Content

• Steps
• Part 1 of 5: Matching Clothes by Body Type
• Part 2 of 5: Choosing the Best Clothes
• Part 3 of 5: Taking care of your hair
• Part 4 of 5: Highlighting Beauty with Makeup
• Part 5 of 5: Complementing Your Look with Your Own Confidence

Beauty is not limited to weight parameters. With catwalks and fashion magazines flooded with skinny doll-like models, it can be difficult to realize that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. If you're overweight enough, you can look amazing too. Just choose the clothes that suit you, accentuate your strengths and reinforce your image with the confidence you radiate.

Steps

Part 1 of 5: Matching Clothes by Body Type

1. 1 Balance your upper body with clothing if you have a pear-shaped figure. Wear loose blouses and tight-fitting skirts and pants to make your upper body appear more proportional to your lower half. Avoid baggy trousers and wide skirts, as they can visually enlarge your hips even more.
   • If your chest girth is less than your hips, then you have a pear-shaped figure. The bulk of the excess weight in this case is located on the hips and buttocks.
2. 2 For the apple type, try to emphasize the chest, arms and legs in the clothes. Try tops that show at least some skin on your chest and shoulders. Wear custom-tailored skirts and pants for a slimmer appearance. This will create a balance between the central area and the rest of the body.
   • The apple figure is characterized by the accumulation of excess weight in the central part of the body. In this case, the waist circumference exceeds the circumference of the chest and hips.
3. 3 Emphasize the lower half of the body if you have a triangular figure. Avoid clothing with a lot of additional details and patterns at the top. Try to keep the bottom half of your outfits curvy and interesting, and thus balance your figure. Try fluffy skirts, trousers with large pockets, and other interesting items.
   • With a triangular body shape, the shoulders and chest are noticeably wider than the hips.
   • With such a figure, you can wear pretty blouses, but you should abandon such models that contain many decorative details in the form of embroidery with beads or threads, ruffles, and so on.
4. 4 Emphasize the curves of the body with a straight figure. Get creative with your clothing layers and accessories. Try on blouses with ruffles at the shoulders or chest, or fluffy skirts. If you need a maxi-length dress, complement it with a belt to tighten the waist. These tricks will help you create the illusion of a narrower waist and wider chest and hips.
   • A straight figure is characterized by approximately the same girth of the shoulders, chest, waist and hips.
5. 5 Accentuate your waist with an hourglass figure. Choose tight-fitting clothing that accentuates your curves. Loose baggy clothes are not at all suitable for such a figure.
   • Women with an hourglass figure have a smaller waist and less hips. If this is true in your case, then it would be nice to accentuate your waist in your clothes.

Part 2 of 5: Choosing the Best Clothes

1. 1 Opt for heavier fabrics. Thin and lightweight fabrics may seem airy and great for informal occasions, but they tend to stick to the body and cause some discomfort. Denser fabrics, on the other hand, will better keep the lines flowing in your clothing, making you look slimmer. They are able to tighten the figure, as well as hide unwanted lines of underwear under them.
   • Of course, you don't have to give up fabrics like silk or cotton altogether, but be sure to try different types of fabrics to find what works best for you.
2. 2 Try different styles of clothing. People who are overweight sometimes tend to stay in a certain comfort zone by their style of clothing. Of course, there is nothing wrong with loose, flowing bohemian clothing, but try other styles for yourself. Next time you go shopping for clothes, bring something you don't normally wear with you to the fitting room. You might suddenly like something new!
   • You don't have to buy all the clothes you try on, and you don't have to show anyone in them. Just try to objectively evaluate how other styles of clothing look on you.
   • Remember that you cannot understand how a thing sits on you until you try it on.
3. 3 Highlight those features of your body that you like the most. You can dress by body type and follow fashion tips, but by and large you have to emphasize what you want to showcase! If you like your shoulders, show them off with a off-the-shoulder top. If you like your butt, wear a tight-fitting skirt to flatter your shape in the back.
   • You know your own body like no one else, so try to emphasize it from the very best sides.
4. 4 Use certain colors and patterns to your advantage. Don't be intimidated by the bright colors, just try to make sure the clothes are the right size for you! For a smoother look, try using monochrome colors in fabrics with different textures.
   • If you want to dress up in something striped, opt for thin light stripes on a dark background. Vertical stripes will make you look slimmer (compared to horizontal stripes).
   • If you particularly like a certain part of your body, wear clothes in which this area is decorated with fun, bright patterns that will draw attention to it.
5. 5 Love your body. Despite the fact that it is always quite interesting to emphasize, accentuate and highlight individual features of your body, you do not need to worry about its decrease in other areas. If you don't love certain areas of your body as much as others, try to take a radical step and show them vice versa! Dress up in clothes that will give you pleasure and will help you feel confident, will allow you to forget about all the fashion "rules" and tips for masking unwanted areas.

