Selfie Obsession: Stop the Duck Faces Please, You’re Gorg Without It

Selfie Obsession: Stop the Duck Faces Please, You’re Gorg Without It

Selfie obsession! Either you’re one of the offenders or one of the many, many, may people tired of the selfie takers. While not hair related, the selfie obsession and in particular, the duck faces on young teens and preteens, are the prime topics for this Monday’s Ask the Pro Stylist Hair Police issue.

Happy Monday, and what an absolutely gorgeous day it is here on Long Island (finally)! The Hair Police usually starts the week of Ask the Pro Stylist columns, and this week we’d like to discuss the selfie obsession, especially with 13-year-old girls posing exactly like the Mona Lisa meme above, which was found on Pinterest.

So, here is what irks me about that particular pose.  It isn’t a kiss, it isn’t cool, nor is it sexy. Actually, if you are 13, sorry, you aren’t sexy. You are beautiful and pure, and natural, all the things us older women wish we were again, so don’t rush to grow up.

The word sexy means: to be sexually attractive or exciting, or sexually aroused. Let’s face it, if a man or a woman finds you sexy at the young age of 13, that only means he or she is a pedophile, PERIOD. Teens of that age shouldn’t find you sexy either, because, THEY SHOULDN’T BE HAVING SEX, YOU AREN’T EMOTIONALLY READY!

Selfie Obsession: Duck Faces aren’t Sexy (click to enlarge)

Thankfully I have boys, but they too have fallen victim to the selfie obsession, which I try to monitor daily and have them remove their random photos of NOTHING. The topic really came to the forefront when I recently wrote an article about the selfie and dating, and also during a drive on the Belt Parkway her in New York.

While driving on the Belt on a recent trek into Alphabet City, it too happened to be a beautiful day. There was a young male driver in the left lane with his vehicle’s top down. He was driving erratically. Why: Because, he was trying to take a selfie of his hair blowing in the wind on a beautiful sunny day on the parkway. Thankfully, traffic was moving slowly, and no one was hurt from an accident he COULD have caused. We are in New York baby, so we pulled up alongside this selfie obsessed driver and yelled at him to put his phone down while he was driving.

Everyone has a story of selfie obsession. We see people in the middle of Manhattan stop in the crosswalk to take selfies, or on the subway, for no apparent reason. Selfie posts inundate Facebook and Instagram, showing off God knows what.

Yes, I have been guilty of a selfie here and there, but it is generally to mark an occasion, and if the picture comes out OK, I will post it to make it a profile picture, because the one I have might be dated. I am aging, and my photos will age with me.

Studies are now underway to try and classify the selfie obsession as a mental disorder, or at the very least, understand the behavior. Listen, having a cell phone with a camera is a Godsend. It lessens the burden of carrying extra weight on vacations, holidays, or special occasions, and even that moment that you wish you caught on camera could now be captured forever. However, the randomness and the duck faces truly need to be curtailed. Whoever is lying to you needs to stop, otherwise there wouldn’t be countless memes making fun of the duck faces and selfie obsession. Smile, be yourself, and you will be beautiful! Correction, you are BEAUTIFUL!

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