How to set up a tinder profile if you hate taking photos of yourself?

[Something Funny]

I take zero pictures of myself because I really hate it and I hate looking at them afterwards.

But I would like to set up a dating profile because it feels like an easy, low effort way to easy myself into dating overall. You just scroll it once aday, swipe right, and see if anyone responds.

I've considered hiring to do a photoshoot with, but it would be weird if all my pictures would be the same outfit, location, right? I think they are supposed to be a bunch of casual, lifestyle pictures: holidays, some social event, a selfie, etc.

But I don't have any. So know it feels like I need to live for a year, collecting pictures, just to set up a profile. I would rather ditch the whole idea at that point, I think.

[Recursoinominado]

Then don't do online dating, it only works with good photos of you doing cool shit.

Do cold approach in person. 

[Spiral]

Do not have selfies 

[Godhead]

"I want a result, but I don't want to put in the effort to get the result "

Women will judge your dating profile based on whether you have an aesthetic eye, a good physique, an interesting lifestyle, a social circle, and how you carry yourself. And they are right to, why waste time with someone who can't even put in a little effort into a dating profile. 

If you're below 30, don’t bother with professional photoshoots. One or two well-shot pictures are fine, but too polished can feel inauthentic, unless you're expressing something creative or artistic.

If you don’t showcase anything interesting, no hobbies, no friends, no personality, why should anyone swipe right? Do exactly what you said: actually live for a year. Collect real memories. Go travel. Make Friends. You might realize you don’t even need a dating profile after that.

But if you want to create a profile now, put in some effort. Grab a friend or tripod, explore cool spots in your city (write photospot *city name* into TikTok), and take solid photos. Learn about posing, fashion, and lighting on YouTube and look at reference pictures. If you don’t try at all, don’t expect results or just take some lazy bathroom selfies, get no result, and maybe that will motivate you to put in some work.

Edited Sunday at 05:51 PM by Godhead

[Schizophonia]

Once I created a tinder account I had  matchs but finally quickly deleted it because I founded it boring.

It doesn’t worth at all real meetings, by social circles.

It actually takes time to meet someone you estimate imagine having to talking to random people on tinder on regular basis.

 

[CARDOZZO]

Hire a professional photographer. It really pays off   

[Something Funny]

2 hours ago, CARDOZZO said:

Hire a professional photographer. It really pays off   

 

Did you take photos in just one location / outfit?

[Something Funny]

3 hours ago, Godhead said:

"I want a result, but I don't want to put in the effort to get the result "

That's literally the whole idea of online dating.

3 hours ago, Godhead said:

Women will judge your dating profile based on whether you have an aesthetic eye, a good physique, an interesting lifestyle, a social circle, and how you carry yourself.

No, they will judge me based on how pretty I am 💅

[Something Funny]

2 hours ago, Schizophonia said:

It doesn’t worth at all real meetings, by social circles.

Why not?

[CARDOZZO]

1 hour ago, Something Funny said:

 

Did you take photos in just one location / outfit?

Ideally, you should take different pictures on different places doing different things.

Cooking, running, gym, library, working, travelling, dog/cat, fighting, reading.

Sadly, your virtual presence IS important for a lot of woman to get a sense of who you are. It is not necessary but it helps.

[CARDOZZO]

You can build a great Instagram profile. 

This will give you a sense of abundance to do daygame. You can definitely benefit from doing both game styles.

Edited Sunday at 10:42 PM by CARDOZZO

[Something Funny]

7 hours ago, CARDOZZO said:

Ideally, you should take different pictures on different places doing different things.

Cooking, running, gym, library, working, travelling, dog/cat, fighting, reading.

Sadly, your virtual presence IS important for a lot of woman to get a sense of who you are. It is not necessary but it helps.

How do you take all those? Do you ask strangers?

[samijiben]

Catfish

[Sugarcoat]

I don’t know how other women function so I’m no representant but if I used online dating I wouldn’t really care if a guy just has selfies he took himself. Online dating is mostly looks based when you swipe so I would just judge whether I find him attractive or not. I wouldn’t assume he has “no life” because he has no interesting pics. Maybe he just isn’t the type to take photos like that. I’d say tho that interesting pics can add something positive by making the person seem slightly more interesting upon first glance, but it’s no way a “deal breaker”. 
 

I just realized this might make me sound shallow lol. But to be honest a pic being interesting can’t compensate for me not finding the guy at least somewhat attractive. Personality can bring looks up a significant portion but it’s difficult to convey a significant portion of your personality through a few pics, so it will be a mostly looks based judgment.

Edited Monday at 06:59 AM by Sugarcoat

[Something Funny]

10 minutes ago, Sugarcoat said:

I don’t know how other women function so I’m no representant but if I used online dating I wouldn’t really care if a guy just has selfies he took himself. Online dating is mostly looks based when you swipe so I would just judge whether I find him attractive or not. I wouldn’t assume he has “no life” because he has no interesting pics. Maybe he just isn’t the type to take photos like that. I’d say tho that interesting pics can add something positive by making the person seem slightly more interesting upon first glance, but it’s no way a “deal breaker”. 

@Sugarcoat ok, thanks.

[meta_male]

17 hours ago, Something Funny said:

But I don't have any. So know it feels like I need to live for a year, collecting pictures, just to set up a profile.

You want a quick fix but even the quick fix needs effort. No way around it.

[Something Funny]

@meta_male unless I find a quicker fix.

There should definitely be some cheesy way to get a gf with zero effort.

[something_else]

Travelling a bunch was the best thing that ever happened for my Tinder/Hinge profile. You just get a lot of cool photos of yourself without really trying.

My main pic is a staged photo of me though. You want at least one clear headshot that is really well taken, but the rest should be in-the-moment photos of stuff you're doing.

[Something Funny]

24 minutes ago, something_else said:

Travelling a bunch was the best thing that ever happened for my Tinder/Hinge profile. You just get a lot of cool photos of yourself without really trying.

My main pic is a staged photo of me though. You want at least one clear headshot that is really well taken, but the rest should be in-the-moment photos of stuff you're doing.

Do you ask random people to take pictures of you?

And did you had to practuce posing or whatever before you could take good pictures?

[Something Funny]

@something_else I am in Italy righht now and was in some great places for taking pictures, but dudn't take anay because it felt like a hassle and like it would ruin a moment.