How to prepare for photoshooting

No matter for which purpose you have your photos taken - to present the set of beautiful photos to the person you love, or to present it to a job replacement agency or to a marriage agency, - one of the most important things is your looks on the photo.

If You present your photos to Your close people, no doubt - they will take it with great gratitude. It is they - Your close people, know you best of all and can judge, if you look good on your photos. In other cases a good photo is 90% of success. During the initial stage of choosing, it is impossible to estimate your charms or your intellect; everything that is seen is your photo.

That is why you will need professional shots of studio quality to give it to an agency, to me more exact - portrait and full sized photo. Your photo must produce an impression of honesty, cordiality, sexuality, and in the same time confidence and dignity. You must look welcoming and friendly. Open, sincere look is an essential condition of a good photo. If your face is not so beautiful, dazzling smile will make it more attractive. If your smile is not "dazzling", try semi-smile ("Jokonda smile"), but you should never use "curved" smile - such an expression can only repel.

It does not matter what your age is, but you should try to look younger. If it seems to you that you are not beautiful enough you can put in some sex appeal: naked arms and и shoulders, decollete, legs. Even if you do not use cosmetics much - use make-up for the shooting. And even if you have a perfect complexion, it is essential to use skin foundation, otherwise on the photos your skin will look as if it were covered with red spots. Put some powder on the skin foundation, to avoid extra luster. Use shadows of brown or grey shades without mother of pearl, avoid bright blue, violet or pink. Shade eyeliner - greasy black lines around your eyes would make you look older and look vulgar.

Though it is necessary that eyes be enlarged with the color - professional masters of make up make a line with the eye-liner that matches the color of your eyes (dark grey or brown), and then shade with shadows of slightly lighter shades. You may and you should use lots of mascara, it will make your eyes look more impressive and your glance deeper. Do not use colorful mascara - blue or green, simple black or dark-brown would be just right. You should have your eyebrows in order for the shooting. They mustn’t be too thick or too thin, so you’d better do it in a beauty salon, besides, it is quite cheap. Underline them a little bit - you can use not only an eye liner, but shadows of the matching color. A little of rouge of apricot or brown shade put on your skulls, will give your face the needed relief - if you have an oval face, you should put rouge under your skulls.

It is necessary to use a lip liner. There is no need in making full lips look smaller - such lips look sexier. Too thin lips could be corrected with the help of a lip-liner and a lipstick, but be reasonable. Get use of a lipstick of red, brown or dark-pink shades. Do not use violet and crimson shades and light lipsticks with mother of pearl as well. Dark lipsticks make you look older. Take your beautician to the shooting so that you could correct some defects. A high quality make up will take You 1-2 hours. It is desirable that you use the services of a master of make-up - a professional would underline your natural beauty and hide your faults.

As for coiffure, hair must be clean and shining. If you dye your hair then do it not long before the shooting, so that roots were of the same color as your hair. Try to avoid unnatural colors, such as platinum or bright red. If you have long hair, let it loose – if need be, just curl slightly the endings of your hair. Short hair must be trimmed carefully and arranged. If your hair is short, do not touch your shoulders, and then there is a point in disguising it. Silky scarf on your head may help with it. Take a brush, and lacquer for hair to the shooting – just in case.

Clothes for the shooting must be simple, feminine и stylish. Mini-skirt - is preferable, but there are some other variants possible: long skirt with a cut, uncovering your legs, jeans with a little top, shorts, outlining dress or trousers. "Evening" dresses with uncovered shoulders and tops with shoulder-straps, especially taken up and uncovering your belly look really good. If there is a need in hiding faults of a figure, then you should choose high-necked and loose clothes of dark shades. No ruches, flounces, bows or jabot on your blouse - it’s old-fashioned; a simple blouse, outlining breasts, will look better. Stay off blouses and jumpers of brown and black colors for the portrait shooting – such clothes will give your portraits somewhat gloomy air.

For the full-sized photo you’d better not use the clothes of white color – contour of clothes blends with white background (agencies often ask to take the full sized photo against the white background), but it can be corrected easily with the help of the computer. Of course, you know which colors do not suit you. If all the details of your dress, from top to shoes, are of the same color, for example, white or red it will give your image the air of elegance and style. It would be best of all if you choose stockings of beige color, matching the color of your skin - on photos your legs would look more shapely and tempting than in black ones. Bring a few dresses that fit you well with you to the shooting, - both simple (jeans and t-shirts), and toilets (an evening dress).

It is very useful to have photos in different clothes; people like ladies that feel comfortable both in jeans in a walking tour, and in an evening dress in opera. Shoes are preferably to be on high heels, heel-strap sandals are even better – but high boots look quite intriguing as well. Choose shoes that suit your dress. Jeans or bridges go with heel-strap sandals, sneakers or boots, shoes on spike-heels, of course, will match an evening dress.

Perhaps, going to the studio, You decide, that You need photos not only for the purpose You’ve decided to have Your photos taken, but, let us say, for the family album or to present them to Your best friends. In this case you’d better get prepared for a versatile shooting and do not forget to tell a photographer about your desires.