Invest in a professional headshot for your social media presence regardless of whether you are dating online.

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All too often, it ends up as "headshot soup, " with photos of individuals all taken at different times and with different backgrounds.

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Sending a headshot to a friend via text feels forced, but sending a warm gaze or a silly face via Snapchat is natural.

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You can only feel so bad for her, though, because this is a video game and you know how to line up a headshot.

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Certainly not the text on the back of my headshot!

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Going for the quick headshot kill or simply pumping as much ammo into the body as quickly as possible is almost always more effective than trying to strategically target non-lethal areas.

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Or they forgot to download a headshot of themselves.

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Still, getting a headshot gave me confidence.

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In order to accept the nomination I needed to sign some papers, send a headshot, revise some pieces of my application, and get a lot of stuff in order and do it all before 11pm on the first day that Baby K was home.

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"I thought the curatorial selectivity was of a higher order this year, " said Richard Lorber, the president and CEO of Kino Lorber, a New York-based independent-film distribution company that had two of its own titles (the French drama "Elles" and the Thai thriller "Headshot") in the festival.

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