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1Maintain eye contact.
2Pull your eyebrows down.
3Squint slightly.
4Push your chin up and out.
5Snarl your lips.
6Flare your nostrils.
7Experiment with combining these facial expressions.
8Wear red.
9Use makeup.
10Accentuate your brows.
11Maintain a confident posture.
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If you want to make yourself look more intimidating, an evil glare gets the message across that you don't like someone or are annoyed without saying a word. There are a variety of different facial expressions you will have to master in order to achieve the perfect evil glare. There are also some simple tricks you can use to make yourself look more assertive as you glare.
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Maintain eye contact.
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Pull your eyebrows down.
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Engaging your eyebrows helps exaggerate your look. Pull your eyebrows down and together slightly as you glare. The more exaggerated this is, the angrier you will look.[3]
- Reader Poll: We asked 1290 wikiHow readers who read body language, and only 9% of them agreed that the best sign of anger is furrowed eyebrows. [Take Poll] However, when accompanied by other physical reactions like flaring your nostrils, this can help signal aggression.
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Squint slightly.
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You may find that your eyes naturally squint when your pull your eyebrows down. If you don't think your squint is visible enough, do it consciously, as a squint has long been associated with the "evil eye."[4]
- Squinting too much will make you look like you're trying to read a sign from far away, so keep it subtle.
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Push your chin up and out.
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Snarl your lips.
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The snarl is a very clear nonverbal sign of anger. In order to achieve this look, pull your lips together to make them look thinner, and pull both your mouth and your cheekbones up slightly.[5]
- Be sure to pull your entire mouth up. Pulling just the corners up will read as a smile, which is not desirable in this case, unless you want the person you are glaring at to know that you are just being playful.
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Flare your nostrils.
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Experiment with combining these facial expressions.
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Try making all of these adjustments to your facial expression at once. Depending on the exact kind of evil you're going for, you may want to experiment with using all of these facial expressions or just a few. Research has found that when a face displays just one of the characteristics of an "angry face," it is interpreted as strong and assertive, but not angry.[7]
- If you want to look assertive and maybe even menacing, but not necessarily angry, try incorporating just one or two of the adjustments into your facial expression.
- Practice your expression in front of a mirror to determine which level of anger is appropriate for your needs.
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Wear red.
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Use makeup.
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Use heavy eye makeup and contour your cheeks to enhance your look. To get an evil look, take a cue from some of your favorite television and movie villains. It's easy to get a beautiful yet menacing look with some simple makeup tricks.[9]
- A black and gold smokey eye with cat eye liner is perfect. To get this look, apply gold shadow to your lids and black shadow to your creases, blending the two together. Then line your upper lid with black liquid eye liner. Use gold eyeliner above your black eyeliner, around the inner corner of your eye, and under your lower lash line. Make sure all of your eye shadow and liner extends beyond the external corner of your eyelid into a wing for the perfect cat eyed look.
- A matte red lip is the perfect complement to your evil smokey eye.
- Apply blush to your cheekbones and a darker contouring color under your cheekbones.
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Accentuate your brows.
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The shape of your eyebrows can dramatically change your facial expression. It's actually very easy to tweak their shape. If you want a slightly angrier, more aggressive look, try using an eyebrow pencil to exaggerate your arches. You should aim for a subtle point at the highest part of your brow.[10]
- Be careful not to overdo your arch to the point that your eyebrows look fake.
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Maintain a confident posture.
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People interpret good posture as a sign of confidence. You definitely want to appear confident while executing your evil glare, so be sure to stand (or sit) with your shoulders back and your head held high.[11]
- Think about how much impact your evil glare will lose if you don't look confident while doing it! Your facial expressions will all be for naught if you don't have the confident body language to back them up.
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What should I do if someone eats my Doritos?
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Stop them from eating them if you can. If they already ate them it would be a good time to practice your evil glare.
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My crush glares at me, should I glare back?
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Sure, if you think he's doing it to be funny or playful. If he's really angry or doesn't like you, I wouldn't encourage it.
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How do we glare more "coldly" instead of more anger-based?
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Stick your chin up. Frown slightly, but not too much. Widen your eyes a little bit. This is how you can glare more coldly.
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Glares come in different flavors, like ice cream. You should try different glares that match different situations, like if you're annoyed, in disbelief, etc.
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You might come across as unfriendly, lose friends, and get on people's nerves if all you do is glare!
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