How To Draw Heart Shaped Hands
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HAND gestures can be vulgar, but recently a demure, loving one has risen to popularity. To make it, curl the index fingers on both hands with the thumbs pointing down and join them to make a heart shape. Two people can make it together: a human version of those best-friends-forever lockets that break apart to be shared.
The "hand heart," as it is known, has been flashed by young stars galore, including Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Victoria Justice, Blake Lively, Jordin Sparks and an "American Idol" contestant vying for votes.
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Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Steven Tyler, Jennie Garth, Wynonna Judd, Channing Tatum, Usher, Kylie Minogue and Janet Jackson have all been photographed making the gesture.
Advertisers have taken note: it has appeared in campaigns for LensCrafters and the clothing line Miss Me. A hand heart with the top fingers splayed apart like wings, however, was removed from a Virginia tourism ad after revelations that it was a symbol of the Gangster Disciples.
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An intact hand heart is displayed during the credits of the reality show "Ice Loves Coco" and described ("you held you hands up / and they formed a heart in the air") in a song, "I Corinthians 13:8-10," by the indie rock band the Mountain Goats.
The hand heart is popular in the rave scene where tiggerlovesyou.com chronicles young people enthusiastically hand-hearting. Armin van Buuren, the popular Dutch D.J., has been known to do it during his live sets.
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"The heart-hand symbol means something between 'I love you' and 'thank you,' " the country singer Taylor Swift said in an e-mail from her "Speak Now" tour. "It's just a sweet, simple message that you can deliver without saying a word." She added that she started doing it in pictures and out car windows during high school.
"At the end of my sophomore year, I left school and went out on a radio tour to play free show after free show," Ms. Swift wrote. "I was an unknown act playing shows night after night, and I was constantly trying out all kinds of different moves to try and get a response from the audience."
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One day during a festival, she said, she was in the middle of a song and decided to put her hands above her head in the heart shape. The crowd started doing it back and cheering.
The singer's fans feel so proprietary about the gesture that a debate erupted on an online fan discussion board when Lady Gaga made the hand heart.
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A commenter going by the moniker Longlivetaylor wrote that it was "like a code word almost, special to us swifties and now everyone is going to start doing so it won't feel special anymore."
But will it become as universally recognizable as, say, the peace sign? Patti Wood, a media coach and the author of "Success Signals: Understanding Body Language," called the hand heart a "trendy thing," likening it to when in years past celebrities like Goldie Hawn would make the hands-in-prayer namaste gesture.
"One performer or audience probably did it in an extraordinary performance," Ms. Wood said. "It used to take longer for nonverbal culture to move. But now, with smartphones, it's instant."
Regardless of its possible ephemerality, Ms. Swift still feels the power of the hand heart.
"When the moment is just right and the crowd is screaming louder than any sound I ever imagined I'd hear," she wrote. "I just want to tell them I love them over and over, but sometimes the simplest thing to do is to make a sign with your hands."
How To Draw Heart Shaped Hands
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/fashion/hand-heart-gesture-grows-in-popularity-noticed.html
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