How to Sext with Tyra Banks' 'Smize' App

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So this exists: An app with which you can adjust your facial emotion in photos so that you're "smizing," a.k.a. smiling with your eyes. Tyra Banks created it, naturally, and it's called "Smize Yourself!" If all that isn't frightening enough, Mashable reports that users "receive training via Banks' voice-over narration," which Fashionista explains means Tyra yells things like "Your smize is cookin!" at you over and over again while you take pictures of yourself. The app then "sizzles your smize a new way every time" according to its description.

Perhaps the best part of all of this is Tyra's break down of various smizes. As she tells Mashable, "there are different smizes for every occasion." For example, subtle smizes are for LinkedIn profiles and men "should smize to the side." We're not sure what that means but it sounds painful. Last but not least, save your best smize for sexting situations because "sexiness is in the eyes." Noted.

Buy the app for $1.99 here.
· Tyra Banks Teaches You to Get Fierce in New 'Smize' App [Mashable, via Fashionista]
· This Man Is Not Masturbating for Marc Jacobs [Racked]