The Good Thing About a Bless Your Heart Face

Hello folks, and welcome back to the porch of All Things Southern! Have a seat and let’s chat…~smile~

If you’ve been wondering why you aren’t in management, I may have an answer for you. I don’t know how I missed this, but back in November the folks at Harvard Business Review published important work on what leads some people to develop effective leadership skills. Are you ready? It helps to have asymmetrical features or what one article called unlucky features. I’m pretty sure “unlucky features” is Harvard’s way of saying “bless your heart.”

While this seems to negate conventional wisdom that beautiful people are born on third, the experts say no, it just means the rest of us have figured out how to balance the scales. Their thinking is that people with these bless your heart features develop greater empathy and social skills as a way of overcoming our “unlucky features”. Are you confused? Let me help. It’s possible that this big honking nose I inherited from mama’s side has aided me in my work here at All Things Southern. No, really.

Of course, I share other tricks with my fellow belles that Harvard hasn’t even touched. I dare say it will be up to me to solve these. For instance, for reasons that may or may not be genetic, when I tilt my head sideways I think my nose gets smaller. My poor photographer friend bore the brunt of this strange phenomenon the last time I had professional pictures taken. “Hold your head straight,” Stephanie would say. And I would try, I mean I really would, and I would succeed, right up and until the very last millisecond. Slant. Click. “SHELLIE!!!” Oops.

Right now, I’m leaning toward our head tilt magnets as a possible explanation. My research shows that belles are born with them. Put two belles in the crosshairs of any camera lens and their heads will instantly bond at the temples. After countless hours of research and observation I have developed a theory on why we do this: We think we’re cuter that way. If you need evidence, take a trip through Facebook, but remember I don’t start these trends. I just celebrate ‘em.

Hugs,
Shellie