A picture is worth a thousand words. Social media has become saturated with pictures all seemingly telling thousands of these words, and I always got nervous about how these words would be read by my followers and friends. What I have come to realize is that through simple motions I can manipulate my body to make it tell the story I want it too. I can make my rolls flatten, my chin accentuated, and end up feeling more confident then I did before I posted the picture. With a few easy tricks and tips you can feel just as good on your social media!
1. Elongate your body
Stretching out your body makes you look longer and leaner. Try putting your arms in your hair or on your head, I promise it tends to make you look five pounds lighter and you will look like a bada**.
2. Stretch your neck
Cameras love angles. By cocking your head to the side you can often make your chin line pop, making your face look slimmer. In every episode of "Americas Next Top Model," they tell the importance of stretching out your neck in pictures — if Tyra Banks is doing it, we should do it too. This also helps get rid of the double chin you and everyone else feels like they possess after their freshman year in college.
3. Do not hide your curves
Trying to make yourself look skinny is the most defeating thing to do to yourself. Embrace your favorite parts of your body and focus on them, whether that be your legs, hips, stomach, eyes, etc. Using good posture and and pushing a hip out to the side usually allows you to play in to the beauty of your own body. Keep in mind that when things are closer to the camera they look bigger, so try to push hips and heads forward why pulling your stomach back.
4. Show your personality
You are so beautiful because you are you. You are a unique and gorgeous body but also a unique and gorgeous person. You really will never look better than when you are being yourself, so smile and have fun with the moment!
Posing for pictures is embarrassing and awkward, but it also lets you control how people view you on social media. Pictures should not be something that makes you uncomfortable, and no one should be camera shy because we are all uniquely beautiful and you just have to figure out the angles to show it! So if you are insecure with the way you you look (like everyone else), use pictures to your advantage and not as something to shy away from.
