00:00Hey guys, I'm Serena and you might not know this already, but I'm the master at taking
00:04selfies.
00:07I have been the girl that did not like taking selfies.
00:10I don't know why people don't like the duck face, but it's my favorite.
00:15I definitely started taking selfies way out of the gate, before there was even a selfie
00:18camera on a phone, before I even had a phone.
00:21It started when I was in middle school.
00:23I had the worst camera, like a little tiny point and shoot, and I would set it on self-timer
00:29and like run around my house and take like self-portraits.
00:32I think the definition of a selfie is a picture that you take of yourself, so it could be
00:36a self-portrait.
00:37It doesn't necessarily have to be like this.
00:38Selfies are for the individual person, and so it's all up to what you want to do and
00:43how you want to present yourself.
00:45Before I can even take my selfie, I have to make sure I'm selfie ready.
00:49You want to make sure your hair is good, you want to make sure your makeup is good, you
00:52want to make sure that your lunch is not sewing your teeth.
00:54I just look at the camera really quick and know, like I got to fix my hair, I got to
01:00freshen up my lipstick, make sure my makeup is looking good.
01:04I don't smile ever because nobody got time for that.
01:07Honestly, you can be like a little glowy, but I don't like to be super shiny.
01:10So I'll dab my skin all over just to make sure I'm not shiny.
01:16I feel it's a little hot under these lights, so my face is very flush.
01:20I like side angles a lot, head on is a little like, whoa, hey there.
01:23Definitely not bursts, I love to do individual photos.
01:27I love the camera like above my head, that way the light really shines down on me.
01:32So, see the eyebrow?
01:36I like to make sure I'm not super shiny because I feel like I sweat more than the average human
01:44and that's fine.
01:45So then you just find your light, which is basically like moving your head around, seeing
01:51what angles work, I'm going to play with my hair, just like give some attitude.
01:59And I make a lot of dumb faces.
02:04I don't think there should be any shame in taking selfies and I don't think that there
02:08should be any shame in editing photos.
02:11I think that people can use filters.
02:13I don't think that it's meant to like mask insecurities.
02:17Sometimes I feel like it can help, like if you are feeling like the picture doesn't look good
02:22or like you like it, but like something's wrong.
02:24It's about self love at the end of the day, like do not feel like you can't take pictures
02:29of yourself.
02:30One day you're going to want to look back and say, I remember this day, I remember how
02:34I felt in that moment.
02:36Thank you guys so much for watching and remember, go take a selfie.
