Here is a draft of a post I have been working on, here is the section on good pics, enjoy:
STEP 1) – Obtain good pictures – Your pictures are the key to Tinder (and dating online in general for that matter). If you were to pretend you’re a girl swiping through Tinder, the pics are the only thing to suck you in the guy’s profile, so you better be sure you have gone one step beyond what 99% guys fail to do. Most guys are all lazy and use hideous pictures. This is our edge that should be taken advantage of.
These are some of the blunders you are probably guilty of yourself:
• Poor style & grooming
• Bad quality pictures
• Weird facial expression
• Bad context
Poor style & grooming – You do not get a 2nd chance to make a good 1st impression, especially when it comes to online dating, ruin that 1st impression and you’re toast. So, make sure you dress your best. However, it is important to make it look like you have not got dressed for the purpose of online dating, make it look natural with how you dress 80% of the time. If you dress lazy most of the time, change this. This tweak will benefit you in ways that go beyond online dating. Try to always look good. Same goes for personal hygiene and grooming.
Bad quality pictures – If you have taken pics from a device that fits into your pocket, then you probably are setting yourself back. I asked a friend who owns a DSLR camera and I was amazed at the picture quality. Cameras on cell phones are getting better and better these days but they still fall short of a professional camera. If you don’t know anybody with a DSLR camera, you can go to Craigslist and hire someone to follow you around for pretty cheap. Another alternative would be to get a few buddies to all chip in for a sweet DSLR camera. I know this seems like a pretty penny but the rewards will pay dividends in the long run with lots more dates whilst every other guy is stuck using their camera phone selfies.
Weird facial expressions – I amazed how people are not oblivious to the creepy facial expressions they have as their profile picture. One of the best things to do is to copy what girls do and to take about 50 photos per pose. THEN, pick the ones that have the best micro differences. Spend a good amount of time looking at your pretty face and try to look for flaws and do what you can to solve them. Use a free online image editor called
http://www.pixlr.com to cover your flaws. If you have some acne, watch this tutorial to know how to edit the blemishes. If you have yellow teeth, watch this tutorial to whiten your teeth etc. Whatever the flaw, there will probably a tutorial of it somewhere. There is no shame in doing this, girls edit their pics all/most the time anyway!
Bad context – something else that a lot of guys just don’t get is that they don’t think about the context of the picture and what that it is sub-communicating. For example, 5 pics of you with a beer in your hand only conveys that you’re an alcoholic. Selfies of you with your shirt off & tensing your muscles conveys that you’re an overcompensating narcissistic gym rat. This will hurt you even if you were to nail my other pieces of advice above. Try to think about it. If you are an ambitious travelling adrenaline junkie. It makes sense to convey this with pics of yourself bungee jumping on your travels or something, you get the idea.
This should get many more matches/likes assuming if have the fundamentals like not being over weight and dressing like Edward scissor hands
CHAT
