What to do
- Push your lips forward into a pout.
- Draw your cheeks in. (The app does not measure the cheeks.)
- Tip your chin down a little: about 7°, anywhere from 3° to 12°.
- Narrow your eyes: 6 to 22% narrower than at rest.
- No smile, lips closed.
- Fix your eyes on the lens and do not let go.
Where it comes from
- Blue Steel is the signature face of the male model Derek Zoolander in the film Zoolander (2001): pursed lips and sucked-in cheeks, with the eyes fixed on the camera (Blue Steel, Dictionary.com).
Practise it live
Open How I Land and choose “Blue Steel” under “Celebrity look”. Your camera shows your face with the look drawn on it, and one instruction at a time tells you what to move. When it fits, hold it for five seconds.
Free. Nothing is recorded, stored or sent.
It copies a famous face; it is not a first-impression benchmark. No one named here made or endorsed the app.