Behind the Russian Beauties’ Photos

Before penetrating into the curves and crinkles of face-reading, let’s linger on 3 most disputed Russian-Brides-Online photo issues concerning “Is-She-Real-and-Good”.

• Model photos

Case 1. Many beautiful young girls in the Former Soviet Union cherish more or less of model ambitions, as this occupation has been hyped up as prestigious. Model women were promised successful marriage, and promoted as a fashionable type of brides and girlfriends to the new Russian businessmen. Crowds of girls keep dreaming of a life of travelling the world and exhibiting their beauty (presumably seen by well-off men) as a do-nothing piece of cake. Smarter girls pursuing higher education (“serious” professions inclusive) often try to snatch their bit of this cake, too.

Given such a market, a mushrooming number of model agencies offer women model training and portfolio service. Commonly, no model career follows (either the girl is picked by a top model agency scout, and then she’s featured in glossy magazines rather than at dating sites, – or she is offered odd engagements – luckily, and escort service – typically), but the “title” and the photos are at her disposal.

What IS a red flag is “Occupation: model” in her profile. Unless a world-known top model (and sometimes even when she’s qualified as an established international model), this usually reads “vocational kept-mistress”, “prostitute” or “consummante” (originally meaning a strip-bar chick luring men into expense, but here I use the term to denote a similar lifestyle, exercised for living and/or for the pleasures of it).

Case 2. Whereas, to Russian women, beauty is a matter of glory, self-expression and [constructive] competition, they like to play photo models to please themselves and to impress their current or future men. It is quite natural for them to charm up and indulge into a photo session, which may involve a professional hairdresser / visagiste / photographer or just require unleashing ladies’ own beautician skills and “employing” a camera-savvy friend. A good digicam, even of “dummy” functional level, can work wonders (how the hey they upload photos here on the blog, eh? please educate the little savage!))

Consider also that some Russian ladies take their “export marketing campaign” (i.e. listing at international dating sites or introduction agencies) with high responsibility, and many marriage agencies provide professional photo service.

• Sexually pretentious photos

“Why do Russian women dress and pose like prostitutes?” – I hear. LOL guys do you seriously think that, if she has put on some lace-or-satin and high boots together, it means she wears that to walk? Opposite!

A photo session is meant to be a little escape from reality: why bother eternalize what she looks like every day? It’s an artsy event, a game, a quiet prank, a stage play intended to try on different images, to beat the movie stars, to have some innocent naughty fun and to unearth the potential that she would award but to “her one and only” (and, probably, but for a big holiday). Then making it “more extraordinary” turns “more extravagant”, and “more beautiful” is escalated as “more sexy”.

Eventually, when a woman is entering a brides catalogue, she is suggested to put her best foot into the door so as to overshine the other beauties doing the same, – and she may perceive it as to publish her most played-up, favoured and braggable photos (guess which) and to attract attention… how? – with what is so peremptorily advertised through Russian media as Top Incentive and Advantage the Almighty Sex Appeal.

With due irony, on this background it takes more clothes to be more visible… yes good taste is discreet, and thus the ladies meet their gentlemen.

But gentlemen are asked to have allowance for the Eastern-Americanized society of overdress and overundress. ‘Cause the borderline between the “Russian” women’s “selling out” and showing care (leave alone habitually celebrating their femininity and “keeping on a par”) is wide, graduated and indented.

The only thing to take into account: the more natural look = the more confidence = balance = bonhomie.

• No photos sent

Many man start contacting new online dates with requiring more photos. Question: Dear Sir, you’ve seen [rather more than one] photo of this woman on the dating website – was she shown YOUR photos? Distinguishable for distinguishable, face for face, body for body? It’s a two-way street, and it takes both to keep the balance and move forward. More woman’s photos may arrive with more trust and likes established. She will send them by her own initiative, or in turn for yours.

“Why hide?” – While she knows little of her new contact, she is aware that there are many freaks around the Web. If things go wrong, they may pass rumour, post the woman’s pictures on a black list or even at a porn site, whether she’s been frivolous enough to share bikini shots with strangers, or he’s good enough at photo editing technology. (BTW it is a reason why a “Russian” woman dating online doesn’t need a webcam – still more reasons here). As a lesser evil, there is little pleasure in feeling herself a trophy to some fan of girl pics collections, intentless of developing on a relationship.

Sure, a decent man may in his turn find himself a scammer’s victim.

When she sends you scanned film photos or big digicam photos, it’s more likely that they are hers, as opposed to small sharp photos which might have been grabbed from some website. Yet the big quality photos may as well relate to scammer’s friends, to Girls Pictures Collections, or to Russian celebrity web archives. Contrarily, smaller photos may belong to a careful “real girl” intending not to overtax your mail and Internet connection, nor to put herself to the risks we’ve mentioned above.

But why bother turning a pleasant conversation into the game of guessing “are you a real good woman”?

The “DSM” (Don’t Send Money) Platinum Rule is a sufficient defence.

Enjoy yourselves!

Sincerely,

© Comrade Natalia

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