people telling you to feel great about yourself

and be confident, and just get to used to who you are

and all the body positivity stuff.

Sure, that's really great.

But the problem is you stand in front of the mirror

and think you look great, but then you go out later on

and someone takes a photo of you

and you look like a disaster.

That is not what you certainly look like.

You thought you were slaying life,

you thought you looked damn good.

You start thinking to yourself,

am I delusional for thinking I look good,

what is wrong with me, damn I must be ugly,

but honey it's most likely the fact

that you just don't know how to pose properly

and there are some tricks that models have up their sleeves

that make them look so good.

So, without further ado.

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Dogs!

If I have to have a shitty background,

I'm gonna pick myself out.

At least you aren't distracted by that.

Let's get into the video.

This video is gonna be the most comprehensive

analysis and tutorial on how to pose.

I'm gonna teach you all the tricks and tips

you need to know for a good pose

so you no longer have to feel crap about yourself.

Because we all know that when you feel great,

you do great work and you can slay the world.

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Start at your core so

you first and foremost need to engage your core

because when you're slouching, it doesn't look good honey.

Engage your tummy muscles so you are making abs

even if you don't have abs.

And pull your shoulders back and try to them look relaxed

not like crazy back, just back enough

so that your posture looks great,

and you look powerful and confident.

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Separate your limbs from your body.

You don't want to become like a little log,

you have arms for a reason so separate them from your body

and also on that note, squishing anything against your body

is going to make it look bigger

so lift your arms away from your body.

That also go for your legs when you're sitting.

Try to lift them off the surface

so you're not squishing your legs down

and making them appear larger.

Usually 45 degree angle for anybody

looks great because you're not just square on,

you're turning your body just a little bit

which is what we want.

We want to give the impression of angles.

For some girls it does look good straight on,

but you really have to figure out

if that works good for your body.

If not, safely just look at 45 degree angles.

Sitting poses are all about angles.

Angles, angles, angles.

Here are some examples of what looks great.

Everything is separate from from each other,

very interesting shapes done with legs and arms and so forth

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One leg in front of the other, always a good way to go.

One arm in the front of the other,

always a nice little touch, just as with the sitting poses:

create angles with your body.

Legs, arms, sit into your hips,

so put all your weight into one leg

and push your hip out a little bit,

it gives the impression of fake curves.

It's amazing.

Photographs of women are generally all about

creating those curves so curve it up,

show off those curves, even if you don't have any like me.

All of the same principles apply,

leg forward, create expressions, and take a lot of snaps

because quite often one girl

doesn't look good 'cause she was blinking or so forth

so take a lot of snaps.

Make sure that everyone is happy with the photograph.

But honestly group photos like this

still make me the happiest.

So don't forget, like get the professional photo

if you want to, but then take a selfie

just for your personal storage and embrace the moment.

Show off the energy of the moment, the love that was shared.

Our life is not Instagram, our life is not posed photographs

so make sure you're still real.

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Very often, once the camera starts snapping, we freak out.

So having a go-to facial expression

prevents that from happening.

Figuring it out beforehand with selfies

helps you figure out what looks best on you.

Which side of your face you like more,

what facial expressions you like more.

Memorizing facial expressions so when the camera's on

you can bring it.

What is your favorite side of the face.

Certain models love a certain side of their face.

These are examples of professional models

that quite often just see one side of their face

on all of their photos.

For a lot of us, it's straight onto the camera

and choosing either one or the second side.

For me, I don't like this side.

I always generally turn

about 45 degrees or straight on.

Not everybody has a side of their face they love more,

so if you're one of those people that loves both sides:

congratulations.

This can be done through sitting really close to a window

which is what I'm doing right now.

All of that beautiful light coming my way.

Or if you're outside and the sun is shining,

tilt your head up so you are right in that sun.

Try to avoid harsh shadows on your face,

specifically dark bags under the eyes.

Not so good.

This sucks, but it works.

