The yearbook photo can highlight your best attributes or haunt you for years. If you want to look your best, have a smile that kills, and be able to say "cheese" without sounding cheesy, follow these steps.
Steps
Step 1. Be clean
Don't forget that hygiene is as important as a beautiful smile in a photo. You should take a shower and wash your face before showing off your white pearls.
- If you usually shower in the evening, try to change your habits by taking one in the morning of the photograph. Your skin will look better.
- If you don't wear makeup, wash your face before the photo.
- Wash your hair so it's shiny instead of greasy and dull.
Step 2. Flaunt the right hairstyle and expression
The face and hair should look their best when you take your yearbook photo. You don't have to overdo it, but here are some tips to look out for to look your best.
- Keep your hair out of sight. While it may seem "cool" to hide behind long locks, your parents wouldn't appreciate it and other students would focus on your hair instead of your looks.
- Style your hair as you normally would. Don't try to create a weird or peculiar hairstyle. You may fail and you will end up not looking like yourself.
- Use some gel or hairspray to hold the hair.
- Guys should make sure their beards and sideburns are shaved and neat.
- Girls should have light makeup if that is how they present themselves on a daily basis. No dramatic shading or lipstick changes.
- Avoid distractions. Girls shouldn't wear big earrings and boys avoid chains and hats. Focus on the face and not the accessories.
Step 3. Put on the perfect shirt
The shirt or shirt should be what people notice after your expression and hair, so choose it carefully. It should highlight your strengths and not be distracting due to excessive imagination. Here's what to wear:
- A simple color.
- A light or black color to make you stand out against a background.
- Nothing white or yellow that 'Slavic'.
- No t-shirts with logos, photographs or witty writings. They distract.
- Avoid wearing anything that is too trendy. The marine style shirt could theoretically be fine but you would look ridiculous and dated.
- If you really want a perfect photo, bring something in a different color just in case. If the background is blue and you are wearing something light blue, you will be happy that you brought a black change.
Step 4. Prepare yourself before they take your picture
There are a few things you can do to enhance your yearbook photo while you wait in line.
- Girls should quickly go to the bathroom or grab a small mirror to touch up their makeup.
- Bring a brush. Run it through your hair but not too much that it looks fluffy or charged with electricity.
- Bring a hand mirror. Even if the photographer should have it, be prepared. A hand mirror will help you see what your face and hair are like, while also helping you find residue between your teeth.
- If you have greasy skin, use something to pat it off and get rid of the shine.
- While you wait, keep a positive attitude. Get charged and your energy will emerge even from the photograph!
Step 5. Use the right expression
You should decide what to look like in advance so that you don't experience anything new on the day of the photo. Estimate a smile that emphasizes your best sides and who you really are.
- If you usually show your teeth when you smile, do it in the photo as well.
- Work to be able to keep your eyes open at the right time. Avoid throwing them open, squeezing, or bulging them.
- Not bagged. Maintain good posture while they take your picture and you will look even more beautiful.
- Practice your smile at home. Having a friend or relative take pictures of you in the meantime is helpful.
- Work on the angle. You should look directly into the camera or tilt your head slightly. Don't tilt it too far to the side or you will look stupid. The photographer will give you directions.
- If the photographer gives you some photographs to choose from at the end, look at the ones in which you appear most spontaneous.
- Remember to be yourself! The annual photo is your chance to show off for who you are and not look like a total stranger.
Advice
- Be nice to the photographer. That way, he'll be more willing to take a picture of you!
- If you don't like the shot the photographer wants you to take, ask him to take a limb from it.
- If photography isn't beautiful, it's not the end of the world. You can always have another one redone over the course of the year.
