The INSIDER Summary:
- Celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Lopez have mastered the art of the perfect selfie.
- Almost all of them agree that good lighting is the key to a flattering selfie.
- They also suggest practicing until you find your perfect angle.
When it comes to taking the perfect selfie, there’s a few ground rules to get started. First, you have to be honest. Don’t be afraid to get a little candid with your selfies. Whether it’s a telling caption or a you’re even rocking a blemish with confidence, just be you! Second, food selfies are a thing. When you’re posing with your favorite dish, it’s double the pleasure for the viewer; a gorgeous snap and a tasty treat, OK! Third, don’t be afraid to let it all hang out, if that’s your style, of course. Hence, Bella Hadid, 20. The model isn’t shy about baring it all for the camera. So, if that’s how you like to roll, be our guest. Maybe start with a small dose of cleavage and see how your followers react. However, be conscious of appropriateness. And, lastly, expert selfie-takers never react to their environment. What does this mean? Well, for example, if you’re in the midst of snapping the perfect selfie and someone in the room screams or slams a door, just keep on snapping and don’t react. It’s all about the concentration. So, let’s let the celebs speak!
1. Kim Kardashian
There’s three rules Kim has said she lives by when it comes to selfies: 1. Lighting, 2. angles, and 3. cropping. “If you don’t have a mirror in front of you to really figure out your pose and your angle, make sure that the lighting is amazing because you want to blow out everything that you don’t want to see and highlight the good things that you do,” she once explained in a T-Mobile commercial. Kim has also credited her light-up Lumeee phone case for providing some of the best light! As for her pose? — Kim has also confessed that her “perfect angle” is her chin pointed down, and the camera held slightly above her face. And, then she just poses and takes “300 photos.” While we wouldn’t take that seriously coming from anyone else; when it comes from Kim, it’s a completely accurate statistic. “A lot has to do with how your crop it,” she once told Jimmy Kimmel [as seen above]. “If you don’t like something on your body, you just crop it.” During her masterclass with makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic, Kim revealed that she uses a digital camera to snap some of her best selfies. “This is how it makes all of [my] pictures so flawless,” she explained. And, lastly, Kim wrote in her selfie book, "Selfish," that she loves lighting in airplane bathrooms!
2. Miranda Kerr
The model takes selfies where she looks up at the camera as it “softens your features and is the best angle for the light,” she once said.
3. Kendall Jenner
The young star believes that lighting is a big thing. “If you’re not in the right light it just won’t work,” she confessed to Estee Lauder. “I’m not into using too many filters, either. I like to keep it pretty natural — or black and white is always cool. But above all, you have to know your face: everybody has their good side. And practice! Practice makes perfect.”
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