Unusual talent - what it's like to read faces for a living
Every face is as unique and individual as the owner’s personality and character.
But despite our different appearances, we all express basic emotions from sadness to anger in similar ways.
And by taking a look at our face, Adrianne Carter knows exactly how are feeling at any given time.
Known as The Face Whisperer, she’s been studying facial expressions for 15 years and recently appeared on ITV’s This Morning talking about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s body language.
“I have always been interested in people from a very young age and trying to understand their behaviour and why they do what they do.
“I realised my talent when I my awareness grew, and I could tell how people were going to react or behave based on what their face was telling me,” Adrianne tells Weekend.
In 2010, she went to the University of California, Berkeley, and trained with Dr Erika Rosenberg in the Facial Action Coding System – this is a scientific method of coding facial movements.
“This is the highest accredited training in the world and I passed the final test in that same year.
“Many people learn about faces but don’t take the final test as it is a laborious process,” she explains.
Around the globe people speak in different native tongues and Adrianne, who lives in Lichfield, says the face is actually the closest thing we have to a universal language.
“Whether a person is born in Birmingham, Bolivia or even born blind we all have the seven same universal facial expressions for the following emotions – anger, fear, happiness, surprise, sadness, disgust and contempt.
“The trigger for the emotions is unique to each individual but the way it is displayed on the face is universal.
