Want to look your best? Say cheese! Smiling makes you MORE attractive, study finds

Many female celebrities, like Victoria Beckham, are rarely caught on camera smiling, perhaps for fear of showing age-revealing laughter lines. But smiling for the camera could actually make you look more attractive, a study suggests. Researchers recruited 112 volunteers and presented them each with 80 pictures of people who either had a neutral expression or were slightly smiling. Asked to rate the faces for attractiveness, they gave higher scores to people who were smiling. Asked how they judged attractiveness, more of the study participants took into account someone's facial expression and whether they looked friendly than their clothing, hairstyle and level of grooming.