Look at Kim Kardashiasn’s facial expression. She is sitting on Santa’s lap and is supposed to be happy. But her facial expression says something entirely different. While her lips are parted and teeth are teeth showing to indicate a smile, there is something odd about the lip area as there is no muscle movement seen. When you smile, there is muscle movement in the lower jaw and at the side of the lips .
In this photo taken earlier in Kim’s life, you can see what I am talking about. There is a slight lower jaw tension and lines at the sides. The naso-labial folds course downwards as they should be. She looks natural and engaging.
But now there is none of that.In addition absolutely no other facial movement in her Santa photo. Her upper face is essentially frozen in a manaquin like position.
In a normal genuine smile there would be a crinkling of the forehead and definite crinkling around the eyes or some slight wrinkling under the eyes. But in the Santa photo you see none of that which makes her look wax-like. While she is pretty, there is an unnatural non-human quality to the look.
Asa body language expert it is disturbing , because you cannot read anything from Kim’s face other than BOTOX. I am not sure Kim has used botox as I haven’t seen anyone shoot it into her face. But in my view, it sure looks like she has been heavy on the syringe lately.
Personally I find the natural look (wrinkles and crinkles) more beautiful in people. There is nothing wrong with plastic surgery or enhancing your appearance in my view. But there is a lot wrong when it interferes with your nonverbal facial communication.
The repercussions are that people tend to turn off to you and they don’t relate to you. Facial expression and body movement are essential for good communication, especially of you want to relate to others. That is why I am not a fan of Botox.
Back in the day, Botox was used on patients who had vocal cord problems and muscle spams in the vocal cords where they could not speak without loosing their voices mid sentences. In that case Botox was a good thing.
It has also been used with cerebral palsy patients to release the muscle constrictions. In fact, I know of a prson who has cerebral pasley who uses Botox for this purpose and it is now difficult to tell if she has Cerebral Palsey as the Botox helped her previously uncontrolled head movement.
But when too much Botox is used to eliminate facial activity it is a bad thing in my view. While Kim’s wedding was a joke as you could tell it was not genuine from her body language, fans have rebelled. They have even called to boycott Kim and the Kardashians all together. But perhaps they may be rebelling against Kim in particular for an additional reason as well. Perhaps they can no longer relate to Kim. Perhaps they find her lack of facial animation unrelatable and a turn off.
Her monotone, nasal, non animated voice matches her now matches non animated face and that is a very bad thing in terms of image, like ability and relate-ability.
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