And with that I mostly just mean to say that it takes practice. It takes practice to get comfortable in front of the camera and it takes practice to find the angles, poses and outfits that you look good in. Also!! The photographer has a lot of influence in the outcome of the pictures. A good photographer knows how to find someone's best angles and knows how to make the 'model' feel comfortable. So know that if someone takes a bad picture of you.. it might also just be that they are bad picture takers.
Anyway, something that might be helpful is to practice posing by filming yourself on your phone and discover poses that you like and don't like. That way you get to control the angle and the light and get to try a lot of different things.
There is also this really great photographer who gives posing advice on Instagram but I forgot his name.. if I remember I will link that to this post.
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