She pointed out that the beauty industry is fixated on eyebrows at the moment, with gels, pomades, pencils and even a temporary tattoo, all of which give eyebrows an extra oomph. “It’s very much about the eyebrow,” Ms. Oni-Orisan said. “That’s what makes or breaks everything.”
For Mr. Morris, it is also about the eyebrow, but in a different sense. “There’s this scar on my eyebrow that I like a lot,” he said. Ms. Wells spends a lot of her time behind the camera, but she, too, has a favored side. “I have a dimple on one side of my face,” Ms. Wells said. “Subconsciously, that’s what I want the focus on.”
For many people who know their good side, facing a certain way in photos has become part of their muscle memory. Problems arise, though, when it is time to pair up or group together.
“Sometimes, we make a sacrifice and take a bad shot for our friends, but that’s not usually the case,” Ms. Andrews said. “We’ll often end up not taking the picture at all. Or we’ll turn around and look back with our hair covering the bad side.”
“If I’m solo, my best side comes first,” Ms. Oni-Orisan said. “If it’s a group photo and we’re celebrating someone’s birthday, they’ll take precedence because it’s about them. It’s not my best side, but I’ll sacrifice that for the celebrant.”
It may seem obsessive or silly, but for those who know Instagram and other social-media platforms well, the desire to control your image down to the smallest-seeming things is expected. After all, nothing on social media is truly representative of reality.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/style/what-is-mariahs-good-side.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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