So start ridiculously laughing and being a twat

and then you will break out into a real laugh

and it's hilarious.

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Chin forward and down.

I don't know why, but it works.

For straight on photos, it works a treat.

What Winnie Harlow is doing here, chin forward down,

and she's piercing the camera.

She's like looking straight through the camera,

squinting her eyes just a little bit.

And as Tyra Banks says, "Smile with those eyes."

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I am guilty of this one, you have relax your lips open

just a little bit.

Relaxing your lips open makes you look more comfortable

because I grind my teeth.

I am like always clenched and it doesn't look good on photos

Relax your lips just a tiny little bit.

So whenever you're talking to someone,

you are like engaged and your head is shifting,

you never sit there like this because that's really awkward

and something's not right if you do that.

Same with photographs so you can tilt your head forward,

back, sideways, a little bit,

just figure out what looks good on you and then

work with that.

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Laughing too much actually doesn't look good on photos

because you are like generally in a very heavy laughter

like hahaha!

Doesn't translate very well.

What you can do is still do your fake laugh

which will translate into real laughter.

Laugh like crazy, and when you're laughing like crazy

ask someone to just snap a lot of photos of you

and there'll be one in there that looks really good,

that isn't like the extreme smile, but the smallest smile.

And while we're on the topic of smiling,

fake smiling just doesn't look good.

Like it's very ugly (mumbles).

(laughing)

Deer in the headlights look

doesn't look good.

So relax your eyes a little bit.

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You need to work with what your momma gave you

because there is absolutely no purpose or reason

to look at the other side

and think the grass is greener on the other side

because I know for a fact

that people always think that it's better on the other side.

So many times I want curves galore,

and so many times women tell me

that they want my muscle-y, skinny body.

For some reason, none of us are satisfied.

So just have blinders on.

Figure out your body type and just own it.

Nothing more confident than owning your body type

and working with what you got.

This includes standing in front of the mirror quite a lot,

getting used to yourself,

figuring out what your best assets are.

All of us have our best assets.

For me it's my teeth and my abs.

(laughs)

If you tilt your camera this way,

it means that your head is now gonna look

a lot larger and you're gonna shrink yourself

and you're gonna make your legs look a lot longer.

Versus when you shoot like this,

it's going to mean that your legs are gonna look

super long and distorted,

and your head is going to be very, very small.

The best thing to do is

make sure you shoot parallel to your body

and also a really good tip

to make your legs look extra long:

lower the camera a little bit, shoot from about hip height

or even sometimes a little bit lower

depending on how long you want your legs to be.

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I have worked professionally on photography sets

and sometimes it takes up to 200 photographs

to get that right shot, so make sure you take a lot photos,

but please don't put your boyfriend through this

unless he really loves it.

Let's give boyfriends of the Instagram a break,

and either find a friend that really loves snapping photos

and you can take turns

getting the perfect photo of each other,

or learn the art of taking a photo by yourself

like I have because I don't want to

put my poor boyfriend through boyfriends of Instagram.

You need to line up the camera,

the framing, your body pose,

before you start snapping away

because it is so awkward when the camera's going.

And literally, well I do, I forget what I'm doing.

I freak out and all my photographs look crap.

Take a moment, establish yourself, get the framing right,

get your body poses right,

and then ask someone to take about 10-15 photos of yourself

with minor differences like tilting your head.

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Poses that you have in your body

are going to represent something about you.

So are you an artist, do you want to show artistic imagery,

do you want go for the high fashion model look,

do you want to be a girl of Instagram.

Different categories, different poses.

So you need to find out what inspires you

so you can pose away the right away

to portray the right image about you.

Hopefully some of these tips have helped you

just to master the art of posing,

so you look great in photographs,

so you can feel really good about yourself.

And if you're still embarrassed about

posing in front of other people, that's cool.

I am really uncomfortable posing in front of other people,

so I have learned the art of posing by myself