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Old one is saging

Feel free to post your favorite accounts and self post, and share tips, advice and photo editing apps. No one cares about your vendetta.

>> No.9164992

>>9164966
Some of my favorites are
@harutamusama
@georgie_piyo
@felikawaiiko
@shiiperooo
@ruumandiyuu1437

My favorite editing apps are meitupic and linecamera.

I love 'clean' instagrams with post being of similar color or well, beautiful people in general (in my own sense of what beauty is, I don't want to offend anyone)

>> No.9165073
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My account isn't cgl related, but how I deal with dark circles is that I edit them with the heal tool (spot and shades) on pixlr express (I use the online version). I also use the heal tool for any pimples. I use linecamera after for everything else (brightening, filter, etc).

>> No.9165084

>>9165073
You should give meitupic a try! It easily removes dark circles as well as you can also remove wrinkles and nasolabial folds

>> No.9166126

>Find this girl with cute outfit
>Check her other photos
>20+ pics on the same outfit with slight different poses

Tell me, why does people do this? To get more likes? To be up on the tag pages?

>> No.9166232

>>9166126
Cause sometimes you can't dress up regularly. I have a few similar selfies that I upload just to keep active since I can't be cosplaying every single week to get fresh content. I am also bad at posing, so I just play safe I guess...

>> No.9166403

>>9166232
Same goes for me, I'll take a bunch of selfies if I feel comfortable about a certain makeup, hair and outfit and then upload them once after another to keep my acc active

>> No.9167504

Does anyone have any tips on spicing up their feed?
I'm a lolita so there's not much I can do in terms of posting progress shots or anything like that. The closest I can get is clothing hauls or wardrobe posts.

And does anyone have tips for looking not-dead either? I look tired or soulless in all of my pictures even though I use the typical "livening" techniques like light colored/glittery makeup, highlighting to look dewy, making sure my eyes don't look droopy or half-closed, etc.

>> No.9167522

>>9167504
I always like to see other peoples wardrobes or just cute little arrangements of accessories of the same colour and such.


For your selfies I'd say practice different angles does. And try to take them with as much natural light as possible

>> No.9168051

>>9167504
Definitely add lighting anon.

>> No.9171126

What tags you usually follow and what do you use on your lolita/jfashion?

>> No.9171131

>>9171126
I like to look up the gyaru tags though rn it seems they've turned into a total disaster, only cosplay and ppl with no makeup.

>> No.9173990

Are there any beauty apps that realistically increase the size of your iris, instead of your entire eye? I have smallish irises and a lot of eye white showing but can't wear circle lenses to improve on my sanpaku serial killer eyes.

>> No.9174000

>>9173990
use beautycam or meitu and manually do the eye enlargement instead of letting it auto enlarge

>> No.9174014

What do you guys like to see the most in Cosplay accounts? Lots of w.i.p.s? Mostly photoshoot pics? Other stuff like selfies or figures?

>> No.9174037

>>9174014
desu, if you're trying to get popular, cgl isn't the right place to ask for what kind of content you should post. The answer from here will probably be along the lines of wip shots and detail shots. If you're trying to get popular, selfies are the way to go.

>> No.9174059

>>9174014
I really enjoy selfies and costests, but you should balance it with wips and actual shoot photos. Figures in general is meh to me

>> No.9174079

>>9174014
>what I like to see
progress photos, drawings, room photos, gym videos, figure/plushie/merch collections or small hauls (not photos of individual items)
>what I think is popular
good outfit photos, selfies with really good makeup, room photos, photoshoot pics

Most importantly, I think you need to have well taken photos. Good lighting and no grainy shit

>> No.9174196

>>9174079
>>9174059
>>9174037
Why do people like selfies so much?

>> No.9174461

>>9174196
I don't know, I like to see pretty people I guess?

>> No.9174649

>>9174196
you can see clothes or figures etc.from anyone, and normies don't care about wip and details. they just dont make people want to follow you. people like following pretty people and seeing them on their feed.

>> No.9174669

>>9174196
I wish I knew anon, selfies are my least favorite content.

>> No.9174695

>>9174014
WIP photos and photoshoots. Somewhere between those two, a few detail shots or explanations of how an interesting technique was used.
Selfies in excess are annoying, a few over the course of a con are fine but slapping on wigs or costumes at home and doing selfies is lazy content and not interesting. I'm also not a fan of costests. Having things to update with often are great but don't sacrifice quality for quantity, if you can only post twice a week with progress, shoot photos, etc, then that's fine.

