REAL LIFE BODY TYPE PROFILES - GAMINES 

Anasma Gayari exactly thats my struggle rn as well 😅

Yes please!

Yes. I get confused between Flamboyant Gamine and Dramatic Classic.

My struggle as well

yes, please compare the two types mentioned by Anasma. I initially thought myself to be classic, but now wondering if I'm in fact gamine. Also, does age have any influence on types?

If it makes you feel better it looks like you could be a classic or soft gamine but I'm leaning more on the classic. Assuming that's you in the picture. But that's just a guess. Lol.

Thanks. I think you’re right that I’m probably a classic. And yes that’s me in the picture

I cant figure out what I am either 😂 I look taller than I am because I have long legs. My arms are long too though. I am 5'5 and most I've weighed is about 110. Idk if weight matters though? I would guess myself closest to a Jennifer Aniston (body type, not beauty hehe) but I do have fleshy round cheeks, bigger nose and forehead..I can tell with others what looks good especially hair color cut and makeup but it's like i cant see myself truly lol drives me crazy!

Gamines are petite 5'5 and under. and then it later changes to gamines can be taller. .. ? which Is it? 😅

Here's what I've found. I started watching videos of what different types should wear. It was blatantly obvious I'm soft natural when I did that. I don't know about anybody else, but I know when I've looked good and like every time I've looked good in my life, is when i had a variation of those clothes. It was almost comical actually. I think people try to fit a type 100%. I think that very rarely happens. I mean, I'm about 5'2". So that's a little shorter than a soft natural, typically. But everything else fits. Like the fact that I have the shoulders of a line backer. So try that. Just find lots of videos on the types you're going between.

I'm commenting a lot in this section because I'm so happy to be amongst my kind. So many similar experiences! (Ha ha) I often refer to myself as "funny looking" and have felt that to be a great privilege. I love comedy (plays, rather than stand-up), and I feel my FG look helps an audience perceive me in that manner easier than, say, a romantic or a classic. The samba is quite a sexy dance, yes? Not when I do it. It's instantly hilarious and, for that, I'm thankful. I'm somehow petite and lanky all at once (perhaps what you call “gawky teenaged girl”), so my movements can be very funny. My skeleton allows for some rather…interesting movements. I love to exaggerate this with long, boxy lines. In day-to-day life, I look like an underfed child and avoid such clothes, but if my goal is to make someone laugh it works well because the “pointedness” and “narrowness” of my movements are somehow exaggerated. And, of course, with a gamine face what else can we do but show rather exaggerated facial expressions? The eclectic nature of our faces and body are interesting to look at and, therefore, lend itself well to the genre. I find, even amongst different-looking comedic actors, that expressiveness is a shared trait. Carol Burnett is a natural, but she has an expressive face and a rather gawky body. I think a lot about this sort of thing-especially about the physical nature of women in physical comedy and how gender expectations probably play a role in that-so I apologize if I’m boring you with things you never asked about. My point is: Harness the FG-ness in whatever way you see fit and realize that our physicality allows us some privileges that are not available to more voluptuous body-types, just as they have some privileges not allotted us. How cool is that? I realize not everyone relishes in the idea of being laughed at, however. For professional clothes, I find blazers and shirts that end at my shoulders are very important-right where that bony protrusion is-in avoiding a “where is you mommy, little girl?” look. ¾ sleeves on a blazer are helpful because normal sleeves on those jackets seem to be quite long and big. Straight-legged and narrow trousers that end at the ankle or are cropped just above are great as well. Boy’s suit-pants fit very well for me, so I recommend giving those a try if you haven’t. With sexiness, regardless of type, I think the most important aspect is confidence. Own your body-type and apologize to no one for it.

@@unneighborlyarcades6356 Very true. My ex-husband is also a FG and in *no* way meets the usual standard for a "masculine" body, but he just owned it. For his other faults, I do admire him for that and I think it helped me to embrace my own weird body. And I've always hated my naturally thin, wispy hair and longed for long, thick wavy hair...but now I know that it would look a bit strange on me even if I had it. Now it's just one of the A answers on my Kibbe test. It's cool that you've figured out that you can use your body type to an advantage in your profession. I'm a university lecturer amongst other things, and maybe my FG-ness can help me put on that "quirky professor" persona. My students have told me "I can't tell if you're 25 or 40..." It helps me relate to them, but also command respect when I need to.

@@unneighborlyarcades6356 Interesting! I liked hearing your thoughts on this. I also wonder if Josephine Baker was some sort of gamine (speaking of physical comedians playing with gender expectations). I've been trying to type her for a while and was hovering around SD, but... that just doesn't seem right.

