Ugly selfies: I double dog dare you! π€ͺ
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I double dog dare you. Do it. You gotta do it. You gotta take the ugliest selfie of yourself ever. I was opening my camera. I don't even remember why now, but and inevitably, when the cameras rancing at you instead of away, and I'm like, oh, that was painful. But then I couldn't help myself, and I just heard making faces and taking photos, and I was like, I'm enjoying this healthy dose of laughter

Dewuan .
@FryedOreoΒ Β·Β 0:22
So I was at work, and I took some pictures, and I wanted to take them extremely up close to my face. I was going for some artistic effect. And, yeah, this is the end result. I will allow myself to be vulnerable here today

Georgie Dee
@GeorgieDeeΒ Β·Β 0:21
Okay. Christina you b****. Making us all vulnerable. Here we go. This is literally me right now. Woke up this morning, I just wake up like this. Man it's quite upfronting, isn't it? So always trying to make ourselves look beautiful. Dewuan you look fine. I tell you, to make it worse
Oh, thanks. Thanks for joining me. Dewuan. I knew if anyone would jump on this bandwagon, it would be you. Thank you for making yourself vulnerable alongside me and Dog, you ugly selfie. But frankly, I don't think you look ugly in it. You lost some weight. Thank you, Dewuan, for playing
What can I say? I gotta live up to the name. I'm loving it. And frankly, I do not think it's an ugly selfie. Man, if I could wake up looking that good. Yeah. Now I'm thinking maybe I have to try harder. I don't know exactly what that looks like yet. I might have to try snapping a few more photos. Thanks you for playing with me

Georgie Dee
@GeorgieDeeΒ Β·Β 2:26
The first time I did it, she sent me a voice message back, and she goes, george, don't ever send me a photo like that again. You look terrible. Stop it. And I replied to her and said, why does everything have to be perfect, mate? Why do we always have to look pretty all the time? Why can't we look awkward or weird or tired or sad or whatever? I mean, ugly is in the eyes of the beholder, right? Yeah
And even as I'm listening to you describe it's okay to look tired and so on, I have a few other photos of myself, selfies, that I've never posted anywhere because I thought, oh, look, I've got dark circles under my eyes, or oh, look, this or that. But you know what? That entire package, I talk all the time about the shiny bits of me shining and then the flaws being a part of me too, and that entire package

Lance Watson
@lwatsonjrΒ Β·Β 0:32
Secret plum. This was a great break from being erudite and proper all day long. Like, I just left. Just a bunch of things I had going on a Sunday and, you know, of course, my contacts. I have very few opportunities to just do something fun for fun's sake. And you're on. I'll take a dare any day, but thank you for this. This is fun. Hope to see some warnings. Crazy selfies. Take care

Georgie Dee
@GeorgieDeeΒ Β·Β 0:24
Lance. You look like a naughty wizard. You look like somebody from the Aladdin cast who's about to jump on a magic carpet and fly away. What a great light image. Isn't it funny how we think, oh, this will look awkward or ugly or whatever? I think you look like a mischievous magician. It's great
I can't stop laughing. I'm enjoying this so much. My cheeks hurt from smiling. It's too fun, right? Sometimes we just have to have to put down the seriousness. Embrace the silliness, the entire path package of what it means to be human. The ugly, the beautiful, the silly, the aerodynamic and everything in between. And I'm loving it. Thank you for your ugly selfie. Again, I don't think it's ugly

Debra Barb
@RumpelSoulSkinΒ Β·Β 0:54
Except for you, Dewuan. I'm just kidding. I just came across fried Oreo on Instagram today, actually, and saw your face for the first time. And I thought, wow, he's got a really nice voice and a really nice lance. And here's your ugly selfie, and it's also really nice. So all about perspective, everybody here. Awesome pictures. Great thread. Superhuman, not polished up. I love it
I'm sorry. Where is that second dog? I can't seem to find it. I just have to say, I love this. Sort of like there's like a glint of mischievousness in your eyes, like the sort of smile even though you're frowning. I love it. I'm loving it. And I'm loving that. This is also important conversation along with the silliness of the photos right. And the relativity of it all and the appreciating. Our humanness

