Mean or Happy?

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Reader called Daniel mailed me this black & white illusion. First I didn't get it, but after a while I found out it's great optical illusion indeed. It is real-life example of this multiple meaning illusion. Check the skinny grandma in the first photo. Instantly I presumed she was old based on her nasty mouth impression, or maybe was it because of the chin. After all, she may in fact be young, but with that mean and unsatisfied look on her face, I wouldn't believe someone young could be so grumpy. Now let's see the other photo (below the first one, inside this article). Wow! What a turn! She fooled us, didn't she? I bet she is actually great looking gal, knowing how to have fun and being happy. She must be laughing at us right now. If it's not much trouble, please comment if this illusion tricked you, or you guessed instantly what she did with her mouth? Thanks!







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  1. Blogger Sergio 

    damn, she trick me. cool illusion pic.

    Demonios, me engaƱooo. Excelente ilusion.

  2. Anonymous Cameron 

    I couldn't believe it but I figured out she was "eating" something!

  3. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Honestly I must say it is pretty weak. Nice try though, A for effort ans setup.

  4. Blogger bedazzled 

    What the?? I don't see anything other than a young woman poking her tongue out.

  5. Anonymous Anonymous 

    duh. its her tounge!

  6. Anonymous Anonymous 

    I don't get it...

  7. Anonymous Jesse 

    whoa, thats good... i never would have guessed...

  8. Anonymous Anonymous 

    that is kind of weak but I have to admit it did trick me! ^-^

  9. Blogger Joseph 

    So anyway, Vurdlak, do you ever see a comment and not let it through?

  10. Blogger Vurdlak 

    I see all the comments before they are approved. I reject only those that are cursin' and spammin' :)

    I publish negative opinion ones, cause I believe they can be right sometimes.

    Critics helps me make the site better ;)

  11. Blogger AcidRain64 

    My immediate understanding was that what I was seeing was a tongue, which resulted in me not even seeing the "mean" part of the illusion and so I was rather troubled trying to even "get" the illusion. Oh well, sorry!

  12. Blogger bedazzled 

    Ok I see it now, is that all!! It just wasn't obvious enough to me, I kept looking at her tongue as only a tongue and not an old skinny woman's chin. Anyway it wasn't as dramatic as I was expecting with all that build up lol

  13. Blogger PerfectPoodle 

    I see it!

  14. Blogger a.rose 

    i had to look closer to see the illusion... to me it just seemed like a chick sticking out her tongue, haha. cool pic tho.

  15. Anonymous Anonymous 

    I just thought it was a tongue from the beginning, there is no lower lip.

    Plus, the line down the center of the tongue (representing the "chin") is unnatural for a chin, as well as size of the chin.

    But it was fun to try and trick myself into believing it as a chin.

    If it was bigger, and possibly marked to make a lower lip, it would have been more convincing.

  16. Anonymous Anonymous 

    kool!

  17. Anonymous Anonymous 

    I saw a tongue:)

  18. Anonymous Anonymous 

    i really do not like this illusion at all. the previous ones were very interesting, however, this so called illusion is unconvincing!!!!!!!

  19. Anonymous Anonymous 

    OMGFGDSAF!

    lame.

  20. Anonymous Anonymous 

    it was stupid, it was obvious when i first looked at it that it was a young lady, not an old one.

  21. Anonymous Anonymous 

    I don't get it....

  22. Anonymous anthony 

    yeah, i guesssed a happy young lady.
    i didnt even see the "old lady" until you pointed it out to me. i guess we all see what we want to see.
    so do you often fantasize about older unhappy women???

  23. Anonymous KiiKiis 

    i dont understand!!!
    Where is the happy young lady and the unhappy old lady???

  24. Blogger Elisabetta 

    She didn't look old to me because of her hair, it's not an old woman's hair. But she did look angry in the first picture. The second one is funny, nice illusion :)

  25. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Nice =) keep up the good work!

  26. Blogger Dan 

    Hell, my first guess was she had something spherical pressed against her lower lip.


    you got me :3

  27. Anonymous Holland Girl 

    I don't understand it...Maybe its because I'm blond (?)

