Top 5 Turn-Offs on a Woman’s Tinder Profile

Why do you do this?

It’s that time again when you come to find your luck on Tinder and you stumble on these weird patterns.

I’ve come across hundreds of profiles and I see these things again and again. It drives me crazy so I need to point them out in hopes one day this will change. I can’t swipe left fast enough!

Many are trying to find their best half here but if you do these things you’ll end up where you started. Alone and wondering what’s wrong with you.

But it’s not you, it’s how you show yourself to others.

I write this as one of those men looking for a relationship and trying to bond meaningfully with women. If this is something you’re also looking for, keep reading.

# 1 — Unboxing every inch of your skin

I’m not talking about how bad or morally appropriate is to show your lustful body parts from different and exotic angles. Although I might say that doing so repeatedly doesn’t leave anything left to our kinky imagination.

It’s about the message that goes along this sensual display of your nice figure.

Whenever you put things like:

“Not looking for a one-night stand”.
“Swipe left if you’re just looking for sex”.
“Not looking for a hookup”
“Only looking for a serious relationship”

You’re miscommunication.

You’re sending one visual message but telling us another one in the bio.

This mismatch is confusing!

What type of guys do you think you’re attracting when you show off your body like that? Probably the ones that just want sex. The ones completely focused on your physical appearance will be looking for lustful encounters.

If that’s all you want, then fine. Really. Have that fun you earn for.

But don’t get upset if that man can’t see beyond your physical appearance and acknowledge your true soul.

You reap what you sow.

# 2 — Shutting the window to your soul

Sunglasses!

You have them on all your pics.

There’s not one showing your complete and God-given face. If eyes are the window to your soul, you’re already slamming your door at the entrance.

If you’re looking for a serious relationship and you don’t show a vital part of your body that drives connection, how do you expect to find what you want?

I get the part where you create some mystery by hiding part of yourself. But if you disguise yourself too much, no one meaningful will find you.

If you don’t leave any picture showing your true self, how do you expect to match with another true self?

You have to give to receive.

# 3 — Posing with the opposite sex

When you appear with another man in a picture you’re already placing us in second place.

Now I’m excluding those couple profiles looking for a threesome. It makes sense to show the whole bounty and terms of the agreement before your sign up for a hookup.

This is different.

Here you’ll see a picture of women doing the following:

They’re on a guy’s shoulders enjoying a concert.
They’re placing their hand around his waist at [insert place; e.g. wedding].
Hugging the guy and looking a the camera after reaching the top of the mountain.
Posing with him against a lovely sunset on a beach

Modeling with a man in the picture sends a certain message. We assume there’s someone in your life. A potential romantic suitor. Do you know the saying “he’s out of the picture”? Well, he’s literally in the picture.

Here’s what will go through our heads:

Are there any unresolved issues with this guy we should be aware of?
Is he the shoulder to cry on after we fight?
Is that the guy I should not worry about every time we get into an argument?

It makes us paranoid and insecure.

Why wouldn’t it?

On Tinder, you market yourself (just like men do), but somehow the product comes with add-ons we didn’t agree on.

We just want to see YOU.

# 4 — Are you even in the picture?

This is when we get to a profile where all her pictures show her so far away not even a high-tech zoom feature can reach her face.

We start to wonder why you do this. Is it because you want to remain anonymous hiding in plain sight or are you very shy?

It’s not a matter of lack of content (you all have close-up pictures of yourself, don’t you?), but a conscious decision to avoid the spotlight.

We can’t get a good look at you and since we’re visual people on a visually focused platform, it ruins the game.

Here’s how you hide in plain sight:

You’re so far behind we can barely distinguish your face.
You show just the back of you, never revealing your face.
You only put group pictures.
You put some random stock pictures.
You show your face but it’s so pixelated even CSI can’t uncover your identity.

I’ll see some excuses for doing so. You’ll put in your bio that you can’t share your face for work-related reasons. Or you’ll send pictures once we match (“first we talk, then comes the pic”).

So while we show our faces, you don’t. It’s not fair game, is it? You expect us to trust you blindly when you match with us based on our easily identifiable faces. Something doesn’t add up.

It’s challenging to swipe right when you don’t know who you’re matching with.

# 5 — Where’s that lovely smile?

I love that experiment where photographers reveal the before and after pictures of people after they’ve been told how beautiful they are. You see their faces glow and frankly, they look completely different.

A smile has the power to melt your heart away.

Use that charm whenever you can.

I feel unattracted (and sometimes even sad) when I look at profiles that don’t have any pics with a smile on their faces. You’ll see one serious face after another transmitting neutral or negative vibes. It’s not really awakening emotions you’d like to have at that moment.

It also makes me wonder if she’s somebody I’d like to be with.

Will she bring happiness to my life and share that joy of being together?

It’s a prejudice of course, but it will come from looking at your serious pictures. That’s the image you project onto others. Again, what you sow is what you reap.

Please, smile because you’re so beautiful when you do.

Final thoughts

Online dating is a different way to manage your love life.

You’re limited by :

Time: people swiping in a matter of seconds
Visuals: no other senses to get the whole feel of the other person
Superficial descriptions: how much can you tell about yourself in that tiny space?

It’s tough.

But with those constraints, there’re things you can do differently to find a better match for what you’re looking for.

I hope these turn-offs help in that endeavor. A mismatch can be partially avoided from the very beginning. Especially when women are the ones getting most of the matches.

You filter not only by what you chose but by what you show of yourself to others. You’ll waste less time and find more meaningful matches.

At the end of the day, we all want what’s best for us, right?

If you liked this article, you might enjoy reading this one:

Why Do You Always Date the Same Type Of Person?

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