For some, growing taller through natural means may not be as easily accomplished as it is for others. Depending on your physical condition and/or age, exercises or other procedures used to help gain natural height may not be feasible. Or perhaps you’re only looking for a temporary solution to make yourself look taller, without actually gaining any height.

Whatever the case may be, we’ll detail three proven and easily utilized methods for making yourself look taller, without actually gaining a single inch.

1) The most obvious would seem to be to change your footwear, without going overboard and making it obvious that you’re heightening through your shoes. This can be accomplished through either the footwear itself, or through special insoles.

Shoes can readily be found on the market which will discreetly increase your height a good couple of inches. Insoles can also help to raise your height a good inch or two, but must be compatible with the footwear you plan to use them with.

2) Perhaps not as obvious as footwear, clothes too can be used to make you appear taller. With clothes, it’s simply the illusion of being taller rather than with footwear, which does actually make you taller while you’re wearing them.

Wearing tighter fitter clothing should be your first priority, as loose or baggy clothes give you a more squat appearance. Vertical lines on shirts are another great way to give off the illusion of being taller. Women should wear compact dresses or skirts, and no-waste pants. Men should also stick to wearing their pants as low as possible (within reason), and wearing cuff-less pants is also advised.

3) Finally we come to hair, without a doubt one of our most recognizable features, and one that can fairly easily be changed to give ourselves a whole new look, be it through a new style, cut, or coloring. Hair can just as easily be used to our advantage in our attempts to look taller as well.

No, we’re not advocating you sporting a high rise Mohawk, but even shortly cut hair, slightly spiked at the front does an excellent job of making you look taller. Women should avoid having long hair which hides the neck, instead styling it upward if they do wish to maintain their hair’s length.

Using one or more of these techniques, you can easily give the appearance of being a few inches taller than you actually are, no long workout regime required.