Duck face!

[bernadettesmurf]

I know not a big deal and if I don't like it I don't have to look. BUT!!!! What is wrong with smiling???????

Received a lovely photo collage canvas of my dnephew, wife and 3dc. I have a wall in my dining room just for family photos, it's not everyone's cup of tea but I love it, every photo has dns wife pouting like a duck! Of course it will go up but I wish she was smiling instead of pouting!!!!

My husband’s cousin pulls the most ridiculous duck face pout on every picture. People tell him how ridiculous he looks but he still does it every time.

Oh God I hate this! My dd 24 is a pretty girl but she and her friends all do that stupid duck face in Facebook pictures.
Happily on holiday with me and things like that I have lots of her smiling.
I wish people knew how ridiculous it looks!

It does look silly I have to admit and i do wonder why people post such pictures when they look so much nicer smiling...but maybe they think they look better/sexier/face looks more defined etc when they are doing duck face?

Is her name Victoria??

I hate it. I also hate when people smile without showing their teeth, I think it's really unnatural

It's hard to look at, make some cringe.

Duck face is awful, but Huntawaymama some people are self conscious of their teeth, I am and don't smile with them

DH does that ridiculous two finger peace sign ✌🏻 in every photo like fucking Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr do. I hate it, we always shout at him but it's like he can't help it. It spoils every photo he's in.

I have a friend who does this too. I find it utterly bizarre.

I also hate when people smile without showing their teeth, I think it's really unnatural.

I’ve been criticised for this since childhood

Then I had children and, lo and behold, they both have silly grins too.

Haters gonna hate 🤷‍♀️

Pouting/duckface is ridiculous. I hate it! But @Huntawaymama why do you think people need to show their teeth? That's not necessarily a 'natural' smile! A natural smile is however you smile, surely? With or without teeth. My natural smile is definitely without teeth, unless I'm laughing. I'm very self conscious about smiling, and a naturally shy person, so a big 'toothy' smile would look ridiculous on me 🤷‍♀️. Each to their own.

Who would even want a photo collage canvas of their nephew, his wife and their 3 kids? What a bonkers gift to start with.

Ha yes duck face is awful, I have to agree. Though I also have a terrible smile and always seem to have a huge, Wallace and gromit style grin in every photo of me when I just think I'm smiling normally

I don't smile showing my teeth, it would look like I was grimacing. It would be very unnatural for me. Just a different shaped face/ mouth maybe? You'd think very differently if me if I smiled showing my teeth, it would be most odd :)

As for the ridiculous pout thing, yep. Agreed. They are going to be do embarrassed looking at these photos in 30 years time.

Clearly OP @TulipsInbloom1 "not everyone's cup of tea but I love it"

Dp's daughter, 11, has started to do this ....

My teen and her mates do a wide eyed surprised look on photos, slightly better than the duckface but still annoying

If her gob is full of filler she probably couldn't smile properly if she wanted to.

Duck face is awful, who is going to want to look at a load of photos all with duck face when they are older?

I am not a fan of any posed photo really, I think photos are best when taken in the moment so to speak. We have a couple of collages of the children and they are sort of snapshots of real life. I hate selfies in general but the duck face is ridiculous.

I find the tongue out selfie even more annoying. My young DN (11) does this and it looks horrible. Seems to be a thing with that age group.

I saw someone recently who'd had lip filler to giver her a permanent pout. Unfortunately, she couldn't properly close her lips.
I'm with you Op - just smile fgs.

As the dc get older I am noticing their friends are similar. You get all these happy smiling photos on their parents fb for years to be replaced by pouty teens who just look pissed off. I thought how awful it looked in all the christmas photos
My lot run from cameras so we didn't get any photos of them.

I also hate when people smile without showing their teeth, I think it's really unnatural.

When I smile naturally, my teeth don't show. That's the way my mouth is shaped.

I teach reception so I’m often photographing the children. Mostly it’s more candid shots when they are playing, but sometimes I’ll get them to hold up some work or a model they’ve made. Some children will do a duck face and pose for the picture. They are 4.