Gemma Styles

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YOU ARE GORGEOUS AND YOUR SELFIES ARE LIARS

Selfies. It’s 2015, they’re in the dictionary and they’re not going anywhere. Show me yo’ duckface. Selfies get a lot of stick and are synonymous with narcissistic internet teenagers – I say lighten up! Not a new phenomenon, I distinctly remember craning a nine year old wrist around to try and take pictures of ourselves on one of those little polaroids that made your photos into stickers (my friend Chloe had one, tiny little cool kid).

Thanks to the wonders of modern technology a.k.a. the front camera there’s no need for this kind of contortion. IMHO we should make selfies a shining salute to independence. ‘Want me to take a picture of you?’ 'NO THANKS NO HELP REQUIRED. I GOT THIS.’

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