Lindsey Morrison
@OwenWilsonsNozeΒ Β·Β 0:39
Ugly selfie time. Ugly selfie time. Yes, finally. By the way, I really don't know why my hand looks like abnormally small. I really I mean, I know if there's been room for Ridge, okay? And I'm nothing against any little person at all. I'm not a little person. I know that's been rumored. I'm 55, but yeah, my hand looks really small than that. I don't know

Dewuan .
@FryedOreoΒ Β·Β 1:13
But you've already spoiled I guess you spoiled it for everyone in terms of my Instagram. So there might be some other people here who are wondering why I never show my face or something. That's funny. But anyway, thanks for that. And I see your IG can I not make an ugly face to save my life? No, my face normal. It's ugly all on its own
I love it. We have our own theme song. Ugly Selfie time. Ugly Selfie Time. But I think you should be the official voice for the song. I'm loving it. And about this supposed small hand you know what? To me, it looks very different in the sense that it's like I don't know how to explain this

Debra Barb
@RumpelSoulSkinΒ Β·Β 1:45
Man, Fried Oreo. You don't even know how how funny this is because just a couple of nights ago, I was hanging out with a cousin who I've only seen twice in like the last 20 years of my life, probably maybe longer than that. He's kind of stressed about moving forward in his life and what he's going to do next in terms of a job and stuff like that. And not a big fan of being out and about amongst people

Wren .
@aBirdieOnaWireΒ Β·Β 0:37
It's ugly selfie time it's ugly selfie time it's time for us to share on Swell it's ugly selfie time I thought I would take Lindsay's Song and add to it a little bit. How fun is this thread? I'm just loving it. So my picture is I guess it's not so much ugly as much as it is unflattering, but it is kind of gross because my doggy Sylvie is trying to pick my nose with her tongue. So enjoy it's
I can practically feel that. I love it. She's got her own. If we're going to call it an ugly selfie, this should be more like and we're calling it ugly selfies. But none of these are ugly. Not even Sylvie looks ugly. She's very cute. I love this. Thank you. And thank you for adding to our theme song

Georgie Dee
@GeorgieDeeΒ Β·Β 0:40
Rumples, all skin. Debra barb. Which name would you like? Speaking of names, another piece of advice for your cousin is use a nom dee plume, aka otherwise known as and this is another, I suppose, barrier between you and the public that a lot of people use in audio, podcasting, social media, so that you feel like you've got a bit more distance and boundary. Yeah. Anyway, there's a tip from Georgie is that my real name? Who can say?
Okay. I'm loving this theme. Instead of collaborative storytelling, there should be a game where it's like collaborative songwriting and everyone just adds on to it. I would love to be a spectator of this. Please

Aaron Waldron, M.Div.
@aShamaninJournyΒ Β·Β 0:52
You know, quite frequently my iPhone likes to take pictures of me. Like, I'll grab it and my thumb goes to, you know, go somewhere on the screen and already there's, like, the picture button. It's weird. We're starting to think that it was a glitch, but now we're starting to believe that our iPhone is doing this on purpose. And the other day, it caught this f****** selfie of me
Has not I have not seen an ugly photo yet in this thread. I am loving this. You sort of have this look on your face like you've been caught caught in the act. Like whatever that act might be. But here, hearing the rest of the story made me think of, like it's like a facet of the multidimensionality that is you is trying to get your attention. And so there's this inadvertent photo snapped. And it's kind of like that facet

Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkRΒ Β·Β 0:07
Hey, Christina. So I'm gonna do my very best, and I challenge you guys to beat me

Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkRΒ Β·Β 0:11
Here's another. No wonder I look at my reflection and I don't recognize myself. If I were you, I wouldn't recognize me either

Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkRΒ Β·Β 0:09
Man. These are terrible, terrible photographs. Terrible. Deleting them off my phone, man

Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkRΒ Β·Β 0:13
Man. I don't know what is wrong with me in this photo. I've been you know, I was on holiday. I sunny myself, eating well, swimming meditating. And this is the result I get
He fun, me dying over here. The second one with the almost looks like there's a fish eye lens. And then, like, the way the the lights on the wall are positioned behind you, it's as if you've got, like, these tiny, little intense oh, my goodness. I'm loving these. Loving these
To leaving them off their phone. Your phone, only to post them publicly. I'm loving this

