The last time we caught up with Valeria Lukyanova, the woman who has become famous for her quest to look like Barbie, she was feuding with human Ken and saying some pretty offensive shit about feminism and "race-mixing." Now, Lykyanova has made headlines again by posting makeup free selfies.
Vice President Joe Biden posed for the absolute best selfie ever with President Barack Obama today. Then my heart melted, reconstituted, exploded, reconstituted again and then evaporated into a cloud of glitter and joy.
This is everything that is wrong with everything.
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Welcome back to Selfie Loathing, America's number one Vanity Smurf house of mirrors. Every Friday, we post celebrity Instagrams, without comment. This week: Anthony Bourdain won't do Pepto-Bismol commercials; Jared Leto sees colors; Jennifer Hudson saves a bird, LiLo's heading to party in the desert and so much more.…
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Forget the Mirror Selfie, the Belfie, and the After Sex Selfie. Get used to seeing the selfie taken in the proximity of or after a disaster.
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Selfies have caused Obama nothing but trouble, and now the White House is considering making snaps with the president strictly off-limits.
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Comedian Bill Murray stopped by The Late Show to take care of a few things on his bucket list and it was wonderful, hilarious and damn near perfect.
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Good job, Internet: The latest terrible trend in social media is #aftersex selfies, posted to Instagram. Nothing like a little post-coital bliss to break up the pet pics, brunch photos and vacation shots, I guess.
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Not to overload you with the content about the power of selfies to cure cancer, but there is apparently a trend sweeping the internet that involves nude men putting socks on their penises ala the Red Hot Chili Peppers to raise money for testicular and prostate cancers.
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Fresh off his very popular sneakers-in-supermarkets fashion show, Karl Lagerfeld, the expert on all things cool, has weighed in on selfies, being "sloppy" and tattoos.
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Bianca Bosker, a tech editor for the Huffington Post, received an email from the W Hotels in New York letting her know that for the low low price of $3,000 you can hire one of their Social Media Wedding Concierges to document your wedding on Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Shutterfly and even Vine.
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Thanks to ubiquitous camera phones, selfies—like 'em or loathe 'em—are now simply standard Internet operating procedure. No doubt *yours* are empowering and totally not irritating to your friends and followers. But it seems that, combined with something like body dysmorphic disorder, selfies can be more harm than help. …
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A regular selfie is so 2013. The new way to selfie is to wrap your face in tape and take a picture of your new grotesque and pained expression.
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A visitor at a museum in Milan, Italy broke the leg off of a statue while attempting to take a selfie.
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There's LITERALLY nothing worse than attempting to take a selfie of a large group. People get cut out, everyone has double chins and Kevin Spacey won't stop trying to push his big head into the center of the photo. If only there was a tool that could solve this! What? There's something called a monopod or "selfie stick"…
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So it's come to this. Clothing stores are now picking up on the hot new trend to self-portraiture and the age-old tenets of consumerism by installing iPads into changing rooms. So that customers can take selfies while they're trying on clothes, put filters on them, and send them to their friends. And at the helm of…
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If you're wondering what the American dream looks like in the age of social media, look no further than this Vanity Fair spread featuring Jen Selter, a woman who has made a viable career out of taking Instagrams of her butt.
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There's a boom in younger plastic surgery clients, and it's probably because they're taking pictures of themselves. Put the smartphones down, ladies.
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Selfies: officially over, now that this one has been taken. Everyone go home, no more selfies.
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Welcome back to Selfie Loathing, in which we watch what happens when stars turn the camera on themselves. Celebrity Instagrams, presented without comment. Enjoy.
