I’ve had many lovely people make the joke that they want advice on taking selfie’s.  Everyday I think my hair or my make-up looks good, you better believe I will be taking a picture of it. Mostly it’s due to the fact that I took the time to do it and I want it documented. But, I like to think it’s some deep expression of my inner workings as an artist.

I mean Van Gogh did self-portraits.

Not to mention, there’s no greater feeling then meeting someone in person who you’re friends with through social media and having them say, “wow, you look way better online!”

You’re welcome.

Step One: Have a face.

Step Two: Bring Your Face Closer to the Camera

Step Three: Try out different angles for your face and choose the one you like best. {This could take a while.}

Step Four: Bring your chin out and down. {This will eliminate double chins and boring jaw lines.}

This…

Not this…

And definitely NOT this…

Step Five: Leave your mouth slightly open and don’t clench your jaw.

Wrong…

Right…

Step Six: Get bored and make silly faces for a while instead.

Step Seven: See what it looks like to add your hands in the frame.

Step Eight: Be aware of your eyes. 

What not to do:

Angry eyes…

Sleepy eyes…

Dodgy Eyes…

If you’re going to look away, do it ethereally…

Step Nine: Use natural light. 

Step Ten: If you’re in the car taking selfies, make sure to turn the air on for that wind blown look. Other wise, you may look like your hair is eating your  neck. 

Step Eleven: Use a filter to brighten your skin tone. Then, crop it into a square. {Oh hey instagram!}

Step Twelve: Never, under any circumstances, allow people to see what you actually look like when you’re home alone. 

Step Thirteen: Make sure to use tons of hashtags so that everyone in the world, not just those that follow you, can either like it or silently judge you from Asia. 

#selfie #gpoy #myface #tellmeimpretty #seriouslydoyoulikemyface #hair

Step Fourteen: Do your best to come up with a more clever caption then “This is my face,” “Starting the day with a selfie, or “Thursday face.” {Note: Actual captions used by the author of this blog post.}

Step Fifteen: Remember, #sotd does not mean “Selfie of the Day” it means “Shoes of the Day” {*cough* Sarajane *cough*}

xoxo,

Sarajane.

At some point or another most of us have been in a situation where we had to eat alone at a restaurant. Your face burning with the realization that people are probably pitying you. The intense urge to awkwardly announce that you do indeed have friends and that someone somewhere probably loves you.

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I’m going to start this post off by asking you to enter into a judgement free zone. Have you gotten there? So, nothing I say is going to make you think I’m cooky right? Ok then, here goes…

So, we LOVE Oprah in our house. Well, most of us do. I’ll give you a quick guess as to which one of us isn’t an Oprah fanatic…

But, the rest of us. We treat Oprah like our church. It’s nice when we can all sit around and watch an episode of life class and then talk about what that means in our lives and what we’d like to apply.

Recently we watched the episode where she talked about the phrase “I am…” The highlight of the lesson was that whatever phrase you use to follow “I am…” is going to come and find you. 

Take a moment to think about that…

I’ll wait…

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