Why You Need to Re-think that Photograph
If you have been in the dating game long enough, you know that a lot of first impressions form on social media. Whether you met her at a party or through a dating app, if she is interested rest assured she will be checking out your social media soon enough. Prince charming? Well, let’s take a look at what your photographs have to say about you.
Those photoshopped images impress no woman.
A ridiculously edited picture of you with fire below your feet and the phrase ‘Hot as fire’ (if you decide to spell that right!) is not attractive. Yeah, believe it! Neither are photographs of you staring out of a window with philosophic captions about life and it’s so many hardships. Remember regular old school photographs, the kind you find in your grandparent’s albums? They still work.
Let’s not OD on those gym selfies?
You work out, you look good, you feel great, we understand. While there is certainly no harm in showing off your fit physique, keep in mind that a photograph of you kissing your biceps reads conceited, not sexy! You certainly do deserve the results you work so hard to maintain, but every picture of yours does not have to be shirtless and bare chested. If you think about it, one of the reasons you worked so hard on your body was so that you could sport some really good clothes. Well, wear them!
You like your drink, we get it.
Whoever was the pioneer behind the idea that photo after photo of expensive liquor bottles and drunk men with one arm wrapped around his bud (probably to balance himself!) and one holding a half empty glass of alcohol was impressive, really deserves a bullet to the head. While the choice to party often or drink as much as you wish to is entirely yours, you may want to consider that incessantly posting about it on your social media is unnecessary.
Let’s talk about those collages you love.
Collages can be fun, weaving together pictures to tell a story maybe? However, when your profile photo is ten photographs of yourself merged together onto one screen it is not quite the same thing. If you have a lot of great pictures, upload them separately; give us a chance to really see each of them. Cramming a lot of photos into one image is hard to look at and just gives the potential love of your life a headache.
While we have covered some of the photographs you may want to avoid, here are a few pointers on ones that actually work:
Upload clear pictures, show us your face, not just your side profile or half of you covered by your dog.
Smile. A genuine, warm smile truly goes a long way.
Helmets? Scuba gear? Skydiving? Umm.. Not as your profile picture maybe.
Keep your photographs recent, within at least a six-month period. We are not interested in what you looked like back in tenth grade.
If you have nothing to say about a picture but simply think you look good in it, it does not require a caption.
A picture speaks a thousand words, so remember to think twice before you upload that picture you were thinking to the next time. You could be her Prince Charming, but you don’t want your photographs to make you seem any lesser, which might send her scurrying before she even gets a chance to learn more about the amazing person you are!
