It's not about hiding what you have and not embracing it, it's about just enjoying your photo moment
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Today hey guys, it's Ally today. I'm here with Ann Le.
One of my most frequently asked question for Ann is, how do you pose for pictures?
And how do you feel comfortable and confident in your photos? Be sure to check out our collaboration on her video?
I shared some of my favorite fashion hacks and tips and tricks on how to maximize a travel wardrobe
Yes, I get asked a lot about like how I posed to look natural instead of super Posey. Yeah
Well, I have a lot of insecurities, you know
like I feel like my waistline is just not there and my legs look short and
Sometimes my hair is so flat in terms of Maia securities. I'm a hairy girl
Okay
I
Have to like go and shave my arms to make sure they weren't dark I grew up with really hairy
Arms, and people used to tease me all the time about it. But now I just like I don't care
It's natural
it's how I look and I just let it be we all have insecurities Mia and we have a lot of
Tips and tricks in this video that I think you guys will find very helpful. So without further ado, let's jump into this video
As you guys might know I'm only five two and three quarters
So I'm considered a shorty and I used to really hate wearing flat shoes
I felt like flat shoes just made my feet that are size 9
Even bigger and I just look really short and kind of scum feet in photos
so I
Really try to avoid this
I've learned a few tips that I wanted to share with you on how to pose if your short and
To make you look longer and leaner
So it looks really good is to separate your feet and to put one foot in front of the other
this really creates the illusion of longer legs and
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So I don't feel comfortable showing like my
Stomach mostly because I'm a mother and my body went through a lot
I have some stretch marks here, and I have a little bit
Skin, that gives me a little bit of a muffin top depending on what I wear
so this part for me is always like a trouble area and
I get a little shy when it comes to taking photos sometimes so I definitely learn
Different angles when I turn my body at an angle it works better
so let's say I have like my shoulders twisted and
My hips going the opposite direction
That really helps accentuate your waistline a little bit more if you can see what I'm doing here
And then you just kind of like what's your ab muscles?
Yeah at the same time not sucking it in might mean you suck it in
It gives off like that people can tell so you just want to like work out at the same time you're posing
it's like flex that adla so and then just twist your body around that's a trick that I usually like to do is kind of
Turn a little bit on the side and like, you know kind of play around with that angle. I
Really love this rug and my arian feet look at how many rocks are in here 1 2 3 4
And I think there's another one. Oh
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six, oh
I guess there's only six right?
I feel like potato because I'm so tiny and just like scrunch and looking not very confident
So if you have your friend just stand up at a higher angle
It actually creates a longer leaner look and if you cross your leg over like this, you can look even taller
So you turn to the side to at a 45-degree angle it just looks so much better
So I just ate I'm feeling like a blob and sometimes when you're sitting down and you're trying to take a good picture
Some of that some of that squishiness can come out to play
So there are a future tips that you can do when it comes to taking photo and hiding that
Extra goodie
So if you're sitting on the side
You can use your arms to cover the side of your waist and just use it as a support here
Or here just play around with it, you know?
And you also want to straighten your back too to give it that nice elongated look
You don't want to get in like this because it's gonna look very unnatural you just want to strengthen that how's this
Mmm, no
Yeah, I like the pose in the front cover the mermaid
That's the great thing about Instagram is that you can practice as much as you want
Take a whole bunch of yours in the comfort of your own home, you know
Have a friend help you out because no one's there to judge you
Yeah, like if you have just your camera and a tripod you can take all these photos by yourself and practice with whatever you have
It looks like I'm in some really exotic place
Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's like I don't look - Posie. I'm
comfortable
Hello welcome to Ali's cooking show I feel like a
1950s housewife
Cutting through just bought these fruits from the market this morning, you know, it's summertime. I'm
Show off good produce because I love eating healthy
Leave the greenery on just eat the cut one side wash
And you know these are organics
Great what do you think?
It matches your outfit perfectly. Yeah, thank you. That looks so pretty. Oh
My god they're chase
so something that Ali and I like to do is we'd like to go out to cute little cafes whenever she's in town and
You know, we would order some Acutes mastic this right now it's snack time and she put out this beautiful display right here
you know, we tried to make it into a moment and take a lovely photo while at it and
something I want to share with you today is
how to position your arm because many of us, you know, sometimes we're just like in the moment we forget and
The arm can look twice the size on camera
And now it's my turn to try and tips because I always tend to kind of
Leave my arms really close to my body and I just feel like it's a more
Protective pose I think if I just angled my arm out a little bit like this am I doing it, right? Yeah
You got it. Is that looks good?
