The Eyes Have It - The Art of Smiling through your Eyes 

Smiling through your eyes -smizing- is the key to a beautiful expressive portrait. It removes tension from the face and makes you look relaxed and confident in every shot.

Smizing, though not hard, requires practice to get it just the way you want it to look on you.   

Smizing requires you to smile through your eyes while keeping your mouth closed.

 As you smile through your eyes, it helps to think of something wonderful like your children, love of your life, animal or a fun time you had somewhere.

Some years ago, Tyra Banks began the smizing trend and shows you how it's done in this clip with Drew Barrymore.

Here too is a great article on the rudiments smizing by Scott R Kline -Headshot and Executive Portrait Photographer.