Face Mask : Unleashing that beauty within!

The ability to communicate using facial features amongst us humans is intriguing. For instance, the full blown smile comprises of baring the pearlies which is in turn combined with a little pull behind of the ears and a slight tightening of the throat muscles. This is usually a picture of Happy or Joy or some version of a positive emotion. It is also an analogy we take for granted. It is intriguing because baring of teeth amongst the primates, from whom we have evolved, has usually been associated with submission or aggression (teeth together or teeth apart). The human smile has apparently evolved from the former. To put it more bluntly, an expression of recognising someones superiority in relation to us has developed over eons into a normally accepted sign of happiness or kinship. Interesting.

Add to this fact that humans have almost complete control over our facial expressions (musculature) that allows us to indicate a permutation and combination of other emotional states that go with a smile: embarrassment, fear, contentment, politeness, dominance etc. And while the smile is just an example, we could extend the context to a variety of other expressions such as anger, fear, disgust, surprise, sadness etc , layering them with the any number of other facial expressions using the eye, eyebrow, nose etc and there you have it- a full blown theatre performance, literally on…