@@YukiTombo In my own experience, long hair can look alright if it's styled. I had to set it and brush it in a way that made it pretty "froofy" in order for it to look nice at the length of my shoulders, but then I looked like a bobble-head. So, "long, thick, wavy" hair can look nice-curling hair gives the illusion of thick hair, you know. Is your hair cut short now? Oh my, comedy isn't my profession! It's really just a love that I insert where ever possible and pursue as a hobby and think a lot about. I am currently studying accounting. I do think that "ambiguous age" thing gamines seem to have can be very helpful in your profession, as you say. I also find that, in social situations, that FG-ness makes me non-threatening and so, I'm not seen as "competition". It's come in handy. I imagine you've probably had a similar advantage?

That would interest me. I have believed I was soft natural for many years now, and now I wonder if I am actually a romantic or soft gamine! It blows my mind:)

Liza Sarkar YES PLEASE i can't understand if I am a romantic with ingenue essence or just a big busted soft gamine :(

Romantics look like a luscious women, soft gamines look like teenage girls. More playful and edgy

SG has more angular bones, especially their shoulders & facial bones.

She seems like FG idk

@@naomia472 She does appear to have a longer vertical line and is pretty tall, I think gamine is out imo. I see where you're coming from though, if she is a gamine, FG is the closest fit.

Yay, thank you Latonya, and than you so much for letting me use your photos in my videos! Please stay in touch!

aw yay!

A lot of people have claimed she has typed them incorrectly though, tending to type people as gamines. I think she lost some credibility when she mistyped herself as soft gamine. Granted, it's hard to see yourself, but at the prices she charges you would think she would know that she has way too long of a vertical line and is too yang for SG to even be a possibility. Kinda hard to trust someone to type you when they don't have their own down.

Space Cowboy I was the same! And it didn't help that I've never been thought of as 'cute', but more so 'sexy'. But then after I got typed as SG, I finally realised why longer hair made me look more tired, and that colourblocking in my outfits always make me look sooo much better! You can try on some clothes with Gamine lines and see if it works for you!

Thank you for your lovely comment! Yes, it's so useful and practical to know what to go for! :)

Oh my gosh thank you Jubilee and thank you for being so generous and sending in your photos for the videos! The resistance to image identity is something that I should really talk about. I think as I learn more about Kibbe, I find that I love the idea of simply seeing your lines as nothing more than a set of lines, rather than a personal style. I think this is a bit more 'objective' anyway.....and can get rid of a lot of those stereotypes that can cause way more resistance than necessary!

Merriam Style Yes Merriam, I think you’re absolutely right about the stereotypes causing a lot of the image resistance! After watching your videos I started looking at the types as just a collection of lines and that has helped me a lot! I have always been called pretty or cute, rarely sexy or womanly.. that had always made me feel awkward in my own body, like I’m stuck in a state of permanent adolescence 😂 I wonder if there’s any way we soft gamines can look more grown up and womanly if we want to.. anyway Merriam thank you so much again for including my photos and keep doing all that you do! Much love❤️

Going with your gut/intuition is exactly what Kibbe recommends.

If you have a difficult time, it's usually because you are a blended type or a mixed type, I have found. A classic or a gamine could be an option for you.

Yay I'm so happy it was easy to follow--I tried really hard to make it this way because gamines can really be confusing, especially flamboyant gamines! Thank you for taking the time to leave this lovely comment

Same here! Body 100% yin, face more soft gaminish...

@@thehalfbloodserb haha and all these 2 years I was looking at theatrical romantic lines thinking if only I could wear those lines! So excited now haha

@@naushinkhan5121 aww I can imagine! It doesn't help for me that I have ingenue essence in my face; womanly body with baby face ughh. I find having a solid TR basis in hair/makeup helps tie the two together; otherwise they look too separate :)

She already has a video on this topic Called "3 signs you have the wrong bodytype ", or something like that

Yay!! :)

Aww thank you for watching all the way to the end omg! And yes, the real test is always the lines!

Merriam Style Aww you answered me! I'm honoured

I literally did think you were in your teens after a look at your display pic. 🙂

When you get in your 50s and 60s you'll love it!

It's a gamine thing. I'm a 30 year old flamboyant gamine with the same issue.

Same.

I'm a 42 FG, people always thought I am a university student too.

yay!

Helena Bonham Carter is Kibbe-verified romantic. As for me, I look terribly bland in any classic lines, and my hair doesn't look better neat.