By Vurdlak on May 21, 2006, with 196 Comments
What do you see? Is it a profile of a young and beautiful lady, or do you see an old wich with huge and ugly nose? I usually focus more on the young ladies ;)
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I’m not seeing the young women :S, please point them out to me :D
The part which is the old woman’s nose is the young woman’s jaw. Her head is turned away from you. The old woman’s left eye is her ear, and the old woman’s mouth is the young one’s necklace. The tiny lump that looks like the old woman’s wart on her nose is the nose of the young woman.
Strange thing this one. We’ve been watching it at school (a loooong time ago! :D), and there were only 3 of the 28 students who saw them both without the teacher pointing them out.
Once focussed on one of them, it’s pretty hard to spot the other one.
Hugz&Stuff, A12
I think you mean old ‘hag’?
wow first i saw the young one then it took me a reallly long time to see the old lady!!
Saw the young lady first, but then my eyes focussed on the old hag and now I can’t make out the young lady at all. Im confused, someone please help!
i see both
w-i-T-c-h not wich
if she was a hag where is the wrinkels or did she get a face lift
BEN! the young lady is looking at the sky DUH!
Great, but easy illusion. It took me a while to notice the old hags face which was the young ladies neck and head. I obviously noticed the young lady first :)
THE OLD LADYS NOSE IS THE YOUNG LADYS CHIN. THE YOUNG LADYS NECKLACE IS THE OLD LADYS MOUTH. THE YOUNG LADYS EAR IS THE OLD LADYS EYE.
ive seen this one so much.lol is gets old!
ha ha .
At first I couldnt see the onld lady but now i can and i cant find the young lady again :s
it is cool. it reminds me of a poster in the MRT train station in singapore a few years back.
I don’t get it
i see both
a bear is giving birth to a lady lmao
takes a whole to see the old hag
umm…ok….to be honest i saw the young lady first. If you see an old hag and can’t see the young one then the old hag’s bent nose is the young one’s jaw and her right eye is the young woman’s ear…keep postin more of these wierd ones LUVIN IT
i saw both but i’ve seen this so many times anyway… somebody once told me there’s an animal in this picture too, but i can’t find it. can anyone see one?
I see an old bag and a young person
haha this is funny because i can see both and im just switching back and forth with the old women and hag ha. i’ve seen this one before.
haha. i saw the young lady first. i couldn’t see the old lady. i thought u people were crazy at first lol. cause it took me like 5 minutes 2 see the old lady.
its really easy
the old lady’s nose is the young lady’s chin
I remember this picture from graduate school. Good times, good times.
I LOVE this picture!
I think this was the first optical illusion I ever saw and it toally got me hooked!
I can’t see the old lady!!! HELP!!!
I cant see the old lady either i only the young woman
I saw the young woman with a cut on her neck then realised the cut was the mouth of the old hag
i’ve seen this before
but it still amazes me
the first time i saw it
i only saw the young lady
until a friend of mine pointed out the old one
if you still can’t see it:
the young lady is looking away, you can only see the eyelash which is both young and old lady’s left eye
then the young lady’s nose is the old lady’s pimple oe whatever
the yound lady’s ear is the old lady’s right eye
the young lady’s chin is the old lady’s big nose
the young lady’s red necklace is the old lady’s mouth
the young lady’s neck [below the necklace] is the old lady’s big chin
THEY SHARE THE SAME HAIR AND COAT AND WHITE THINGY ON HAIR
well…hope i helped and didn’t make it more confusing(:
This is a really cool illusion. I can see both of them XD!!!!!!!!!!
OH MY GOD!! I finally found the old woman! Oh my god, I was soooooo confused before but now I FINALLY see the old hag!
yeah its cool, for those who are having trouble to switching between the two, look at the picture, then close ur right eye and look at the picture using just ur left eye…and then change eyes, look at it using just ur right eye, each time switching eyes, focus on a different point of the middle-ish area of the picture. this will help ur mind ‘re-see’ the pic and give u a better chance at easily switching between the old lady..and young lady – :)
i hsd to take my glasses off to see the old witch
The old woman is hard to see!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! help!!!!!!!!
it took forever to see the old woman!
“Real life” version of this illusion. lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a91eiu_eer4
didnt see the old woman until someone here posted where the nose an such was and even then it took some focusing to see it
i always saw the yong woman it took me forever to see the old lady. you have to focus very hard.
wow a clasic that i havent seen since grade school. I felt like silent bob trying to figure out the 3D picture in the mall :-) It took me forever! It wasn’t untill I read the young lady’s ear is the old lady’s right eye
the young lady’s chin is the old lady’s big nose that i was able to get it.
