Botox and plastic surgery deactivate facial muscles, making micro-expressions harder to read but not impossible. Vanessa Van Edwards explains what to watch instead: eye closure and mouth movement. She uses Kim Kardashian as an example.
Someone who has Botox or plastic surgery, usually they can only make subtle micro expressions. So it means you have to be really closely watching that person. Botox and plastic surgery makes it much harder to read micro expressions. The basic reason for this is we are deactivating some of the muscles in our face. The good news is we can still do it. Botox just means that we have to pay extra close attention. So you can see she's in full upset mode, but we don't see a lot of movement in her forehead or sides. But you can still see her eyes are almost closed in sadness. We don't want to see a lot. So when we cry or we're upset, well, even, like, we're talking like this, and we can't even handle it, and we're, like, closing our eyes, that's a sad cry, and that's because we're closing our eyes and we're rolling our mouth down so you can see that is exactly what Kim Kardashian is doing here. Plastic surgery, Botox, it doesn't stop us. It just makes us have to work a little bit harder.
