Marilyn's Photos - July 3 2025 - Eye Contact

 

There's been constant coverage of Anna Wintour retiring at 75.  The picture in all the articles is remarkable - she looks to be 50 years old.  The world of cosmetic surgery and medical interventions has fully arrived. She isn't wearing her signature dark glasses in the photos. Supposedly in her younger days, it was said that she wore dark glasses because she had bags and dark circles under her eyes.  Much later she said it was "to hide what she's thinking or feeling."   She wore sunglasses "since the beginning of her career"  or maybe it was in the 1990s, according to another writer.  How attached is she to her glasses? She was so attached that she wore them while telling the staff of the Pitchfork that they were all being fired. “One absolutely bizarro detail from this week is that Anna Wintour — seated indoors at a conference table — did not remove her sunglasses while she was telling us that we were about to get canned,” Allison Hussey, a former staff writer at Pitchfork, wrote on her X social media account."   Such a powerful person in the fashion news world, and so much attention on something other than her accomplishments. Maybe her "caricature" in the movie The Devil Wore Prada was truer to life than one would like.

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Mar 8 2022 - The Upside Down Smile

 

There was a lot of attention about smiles when we began to wear masks.  Smiles are the "big, kind of obvious way that we say, 'Not a threat'"   Not wonder we started to worry about being masked. One article says there are 10 types of smiles - reward smiles, affiliative smiles, dominance smiles, lying smiles, wistful, polite, flirtatious, embarrassed, Pan Am (forced, fake), and finally, Duchenne (genuine enjoyment) - the gold standard.   The articles point out that eyes also smile.  That's considered the Duchenne smile and referred to as  "smizing."  You can learn how to smile better with your eyes in this tutorial here.   I think the tutorial is on the creepy side - the person is Tyra Banks and she's  got so much makeup on her eyes that you can't help but stare at her.  She has various tutorials to teach levels of "smizing" if you are interested.  Once I found out about the types of smiles, it seems to me that her smiles are all variations of a 'dominant' and aggressive smile.  So that explains the creepy side of her smizing.  And what about the upside down smile - the one that has been scrambled - it is called the Thatcher Effect.  Most of find this one creepy - not the cute upside-down emoji face with a smile.       Here's the Donald Trump illusion in action - maybe this one isn't an illusion at all.     Finally, there's a site with a trivia quiz where the celebrity faces are mixed up and you have to guess who they are.  This comes from the website sporcle (4,380,331,550 quizzes played) HERE.

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