If you’re anything like me, your Instagram game is just alittlelame.

Your followers are in the low hundreds and you occasionally post a photo of your dog or a selfie that took you at least six hours to take.

When you take a selfie, you just try really hard to hide your chins and keep your eyes open long enough to point the camera and take the shot.

Yet you spend hours scrolling through your feed wondering how you live on the same planet as the sun-drenched stylish goddesses you follow. They just seem tonailit.

In reality, the secret to their success is simply picking up on the latest photo posing trends and rolling with them (usually with the help of a professional stylist and photographer).

Here’s a round up of the posing tricks your favourite Insta stars are all over:

They never show their faces.

As Babe recently pointed out, you’ve probably never seen your favourite grammers’ faces. Not in full, anyway.

Yep, they never look directly at the camera. They cover their faces with their hair, their hands, or even a big pair of sunnies. They’ve nailed that casual ‘looking off into the distance’ pose, and there’s a very clever reason they do this.

It’s all about creating mystery and allowing their followers to use their imagination – if you can’t see their face, it’s much easier to imagine yourself on that yacht in the Bahamas or wearing that designer dress.

They’ve all lost their contact lenses.

As a natural extension of hiding their faces, Insta pros really know how to nail the ‘I’m staring at the ground because I just lost my contact lens’ pose.

Yep, if you scroll through Instagram you might start to think there’s a worldwide epidemic of lost contact lenses.

But never fear, it’s justfashun.

The contact lenses are fine people, they’re fine. (Post continues.)

Every celebrity is striking this pose.

Kylie Jenner (Image via Instagram)

Jennifer Hawkins (Image via Instagram)

Kylie Brown (Image via Instagram)

Nadia Bartel (Image via Instagram)

Blac Chyna (Image via Instagram)

Lindy Klim (Image via Instagram)

Kourtney Kardashian (Image via Instagram)

Jesinta Campbell (Image via Instagram)

Olena Khamula (Image via Instagram)

Megan Gale (Image via Instagram)

Margot Robbie (Image via Instagram)