If you are prepared well - you will be successful in your searches, I'm sure of it. First of all - a very important thing! - you should make a good photo. Maybe you have one, but you just need to scan it, or you want to make a photo and apply to a professional photographer - I would like to help you to choose the best photo to send.

First of all, and it is very obvious, the photo should be of a good quality. Very often I've received small photos where I couldn't see anything, or photos of a bad quality, or photos accompanied by the words like this: "It's not my best photo, I look much better in reality". Maybe it's right, but how can I check it? I also received photos scanned very badly - a big white square with a small photo in the upper left corner. I would never believe you don't have anybody to ask how to scan a photo.

I would also not believe that you don't have access to any scanner and don't have any photos at all. I just would think that you're too ugly to send me a photo and won't be interested in communicating with you. Moreover, most girls are paying for every letter they receive, and they can't waste their money, they choose the letters where they can see from the very beginning that the person is worth writing to. Please, don't write: "I'll send you my photo, if you reply". Is it so difficult for you to attach a photo to your letter? I don't believe it.

Another point I'd like to stress is that very often Russian girls pay for correspondence, and sometimes for every Kbt. Please, make your photos of small size - in .jpg format, for example.

Now what should be on photos you're going to send. Please, don't send photos with your former girl-friends, drunk in the bar or almost naked! When I received photos like these, I felt insulted. The same feeling was when a person sent me photos of his car or house (separately from his own photo). As if I'm a slave who can be bought.

I also can admit that men with official clothes on (a suit etc.) were more attractive to me, than somebody in a (sometimes dirty) T-shirt and shorts. It can be strange for westerners, I understand, but it's true - I'd rather believe in serious attitude of a person in an official wear than in casual one.

And of course a smile is everything. A smile can make a person with usual appearance very handsome, believe me! Such photo says to me that you're joyful, open and kind.