February 6, 2025

Wipe that smile off your face.

"Why are you doing your mouth like that? Someone needs to tell you to stop."
@bethwhitemusik

Do yall know what I’m talking about?

♬ original sound - Beth White

45 comments:

Peachy said...

Yes. yes!
and what is it with the puffy fake lips? You do not look good. mmmkay. You all look the same - clownish.

Kate said...

I mean, it's the fillers. They're not posing that way on purpose. They can't move their mouths.

SteveWe said...

It's the Taylor Swift look.

tcrosse said...

This is commonly known as Duck Face. There's even a Wikipedia entry about it.

RCOCEAN II said...

Only Supermodels can pull off duckface. Girls: dont try this at home!

Ice Nine said...

The weird "come hither" smile. The puffy lips ("Just imagine what I can do with these lips, big boy.") Their butts stuck out with that bizarre spine curvature thing that makes them look like they have a severe orthopedic malady. It's all part of their CFM look. It's sexy, you know...It's like really sexy. Guys are really turned on by that...right?

Leslie Graves said...

Exhibit 9,153,254 that TikTok is a national treasure.

RideSpaceMountain said...

"CFM look"

Beat me to it, "the look they make when they see something about you they like."

J2 said...

Nicole Kidman.

Ann Althouse said...

I think it involves pressing the sides of your lips together in a smile while maintaining a slack parting of the central part of the lips. Perhaps this is achieved with a tight lip smile and then holding the sides closed while blowing out a little oval-shaped hole in the center. I think people who pose for a lot of photos — celebrities and selfie takers — work to craft a smile and then they do that smile every time.

Ann Althouse said...

Does the smile express sexual desire? It's a smile for no one. It's not a natural expression. It's more yoga for the mouth. You have to contort your way into it. Reminds me a little of the smile-looking expression a baby gets when it's shitting.

The Vault Dweller said...

Duck Face is something different. Duck Face has the lips pursed together and sticking out a bit. The face she is talking about has the lips a little bit apart with a slight smile but not enough to get big noticeable smile lines. Duck Face. Duck Face became common in selfies from young women and girls back when everyone started getting smart phones. The face this woman is talking about is newer and something that started making the rounds a maybe a few years ago.

Paddy O said...

I'm doing my mouth like that because I have a bad cold and can't breathe out my nose

Narr said...

The real pros can fold their teeth back.

Paddy O said...

I call it the Napoleon Dynamite look

Jamie said...

I like "yoga for the mouth" very much indeed.

Jersey Fled said...

I’m told that puffy fake lips are in.

Jersey Fled said...

Get well soon Paddy.

RideSpaceMountain said...

"Reminds me a little of the smile-looking expression a baby gets when it's shitting."

It wouldn't surprise me that a lot of time spent practicing this look is spent on the toilet.

rhhardin said...

Julia Roberts did duckface in Runaway Bride as an apology to a girlfriend.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Maybe an anti wrinkle strategery?

Bill Crawford said...

Thought it was a platypus face

Blair said...

Most silly things that women do with their faces involve simulating sexual arousal... makeup, lipstick, duckface...

Mary Beth said...

Like a snake? The reptile people are real!

Kit Carson said...

they might be copying Major Samantha Carter from SG-1. she was doing that a lot 15 yrs ago. and looked real good doing it. and smart.

baghdadbob said...

While we're discussing lip looks, what's the deal with the pencil-thin black liner some women wear on their upper lip (e.g. one of the Kardashians)? It gives off a mustache vibe.

Wince said...

Kind of an open mouth version of the Kaitlin Collins "Resting Joker Face"?

https://x.com/OldRobocop/status/1288261398129074176

Paddy O said...

Thank you! Working at just that today

Iman said...

Went to a party the other night
Long tall Sally was out of sight
Threw 'way her wig, and stuck out her ass
She was doin' a dance dat has no class
She was cheek clappin', she was cheek clappin'
She was cheek clappin', she was cheek clappin'

Iman said...

I prefer teh Vertical Smile! 😀

Tom T. said...

When my 20-year-old niece friended me on Facebook, I started getting friend suggestions involving a lot of young girls with duckface profile pictures. (I did not friend any of them).

Anthony said...

No, no, no. Well, whatever she's doing in the video, I don't know. The rest of it is. . . .Magnum. Or Blue Steel. Or Le Tigre.

RideSpaceMountain said...

"Kind of an open mouth version of the Kaitlin Collins "Resting Joker Face"?"

Kaitlin Collins strikes me as the kind of woman that would hire a gigolo, and not for the faux-intimacy. Her high-T face belies an appetite that's very no nonsense. Kaitlin demands you get down to business, and you'd better be huge.

Prof. M. Drout said...

Duck Face was something middle-school girls invented so as not to be called "ugly" by other middle-school girls: If you were making a duck face and someone insulted you, your answer was "I'm making a duck face, stupid." I'm sure an anthropologist or sociologist could give you a name for that kind of deflective behavior.
This new thing isn't duck face; it's weirder.

wsw said...

You can hear the vocal-fry Uptalk.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

On the other hand (not to the face) it’s their face and they are going to wear it the way they want to. We can always just not seek them out. Just saying.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

I didn’t care for the bushy eyelashes when they showed up, again , but now I’ve warmed up to them, there’s so much of them. I just can’t get enough. I’m drowning. Welp!

Prof. M. Drout said...

Vocal fry and uptalk among college-age women seem to have peaked in 2017 and have now almost completely disappeared. Obviously we have the covid-response disaster in between, but I think it was already on it's way out. Current college women actually make fun of the uptalking when they hear older women do it, and they don't even know what "creaky voice" is unless you demonstrate it for them.
So not everything is worse. . .

JK Brown said...

Oh, that's easy. They all went to the same plastic surgery group where the doctors like that look on their creations.

Paddy O said...

Smiling is my favorite

rhhardin said...

There's always the vertical smile.

Kirk Parker said...

Paddy O:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wW4OIJSobvQ

JAORE said...

Sometimes the simplest solution is correct. Many of these women are what we used to refer to as mouth breathers.

SteveWe said...

What is that horizontal line between the upper lip and the nose that is commonly seen on women over 50?

typingtalker said...

Dimples!