What is Your First Impression of Me?
Social Experiment Time!
This is me in my PJ’s.
No Makeup. No Filters. Fantastic Lighting.
What is your first impression of me?
If interested, email me 3 very specific first impressions at:
📩 helplu@mail.lu.land
I will respond to every thoughtful email.
Once I receive 100 emails, I’ll post the first impressions here anonymously.
Guidelines
✅ The More Specific, The Better! Examples:
- Secretly enjoys pineapple on pizza but won’t admit it publicly for fear of social consequences.
- Played the piano as a kid.
- Looks like they’d win a staring contest against a cat.
- Never forgets birthdays—probably texts at midnight.
- Deletes and re-downloads Instagram twice a month out of existential frustration.
🚫 Avoid:
- Generalizations (Looks nice, Girl with the Hair)
- Body comments (Too skinny, Too fat.)
- Anything you wouldn't say to your best friend.
Why I’m Doing This?
For as long as I can remember, I thought people's impression of me was that I was fundamentally flawed, unworthy of belonging, and somehow "too much" and "not enough" at the same time.
But then I started to wonder—was that the truth, or just a story I told myself?
What if people saw something completely different?
This is part selfish, part social experiment.
The Selfish Part: I want to know what people really think of me—and maybe prove something to myself along the way.
The Social Experiment Part: I'm the first penguin jumping into the ocean of impressions. If LuPenguin makes it out alive (and uneaten), maybe someone else who’s afraid of being seen will take the leap too.
Inspired by an icebreaker exercise in Margot Leitman's book, Long Story Short.
Leitman writes, "You will be shocked by how much we infer about a person in the first instant we see them."
So tell me—what do you see? I dare you. Shock me.