Because I wear glasses, I can't really facepalm without hurting myself, so instead I facepalm the person who induced the urge to facepalm.

This troper recently acquired specs and has taken to needing her forehead or just blatantly staring at people until the ask if what they said was stupid.

I just push my hand under my glasses and hold my face.

I do this a lot on the internet and when reading through Tropertales.

Facepalm when most people say/do stupid things, but when it's my parents? Headwall. I facepalm, and headwall, alot.

I do this all the time when I'm online. Every time I read an article, a discussion, a rant or whatever that contains CriticalResearchFailure... I facepalm... while laughing.

This Tropette's personal version of facepalm is adjusting her glasses. A friend of hers actually says "Facepalm" as she does this.

This Troper does the same thing with his glasses, though it is only one degree of his facepalms. The most severe variant is him literally hitting himself on the forehead with his palm which produces a loud smacking sound. And since that also hurts it's possibly worthy of a facepalm in itself, but sometimes you just have to.

Ditto to above. Although I never had the tenacity to actually smack myself in the head.

Another Tropette tends to pinch the bridge of her nose or use the classic facepalm. Considering some of the things her friends say, it happens a lot.

This troper has a prominent stupidity-reaction-sequence: *facepalm* - *headdesk* - BSOD - SophisticatedAsHell - "MustHaveCaffeine to tolerate this psychological torture you put me through".

This Troper tends to put his hands on his face, just like most. However, he also keeps his eyes visible. By using StrangeSalute hands.

In this case, Spock's "Live Long and Prosper" salute.

Being that this troper wears glasses, a normal facepalm would not be simple, so instead I facepalm by removing them.

This troper is sorrounded by morons or wacky guys so he facepalms a lot in a regular day in the university. Also, he usually adds and "Oh god" in a dissapointed or frustrated tone to emphatize the idea.

Last year, in his American studies classes, this troper would keep track of how many times he had facepalmed in class in his notebook.

This troper was forced to facepalm at so many things during high school, most notably the teachers.

This troper has discovered it's hard to facepalm with glasses, and so tends to carefully take them off, put them on his desk/in his pocket/wherever's convenient, ''then'' bury his face in his hand and groan.

This troper resorts to facepalms at the overwhelming stupidity of her peers.

This Troper facepalms at himself!

This troper removes his glasses, facepalms, and follows it up with either a grimace or a HurricaneOfEuphemisms.

This troper faceplams all the time, with a very notable slap if she wants to make a point.

This troper also wears glasses, and prefers to slap his forehead. It gets the point across just as well, and may actually still count as facepalming.

My glasses are usually coated with a liberal sprinkling of fingerprints. I'm pretty much the master of facepalming at school, I almost freak out if I don't do it at least once a day.

This troper has to remove her glasses every time she feels the need to facepalm, or else risk having to clean her lenses afterward. She also has an animated facepalming smiley on MSN. She uses it often.

This troper once let a pun fly that was so bad his brother-in-law nose pinched, then rubbed his forehead, then laid down on the floor in agony. :)

This troper typically reacts by massaging his temples. Alternately, if he's particularly stressed, he holds his thumb and forefinger against his temple and turns his hand like he's tightening a screw.

This troper has a hat she wears to school every day. So whenever her classmates do something unbearably stupid, she pushes the front of the hat down over her eyes. Sometimes this is accompanied by a sigh.

Regularly done by this troper in school, either what has been described above, pinching of the nose or a normal facepalm, accompanied by a murmured "ouch" and slowly pulling the hand downwards over eyes, nose, mouth and chin.

The facepalm is this troper's favorite way of relieving the headache caused by the stupidity of those around him.

This troper facepalms constantly when something stupid happens, usually if it's laugh worthy as well. If it's not funny, she'll massage her temples. When it really is THAT STUPID, she'll even start banging her head against a wall.

This troper does it a lot when something stupid happens. Though, my guy friend does it more often. Especially when ''I'' say or do something stupid. Which is a lot.

This Troper does it so much that he plans to put weights around his wrists and turn it into an exercise.

This Troper has seen so much stupid, he will list what he's seen here.

