Can you Spot an Old Woman & a Young Girl in 20 secs?

Can you Spot an Old Woman & a Young Girl in 20 secs?

This anonymous German postcard is from 1888. It is a famous perceptual illusion in which the brain switches between seeing a young girl and an old woman. This fascinating illustration has two answers. Some folks, upon glancing at the drawing, immediately see a young woman. Others instantly know that it’s an illustration of an old woman. Both the interpretations are right. You can see the image of a young girl and an old woman too with different angles.

If you see the young woman: look at the young woman's chin and think of it as a large nose, and look at the young woman's ear and think of it as an eye. If you see the old woman: look at the old woman's nose, and think of it as the left cheek of a face looking away from you, and look at the old woman's eye and think of it as an ear on a face looking away from you. Let’s first look at the image of the young girl in this optical illusion:

Now, if you look at the red outline in the above image, you will see the other angle of the drawing showcasing the face of an old woman. By looking closely at the image you will see a profile of an older woman with a stooped face bending downwards and her face, and nose is comparatively bigger.

If you look at the red outline in the above image, you can see a young girl looking away over her left shoulder, with a bow hat and its lace flowing behind her.