>> No.9174698

>>9174014
WIP progress photos are my favorite, especially if it's a really interesting part of the costume or really pretty details. It also gets me inspired to keep on crafting.

>> No.9175049

Does everyone seriously use apps to cover up or alter their face? I thought we were on a level playing field lol, now everyone must think 'm super ugly if I don't look perfect after being assumed to use Linecamera or whatever like everyone else. I adjust brightness, contrast and that's it. Have never, ever shooped myself- it just feels wrong and fake,

>> No.9175051

>>9175049

I dont either anon, I dont want to be a person that is super pretty online and then you see them irl and are like ... what the fuck happened.
If I do happen to make adjustments they are never super extreme, maybe lightening up the bags under my eyes.

>> No.9175068

>>9175049
>>9175051
Do you guys want some kind of reward for not shooping? Jfc get over yourselves.

>> No.9175069

>>9175049
I've tried out the beauty filter on my phone but it looks silly and I've never uploaded anything that shooped.
I use filters and adjust brightness/contrast like you but that's it. I don't even do full face makeup, just eyeshadow and lipstick and if I feel confident enough I'll do my eyebrows.

>> No.9175071

>>9175068
Do you shoop?

>> No.9175081

>>9175049
>>9175051
for all your self-righteousness, you're still shooping by brightening and contrasting, etc. And honestly, there's no such thing as a "level playing field". It's pretty obvious when people don't use the photo editing app; if people think you're ugly, it's not going to be because you didn't use beauty cam lol

>> No.9175085

@crystalmangacafe
@officialemcp
@pmphotography

>> No.9175093

>>9175049
I don't even alter brightness and contrast that much. I rarely take selfies, because I actually hate seeing selfies on other feeds unless it's like >>9174695 said. Occasional selfies at cons/vacation spots or with friends/puppies/interesting shit and not just in your room are fine.

It's partially because of what >>9175051 pointed out. Back in college, I met all my friends online first. Most of the time it was because the friends I already had would introduce me to their other friends in group video chats before inviting us out. SEVERAL people told me that they were surprised that I am not as pretty as they were expecting me to be. Low quality webcam at a slightly elevated angle with bright lighting was washing out my imperfections, you know? Felt bad to be told I was a letdown.

I kind of stopped taking selfies since then. I never edited, but I did use lighting and angles to my advantage a lot.

>> No.9175099

Have you guys ever noticed that cute people on Instagram seem to only have cute friends ?

>> No.9175105

>>9175081
>you're still shooping by brightening and contrasting
Even to just fix colors? I mean I guess but it's not like you're trying to alter your face necessarily. Usually stuff like that is to fix lighting issues. Whenever I see people in like, the CoF thread accusing someone of shoop, they're referring to using the blur or smudge tool in an app or photoshop. I've seen people complain about filter usage too, but it's always specified that they're using a filter and it's a different kind of shoop.

>> No.9175112

>>9175105
shooping or Photoshopping just means altering the photo in some way. you might be shooping less, and get no flack for it, but you're still shooping.

>> No.9175122

>>9175051
something you have to consider, though, is that photos (especially selfie cameras) distort your face. I shoop a shit ton, but I edit the photo to how I would look irl (for example, my nose looks huge when I take photos, but is much smaller irl). Other things that are more subtle , like evening out my eyes/makeup/etc, are flaws that wouldn't be noticed irl, since you don't notice smaller things when they're in motion, but that make more of a difference when you're staring at a still picture of yourself. I have people I don't know recognize me quite often, and even the most honest of my friends says that I look like my photos, so I don't think it's bad or deceiving to shoop.

>> No.9175234

>>9175112
Then why do so many anons differentiate the two?

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>>9175234
to make themselves feel better about "not shooping"?? there's a literal definition for the word "Photoshopping"; just because you get shat on if you "shoop" too much and don't get any reaction for just edit lighting doesn't change the fact that both of these are encompassed under the term.

>> No.9175251

>>9175247
No they differentiate when calling out other people. Did you read my first comment?

>> No.9175257

>>9175251
I'm not sure if you're just not understanding what I said, or if your very vague, unspecific comment means something else. You asked why do many anons differentiate between "shooping" and "light editing", correct?

>> No.9175260

>>9175257
Right but in a comment above that I was talking about how anons call out others in CoF threads, they say shoop to refer to blur/smudge, and say filters for the other.

>> No.9175273

>>9175260
To be more specific is what I would assume? Over time, the connotation of "shoop" has come to mean liquifying, blurring, etc, but its still originally a shortened version of the word "photoshop" (and still used interchangeably) and the denotation remains the same.