He facepalmed at Shaquille O'Neal hosting ''RAW''

This troper utterly not only {{Face Palm}}ed but Headdesked at the announcement of Nintendo announcing an auto mode for their games. No, not because it exists...because the FanDumb was acting like something that is '''''ENTIRELY OPTIONAL''''' was ruining their games, despite the fact that not a single one of them complains about strategy guides, Gamefaqs, outside help, or gameshark. FacePalm. Plz.

This Troper facepalms to avoid laughing at puns. Or really anything. I don't like laughing out loud.

Due to This Troper practically ''living'' in one of her Nice Hats, she can't facepalm easily in it. As a consequence, when she has to facepalm, she'll lift up the brim, facepalm, and then move it back down.

This Troper once facepalmed while at a restaurant, and a little girl at a nearby table copied her and started facepalming too (well, really she was slapping herself on the forehead, close enough). She promptly got in trouble with her parents for hitting herself, which lead to the troper being scolded by ''her'' parents. Poor kid.

I personally have several variants on facepalming, or facepalm equivalents. Since I wear glasses, most people get a semi-glare that works as in implied facepalm, a "You're an idiot" kind of look. Next step up, I remove my glasses, and facepalm properly. If I feel like something is really, REALLY deserving, I have someone hold my glasses, and follow up with a drum roll (via tapping my fingers on a table) and a double-handed facepalm.

Since this Troper has (and regularly wears) a pair of glasses that pretty much make this trope impossible to do, she ducks her head down which can occasionally lead to Scalp-palming. Obviously, she prefers the hand-to-cheek method, or simply flopping her head down to be supported only by her hands. These actions are frequently accompanied by an 'Ugh' or 'why, Mew, why?'.

This troper has two variants of this. One for when he is wearing sunglasses: he adjusts his glasses by grabbing the sides with the tips of his thumb and middle finger, making his hand cover his face without touching it. The other, for when I'm not wearing sunglasses, is simply pinching the bridge of my nose with said thumb and middle finger.

This troper is the OnlySaneMan working in a Destination Imagination group that is all female (except for me). HilarityEnsues daily. I'm surprised I don't have a permanent imprint of my palm in my forehead.

I'm more or less the OnlySaneMan in my class, so {{Face Palm}}ing is more or less a hobby of mine.

That's strange. It happens to me too!

Here's the rundown:

Slightly stupid: blank stare.

Mildly stupid: pinch bridge of nose.

Pretty stupid: amazed stare.

Really stupid: Angrish.

Amazingly stupid: Take off glasses, FacePalm.

Mind-numbingly stupid: Take off glasses, hand them to somebody, ''two-handed'' FacePalm.

Dear god, are you me?!

If he is, what do you think the odds of him responding are?

This troper finds plenty of reasons to facepalm on a daily basis, but when cosplaying as Kyon, practically every pose involves a facepalm of some sort. There are several varieties of facepalms that can be applied as him.

This troper wears glasses and can still facepalm by using the traditional 'heel of hand to forehead' technique. Not as dramatic, but far easier, and considering where I work "quick, easy and capable of being done in quick sucession" is a plus.

This Tropette usually facepalms at the overwhelming stupidity of the people around her. Usually this consists of a hand on the forehead (she wears glasses), but there have been times where in she takes off her glasses, puts them down, and facepalms so hard she is said to leave hand-prints for a good five minutes.

Too often to count with this troper. The most recent one was the reference to the "Gwakamol" crater in Lustria.

This troper once tried to watch glenn-frickin'-beck. I facepalmed so many times I lost count at how stupid and wrong the asshole was.

This troper might as well glue his hand to his forehead due to the amount of idiocy that seems to be attracted to him.

I find it much easier to facepalm now that I have contacts, especially since one of my best friends is obsessed with incredibly lame puns and... is overall just... yeah.

I don't often facepalm, but I do have other things: ->Slightly Stupid: Blank Stare ->Stupid: Nose Pinch or facepalm (when I feel like it) ->Pretty Stupid: Angry Stare ->Really Stupid: Headdesk (or, if in a car, I start hitting my head on the headrest) ->Extremely Stupid: I grab my head and begin groaning. ->Fucking Stupid: I enter my happy place and attempt to avoid purging this world of the offender. ->Mind-numbingly Fucking Stupid: "Warning: Stupidity overload! System shutting down!" (God help anyone in the area should this happen while I'm driving) ->^Anything that qualifies as Stupid or worse may be accompanied by groaning.