Debra Lynn
@betterasapΒ Β·Β 0:12
Oh, my gosh. I'm laying on the floor because my back hurting and it's the perfect angle to take the ugliest selfie made me giggle. Yellow a great one
What? Where is the ugly selfie? I do not see it. You've inspired me, though. Between you laying down and me looking down at I'm sorry. You laying down and looking up at the camera, me looking down at the camera, and whatever other angles might be, be appropriate. Instead of creating content about how to take the best selfie photo, there should be content on how to take the worst one

Regan Ridling
@reganΒ Β·Β 0:27
This is so funny. I'm so glad you posted this. This is great. Being vulnerable like this every now and then is awesome. And I feel like this is a really safe space for us all to be vulnerable and post ourselves not at our best, but this is great. I love it. I will do it for you because you ask very nicely. But I wouldn't do this for just anyone. So here you go
Thank you so much. Thank you. You've sort of had this, like, angelic glow about you, but also, like, there's a lot of action and excitement. It just makes me feel I'm loving it. They thank you so much for honoring me with your ugly selfie, which is not ugly either, but thank you. Bye
Tanishi Singhal
@iamtanishiΒ Β·Β 0:26
AHA, I tried this there. And, yeah, I kind of feel confident, and I feel like, yeah, I look beautiful. And I personally feel that no one is ugly. We should do we should just look at the innermost, inner self of person, like how the person behaves or act with people and everything. So, yeah, here's my ugly selfie. And I did that there. Thank you
I could not agree more. It looks like you almost have this smile in your eyes. I keep second guessing myself, but it almost looks like you're smiling no matter what your face is doing. There's like, this smile that's leaking from your eyes. I love it. And I love the stickers behind you. They kind of look like they might be glow in the dark, which makes them even cooler. And I just have to say I like it

Binati Sheth
@Binati_ShethΒ Β·Β 0:31
I took one titled I Really, Really Want to Sleep to the point where my head is lowering, but then I can't sleep because I have work to do. So I'm going to have to hold my head up and do a a tonk poppy because I really want to be a snake and bite everyone. So there you go. That's my selfie. And I really love yours. And I really like this idea. It is so fun. There you go, sharing it
I think that every ugly selfie they should go in quotes now, quote unquote ugly selfie. Because none of these are ugly. They're all so fabulous. I think all of them should come with a title like that. I like the imagery that you create with your words. Plus the image. It's perfection. I'm loving it

Tim Ereneta
@TimΒ Β·Β 0:34
Bridge. Sometimes you really want to take an unflattering portrait, okay? So I think you have to not only find find a pose for your face that is unflattering. I think you also have the wrong lighting, and I think it helps to have the wrong angle to just ruin what the concept of selfie should be. So here's my submission
Okay. I find this fascinating on multiple levels. I realize I have a degree of face blindness, but I'm looking at this photo and I'm like, that is not Tim. Who is that? I'm like, all you did was change the angle and the lighting and but for whatever reason, I'm like, I have no idea who that is. I'm fascinated by the weirdness of my brain. I'm fascinated by how much lighting and angle play into these things

Karen Kimberly Pickering
@AbsolutePhenomΒ Β·Β 0:14
Okay. Christina I found this to be a challenge. I worked on this for a long time, and I don't know putting yourself out there, man. Okay. I got to do it. I just gotta do it. Here goes. Here goes. Oh, my God. Here goes
It was scary, right? But for whatever reason, like, the laughter kept me in it. Otherwise you would have never seen my photo. But I love yours because you took me back to memories and I was over here attempting to make fishy faces, which haven't done in a very long time. I just wanted to say thank you for that, and I'm glad that you decided to barrel through that challenge and join in the fun. Thank you

Karen Kimberly Pickering
@AbsolutePhenomΒ Β·Β 0:47
And then I'm like, okay, I can do it. I did actually, though, wait until I had at least my hair, because it was pretty bad when I was doing the initial battle inside here. And, of course, I'm a cartoon in my brain, so this was just really fun. Want to do more of this?
I don't really post photos to, but we have these ideas of what goes on those platforms, right, and catching the right angle and the right lighting and everything. And it would be fun to sort of break that up and start a trend of ugly selfies. But I think that visceral feeling is so strong, it would be really hard to counter it because there's no real pay off. I mean, for me, I was taking the photos myself, for myself, and I was laughing
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