if I'm introduced to someone new I make a conscious effort to emphasize a smile.
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Post by cousinlou on Jun 13, 2022 10:24:44 GMT
I do believe that but maybe less the actual features than the expression it has. It's a problem for me in that I have inherited my mother's naturally downturned, thin lips, which makes me look pissed-off and disgusted when in fact I'm feeling nothing in particular, while my insistence on not wearing glasses to correct a slight astigmatism (not out of vanity, I just seem to destroy glasses in the way I did wristwatches, before I gave up wearing them) has left me with frown/squint lines in my forehead that make me look mildly pissed off all the time. People who know me don't react of course, but if I'm introduced to someone new I make a conscious effort to emphasize a smile. Ha ha, I have the same. Looking pissed off at things most of the time. I gave up on making an effort to look more friendly - f.i. for group pictures - the result of that is usually amateur's hour acting class.
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Post by toomanyhatz on Jun 13, 2022 17:25:44 GMT
My resting face is fine. I wish the muscles in it wouldn't move around so much. But, like Ray says...
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Post by fearlessfreap on Jun 13, 2022 17:38:42 GMT
I'm ok with it, I'm not deformed.
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Post by osgood on Jun 14, 2022 10:29:47 GMT
I'm ok with mine. I think at a certain age (long passed for me) you have a lot of responsibility about it, i.e. your features show a lot of your personality. I have yet to find a person whose face makes him look like a jerk who is not a jerk.
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Post by oh oooh on Jun 14, 2022 10:40:50 GMT
I meant to get back to this...
A security man at the airport started me thinking. He had a good face, bit of Steve Buscemi. Not handsome but characterful and kind somehow. I guessed that from just seeing him but when I got closer I could see he was making a lot of eye-contact with travellers, reassuring them with a little smile once he'd dealt with them.
It struck me that it's a kind of chicken-and-egg thing with people's faces - does your face actually 'betray' your character, or do people treat you a certain way (with suspicion, enthusiasm, hostility) because of your face and consequently that BECOMES your character?
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