Submissions can also be Not Pretty photos of me, of course

These ones come from my dear friend Devora, a Not Very Pretty enthusiast from the start who has always been adept at capturing my Not Pretty moments.

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Dear Lovely & Not-So-Lovely Readers,

Beginning now, Not Very Pretty will be collecting user-submitted photographs to increase the awesomeness of this site.

[Note: If you submit a photo, it is considerate for it to be of yourself, as others tend to not take kindly to unapproved Not Pretty pictures of themselves on the internet.]

If you have an unflattering photograph that you would love to have emblazoned on the internet forever, send it to: connnectconnectconnect@gmail.com and I will do you the honor of emblazoning it.

As always, I will continue to share my Not Pretty self. I merely want to seize the opportunity to expand the canon of the Not Pretty for the benefit of the world.

xo,

alison.

Today I look like a candy cane

At our holiday party last year, I looked like a mentally incompetent pterodactyl:



[Not at all like Steve, who is a very smart and beautiful pterodactyl]

Merry Christmas now, for real.

Have a very Not Pretty Christmas!

Christmas 1990 I woke up with the chicken pox. A very special Christmas gift from my little brother. The other special Christmas present that year, as documented in this photograph, was a chalk board/easel from Santa. See the handwriting? Santa is very cold, living in the North Pole, so his is a very shaky scrawl.

Enjoy your Christmas or holidays of whatever sort!

xo
alison.

Tomorrow I will see brother

Let's relive this beautiful Thanksgiving moment



captured so magnificently by the father.

I'm goin' to visit my grams today

I will hopefully appear prettier than I did as an infant:



ps Isn't my grandmother fabulous? I want her shirt!
pps Same red chair as I depicted with less color 19 or 20 years later.

Good gummy morning to you

Today marks the one-week anniversary of my first-ever (and ideally last-ever) gum graft. I'm glad I have a follow up appointment today, because I've been popping stitches like bubble wrap.

This photograph is unflattering in many ways, but really doesn't do justice to the Not Prettyness that is a gum graft. I've been describing it in words for many months now and that is far less pretty:

The natural gums at the base of my teeth were receding--so far that the roots were showing. This was not good so, to avoid further recession, gums from the roof of my mouth were taken and patched over the exposed roots of my teeth. When this procedure was first proposed to me I was provided with two choices: use gums of my own (which would eventually take hold in their new location, growing blood vessels, etc...how fascinating is that!?) or use gums FROM A DEAD DONATED BODY. I keep this in mind whenever my thoughts float to how gross it is to have my own gums patched with stitches onto the base of my teeth. AT LEAST THEY ARE MINE and not from a DEAD ABOUT-TO-BE-ROTTING BODY OF SOME (VERY KIND BUT STRANGER TO ME) SOUL.

Witless birth

day, that is.
Here, also pictured, is Sugar in her not-yet-as-fat but still fat form.

PLEASE NOTE: delicious delicious back-of-the-neck nametag-chain tan from the good ol' YBGF.
And a nice no-line neck.

Like I said

Vaguely not as Not Pretty with pretty art
[if I do say so myself]



More documentation here.

TONIGHT

Since connectconnect is down, I'll post this here:



Lots of PRETTY (gasp, I know!!) art.
And I will be there, looking a bit prettier than normal:



[Though shocked at the prettiness]

I better see you thereeeeeeeeee!

Not Very Pretty, The Tweenage Years

Here, Young William and I attempt to mimic a gargoyle door knocker and do a magnificent job. Gargoyles are not meant to be pretty and neither were we. Also, please note that this is the time in my life when I decided half eyebrows were better than full eyebrows.

xo
alison.

When discoballs look like snowflakes and Alison is Not So Pretty about it

Addendum to previous post

Provided & photoshopped by Ryan himself.

Breaking promises, not making any new ones

So remember I promised lots of new posts while Laurence was away?
Well, I've failed at that--Laurence is back already! And I've only posted the post promising more posts!

Also, I realized that the only photos I had while Laurence was away were young ones. While I know this would make at least one reader very happy, I feel it would be a bit inundating to post all the children ones at once. Better to spread them out over time as they are a limited commodity. As much as I'd like to think otherwise, I only get to be a child once and that time for unflattering photographs has passed.

BUT ALL THAT BEING SAID.

I am at work and do not have Laurence.
So here is another Not Very Pretty childhood memory.

ENJOY IT RYAN LUE!




First, I get really sweaty, then I show my bum to the world. Perhaps this should be marked as Not Very Classy instead.

[Click the picture for a more up close view. I know you want one.]

What up, blood

Laurence is in the shop but luckily I've emailed myself some NVP photos to keep the updates up for a bit. So expect 'em.