i don’t know what to do about my rbf

i was looking at off guard photos my boyfriend took of me and made a comment about my resting b**** face and not only did he confirm my suspicions but he joked that i had a “rare case of resting disgruntled face”. ngl this hurt my feelings a little bit but just as a disclaimer, he didn’t realise i was talking about it in a real/negative way and not as a neutral joke, and he tells me how beautiful i am every day so i didn’t take it to heart, im just worried about how it looks to other people.

so yeah, apparently my neutral expression is worse than i imagined. i don’t like my smile so when i intentionally smile at someone/in photos i do it closed mouth which i think makes me looks really smug but i can’t quite tell why. maybe because my smile is wonky?

i’m not sure what to do about it. i genuinely think im a friendly and approachable person, every time i make eye contact with a stranger i smile at them (but again, worried this looks smug) and i use my natural smile and laugh a lot during conversation, but my face in its resting position apparently makes me look actively mad about something, which im not :(

i don’t notice it when i look neutrally in a mirror or take a blank faced selfie, for some reason i only see it in candids taken by other people, so i don’t know how to practice a new resting face. any intentional replacement such as a slight smile etc again just looks smug to me, which i think is worse.

i haven’t really had any issues with my self esteem lately but im really starting to spiral over this lol. i hate the idea of a stranger walking past me and thinking im ugly AND mean, especially when the second one feels like something i should have more control over.