How to take good portrait pics of yourself if you have nobody else to do it and your ugly

I have 0 posts on my instagram and I want to start posting but I have like 288 followers well everyone else has 7/8-900. and their pictures are so pretty and I'm ugly soo I dont post pics casue im not confident but i want to start trying to take good pics. How would I take a pic that it looks like someone else is taking it?