Who here knows which side is their good side?

Yo. But it's a part of my "career", so not surprising.

I don't photograph well. I swear my nose is twice as large in pictures as it is in the mirror, and the fact that I like big noses on other people doesn't reconcile me to my all-schnozz all-the-time pictures.

Yo. But it's a part of my "career", so not surprising.

When you landed on your face which side did you land on?

Yo.

How much better is it than your bad side? I watch Paris Hilton pose EXACTLY THE SAME WAY time after time and think she must look insanely bad from any other angle, since she sure doesn't look that good with her preferred one.

Huh. I thought the whole "good side" thing was a myth. People really have a "good" side? I like both my sides.

t edit Anyone who pipes up to tell me which side is my bad side? You die bloody.

Huh. I thought the whole "good side" thing was a myth. People really have a "good" side? I like both my sides.

You have a very symmetrical face. Rex Harrison's good side was so much better than his bad side that entire film productions were oriented around shooting him only from the good side. Same with Norma Shearer (though that had to do more with her slightly crossed eyes).

When you landed on your face which side did you land on?

My right, which was a remarkable act of perspicacity considering how tipsy I was.

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How much better is it than your bad side?

Not by much, although with the addition of the scar to the bad side, it's gone up a bit. It has to do with symmetry and how the features line up.

I watch Paris Hilton pose EXACTLY THE SAME WAY time after time and think she must look insanely bad from any other angle

She's fairly symmetrical, isn't she? I think she's just trying to look as gamine as possible.

Rex Harrison's good side was so much better than his bad side that entire film productions were oriented around shooting him only from the good side. Same with Norma Shearer (though that had to do more with her slightly crossed eyes).

For real? But....everyone I know looks good from either side.

I've never actually thought about it before, but it's got to be my right side. All my visible chicken pox scars, plus the scar from where I fell out of bed and hit the baseboard heater as a 2-year-old, are on the left, and my right eyebrow has a slightly better natural shape.

I thought the whole "good side" thing was a myth. People really have a "good" side?

While it is possible that all my pictures look as bad as those from that horrible INS angle, I refuse to consider them. They were consistently (and in the same way, if you see the semantic distinction) horrible to me, no matter who was taking them. Other pics I can dislike or like, but most of them don't horrify me the same way.

Of course, I never think of it when a camera's pointing at me, so it's not useful information.

I read something (I feel a google coming on) that Gael Garcia Bernal was purposefully filmed from different sides for one of his recent movies, because of the different effect each side gave.

I'll be back.