I have to take my senior pics this saturday!! What should I wear? How do I do my hair? Should I go to the salon to have it done? What style should I choose? Someone help me!!!
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Don't sweat it.
Ten years from now, you'll look at your senior picture, and no matter what you're wearing or how much time you spent putting it on, you will think: Man, I was such a dork.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
assuming you are a girl because guys wouldn't contemplate going to a salon for pictures (I know a few who thought about not washing it after footbal practice).
I got to wear 3 different outfits, but have since decided none were formal enough. I wore a pair of grey pants with a pink t, jeans with a tank top and button up shirt, and jeans with a mandrian collared satin top (pink and green). My hair was down in most of them but up in a simple pony tail in a few. Depending on if you want a casual or formal picture, maybe a simple dress, hair not done professionally, just fun. The people I know that did have their hair done at a salon for pics looked like they were dolls or something, not like themselves at all.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
I never got my senior pictures taken... I regret it now, though. Posted by Starla* (Member # 5835) on :
Advice: Wear a favorite blouse, or favorite color, cause they don't show more than head an shoulders.
Makeup--nothing too outlandish is advised. Though my outing makeup consisted of black lipstick and purple eyeshadow when I got mine done, I toned it down to more natural shades of pink lipstick and gunmetal gray eye makeup.
Hair: I don't know what your hair looks like, or how you wear it, but unless you want it permed or in a coif, or colored a certain way, don't waste your money on a hairdresser.
I'm lucky enough to have a mass of long blond hair, so I wore mine loose for both High School and College senior portraits. Funny, I had those done Sept 21, 1998, and Sept 26, 2003, respectively. All within a couple of days of my birthday (today, I'm 23). For HS I wore a black dress, College, a brown sweater.
I actually compared the two pictures, and aside from a slight darkening of my hair, an extra nosering, and a happier expression, I don't look much different.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
quote: cause they don't show more than head an shoulders.
I don't know where you got your professional senior pics taken, but that's not what they do around here. They do some close-ups and some full-body shots in different settings: like outdoors, indoor studio. My nephew had he senior portrait taken in full BMX gear with his bike for one of his poses -- it was great. Some get them taken with their car, or with their horse... etc.
Farmgirl
Posted by Allegra (Member # 6773) on :
I am going to get mine done soon too and this is my plan.
One session with my double bass.
One session in something I would wear to school, but on the nice side.
One session with me in a nice skirt and blouse.
I will probably have my hair down for all three, and have simple make up. I figure this way I get a picture with something that defines my life(my bass), a picture with me as I usually am, and a picture of me looking pretty and classic.
Posted by Starla* (Member # 5835) on :
Farmgirl,
I'm in New Jersey. All the senior pics I've ever seen around here were head-and-shoulders, I'm guessing to save space in yearbooks.
That's pretty cool, though, the full body shots. I would probably get soooo much more into it if it were like that here. Probably wear my new goth dress with roses and veils and the like, or something of that sort.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Well, the one for the yearbook IS just head & shoulders.
But they usually do many other poses, for the parents and student to purchase..... You can easily drop $200 to $500 on senior photos alone.
Maybe it is different in your state -- but here for true Senior pics, you hire a professional outside photographer -- this isn't something in the school. There is nothing mandatory about having senior pics taken -- it is just "always done" like tradition -- like class rings, etc. and all those other high school traditions.
Farmgirl
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
If I'm not mistaken, my husband is in his cousin's senior picture with him. They had knocked down the big styrofoam "2003" in the picture and were pretending to bash it with plastic bats.
I assure you, no one can remember what they were wearing.
Come to think of it, Jes was in my senior picture too.
Posted by Sharpie (Member # 482) on :
Just now I got letter in the mail urging me to place a senior ad in my son's yearbook. Parents do this to "show how proud they are of their child's achievement." I can purchase an eighth page to a half page. I dunno -- I honestly think my son would die of embarrassment if I did such a thing. (The letter does stress: please, no naked baby pictures.) But still, up to 10 pictures of the poor kid, along with 150 words written by his parents??? We're a very self-conscious lot in my family; most photos of us are blurry because we dash away from anything that looks like a camera.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Don't do it if your son would hate it. They *say* it's for your kids (even though we know they just want you to pay more) so if your kids don't want it, let's honor that.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Understand that the photo is optional (isn't it?) and it doesn't have to be 150 words! You could just take out an ad that simply says, "Way to go, John! We're Proud of You!" love, your mom & dad.
It is just to help support the yearbook costs, pretty much.
Farmgirl (who used to work on yearbook in HS)
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Which is interesting considering how much they cost in the first place.
Posted by Miro (Member # 1178) on :
I never got my senior picture taken, either. I didn't hear about the first round of photo shoots, and missed the makeup day because of a soccer game. I don't really care, but my mom wasn't too happy.
Posted by Pixie (Member # 4043) on :
I'm getting my senior picture done tomorrow.
I'm thinking I'll just wake up early to shower, and then clip my hair up in a bun so that it will dry during the day, and then I can have some pictures with my hair swept up and then let it out and have it already be wavy without any fussing. Clothes and make-up I'm a little confused on. I'm not paying for extra pictures - just the standard yearbook fee. So... do I still get to dress up or do I just wear that silly wrap?.
Posted by WishfulWiggin (Member # 6823) on :
Sharpie- I would get the ad. Two years ago, both my Brother and I were graduating, and she forgot to send in the ad. About 70% of the kid's parents do put an ad in the yearbook. I didn't mind too much about the whole thing, and neither did my brother, but my Mom felt bad.
Posted by Sharpie (Member # 482) on :
This is my second graduating senior in a row, and I'd not seen this whole ad thing before. I think my oldest must have hidden the letter last year so that I wouldn't get any ideas.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Sharpie, at my school practically no one does the adds so it might not matter, I convinced my mom not to put a picture of me and her friend's son as babies, she said she would have if we were still friends.
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