Facepalming wearing glasses is, as previously noted, difficult. This troper has therefore adopted a semi-facepalm where the hand is twisted -pi/2 from the standard facepalm, and placed on the temple rather than then forehead. Curving my fingers is optional but recomended. If it's particulary bad, I might take off the glasses and do a conventional facepalm while hanging my head. According to my friends, my personal CMOF was when I, in response to something egregiously stupid, said: ''"If I weren't wearing glasses, I'd facepalm right now."'' {{Facepalm}}: {{SERIOUS BUSINESS}}

Once, This Troper facepalmed.

This troper once headdesked next to a tower of pop cans in order to cause it to fall. One of the cans wasn't empty. Much facepalming ensued.

This troper once did this when she came around a random flash animation, and some random troll jackass herassed the poor guy, claiming that his work encougared mental illnesses.

When you're one of the few sane people in a school that seems to thrive on stupidity and illogical reasoning, not even facepalming can sometimes cut it. This Troper prefers facedesking and literally wallbanging.

This troper constantly finds herself facepalming when watching Adult Swim anime with her sister. An episode of Code Geass came on, and when Lelouch simply said one line my sister looked perfectly amazed and cried "Ichigo?!" She has watched Code Geass more than once, and I've told her MULTIPLE times about his VA. *Smack*

Here are some of my variations:

Regular facepalm: after audibly slapping my forehead, I run my hand right over my face and sigh sharply.

Facepalm-bury: if there is intense stupidity, I bury my face in my hands, bend over my desk and whimper or groan.

Regular headwall: preceded by a blank face and done when the stupidity is too much for words to describe.

Headwall-grind: done in extreme exasperation either by rubbing the top of my head against the wall or running in place with my head on the wall.

This troper works in retail, and in order to develop a stealthy facepalm, runs the heel of his hand over his eyebrow when faced with a question of monumental stupidity on the customer's part. Apparently it looks like a thinking gesture, according to my coworkers.

This Troper {{Face Palm}}s, headdesks, wallbangs, and generally does some variation on this trope when his younger brother does something incredibly stupid. Said brother isn't stupid, he just tends not to think things through far enough. Fortunately for this troper's head, said brother moved out back in September to go to college. ''Un''fortunately for this troper's head, he comes back for holidays....

I face palm while playing volleyball, whenever someone on my team doesn't try or does smething stupid.

I've face palmed so much for my friend, I have a near permanent red mark on my forehead, similar to what happened to Sokka in Avatar, the Last Airbender. I love my friend.

This troper's brother used to work at a fast food restaurant. The first night he worked there, my grandpa decided to take us over there to eat. When we came in, my brother facepalmed. I love my grandpa.

In a combination of ConversationalTroping and UnsoundEffect, this troper ''says'' "head-desk" whenever faced with overwhelming stupidity. She had also been known to remove her glasses and smack herself in the forehead with a notebook when no desk is available. Of course, 'forehead-palms' are also quite common.

Done in response to feeling like a total doofus after being DistractedByTheSexy.

On a "Constitutional Press Conference" in APUSH, this troper's partner was assigned the role of James Madison. First question him was "Were you extroverted?" He responded affirmative (Madison was introverted). Cue Facepalm '''and''' Head-notes!

This Troper has on multiple occasions used "nbgyu67h pardon me as I remove the key now lodged in my eyebrow"

This troper's brother once did this when my family and I walked in to the restaurant where he was working. On his first day on the job.

This troper's family are beginning to learn that when he asks one of them to hold his glasses, he intends to facepalm. Also, if you can read NotAlwaysRight for any length of time without doing one, you are a far better man than I.

This troper reckons that if he doesn't do this at least once a day, something is very wrong.

This troper Does this. All. The. DAMN. TIME.

Including herself, this troper's senior economics class has 5 girls and 24 boys. As such, there are a lot of raunchy and/or illegal comments about things. The teacher has a sense of humor though, and responds to most by pinching the bridge of his nose in a half facepalm while hanging his head.

