The other week I was looking at Lou Doillon's Instagram feed and I thought to myself, "Damn, baby girl's selfie game is on point!" While some people (including Sarah Palin) have had their fill of 2013's "Word of the Year" and will tell you that there's no such thing as a good one, I beg to differ—and Doillon's off-the-cuff self-portraits are part of the reason I'm holding out hope for the...um, art form? The singer/model/actress is on the road a lot and often selfies (I verbed it!) from the back of a car, seemingly as much for her own gratification as yours or mine. It helps that she has wicked awesome hair and is French and I'm jealous of her.
I got to thinking about the different kinds of pictures one might take of oneself and the qualities that make them particularly good or bad. I've compiled the below list to help us visualize three common specimens in the genus "selfie", each with its own merits—or lack thereof.
There are of course other types of selfies, like group selfies, #OOTD/#WIWT selfies and even, some might argue, the "DP" or "dick pic" (which can be broadened to include "belfies"—butt selfies—or really anything Kim Kardashian does on the internet), but the three listed here sufficiently illustrate my point, which is that at the end of the day it's all about loving yourself (and you loving myself, too).
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