Part 3 of 5: Taking care of your hair

1. 1 Keep your hair healthy. Soft and shiny hair is an essential complement to a chic look. To keep your hair healthy, treat it appropriately. Don't wash your hair too often, as shampoo strips hair of its natural moisturizer - sebum. Use thermal styling tools in moderation and be sure to apply heat protectants first. When possible, dry your hair naturally, and when that is not possible, use a hair dryer set to cool or medium temperatures.
   • Be sure to eat nutritious foods and drink plenty of water. Taking a daily multivitamin can help replenish potential deficiencies in essential nutrients in the body.
2. 2 Change your hairstyles. Breaking away from your usual daily hair styling style can give you a whole new and stunning look. Don't worry if you don't have an innate talent for creating hairstyles. You can find tutorial videos for almost any hairstyle on YouTube. When you have some free time, try out some new looks in which you can feel especially beautiful.
   • And remember to keep your hair healthy. Instead of using curls, try alternative curling methods that do not heat your hair.
   • Avoid wearing a tight ponytail all the time, as this puts unnecessary pressure on the hairline and can even damage the hair at the roots.
3. 3 Use hair accessories. Most girls have such awkward situations when it seems that not a single outfit fits them properly and they all emphasize the completely wrong body features. As far as hair accessories go, the plus is that they always look good!
   • Replenish your wardrobe with interesting headbands, stylish hairpins, fashionable hats so that you can easily complement any of your outfits.

Part 4 of 5: Highlighting Beauty with Makeup

1. 1 Even out skin tone with concealer and foundation. When it comes to makeup, the goal is to accentuate the natural beauty of the face. Regardless of how bad or good your makeup and cosmetology skills are, developing a certain beauty routine that you enjoy will boost your confidence and help you look great. The first step is to give your skin a flawless look.
   • Even out skin tone with a liquid foundation. With clean hands, apply the foundation to your face, and blend thoroughly with a large, round makeup brush.
   • Use concealer to mask blemishes and age spots. Use your fingertips to apply the product gently to the skin.
   • Secure everything with powder. Using a makeup brush, gently apply powder over foundation and concealer, paying particular attention to areas of the face that tend to oily.
2. 2 Accentuate your eyes with eyeliner and mascara. Most girls have their own preferences in the method of performing this step, so you are free to independently determine for yourself a specific order of actions. But if you are completely new to makeup, here are some basic guidelines to help you make your eyes more expressive.
   • Apply eyeliner along the lash line of the upper eyelid to enhance and visually enlarge eyes, and create the illusion of thicker, more luxurious lashes.
   • Curl your lashes with an eyelash curler to visually open your eyes.
   • Use mascara to add volume and expression to your lashes.
3. 3 Use blush to make your face livelier and more vibrant. This step is extremely important. While perfectly even skin can look amazing on its own, applying blush or bronzer will help you make your look even more attractive and fresh. It will also help to make your face livelier and more expressive and in general give your makeup a perfect finished look.
   • Choose a blush color that looks natural on you. Depending on your specific skin tone, it can be pink, peach or bronze.
   • To apply blush to the apples of your cheeks, use a soft blush brush and work with light sweeping strokes up towards your ears. Blend the blush onto the skin for a smooth color transition.

Part 5 of 5: Complementing Your Look with Your Own Confidence

1. 1 Choose a role model that suits you. If you are surrounded by images of girls who are radically different from you, it will be difficult not to feel like an outsider. For this reason, you need to find the right role model for yourself that inspires you. It doesn't matter if it is a large-scale model from some fashion show or a very confident woman you know in real life, a teacher, a family member, or a body-positive public person. Just find the right person to help you love yourself.
   • Try searching the internet for information on curvy models, writers, poets, or actresses. Read their stories, listen to interviews. They can inspire you!
2. 2 Remember that only you yourself are the strictest critic of yourself. If you don't like certain things about yourself, it is very likely that only you pay attention to them. And if you yourself are able to forget about your little "flaws", then others will forget. When you learn to have an amazing time with what you have, it will attract those around you.
   • Try complimenting yourself daily. If you have difficulty with this, start small, such as eye color, and then gradually expand the list.
3. 3 Take a wider look at yourself. As hackneyed as it sounds, you only live once. Don't waste time worrying about a few extra pounds or trying to fit in with someone else's expectations. Love your own body and remember that it is beautiful in its uniqueness. When you feel confident, dignified and amazing inside your own body, the same will be expressed on the outside!