26 Jan Best Tips to a Great Head Shot #3 Wardrobe
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Best Tips to a Great Head Shot #3 Wardrobe
The following tips are designed to use as a guide. Be sure to add your own personal style!
Here are the best wardrobe tips to get a great head shot. Follow this guide and you will be looking great!
Think simple outfits. Clothes must fit well.
- COLOR: For your commercial acting head shot: Think BRIGHT colors like pink, turquoise (looks good on everyone), vivid blue, bright red, orange, yellow, green, purple. White is O.K. under or over a bright color. White will make you look heavier if you use it as the main color. For your theatrical head shot (Movies/TV and Live Theater) think darker more muted colors. Stay away from stripes and polka dots or large busy prints. You want the viewer’s eye to go to your face not your clothes.
- LAYERS: Layering and de-layering is how you can get 4 different “looks” from 2 outfits. A yellow tee under a pink or blue sweatshirt then take the sweatshirt off for another look. Add a jacket, cardigan, hat, scarf, etc. Tops with texture, lace, eyelet, poor boy knit, shiny, velvet, silk, laced ties, gathered, ruffled, leather, fur collars. Jeans, pants, skirts, dresses, shorts, leggings, tops, sweaters, blouses, long and short Tees, jackets, blazers, sweatshirts, etc. No turtle necks.
- LOGOS: No large logos advertising any products and brands (i.e. “GUESS,” “THE GAP,” “REEBOK,” etc.) Small unrecognizable logos and text are okay (i.e.; “Princess,” “Rock Star,”). Pictures of people, places and things are fine as long as the print is not too busy and does not distract from your face. You want to promote you, not the clothes!
4. ACCESSORIES: Bring belts, ties, shoes, sandals, boots, hats, and scarves.
