We love Lara Stone, but this is one trend we will hate! According to a news article:
Gap-toothed models were all over the runways at this season’s Paris Fashion Week. Instead of fixing their teeth, some of Hollywood’s freshest faces, including Anna Paquin and Elizabeth Moss, proudly sport a midline diastema, the dental term for the gap. And, last month, on “America’s Next Top Model,” host Tyra Banks sent a 22-year-old contestant from Boise, Idaho, to the dentist to widen her gap. The beauty blogosphere has been buzzing ever since.
Men sport the gap, too, but culturally, there has always been a mystique about diastematic women. In Ghana, Namibia and Nigeria, a gap in women’s teeth is a sign of beauty and fertility, says Bernice Agyekwena, a Ghanaian journalist.
Experts in the fashion industry say the trend is due to people getting tired of seeing “perfection” all the time in fashion ads. Is there any way you would purposely separate your two front teeth? Keep in mind you may not be able to put them back together when the “trend” is over…
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Hell No
agreed
My girlfiend has been pointing out this trend to me for a while lol. We both hate it, its like thinking leprosy looks good, your teeth aren’t sposed to be that way, but then again I guess girls aren’t supposed to be anorexic skinny but thats the fashion :s
AdamHC…
Your comment “your teeth aren’t sposed to be that way” is quite silly and actually illustrates exactly why this trend has taken hold. How is anyone “supposed” or “sposed” to be? Especially with regards to beauty. Gap teeth are like dimples (inherited) and is a genetic trait – so is red hair…. Your comment regarding leprosy is not a good correlation.
If you don’t think it’s attractive, by all means, but gap teeth are not on par with leprosy – Leprosy’s never been “in.”
Great, now we’re gonna have a bunch of gap toothed followers parading the streets.
You best be trollin
HEY!!!!!!! watch these comments. I sport a gap (naturally) and I would NEVER close it. With that being said, if you were not born with it, don’t imitate it.
agree with you.
Yeah I’m a male and I sport a baby gap that has been given to me naturaly and I gotta admit it kinda gives me character just keep the grill clean!
YES finally, i think this is great. I have a gap. i think this makes me standout, and if you dont love maybe its a personal problem. cheers1
man i had my shit filled in middle school thank goodness. gaps work for some but not all and a majority of people fall in that latter category i dont give a fuck how super the model is.
this is ridiculous. tired of perfection… so they go to the doctor and make it imperfect by design as supposed to NATURAL imperfections (which is perfect in my book)
Amazing… where are we going with all of this?
LMFAO @ ‘you might not be able to put it back together when the trend is over’. Love THE LIFE FILES!
I think gap teeth on women look great, but I LOVE a gap toothed man. I am not alone there, either… hottest thing ever.