A #MajesticSealSelfie Might Inspire You to Take an Ugly Picture — and Even Post It

Leah Prinzivalli
Photo: @khloe.hill/Instagram
Photo: @khloe.hill/Instagram

Imagine if you could have back all the hours of your life you’ve spent editing selfies. A group of bloggers is working to remove the “perfect selfie” stigma by going deep in the opposite direction. They’re posting photos with all kinds of expressions and angles and calling it the #antiselfie campaign or a #majesticsealselfie.

Everyone knows that it takes dozens of selfies to get to the selfie. (Immediately followed by a camera roll purge to hide the evidence.) With that in mind, the premise of the campaign is simple. Take one of those would-be discarded selfies that might have you caught in a blink, showing an accidental double chin, or in some other pose you normally wouldn’t share. Then go ahead and (gasp) post it.

???????????? what a majestic seal. So I am always inspired by @selfloveclubb aka Milly aka poo-face and so I had to get involved with the anti selfie! ???? I love nothing more than a good laugh, taking the absolute piss out of myself and just enjoying life. It's too short to be serious am I right?! Just remember behind the perfect selfies, there's always an anti one ???? tag me and Milly (@selfloveclubb) in your anti selfies with the hashtag #majesticsealselfie ????❤️ #antiselfie #learntolaughatyourself

A post shared by Olivia ???? (@selfloveliv) on Mar 23, 2017 at 11:42am PDT

The photos gathered under the #majesticsealselfie campaign so far are funny, full of personality, and fully inspirational. Olivia Callaghan, who goes by @selfloveliv on social media, shared her photo with a simple call to “enjoy life.” That’s a plan we everyone can get behind. “[Life’s] too short to be serious, am I right?” she wrote.

#antiselfie getting in on the #majesticsealselfie because we all know behind every "perfect" selfie their is about 50 "imperfect" selfies…… @selfloveliv thanks for keeping it real ???????????? Love yourself no matter what face you are pulling or what angle you are at!!! #selfie #selflove #positivity #purplehair #bluehair #messyhair

A post shared by Khloe Hill (@khloe.hill) on Mar 25, 2017 at 7:57am PDT

Blogger Khloe Hill jumped on board, encouraging fans to “love yourself no matter what face you are pulling or what angle you are at.” Hill tells Yahoo Beauty it was a no-brainer to join the campaign. “I love it because I do always have more bad selfies than good ones,” she says. She’s right: In addition to its body positivity, this campaign is straight up practical.

I wanted to join some of the wonderful humans doing the #antiselfie and show another side of me that I wouldn't normally show through social media, or to many people really (except people I'm super close to). I always think that I have to look as attractive as possible, and in the past that's meant trying to reach society's standards of what's deemed normative and attractive. But not now!!! I'm fabulous just the way I am, and that includes the less serious, less typically attractive side of me. LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE #ANTISELFIE ???????????????????????????????????????? #majesticselfie #majesticsealselfie #loveyourself #selflove #learningtolaughatmyself #bodyconfidence

A post shared by Bee ????✨ (@beebodypositivex) on Mar 23, 2017 at 1:53pm PDT

“I’m fabulous just the way I am, and that includes the less serious, less typically attractive side of me,” wrote Bee, a body-positive blogger who joined in on the fun.

You surely have a few anti-selfies on your phone. Are you ready to share them?

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