--- title: What to Actually Send on National Send a Nude Day description: In the latest update of "random holidays no one ever wanted to exist," today is apparently National Send a Nude Day. 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While there’s not necessarily anything wrong with taking nude pictures—live your best life, even if it’s best lived naked!—the potentially pressuring hashtag and [some of the responses to it](https://www.facebook.com/10155744309678644/posts/10155744228223644) are enough to make anyone a little queasy. [_Follow Motto on Facebook_.](https://www.facebook.com/mottoworkplaylive/) Still, you can celebrate this “holiday” in many artful ways. We’re here to help with some ideas. 1. Your bare arm (it’s 65 degrees outside!) 2. The snagged pair of nude hose that your mom made you buy for your last job interview 3. Tom Ford lipstick in [“Sable Smoke”](http://www.harpersbazaar.com/beauty/makeup/advice/g2338/best-nude-lipsticks/) 4. Your still-dry-and-cracked-from-winter elbow (sexy!) 5. Essie in “ballet slippers” 6. A Naked mole rat (yup, it’s real, and it’s a mammal) 7. A [Sphynx cat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphynx%5Fcat) 8. An uncooked whole chicken 9. A zoomed-in shot of your forehead—bonus points if you’re having a stress-related breakout 10. Urban Decay Naked eyeshadow palette 11. Botticelli’s _The Birth of Venus_ We’ll see you at the next made-up holiday (our calendars are looking at you, [National Burger Day](http://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-hamburger-day-may-28/)). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4342273/national-send-a-nude-day/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4342273/national-send-a-nude-day/"},"headline":"11 Brilliant Ideas to Text on National Send a Nude Day","datePublished":"2016-05-19T20:58:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:02:32.443Z","description":"Heh","url":"https://time.com/4342273/national-send-a-nude-day/","keywords":["motto","Body Image","News","holiday","sexting"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt01e4b755b240d0ae/69889403524fc0ae5fdf8156/national-send-a-nude-day.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jessie Van Amburg","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jessie-van-amburg/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt01e4b755b240d0ae/69889403524fc0ae5fdf8156/national-send-a-nude-day.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Woman using smartphone","caption":"Woman using smartphone","creditText":"Erik Khalitov—Getty Images/iStockphoto","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4342273/national-send-a-nude-day/","name":"11 Brilliant Ideas to Text on National Send a Nude Day"}}]}] ```