Fingermouthing: The bizarre new celebrity photo trend
FORGET the duck pout or the belfie. There’s a bizarre new Instagram pose sweeping the internet, and celebrities are very much into it.
FORGET the duck pout or the belfie, there’s a bizarre new Instagram pose sweeping the internet.
Get ready to — quite literally — try your hand at ‘fingermouthing’.
This unusual new photography stance isn’t as rude as it sounds — it just involves provocatively dangling your fingers in front of your mouth.
Popular with the selfie-loving Kardashian-Jenner clan — Kylie, Kendall, Kim and Khloe have all been seen giving it a go — the likes of Lily Allen and Bella Hadid have also posed in this seductive way.
Buzzfeed, which coined the term, says the pose is supposed to appear “careless” and “off-guard” but is actually “extremely calculated”.
They added it’s ideal for those who want to “show off your manicure in a selfie”.
Kylie, 18, told Elle UK that she started posing in this way because she felt insecure about her pillow-like lips.
She said: “I was so insecure about my lips. Even now I always post photos where my finger is always in front of my mouth … it’s a habit. I would always cover my lips.”
She added that at one point she “couldn’t even talk to people” because she was worried people would be staring at her pout.
Despite the gain in popularity, Teen Vogue believes the pose is too similar to last year’s craze ‘The T-rex hands’ to be brand new.
The T-Rex manoeuvre — whereby you “bend your fingers like a claw and position your hand over your chin, hair, or even forehead” — preceded fingermouthing, claims the site, and is far more “original”.