Be Cool and Popular Without Changing Yourself
Have you ever wanted to be cool or popular without losing your true self? Perhaps, the desire to stand out from the rest often made you worry about becoming something that you aren't. This article might help solve this problem... read on to become popular and cool.
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Steps
- Define cool and popular. You may think people who try too hard to be popular are not cool. You might believe that being cool should be something what other people think you are, not what you think you are. Everyone has their own definition of cool, and, to some extent popular, (example: someone with nine friends is popular in a school of just eleven pupils). You may think everyone has to like you for you to be popular, or you can choose an amount of friends and acquaintances you want. Set your cool and popular targets.
- Look at yourself in the mirror. Decide what about your looks will make you cool and popular. If you think appearance is how people define each other as cool or popular, this is important. If you think how you look doesn't make you cool or popular in as any meaningful way, it's less important. Pick out all the things that you like about your looks. For example, you might have beautiful eyes. Or you have sexy legs. This will help to find your style and what you should draw attention to.
- Go through your wardrobe and pick out what fits your style. If you think preppy clothes are for you, look for dresses, skirts, and sort of fancy tops. If you're the casual type, look for jeans, sweats, and cute T-shirts and tanks. Remember, don't change, wear what you like wearing, it's cool if you think it's cool.
- Mix your best features with your style. If you have awesome arms, but you like the casual look, go for a cute tank and a few bangles. If you think your have good facial features but like the preppy look, find some cute preppy necklaces or earrings to bring the attention up to your face. If you think a Goth look is cool and will make you popular, and you are pale with long, straight dark hair, work it.
- Flaunt what you've got. When you walk down the hallways at school, you want to turn heads, right, that's what makes you cool and popular...? Well to do this, you need to have awesome confidence. If you are naturally shy and don't like to draw attention to yourself, find a way to be cool and popular without changing. Maybe excel academically and get lots of points for your house or home team. Never let anyone get to you. Never scowl. Walk with your head held high and a smile on your face. If you want to convince people that you're cool, first you have to convince yourself.
- Keep up with trends if you think trendy equals cool and popular and you like fashion. This doesn't mean changing your entire wardrobe, just take the trends and put your own twist on them. For example, say, yellow was the biggest trend but you think yellow is more girly and your style is funky. Why not buy a yellow shirt and paint splatter it with bright funky colors and pair it with skinnies and Converse? But if you hate what the trends are, don't put them in your closet. It's what you like that matters.
Tips
- Make some friends by being just you. If people look at you and see that you already have friends, they'll think that you're friendly, and they're likely to want to be your friend, too.
- Most importantly (the main part of the article) just be yourself. No one wants to be friends with someone who is fake.
- Look in the media and see what people like and if it does not fit you make the best effort but if you still are not comfortable make it yours.
- Don't lie. Being popular means you're a trustworthy person. If people can't trust you to keep a secret, it's harder for them to like you. They will tell other people. So be honest and trustworthy.
- If you're the humorous type, throw in a joke now and then, but only when the time is right. You'll look stupid if you joke around at the wrong time.
- Work out a little bit to help you feel good about yourself if you already haven't.
- Don't ever look silly. The whole idea of being cool is not looking like a total idiot. Before you do or say something, ask yourself- "Would I look like an idiot if I did or said that?"
Warnings
- Don't do drugs, drink excessively, or be promiscuous. Just say no.