HOLY CRAP
it took me like 15 mins of staring at this to find the old ladys face!
IVE FINALLY FOUND IT xD
YAY
I can see both now
difficult but extremely werid
Both. its creepy and cool
omg i see it that is a good illusion i took a while to figure it out it is a really smrt thing
I googled this pic. because i remember seeing it on an apple jacks box growing up. I stared at this for over 5 minutes only seeing the yound lady. the the old woman just appeared. not i cant find the young lady again. lol
Here’s a tip for seeing the young woman.
Look at the bottom of the picture and focus on the small black part between the two brown parts of the old woman’s coat or hair or whatever it is.
Then imagine that black part is a shirt and use your peripheral vision to imagin the old woman’s mouth as the necklace on the young girl’s neck. The young woman should appear and she has her head turned so that you can’t really see her face.
The wart on the old woman’s nose is the very tip of the young woman’s nose protruding just past her jaw which is the old woman’s nose.
The young woman is looking away from you. If you turn your head about 20 degrees to your left, then you’ll be looking in the same direction as her.
Once you look back at the center of the picture you’ll probably see the old woman again.
Call her an older woman, not old witch or old hag.
do not get htis
OMG! This is the first time I saw the old hag! She’s so ugly!
i have used this picture on a number of occassions in groups and usually there is a 50/50 split who sees young or old. But I just discovered all who see old = dominant left eye and all who saw young = dominant right eye. Any comments?????
now this is an illusion, i saw both of them, i saw the young woman first then i started staring harder to find the old hag. key = young ladies neck red line is old ladies mouth lol
I remember this optical illusion back in the 70′s because it was used in art class at my High School and maybe in another subject. I wanted to show a girlfriend when we where talking about perception and I saw the young women right away and it took me awhile to see the “old hag”. I suppose this means I am young at heart and beauty and young can live on forever. As far as right/left hemisphere of the brain, I can not comment of that at the moment.
ewwwwwwwwwwww
What human on earth looks like this old woman?
OMG!!!!! That is neat! At first I only saw the pretty young lady it took me a while to see the witch LOL!
when i first saw this 2 years ago, i swear i couldn’t find the old lady!!!
but now tht i see her, she is UGLY
same xP
omg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It took me FOREVER to find the young lady!!!
i cant find the young lady! :(
oh nvm i got it hahah
wow, I seriously thought I would never find the old lady… but now that I finally did I don’t see how I missed it before. lol
i found both of em, the young lady has the brown hair with the white hood and to find the old lady rotate the image 90 degrees clockwis and the chin beomes the nose and the little red necklace thing becomes the mouth and the white becomes her hair
Well done, it took me forever to see the young lady probably because of that daft necklace
you dont even have to rotate it, my bad
anyone could explain in a perception way? I got a TOK presentation and I def need help++
OMG I CANT FIND THE HAG i saw this 2 yrs ago and i found both now i dont it sucs
wait i was looking and didnt submit yet and i see it
This is how first close ur right the stare rlly hard at the young womans ear the chin line is part of the old ladies nose and the neck is part or the old ladies chin
i really cant see anying where and how are you suppose yo look.
i need help i cant find the old lady!
wheres the old hag
OMG i felt like an idiot i was trying for ages to find the girl.. she looks all hentai
thanks for the hint, i would never find the young lady :)
OMG. It just popped right out in front of me, after some time of observing. O_O
damn , i saw the young girl for a second , and then i read the .`can u spot the young girl` and started only seeing the old lady , now i cant find the young one , lmao , wtf , where is the young girl ? :D
Damn! I saw the old woman at the beginning and then lost her, now i can only see the young girl.
i cant see the girl
Can’t see the young lady at all, just the old woman.
i saw the old hag first then the young lady,
the hags nose isnt the young ladys chin (people saying that confused me) its her jaw line. The red mouth of the hag is supposed to be a stripe necklace thing
also
-hag has a big face that takes up most of the space
-young lady has a really small head that happens to be looking away
(old hags eyes is the young ladies ears)
hope this helped people
Do you know the experiment connected with this paint?The hypothesis of this experiment is that if people think positively or even romantically before loking at this picture they will be more likely to see the young woman than the old witch.
I only found the young lady because I read that the key is that her neck is the mouth of the ugly woman..omg I couldn’t find her no matter what I tried.. pretty tough illusion
tip: If you want to find the old hag, look at the red stripe, which is her mouth, and the young lady’s ear beings the old hags eye.
If you want to find the young lady, focus on the little dot on the crooked nose of the old lady, which are the young lady’s eyelashes.