Luxy's help center makes three recommendations. Choose quality photos and add six of them, complete your account to 100 percent, and verify your photo so the team can see you are real. You can also upgrade to Luxy BLACK for immediate access, but Luxy says your account will still be reviewed to make sure it matches the community.
Six good photos
Luxy asks for quality photos and suggests six of them. Six is enough to show a range of your life without padding the set.
Lead with a clear, recent photo of your face, with nothing hiding it. Follow it with a mix: a full-length shot, one with friends, one somewhere you travel or doing something you love, and one in clothes you would wear to a good restaurant. Keep every one sharp and bright.
Quality here does not mean studio. A relaxed photo a friend took on a good phone often reads better than a stiff professional portrait, because it looks like your life rather than a photo shoot. What quality does mean is in focus, well lit and recent.
Make sure the six come from different days. Six shots from one afternoon in the same shirt look like one afternoon, and a reviewer looking for a real life wants to see more than one. Once you are in, you can keep improving the set. Swap one photo at a time and watch how women respond, so you know which change made the difference.
Fill in every section
Luxy recommends completing your profile to 100 percent. A half-empty page makes a reviewer wonder whether anyone real is behind it.
Every section you fill is another chance to look like a specific person. Write your occupation plainly. Write a bio with real details, such as what you do on a Saturday, a place you love or something you are building. Specific beats impressive, because specific is what a real person sounds like.
A bio that says "successful, ambitious, love the finer things" tells a reviewer nothing, because it could have come from anyone. A bio that says you coach your nephew's football team and are halfway through restoring an old Land Rover tells them a real man wrote it.
Verify your photo
Luxy recommends verifying your profile photo to show you are real. It is quick, and it matters more than it looks.
Luxy's help center also says unverified members can send only one message until their profile is verified. So verification is not only about getting in. Skip it and you will hit that limit almost as soon as you start talking to anyone.
What Luxy BLACK changes, and what it does not
Luxy BLACK is the paid upgrade that gives you immediate access. Luxy is clear that it is not a way around the review, because your account is still checked to make sure it matches the community.
So treat BLACK as a question of timing, not standards. If your photos and bio are weak, paying gets you in sooner and leaves the weak photos exactly where they were. If they are strong, the review should not worry you anyway. Fix the application first, and decide on BLACK afterwards for what it offers once you are in.
What the review team is really checking
Strip away the details and the review asks one thing. Does this look like a real, genuine member? Luxy says its review exists to filter out accounts that are not authentic.
That explains everything above. Six photos from different days look real. A complete page looks real. A verified photo is real by definition. The accounts that raise doubts are the thin ones: a single blurry photo, an empty bio, an occupation that fits nothing else on the page.
Why Luxy checks more than most dating apps
Most dating apps let almost anyone in and leave the sorting to the people using them. Luxy reviews first, which means the women already on it went through the same check you are going through.
That works in your favor. A woman who knows every man on the app has been reviewed has one less reason to hesitate. Put the effort in now, and you arrive with photos and words that were good enough to pass a real check, which is exactly what you want in front of her.
Before your first swipe
Getting in is only the start. Before you like anyone, make sure your photo is verified, so the one-message limit does not cut a good conversation short.
Then be choosy on the Match page, write soon after you match, and open with something about her rather than a generic hello. Keep the first few messages light, share a little about your own life, and move a warm conversation toward a specific plan within a few exchanges. The review decides whether you get in. Those habits decide what happens after.
Written by Matthew Stevens, Co-Founder & Head Coach. More than half a decade coaching men across the US and worldwide.
Everything here comes out of real coaching work: the approaches, dates, texts and profiles we go through with the men we coach.