I have a confession to make. I took pictures after Jeff’s magical make-up tour (if you visit the story of my little button, please leave a comment). But they were self inflicted portraits. It was either that or have them taken by a 2 y/o. I took approximately 43 pictures of my face while standing at a mirror. Not one of them did Jeff justice. Not one of them did me justice. Not one of them could be cropped to NOT include my camera. I decided to make that post without pictures because I figured if I said I looked fabulous your brain would make me fabulous…maybe even more fabulous then I actually looked which is, well, fabulous.

Let’s assess my work:Alright, not bad for the first shot. I seem to be looking in the same direction as the camera through the mirror…I will re-adjust:
Adjustment made. But now my head is all twisted and what is with the smile? I’ll just take another to fix that:
Ya, switching sides with the camera did not help. Hmmmm…let me try this:
Much worse! What expression am I making and could I not figure out the camera was blocking my entire face. You can see the brows, but really.
OK, that just looks like a give up.
Better! The camera is a little close to the head to be cropped out. I will try that again with the camera farther away…
OMG. Did I move? Why am I now facing OUT of the picture? Let me try something radically different…
Experiment failed. Although it does straighten out any PRE-wrinkle tendencies. Here is my favorite picture, but hardly a ringing endorsement of Jeff and little button:
Maybe photography lessons are in order for my 2 y/o…



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33 Comments

  1. Awesome! Your brows, that is. Your self-portrait taking skills could definitely use some work!

    Just kidding! Great job all around! :0)

  2. I think you look pretty awesome. I myself have a bad habit of blaming the camera when I don’t look absolutely gorgeous in pictures – in my deluded mind they DO lie!

  3. I tried to take a self portrait once for a new hair cut, and found that if I stood infront of a mirror and held the camera backwards you can see in the mirror what your taking the picture of. It worked pretty good, but I never posted the picture because it looked more like a passport photo.
    Anyway, nice eyebrows!

  4. We MUST teach you how to take self-portraits. Forget the mirror, darling, and just hold the camera out in front of you pointing it in the general direction of your face. Click away and look for the one shot where you didn’t manage to capture your every nose hair or cut off your left ear. Or, just teach the 2-year old.

    The brows are f-a-b-u-l-o-u-s!