So another one of my insecurities are my eyes
So I feel that I always have really small looking eyes when it comes to being photographed
And that insecurity really just comes from this photographer. I met in Hawaii where he photoshopped my eyes bigger. What? Yeah
It was just really awkward because he kept telling me open your eyes like look straight up. I'm really trying my god
I look - and I'm Asian like yeah, I'm sorry. My eyes are naturally small, but you know, I screw him
Yeah, I love my eyes. I think they're just part of who I am and I think there are different ways that you can
Pose in a picture to make your eyes look bigger
Yeah, I mean definitely work with what you have at the same time
You know when you're out you can squint and this can happen to anybody. It just makes your expression looks a little bit off
So wherever you can keep it more natural as possible then
Go for that, right? All right, Ally embrace what you have
How you doing?
Sometimes what I want to make my eyes look bigger
I like to look up like look and towards the Sun so that the light hits my pupils
Look super cute. I
Like to rest my hand on my cheek. I think it looks really cute, too
Enjoying a strawberry. Sometimes I even like to cover an eye
That's how I like to pose to make my eyes
Okay, another tip is
Like using a big flower like this. I think it's really fun switch out the clip if you like put in your hair
That's a nice like tropical feel
No, you're on vacation
back in Hawaii
Yes this time embracing it. So Ali. I don't know if you have this problem, but with me and
Indication culture they look down on a prominent jawline. And so that was something an insecurity
I had growing up, you know
Whenever I take photos my jawline looks a lot more
prominent and I felt more on the masculine side and I'll get criticized for that or people laugh at me because they think that it's
less feminine
So when I take photos, you know
sometimes if I feel like it's to enhance
Then I would just use my hands to do this like just to cover a little part of my chin
Yeah
yeah, and that gives more of like the look that's why you know, it is like a
Lot of Asian cultures and they take photos and they do that kind of enough because it's looked down upon for a more prominent
Jawline, you know sometimes when you look at stuff that you don't like and you look at something that reminds you of an insecurity
Mm-hmm, it can really play a toll on you and it can remind you of something negative
So it's not about hiding what you have and not embracing it
It's about just enjoying your photo moment your photo taking moment
So when you look at your photo, you can enjoy what you love about yourself. That's so true
I think so much of us focus on the parts that we hate
Yeah, we don't think about oh what we love. Mm-hmm and there are certain things that you can do just start weeks
You know, it's not like you're cutting off a chunk of you in Photoshop or anything like that
These are just little tweaks to do for fun
So another arm trick that you can use when you're standing sometimes when we are out, you know
We're in the moment taking photos. We do this, you know, we're holding something holding somebody
hugging somebody and our arms are squish against our body which kind of like emphasize it a little bit more because you know,
You're pushing all that
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between your body
I mean on your body a trick that you can use to make it leaner is just to tuck it behind your body
so
Next to someone use them and put your arm behind them
What models do is they kind of like push their shoulder out a little bit to do this and it just looks like
it's like a nice whole arm I
Hope you guys enjoy today's video. Thank you so much to Ann for sharing all of her amazing body-positive tips
And you want to see more of her be sure to check out our collaboration on her video
I shared some of my favorite fashion hacks tips and tricks on how to maximize a travel wardrobe. Yes
so
We're gonna share with you different ways on how you can wear what you have when you're traveling and different ways on how you can
maximize these items and I hope you guys are left with this feeling of
positivity and
Self-love because at the end of the day you only have your own body and why not just love yourself even more
Yes, take these tips as it is
don't just think that these are to hide what you have embrace what you have but also
You know focus on what you have to be grateful for and not everyone is a model
I think the in definitely not me. Yeah
like on a model in any sense, but you know apps like Instagram and YouTube are great platforms to share yourself and
You know
The more you share yourself the more you become more comfortable with the way you look. Yes and the more
You know about yourself - and what you like?
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Something bad is going on
The fashion police are coming
I'm
hungry
Ended up ordering myself some salmon po ke from my favorite place, which is sweet fins
You know, you just like sit like this ouch
Already sit like this nice louse. You can see some of that good eat
Flattering, right
I'm such a weirdo and I picked a flower so I can have a romantic lunch with
Nope this isn't non-alcoholic shoot perfect horse juice. Hmm. They're coming for you now