Compliment me

When you get your hair done, rock that new dress or finally find a lipstick shade you can pull off, a compliment really polishes off your day.

What I want to know is, how do you respond to a compliment?

Do you merely say thank you? Risking the chance of appearing self indulged, "I do look good don't I?"

Or do you respond with a compliment? "you look nice" "oh thanks, your hair is, different" that's one concern, if this is how you're meant to do it, what happens if you can't think of a valid compliment? Do you make one up? Or is that worse? WILL THEY KNOW I DON'T MEAN IT?

So my third option is to shrug it off. Smile and change the topic, running the risk of appearing rude and uninterested. What if it's a flirty compliment, and I just shrug it off when really I want to scream and go "girly"?

Maybe I make being me too hard. I know I over think things but, Jesus!

If you think like this, and know how I feel, please, let me know what you do? I'd like to reduce the amount of awkwardness that apparently is so prominent within my life.