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Question:How can i make myself cry on cue
(or when im upset in real life.
Sounds stupid but sometimes even if im upset i cant cry!!)

What should my face look like?
(eg. eye brows up, nostrils.........blah)


Please give ways to CRY!!!


12 points to detail and explanations!!!!

Thanks :)


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: How can i make myself cry on cue
(or when im upset in real life.
Sounds stupid but sometimes even if im upset i cant cry!!)

What should my face look like?
(eg. eye brows up, nostrils.........blah)


Please give ways to CRY!!!


12 points to detail and explanations!!!!

Thanks :)

If you want to simulate an authentic sobbing sound trying laughing hysterically (high pitched) and silent convulsions. If you want a more gradual transition try keeping your eyes wide open, looking around frantically, and holding your breath for short bursts at a time (as if you are fighting back the tears). If you have a speaking part, try hyperventilating as you deliver the lines, as if you are losing control and composure. This should make your eyes water and should give you the time needed to contort your face to one of anguish, by quivering the lower lip, flaring the nostrils and looking morose. Don't cover the face continually, but occasionally run your hand down your forehead, nose and chin, while emitting two gentle sobs. If you want to lay it on really thick, and have to deliver a line, think of what you would sound like if you were trying to say something while hysterically laughing, ie: you start and stop, you breathe erratically and heavily, and you make no eye contact, your voice fluctuatates in pitch and in tone....

Good luck squeezing out those tears...

Think of the saddest moment in your life, or make up something that is incredibly sad to you, and the tears will flow naturally. Don't worry about your face, the genuine sad expression will come naturally.

Sniff onions, lol, always works for me. If ur not too bad with pain, poke urself in the eye, works everytime. lol or you could try carrying round a little bottle of lemon juice with you whenever u need to cry, pu a drop in ur eye and off ya go

Miss, to help you could peel an onion.

Go shopping and get hold of some horseradish - not the sauce in the jar but the actual root vegetable. Blend some of that, take a sniff and brace yourself!

Punch yourself, kick yourself, stab yourself, drink hot sauce, put your hand in boiling water, break up with your boyfriend, or just go to toys R us.

ok here's how i do it. and dont get me wrong it is NOT easy. when i am really crying i look in the mirror (tacky, but u see what you look like) i see what i look like and take mental notes. when i fake cry i use that, i flare my nostrils, think of the worst thoughts i can possibly imagine, and i found out that not blinking for a while helps tears come out. i continue until my face is all red and i start to see tears. thats all you really have to do, but it isnt easy, i took me like a full month to perfect thhis.