I don’t know about you but for some reason nowadays, it seems like if you like to wear nice clothes and makeup, people assume you’re a stuck up bitch.

I once had one of my friends sit on the other side of the room from me, and when I called her out on it, she said she didn’t know it was me and I just looked like a bitch from behind. Thanks, man.

Now it's my ‘destiny’ to make people smile.

1: Because I like when people make me smile

2: Because I’m going to single handily end the stigma of pretty girls being stuck up

Just kidding.

But here’s my effort on the subject.

SMILE

When I catch people looking at me, they often do the awkward look away really fast like they weren’t completely just doing their look over of me, but every so often they won’t look away and I’ll smile at them. It is literally that simple. Okay, I don’t do a smile that makes my chin turn into a buddha's belly, but a little manual face lift. & 9 times out of ten they’ll smile back. Whatttt? Crazy, right?

HOLD THE DOOR

The other day I was leaving the Chinese buffet for my weekly sabo tosh of myself and I held the door for a little girl and her mom, who were about 5 steps away. The mom smiled and said thank you. The little girl could not get over how nice it was of me to hold the door for her, she kept excitingly saying “that girl is so nice! she held the door for me!” I didn’t realize holding the door could make a little human so happy, I did it because it's polite, but also because I was 5 pounds heavier and needed a small break before I continued to my car.

COMPLIMENT

You’ll have to actually talk to people for this one, but it's probably the most effective way to make a stranger smile. Especially girl to girl. It seems like all girls are competitions with each other, I don’t know what for, but I guess we hate each other? I don’t know, it’s pretty easy to give a genuine compliment to someone. One day at work a nurse came down, and I had told her that my friend had been helped by her and she really thought you were the best nurse she’s ever had. The nurse looked at me and said “what? me?!” I was like yeah, you! You're a good nurse, take pride in it! She talked to me the rest of the night, maybe because now she knew I was capable of not being a stuck up bitch?

HELP

I’m a CNA, so older people have a soft spot in my heart and when I see them struggling, I need to help. It’s in my blood. One day I saw a woman struggling to get down some stairs, so I offered her my arm, and she gladly took it. When we got to the bottom I thought she was going to hug me so hard she’d have to help me.

WARNING: some people actually get really angry when you ask if they need help, so approach with caution.

If you go to a party a really great way to make a stranger smile is just yell "who wants to be in my profile picture!" You'll probably end up with 12 new "best friends" that you don't remember in the morning or a lot of annoyed people. Could go either way, but its worth a try.

There is a lot more you can do to make a stranger smile, but I encourage you to go out and find them out for yourself.

Oh and also, notice how in all of the tips I didn’t say go brag about how good of a person you are on social media. No one likes that person, don’t be that person.

MRN