  28. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Wow..I definatley had NO idea that was her tongue...nice pic...tripped me out..

  29. Blogger Christine 

    I saw the girl sticking out her tongue, and I couldn't figure out why it was an optical illusion until you pointed it out, and then I saw the old grumpy lady.

  30. Anonymous Anonymous 

    THESE ILLUSIONS STINK

  31. Blogger Conrad 

    I think I recognize her from a porno

  32. Anonymous Anonymous 

    the illusion would have been better if her tongue and nose were cropped more. The first picture shows too much of her young nose

  33. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Like other people I automatically saw it was a tongue and didn't get it at first - after reading through other comments I took another look and had to squint a little but I got it. A little weak but still cool.

  34. Anonymous Ryan 

    1) She's sticking her chin out
    2) She's sticking her tounge out

  35. Anonymous Anonymous 

    At first she looked mean, but the chin did not look right, so I looked some more until I saw the tongue sticking out. Pretty Good!

  36. Anonymous Choi 

    Choi stick out tongue....ahhhh... no picture...hehe

  37. Anonymous Anonymous 

    She Got Me I Thought She Was An Old Lady With Maybe Dip Or Somthing In Her Mouth!!!

  38. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Yeah She Got Me. I thought it was an old lady with dip or somthing in her mouth

  39. Anonymous MAX 

    hmm, i thought it was a tongue at the beginning. :)

  40. Blogger indy 

    :(
    Where's the old lady? All I saw was a girl with pretty hair sticking her tongue out... I guess my imagination sucks

  41. Blogger Craig 

    I thought it was someone with a big fat lip!!!

  42. Anonymous Anonymous 

    very cool...it tricked me!

  43. Anonymous Bubblez 

    its a pretty good pic i have to admit... but i saw the young lady sticking her tongue out... i didnt notice the old women until i read the reasoning.. i guess you only see wat your looking for...

  44. Anonymous Anonymous 

    eh, the first one just kind of looks like some lady with a big lower lip

  45. Blogger Svetlana 

    Im sorry but this looked really obvious to me,she was just showing her tongue. I was thinking what grandma are you talking about. But funny enough when I looked closely I have realized that it might look like an old lady,but the hair is hair of a young person.

    I like your site a lot.

  46. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Wow! I just thought she was pulling her bottom lip in! She fooled me! That's Awesome!

  47. Anonymous Anonymous 

    i didnt really get the words above the pic [i suppose its an explanaion]. therefore i didnt get it, but i figured it out and it tricked me! i was stunned that I had been tricked!

  48. Anonymous Anonymous 

    i agree with some one ele, weak, lame, what else can i say? but i give u a F for effffffort! losers

  49. Anonymous Anonymous 

    I thought she was crying(a young girl indeed), keeping in the tears, with putting in her bottom lip.

  50. Anonymous Anonymous 

    I admit it took some imagination to see an angry face. I know facial messurements very well having studied art for many years and having been a portrait sketch artist so the "chin" took some imagination, but I didn't think it was a toungue, but couldn't see it as a chin either. I mean, the mandrel is thicker in most people regardless. It still grabbed me and had me sucked in. I enjoyed it as one I had to think about more than the actual illusion value.. Overall, great! But illusion? eh....I guess..why not? LOL

  51. Anonymous Beanz 

    That is so kewl! I never would have guessed...

  52. Anonymous Antiko 

    She sticks her tongue out, cause it's very useful if you have glossitis :)

  53. Anonymous Anonymous 

    I know I'm going to sound full of myself but at first glance I knew it was a tongue. Then I started reading your article and you started saying it was actually her chin so I got kind of confused. But then, they aren't many chins like that, unless you're talking about the Muppets.

  54. Anonymous Elliexx ANIMALS ROCK!! 

    i thought there was something rong with her chin in the first pic!! kl illusion

  55. Anonymous Anonymous 

    it tricked me

  56. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Well I got right away that it was a girl sticking her tonge out. It took me a while to even understand the illusion because I knew what it was from the start.

  57. Anonymous Anonymous 

    ooooooh! that waz kewl!

  58. Anonymous Anonymous 

    in the first pic look at it sideways and it looks like a chin instead of a tounge




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