@/{{Excel-2010}}. One morning my brother had his girlfriend come over and do their usual fooling around. I just woke up as it happened, so I had to facepalm (something I rarely ever do. I'm a fan of the faceslap on the cheek). I was out of practice, so I got a nosebleed too.

This Troper had a friend that when said troper made a joke about what song his gravediggers had to listen to,Dig A Little Deeper made his friend make a big,BIG,facepalm.

Frequent occurrence for this troper. Since I wear glasses I tend to ''forehead''palm, as it is too time wasting to take them off. Usually one handed, but two handed and accompanied by head shaking if something is really bad.

This troper has reached such a level of anger at idiocy that he has created a new gesture. Facebook. You may join in at any time.

This troper does this quite a lot, although she tends to use two fingers instead of a whole palm, and they usually fall between her eyebrows. Same basic gesture, though (and it's used under the same circumstances.)

This troper wears glasses, as many tropers seem to, so what I do when facepalming is take off my glasses, hang one ear-holder thing between my pointer and middle fingers and facepalm. It's really hard to describe, and I probably just described something that sounds like I poke myself in the eye on a regular basis. I don't. If I'm facepalming at my ''own'' stupidity, I combine a facepalm with either a PrecisionFStrike or a ClusterFBomb, depending on how much of a FAIL I just was.

This troper has mastered facepalming ''around'' his glasses. Basically, he puts the thumb on his mouth and cheek, the little finger's tip on his other cheek and the other three fingers' tips on his forehead. The fact that he can now do it reflexively probably speaks for itself.

This troper, having glasses, tends to take them off, hold them by the bridge, then facepalm. His friends call it a "Fancy facepalm."

This Troper always faceplams whenever he sees something incredibly dumb. Especially with his mother.

This troper has been known to very calmly stand up, pick up a blunt object and go to beat the offender over the head with it. I don't actually do it, though, obviously...

When this troper needs to facepalm, she picks up her friend's hand and uses it instead of her own. Her friend does that too, but she usually yells "FACEPALM" to make it really clear.

This troper Face Palms a lot, and thinks she does one at least once a day...

This troper surrounds herself with complete, utter morons, including herself, so it's no wonder her life is one big facepalm. Example in point: I told my best friends that hamburgers taste like hamburgers. Cue Epic Fail Facepalming and "Why do I have such a moron for a best friend?!"

This troper has done this a little too hard and multiple times upon getting an easy question wrong in classroom Jeopardy, resulting in a resounding SLAP and the entire class telling her to calm down and not to hurt herself.

This troper AND the other female members of the immediate family all have the same "are you kidding me"-face to use in Face Palm situations; eyes wide, one eyebrow slightly raised, and mouth set with malcontent. Now feel the stare and be ashamed of your stupidity.

This troper had to be in a debate in Psychology, on whether or not Precognition should be recognized as a field of psychology. We were against it in the debate, that it should not be. One of his teammates, however, seemed to be of the opinion that they were trying to prove that it should be and said so onstage. Cue facepalm.

This troper and her teacher both facepalmed when one of my classmates said, "Humans aren't animals, we're mammals!"

I facepalm all the time when I read about, see, and possibly hear stupid things. I always do it as a loud smack on my forehead. Sometimes, I'll just hit my head with anything: The desk, a water bottle, the back of my seat, etc.

This Troper facepalms on a regular basis, watching the news and listening to bad arguments, but has not facepalmed as much as having watched this video

This Troper was once reading a post on a pretty major gaming board, shortly after Sony announced that Linux support was going to be deactivated on all PlaystationThree consoles. The widespread opinion seemed to be "who the hell cares, nobody actually ''uses'' Linux," to which one poster replied with the analogy of the U.S. government banning all half-Black-half-Asian people from voting; it wouldn't affect too many people, but it would still be an incredible dick move. At which point the thread promptly degenerated into people posting about how non-white people ''shouldn't'' be allowed to vote for various reasons (all of which had a lot of UnfortunateImplications), which led to This Troper actually facepalming in real-life.

My band director can be seen doing the double facepalm when our playing is particularly dismal.

