Meme.

[helbling]

So, here's a new meme, and something of a carry on from my last post, because I've had a couple of people get in touch and say they have exactly the same problem of internal image != what photos show them.

And this is me flailingly trying to help.

If I'm someone you know from IRL (or if you're someone I know from cyberspace and post lots of photos), comment on this post and I will tell you what I think you look like in my head. Without referring to photos. Without looking at any notes. I will tell you what my mental image is of you.

If you feel so inclined, feel free to steal this for your journal.

Comments

[dantarian.livejournal.com]

Also interested, as photos of me rarely match my own mental image of myself.

[helbling.livejournal.com]

-Tall. I know you're not actually *that* much taller than me, but in my head, you very much are, which amuses me, because I know a few people who ARE an awful lot taller than me, and for the most part, I see them as of a height to myself.
- You and Judith are very much a matched pair, in that you both have good hair, and good skin, although your hair is closer to blonde than hers; skin tones, you're both the same smooth tawny hint-of-olive.
- You have a...stillness? about you. It's how you hold yourself - you are very much a picture of calm and considered movement, very graceful and smooth and generally very still, right up until the moment you need to move, at which point you are easy efficiency of motion. Which shouldn't make an impact on a static picture in my head, but it does.
- Voicewise, you're on the same woody-brown spectrum as Peter, but you're shifted into a kind of golden colour, while he is very definitely brown. Your laugh is similar to how a brass section looks.
-Classically handsome. Whereas I've said people previously are classically attractive, handsome is a different thing - I don't know how else to describe it, but that's how the layout of your features is in my head.
- HATS.