This handbook will give you guidelines as to how to look better, smarter and more sophisticated. Instead of focusing on the guidelines, I've focused on the problems. In that way, you can easily find your biggest problem and then learn the solution to it. This guide is fit for both sexes, but some guidelines will be specific for a certain gender.
Acne: Having acne on your face doesn't help to make you look better. When people look you in the face, they want to look at the best picture they can get and acne doesn't help. If people like looking you in the eyes, they will notice your facial expressions and understand you better.
Solutions: If your acne is really bad, you should visit a dermatologist. He or she will make sure that the biggest part of your acne will disappear. If you're not in this category, please read on.
Try not to touch your face. Your hands pick up a lot of dirt and every time you touch your face, you will smear the dirt on it. Not only your hands, but also basically any touching isn't advised. Acne is bad amongst tennis players for example, as their sweaty face needs to be wiped constantly.
Try a little bit of sunbathing. Although long time sunbathing for a long time or spending long hours outdoors is bad for your skin, just a small tan can be beneficial.
Try to eat less salt and sugar. Try eating your sugar in the form of fruit instead of snacks and try drinking lots of water instead of drinking soda pops.
Dress code: most people judge you by the way you dress, about 50 to 90% of your body is covered by clothes every day, so if people judge you by appearance, clothes make a great impact. The problem is that people not always know how to improve their style of clothes and keep building on an image they do not really want for themselves.
Solution: Try not to shop by yourself and trust others. There is a reason why most women go shopping in packs and why they try clothes on and spend a whole lot of time on shopping. And frankly women look better than men. But be careful not to go shopping with the same people over and over again. The more opinions you get, the better. At least one of your friends should have fashion sense. Keep the age group of your friends in mind though, as fashion differs through the ages.
Buy whole outfits. If you don't know which shirt will fit on which pants, just buy the whole set. There's a reason why shops combine certain things, trust them on their opinion.
Dare to buy clothes that make you stand out in a crowd. Dark green, dark blue and grey are safe colors, but boring. Try flashy green, orange, red. If you have a friend with you, they will keep you from buying if it's over the top.
Hairstyle: a lot of people would look better if they just a got a new haircut that fitted them. But they are scared of change, have an idea of what they think is best or frankly have no idea at all.
Solutions: find a better hairstyle and maintain it, here is how:
Try to find a good hair stylist. It shouldn't be too hard to find a person around you who comes up with a nice new hairstyle every month. Do you think he or she does it by herself? Of course not, ask that person where he or she gets his or her hair done and steal the secret.
If you're reading this, you have no idea what you want. So basically you have to let the hair stylist decide. They will ask you what you want, but they will already have a model in their heads. So if you say A and they think B, you'll get AB and that won't get you anywhere. In the end the only decisions you need to make are: short or long, cold or warm (according to the season) and whether you have time to keep it in fashion or whether you need a style that maintains itself. The looks should be the stylist's decision. They studied for it, you didn't.
Try asking your hair stylist what you need to maintain your style, what shampoo, conditioner you need for your hair how much you can use of them and so on. They are all the chatty kind, so you can basically get a half an hour lecture on hair while you get yours cut. Take the opportunity and you'll be much the wiser.
Body structure: I don't like the term weight. It doesn't teach us anything. The cliché sentence expresses it: "Do I look fat?" It doesn't matter how much you weigh, it matters how you look. That is why a lot of people don't look the way they like and try diet after diet, trying to get the right weight, barely changing their appearance.
