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Tyra Banks Releases New Smize Yourself! App, Makes Making Faces Even More Fun

November 16th, 2012 by Karen 19 Comments

Life lessons learned from watching America’s Next Top Model…

  1. If you think you can watch “just one episode” of that 8-hour Top Model marathon, fugghetabboutit.
  2. Don’t forget to “pop the hip.” (Side note: Miss J’s hip control? Off the chain!)
  3. And always, always remember to smile with your eyes.

Question: When can you tell that smiling with your eyes, or “smizing,” a term coined by model, TV show host and enterprising businesswoman Tyra Banks, has officially become a cultural phenomenon? Answer: when your 65-year-old mom calls to tell you that “you need to smize more often in your blog pictures.”

Well, can do, because smizing just got a whole lot easier. 🙂

Now, we can even smize ourselves on our phones!

Hello, is that fierceness calling?

Ty-Ty plans to smize you up, literally, with her latest venture, a new mobile phone app called Smize Yourself! (exclamation mark included).

On a Skype call with bloggers and reporters yesterday, Tyra described the $1.99 app, which launched last night (it’s available in the iTunes App Store now, but I’m not sure about Android availability).

You can smize an existing pic of yourself on your smartphone, or snap a new one with your phone’s camera. The app does the rest, turning you into an exaggerated smizing version of yourself.

Tyra provides an instructional video in the app on the finer points of smizing and rocks some seriously stunning smokey eyes.

When you’re ready to smize, take a pic of yourself, and listen as Tyra cheers you along with catwalk catchphrases like “Work!” and “Honey, you look fierce!” Wait for the app to automatically place eye and mouth points on your picture, and then adjust the location of the points to suit the shape of your face. When you’re ready, hit the “smize” button, and await your customized smize shot.



You can save your pics for posterity in a special smize album…

It’s just a little silly fun. But be warned: if your cat challenges you to a smize-off, you stand absolutely no chance. Cats will always win.

You can download the Smize Yourself! app now for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, and it’s available now for $1.99 in the iTunes App Store.

Beauty fun fact: Tyra’s a big fan of using Milk of Magnesia as a primer and calls it one of her secret weapons during her modeling days.

Tyra says that her first forays into smizing happened at home, and she credits her mom as being “the original smize-r.”

She says that her mom also copied the look of model Twiggy’s big lashes by drawing “twiggies,” or fake lashes, directly on Tyra’s bare skin. “Mom would do that to me in the house just for fun,” she says, “so that was my early smizing.” 🙂

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

P.S. TGIF!

Tyra Banks Releases New Smize Yourself! App, Makes Making Faces Even More Fun / Originally published November 16th, 2012

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  1. CrystalCandy says

    November 16th, 2012 at 11:36 am

    OMG I’m laughing so hard, the results are quite funny. lol

    You skyped with Tyra, SO jealous!! (and so happy for you)

    And don’t forget to booty tooch! Love that show 🙂
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    • Karen says

      November 16th, 2012 at 11:43 am

      Hi Crystal Candy,

      LOL, I’m booty tooching right now…

      I need Miss J to come over and give me some lessons, STAT.

      Hope you’re having a nice Friday so far. 🙂 Got any plans for the weekend?

      Reply
  2. Sunny says

    November 16th, 2012 at 11:44 am

    LOL this is so much fun! I’ve always liked her, and I agree that cats probably beat us mere mortals when it comes to smizing!

    Reply
    • Karen says

      November 16th, 2012 at 12:47 pm

      It’s really silly…but fun! I totally had a #catladymoment when I realized it worked on Tabs, hahaha!

      Reply
  3. Melitina says

    November 16th, 2012 at 12:34 pm

    AHAHAHAHA!!!! You crack me up!!!! Oh and Tabs looks extra fierce, it’s like he reveals his inner Tyra 😉

    Reply
    • Karen says

      November 16th, 2012 at 12:45 pm

      Hi Melitina,

      He was born to smize! 🙂 Hope you’re having a wonderful Friday!

      Reply
      • Christy Bonagua says

        November 16th, 2012 at 5:30 pm

        Nothing beats the (literally) cat eyes! 🙂

        Reply
  4. Jennifer says

    November 16th, 2012 at 1:25 pm

    OMG CLassic! I LOVE IT!
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    • Karen says

      November 16th, 2012 at 2:23 pm

      You can’t out-smize a cat. 🙂

      Happy Friday, Jennifer!

      Reply
  5. Becca @ The Beauty Sample says

    November 16th, 2012 at 1:34 pm

    Hahahhaha 😛 Fun!
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    • Karen says

      November 16th, 2012 at 3:58 pm

      So silly! Hope you’re having a nice Friday.

      Reply
  6. Marla says

    November 16th, 2012 at 2:21 pm

    That picture cracks me up!

    Reply
    • Karen says

      November 16th, 2012 at 3:59 pm

      It’s a little cray, but fun. 🙂

      Reply
  7. Hanna says

    November 16th, 2012 at 3:26 pm

    This is so funny!
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    • Karen says

      November 16th, 2012 at 4:00 pm

      It’s kinda random and silly…but still fun!

      Reply
  8. Christina says

    November 17th, 2012 at 9:02 am

    I am dyiiiiing over here at Tabs’s smizing.

    Reply
  9. Marilyn @ Lipgloss and Spandex says

    November 18th, 2012 at 3:09 pm

    The Smize app kind of scares me… I don’t think I’ll be downloading that 😉 Besides, Tabs TOTALLY would beat me in a SMIZE-off.

    Reply
  10. Astrid says

    November 19th, 2012 at 1:33 am

    OMG, NOOOOO…. But I have to agree, Tabs is rockin’ it 😀
    Astrid recently posted … I am Perfect and I Love It Too

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  11. Nina says

    November 19th, 2012 at 8:00 am

    Owkkayyy! LOL!

    Reply

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