How to Get the Blue Checkmark on Badoo

The blue checkmark comes from Badoo's photo verification. Open your own page, follow the verification prompt there or go to Edit and choose Get verified, then take a selfie that copies the gesture in the example photo. Badoo checks it with a mix of automated and human review and tells you within a few minutes whether it was accepted.

Tap Profile to open your own page. You will usually see a verification prompt under your picture. Tap it.

If the prompt is not there, tap Edit and then Get verified. Both routes lead to the same check.

Badoo shows you an example photo of someone making a gesture. Take a selfie copying that gesture. Badoo then reviews the selfie, partly automatically and partly by a person, and lets you know within a few minutes whether it passed. Once it does, the blue checkmark sits on your page.

The check is simple, so the usual reasons it goes wrong are simple too.

Copy the gesture exactly, not roughly. If the example shows a particular hand position, match it.

Use good light. Face a window or stand outside in daylight, so your face is clear and not in shadow. A dark room, a strong light behind you, or a hat pulled low all make your face harder to compare with your other photos.

Look like you do in your photos. If every photo shows you clean-shaven and you now have a full beard, the selfie will not look much like them. If it comes back rejected, the selfie itself is the most likely cause, so fix the light and the gesture before you try again.

The badge says one thing: the man in these photos is the man who took this selfie.

Do not underrate that. a dating coach lists the catfish problem and annoying bots among the things that make online dating frustrating, and women run into both. He has also pointed out that even good game works less well on an app full of fake accounts. A blue checkmark takes one of her doubts off the table before you have written a word.

The badge does not create attraction. It removes a reason to be careful.

For almost every man, yes. It takes one selfie and a few minutes of waiting, and the checkmark keeps working for you on every woman who opens your page.

The only man who should hesitate is the one whose photos no longer look like him. If the selfie would not pass because your photos are years old or heavily edited, the badge is not the problem. The photos are, and they are hurting you with every woman who sees them, verified or not.

There is a quieter benefit too. A verified account reads as a man who is on the app on purpose, not someone who signed up on a whim. Women sorting through a busy inbox notice small signs like that.

Verification proves your photos show you. It does not prove they show you as you look now.

My warning to men is that a woman judges you by your worst photo and assumes it is what you really look like. A set of six-year-old photos with a fresh checkmark on top is still a set of six-year-old photos, and she will notice when you walk in.

Keep your photos recent and close to how you look on an ordinary good day. Then the first date starts with her relaxed, not with her comparing your face to your pictures.

The checkmark gets you past the first doubt. Your messages decide the rest.

A woman talking to a stranger online is also working out whether he is safe to meet. coach has seen what happens when a man comes on strong too early, especially sexually. Plenty of women get nervous, even ones who find him attractive. So keep the early messages light and specific, with a bit of humor, and show you are a normal man with a life.

Treat the checkmark as the start, not the finish. It gets you taken seriously, and the date still has to come from you.

The badge buys you a little trust at the start. Keep it by moving at a steady pace. Say something about her that shows you read her page, enjoy a few rounds of teasing and questions, and suggest swapping numbers while the chat is still fun. A verified man who keeps things moving toward a plan is the easiest yes on the app.