>> No.9175314

>>9175273
I have never heard shoop used colloquially to mean "she adjusted the brightness and color levels on that photo!". I've only ever heard it used to insinuate that someone did some serious alteration to hide flaws. While lighting/color adjustment is still editing, it's an entirely different ballgame when compared to blur/smudge/deform photoshopping.

>> No.9175320

>>9175314
shit, I just realized what you were saying and totally misread that post. Never mind.

>> No.9175332

>>9175314
God, thank you. This is what I was trying to say.

>> No.9175334

I erase my horrendous dark circles for selfies and I'm not even sorry about it.

>> No.9175357
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if you're curious in the inner workings of a gulls bf

@spikeyham

>> No.9175362

where did the "gulls hate shoop" meme even come from?

>> No.9175367

>>9175362
all the jealous whales

>> No.9176496

>>9175332
how do you not understand what that anon is saying? even though people use the words like that doesn't change the actual definition of the word shooping, which technically encompasses all kind of photo alteration

>> No.9176502

>>9175049
The only thing I do besides brightening and some color filters is getting rid of the eyebags under my eyes and pimples or marks like that :v

>> No.9176540

>>9176496
We sorted it out. Please drop it.

>> No.9176852

>>9175357
Lol hi Rigo

>> No.9179600

What are good search terms for ouji? #oujifashion is less used and #ouji is filled non-related stuff. Or are oujis not in the insta?

>> No.9179738

Does someone know why some pics doesn't show up at the tag pages?

I strated my insta some time ago and got few likes per pic at first, but right now I hardly get any. I searched some of the tags I use and my pics didn't show up. What I'm doing wrong?

>> No.9179881

>>9179738
When you search a tag it will usually show popular first, then under it the list of all the posts from newest to oldest, so your old pics don't keep getting likes unless someone sees a new pic you posted and wants to see what else you have on your account.

I have a question of my own, do any of you manage more than one account? I turned my personal account into a cosplay only account for my cosplay page recently, so I could share content straight to it, was it a bad decision?

Also, a bit unrelated and noob question but where's the best place to post cosplay pictures with full quality? I don't cosplay anime often, would it be okay to post it to world cosplay and sites like it or would I have more luck somewhere else? I mostly do games and movies

>> No.9179885

>>9179881
I use instwogram for my second account. It's a pretty good app.

>> No.9180309

>>9179738
Are you using really popular tags? Your posts could just be getting buried really fast.

With the way instagram works, people aren't going to organically discover your posts unless you're already getting tons of followers and likes.

>> No.9180939

>>9180309
One of the tags I use is really slow, I can easily scroll to pics which was posted few months ago. Still no my pics there, even though I posted yesterday

>> No.9180945

>>9179738
They have a few tags that they stupidly block public posting if you post into. Some of them are obvious like "boobs" or "butt" and I won't be surprised if "lolita" is also in this category. It seems to be some kind of curb on porn and spam traffic. Some of the more idiotic ones include "photo" and "instagram". The only way really to fix this is post your tags in a comment so you can delete & retag if they don't appear, or delete the photo entirely and try again.

>> No.9181028

Has anybody here some cute lolita instagram accounts to follow, besides the obvious popular girls? I'm mostly intersted in classic and gothic but don't mind sweet if the pictures are nice.

>> No.9181031

>>9179600
I only use ouji. I don't think there are others besides the ones you mentioned.

>> No.9181191

I have a cosplay account, and want to start photographing my figures too, would it be smart to have a separate account for that or not? On one hand the figure and cosplay fandom overlap but on the other hand they don't always want to see both.

>> No.9181321

any visual kei type instagrams? Real people not artists.

>> No.9183702

>>9181191
I think it's fine desu. I like seeing a wider variety of pictures rather than just cosplay progress.

>> No.9183785

>>9179600
Oujistyle, kadonastyle, oujifashion, kodona

>> No.9184676

>>9181028
These are some who I follow, that I don't think are that well known.
Walnuttcookie
Bonbunnie
Tyrianjubilee
_quenyaa_
Kulain

>> No.9185008

>>9184676
Oh I didn't know about Kulain, thank you!

>> No.9185033

>>9184676
melbcomm or bust?

>> No.9185087

>>9185033
Close. Still, from Aus.

>> No.9185240

>>9184676
followed

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>>9181028
>new to instagram
>2016

Who are the obvious ones? I'm only following Misako

>> No.9186146

>>9180945
I deleted pic at the time when I started gettin less likes, now my other pics are seen on the feed (the slow ones). I don't know what was inappropriate about it since it was just pic of a pendant and tags didn't seem broken.

