If you are an
expert in blowing smoke
rings, you can advance to the next level of the smoking art. While blowing
a heart-shaped smoke ring is a minor variation of the traditional smoke ring,
you may need extensive training before your desired results will be achieved.
This trick can be used to impress friends but will require a lot of practice.
It requires precise mouth and tongue movements and shapes. Practice by yourself
until you are confident you can perform the trick in public. This will also
require a calm indoor setting to perform, because any wind or air movement will
prevent the heart shape from forming.
There are several
methods to blow heart-shaped rings, and we will present them in the brief
tutorial below.
Standard Method
1. Puff on the
cigarette until you have a mouthful of smoke. Close your mouth and lips. Pull
the back of your tongue as far back into your throat as possible. The tip of
your tongue will now be about half an inch away from your teeth.
2. Slowly open your
mouth, jaw and lips to form an "O" shape at the lips. Lift the center
of your bottom lip up higher than the sides of your bottom lip. Adjust your top
lip to create a triangle shape with right and left sides at a 45-degree angle
and the center of your top lip forming a point. This requires a lot of lip
dexterity and flexibility. Note that some people find this totally impossible to hold
properly the middle of the bottom lip upwards with no assistance. If that is a case for you, you can try using
one of your fingers to press your bottom lip in the described position.
3. Curl the top of
your tongue so it is touching the bottom of your mouth and the center of your
tongue is almost touching the roof of your mouth. Slide your tongue forward
with the tip sliding against the bottom of your mouth. The air from your mouth
will be gently pushed out and force the smoke through your heart-shaped lips,
forming the heart-shaped smoke ring.
Reversed Heart
The small variation
of the standard method includes holding the middle of your top lip downwards (instead
of holding your middle of your bottom lip) for the similar effect, except your
heart shaped smoke rings will be upside-down.
Heart of Green
To apply the
technique, you need to be able to blow consistently thick smoke
rings, while there should not be even a minimal air movement in the room. After
you blow a ring, snap your fingers exactly above the ring. By that, you are
trying to make a minor air disturbance to the desired direction. The little
wind above the ring should push a top part of the “O” ring slightly down. The
trick is quite complicated, and you should expect that it will not work each
time you try.
Toothpick Heart
This approach also
requires from you to get a steady professionally performed smoke rings. Take a
strong puff of tobacco, drawing a lot of smoke. After you remove the hose from
your mouth, stick a toothpick between your two front teeth, so that it can
stand on its own. Use standard smoke ring procedure and the toothpick should
cause an indentation in the top of the ring, giving it the appearance of a
rounded heart.
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