I dunno, I kind of suspect it's not Part of Yourself but it's a Smile For The Camera smile. That's why it doesn't reach your eyes. (we've ALL seen such as Sears family photos where it looks like the photographer said "everybody grimace!!") Instead, you're widening your eyes ... perhaps actively resisting the smile's natural tendency to cause a little bit of a squint? But yeah, deer in the headlights eyes on a smile is a little unnatural, and might be an artifact of your posing. Do you look like that in candids?Viktor77 wrote:The smile is part of myself, I can't get rid of it. I'd welcome advice on Smiling 101 but it would need to be IRL or via webcam.
As for the smile itself, I can't help but notice that you always seem to resist letting the smile spread all the way to the edges of your mouth. You show your teeth from top to bottom but pinch it in from side to side, like someone drew the shape of a lemon or the dairy queen logo: