Stand up straight and let your arms fall loose next to your waist. Pull your elbows and shoulders ever so slightly behind you. That way you appear longer and leaner on camera, and your hands won't feel as obvious.
Relax your hands and arms
Your hands (and forearms most likely) won't appear in many of your headshots, but it is nonetheless important that they remain relaxed. Let them drop naturally. If one part of your body is tense or awkward, it will affect the rest of your body and posture.
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Shoulders back communicates confidence. Hands in pockets communicates uncertainty. Crossed arms communicates defensiveness or self-soothing.
You look your widest when you are standing straight forward. When taking pictures, put one foot in front of the other and stand at an angle so your entire body isn't seen. Maximize the slimming effect by placing your hand on your hip that's facing the camera and tilt your neck to elongate it.
If you are feeling self-conscious about using your hands, you can always put one or both in your pockets. This will make you naturally bend your arms and wrists—which looks much better in a photo than letting your arms hang limply at your sides. Make sure your pockets are empty.
Don't put arms flat against your body
I don't care how tiny your arms are, if your arms are flat against your body and facing the camera, the camera is just going to make them look bigger than they are! The best way to avoid this is by turning your arms away from the camera and bending them to create a little space.
Since wide-angle lenses produce more distortion, you could end up looking bigger than you are. Wide-angle lenses have a field of view that's, as the name implies, quite wide, which can cause things that are close to the camera to appear larger than they actually are.
Do you hate your arms? Then don't turn your body and have the side of your arm closest to the camera. Instead, angle your body and open up your shoulder so you see more of a 45 degree angle of your body.
Use angles to help keep the size of the subject's hands in perspective. Take the shot from a few different angles and switch up the hand placement every few frames so that you have options. Avoid cropping the hands at the joints during post-processing, which can result in an unnatural-looking photo.
YouCam Makeup is the only automatic arm slimming app that both detects your arms as soon as you select the arm slimming feature and gives you seamless edits. Unlike other apps, you don't have to move the slimming tool to correct its placement because it's already in the right spot.
The focal length of a camera flattens your features, making you look bigger. This could be due to downlighting as well. Mirrors typically have a light source right above the mirror which makes the shadows deeper on certain parts of the body like the shoulders, chest and abdominals.