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The Secrets Behind a Confident Smile

Are you envious of women that smile freely? Wish you had a confident smile? Envy people that share photos of themselves with huge smiles on their faces? You’re certainly not alone. Many of us are self-conscious about our smiles. We try to change them, smiling with our mouths closed or covering our mouths. We try to avoid eating in public or laughing freely to hide our Teeth. When you are self-conscious about your smile, you are always aware of it, and so, even when you are happy it can appear uncomfortable and insincere. You might feel awkward, and you could come across as untrustworthy. The good news is, most of those women that you envy have at some point worried about how they look when they are smiling. The difference is, they’ve found and practiced the secrets behind a confident and winning smile. Here’s a look at some of them. Straight Teeth One of the biggest worries that we have about our smiles is how straight our teeth are. Smiles look better when there’s a row of straight white teeth beaming out at us. Straight teeth didn’t used to be that easy to achieve. Your options were making the most of what you’d got, or committing to a long, and sometimes painful time with metal braces glued to your teeth to move them into alignment. Nowadays, clear aligners like these from Aligner32 make braces more convenient, discreet, easy to wear and remove, and often, more affordable and less painful. If your teeth are wonky, you don’t have to make do. Excellent Oral Hygiene There are two elements to that row of straight, white teeth. Alignment, and colour or cleanliness. When we have whiter teeth, our smile shows the world that we practice good oral hygiene and look after ourselves. It makes a great impression. If you want a confident smile, whiter, cleaner teeth, and fresher breath are certainly something to think about. Make sure you are brushing and flossing and using the correct products. Then start to time yourself when you brush. Most people find that two minutes is a lot longer than they think it is. If you are worried about staining, or that your habits aren’t making a difference, speak to your dentist for some advice. Lip Care Of course, your teeth aren’t the only element of your smile. Your lips are also crucial. In winter, your lips might easily become dry and cracked. You might worry about how your lips look, and if they are badly cracked, you might even find smiling quite painful. Care for your lips by drinking lots of water to keep them hydrated, using a sugar scrub to remove dead skin, exfoliate, and boost circulation, and then giving them extra hydration with a nourishing lip balm or lipstick. Facial Exercises If you’ve spent time avoiding smiling your face might not be used to it. You might find that smiling makes your muscles ache, or even shake, so you feel more self-conscious about it. Facial exercises and massage can strengthen these muscles. But, perhaps the best way to make a smile feel more natural is to practice it. Practice your smile at home in front of a mirror, smile for photographs and selfies, and remind yourself to smile when you are in company. The more you do it, the more natural and automatic it will become. Positive Mood Smiling makes us feel happier and cheers up the people around us, but of course, it works the other way around too. You will smile more freely and more confidently if you are happy, and if you spend time with people who are happy, confident, and smile a lot. Finding ways to boost your mood, practicing self-care, spending time on hobbies that you love and with people who are very positive and make you laugh, will give you far more reasons to smile, and fewer reasons to worry about it. Confidence Looking after your teeth is a great way to boost your confidence and feel better about your smile. But your smile might not be the only thing that’s holding you back. Self-confidence can be very fragile. It’s often easy to knock, but very hard to build. If you are struggling with your self-confidence, ask yourself why. Is there negativity in your life that holds you back, or pulls you down? Are there negative people? Is there something that you are worried about at work? Finding ways to boost your confidence will certainly mean that you smile more. There are many secrets behind a confident smile, and often the key is self-assessment. Think about why you don’t like your smile, or why you don’t do it as often as you’d like. When you’ve worked out what it is that’s holding you back, you can start to make changes towards growing a confident and happy smile that you never need to think twice about.

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