My face, My emotions

  “Shawty smile, you’re too beautiful too be so angry”. The resting "bitch" face as they call it today is a huge issue in my life. I have a natural straight face when I am just chilling in my zone. It is not meant to be disrespectful or seem as if I have an attitude it is just my normal face. I believe most girls in the world deal with this issue on a daily. The fact that men mainly believe that we are supposed to have a smile plastered on our face 24/7. Working around different types of people on a daily I constantly get told that I’m too pretty too not have a smile on my face or that I look like I have an attitude. That pisses me off because you are basically insulting me assuming I’m angry when I’m just chilling in my zone. When men believe putting their two cents in about the way my face looks it causes me to give the worst reaction because who are you to tell me to smile, how are you going to tell me I have an attitude I have an attitude.

         

 Tatyana Fazlalizadeh series Stop Telling Women to Smile really inspired my project. I felt connected with her images, I have seen a couple around where I live that caught my attention. Her project consist of portraits of women who she have talked to that encountered street harassment. The portraits are pasted on to posters with text that is inspired by the subject.

I choose the Rugrats characters to represent myself because people tend to say I remind them of these too characters because of my hair and attitude. Putting words around the images are words I heard every day. Other than that I had to state my position “is my natural face upsetting you”. Like why do people get so bother because I’m not smiling how I am effecting your life honestly. People put way too much energy into someone else’s natural face when it is never that deep.