Due to a tendency to put my foot (or various other bits of my anatomy) in my mouth, I end up facepalming at myself. I use the forehead, dramatic, loud and ''violent'' variety so often I now fear the possibility of brain damage. Doesn't stop me from doing it, though.

As a side note, I also hit myself on the head when trying to (as I explain to anyone who wants to know what the hell I am doing) restart my brain. It works, actually.

People find it very humorous whenever I do this, it's also on auto-pilot for me, as well as the double variant, nose-pinch and head-meets-desk/wall.

This troper takes his glasses off, facepalms, and lowers his hand slightly to show his unimpressed eyes.

This troper has a barely controllable urge to go 'Duh!' and/or facepalm when someone near him screws up doing an elementary thing, or displays things like {{Public Medium Ignorance}} and {{Opinion Myopia}}. Unfortunately, the people that surround him do this very, ''very'' frequently. Oh, and they get angry when he 'Duh!'s/facepalms.

Last year, this troper's class was just... just... ugh. She Facepalmed so, so much that in the last part of second semester it was a meme for the guys in her class to facepalm at everything. ''Everything''.

This Troper does a 'TemplePalm', palm on the temple, little finger on the bridge of my nose, ring finger on forehead, middle and index fingers against the side of the head pointing upwards. I generally have my eyes closed and my head tilted forward slightly while doing this.

This Troper does this a bunch of times in her school, particularly whenever we, no, ''her classmates'' do something wrong. She never actually noticed it turn into a habit, up until a friend of hers called her out while doing it and joked that it must be the reason why her face is red all the time.

This Troper makes liberal use of the facepalm and has several different levels.

When something is mildly stupid: nose pinch and sigh.

When something is pretty stupid: single-hand facepalm and sigh.

When something is really stupid: facebury (double-hand facepalm) and groan.

When something is fucking stupid: double-handed facepalm, then slides down the face.

Anything past this level: A blank stare and a FlatWhat. It is at this point that you have officially short-circuited this troper's brain with your idiocy.

Furthermore, this troper has begun making use of a FacePalm emoticon.

This troper only facepalms in the face of the stupidest of antics. Since moving into a dorm with his roommate, it's become a facepalm a day. This says something.

This troper explained to her mother the concept of facepalming one day. Five minutes later, said mother dragged her into a church (The woman cannot pass by a church without going inside and saying a few prayers, honestly) and the Jesus statue was facepalming. Mom jumped up and down, all excited. "A facepalm, honey! Look! And just after you showed me!"

This troper does this fairly often, but the most notable example was when she facepalmed in front of a large crowd of people when she had entered a spelling bee and misspelled the word "warrior" due to nervousness.

I facepalm too much and in inadequate moments.

This troper just saw an unstaged photo of himself, caught while working outdoors. Apparently he's got male pattern baldness going on full charge, with a big open spot just above and to the right of his right eyebrow. The gap is a perfect fit for his right thumb when in the position...this should make it clear how often he is IN that position.

This troper used to do it so often that recently he's started getting headaches whenever he does it.

This troper facepalms every frickin' day. Idiots seem to run rampant in his American History class.

It's more of a foreheadpalm, since I'm trying not to smudge my glasses, but my mother plus technology leads to a bright new red spot in the center of my forehead. This happens often.

This troper facepalms so often that he has a hand shaped imprint on his face, and often has to resort to facedesking.

A case of BeamMeUpScotty heard in real life made this troper facepalm. A older classmate had apparently found out about the gracious memes of internet for first time, so during the school breakes he would shout " I, Am, Sparta!"

This troper, after hearing how the HLN News host prounounced Lulz. Loolz. It's prounounced ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

I do this tonight when my classmates are doing wrong in practices.

This Troper constantly finds herself doing this. Usually in response to my crazy little brother. It's also happened in response to a particular pessimistic kid at my youth group. Or I might headdesk in that case.

I usually slide my hand up under my glasses to facepalm. Said facepalming is more often than not accompanied with the phrase "Kill me, I'm SurroundedByIdiots." Also, when I perceive a comment to be ''exceedingly'' idiotic and someone beats me to the facepalming punch, I help them out and triple- or quadruple-facepalms ensue.

I thought you were surrounded by gumdrops and ice-cream?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGHH!!!!!