>> No.9187711

Give me some goth Lolita grams pls on phone can't browse thread

>> No.9187712

>>9187711
no

>> No.9187719

>>9187712
Thanks senpai

>> No.9187731

>>9187711
Kek, you're the retard who called people niggers for telling you to come here in the Lolita general, aren't you?

>> No.9187866

Can only private accounts turn off comments? I noticed on my private account that I can disable comments on individual posts, but I can't do it on my public accounts. I thought it might be based on followers, but by private account only has 600 (mostly ghost followers too) while my public one has over 20k

>> No.9187913

Is there anything I can do if a private account is reposting pictures I took and not crediting it?
Reporting doesn't seem to have a specific option for this, also, how often does reporting someone on instagram actually do something?

>> No.9189873

>>9187866
My account is public and I still have the option. Maybe it's because you have two accounts? I'm not really sure why that would be an issue though.

>> No.9189987

>>9187913

Did you water mark or add a corner logo? If they are not being sold, there's not much you can do about it

>> No.9190077

>>9189873
I just checked with one of my mutuals with multiple public accounts, and she was able to turn off comments before but no longer has the option. Hm, I hope it comes to everyone soon.

>> No.9190096

>>9187866
I think it's a feature they are slowly rolling out, so you should get it on all your accounts eventually.

>> No.9190234

I feel like its kinda fucked up asking something like this, but do you guys have any suggestions for black lolitas whose accounts you really like?

>> No.9190280

>>9187913
There is a way to report it if you have the permalink/direct URL to the post. IG and FB make the process before getting to the actual DMCA type form unnecessarily discouraging but you can get to it if you follow the correct prompts. I've had several posts from others (private account/people who blocked me so I wouldn't see the posts) taken down after someone told me the URL.

>> No.9192848

バンプ

>> No.9192901

any gyaru, k-pop, or street fashion instas to look out for? I'm not young enough or thin enough to do the kawaii thing.

>> No.9193045

>>9175049
>>9175051
You guys are photo manipulating. Photoshopping is basically just using Photoshop, because of the program, like Band Aid instead of adhesive bandage. So yeah you may not be using Photoshop to shop, you're still photo manipulating.

>> No.9194114

I'm sorry if this is a really dumb thing to ask about, but.. Hashtags. How do I do this right?
I'm not trying to become ~instagram famous or anything like it, but I have less than 20 followers and would like my photos to reach more people.
I'm just not good at hashtags. Lately I've been posting photos from a vacation, just tagging it as #country, #location and nothing else. When I post any fandom shit I just tag #fandom and nothing else.
I want to start posting fashion selfies and I just don't know what I could add to that besides #selfie, and when I post my pets on there all I can bring myself to add is #cat / dog and #cute.

tldr I'm super bad at the hashtag game, please teach me how to reach out to more people without looking thirsty.

>> No.9194381

>>9194114
Be more specific. Those generic hashtags are so busy that your pictures will be overrun instantly. Tag for instance #poodle instead of #dog or #redheadselfie instead of #selfie. Also, check how busy the hashtags are. From my experience, if they are over 500.000, I won't be visible, same as when they are under 2000. But I'm also not super popular, so what do I know?

>> No.9194467

>>9194114
Look through the tags you can think of and see what other people are tagging. The Instagram app even suggests similar relevant tags at the top of the screen when you search.

>> No.9194528

does anyone use snapchat here?

>> No.9194616

>>9192901
for gyaru I would recommend evilchocobunny and georgie_piyo

>> No.9194624

>>9175049

I usually just brighten and do shitty filters because I'm trash. I'm honestly too lazy to fix my face and I think I look good so I don't need the "shoop." But I also still am struggling with followers so maybe shopping myself into alien pizza would do better for numbers. But I'd rather not.

>> No.9194972

>>9194624
>still am struggling with followers
Do you post regularly and tag everything with relevant tags? Do you post a wide variety of content? Do you follow a certain aesthetic?
There are people who shoop (like that pizza alien girl from the last thread) who have less than 500 followers so I doubt it's a shoop thing, but rather putting out engaging content.

>> No.9194978

>>9194624
How regularly do you post? The more often you update the more you gain followers.

>> No.9194979

>>9194114
If you have a theme, tag accordingly. Find people you think you have similar content to and look at what they're tagging. Also, what's your focus when you take a selfie? Tag brands of make-up/clothing if it's relevant. If you do fandom stuff, tag the characters, and any relevant fandom tags.