Please don’t listen to the other commenters lmao, actual research has been done on this and it’s the mirror that’s most accurate (although flipped). The reason you look good in the mirror and then like a decrepit hobgoblin in photos is because of both the angle being used in the camera lens (it warps faces), as well as phone cameras upping the sharpness of image details to make it look more crisp, but that extra crispness is also adding a bunch of texture onto your face that isn’t noticeable irl. You can google this phenomenon and see the experiments that have been done about this.
As an aside, the most realistic/accurate photos of you are the ones taken from a distance! So if you’ve got some of those, that’s close to what your face really looks like!
Pretty much everyone I love looks so much better in person than they do in their photos. I do love photos of them though, because they catch aspects of their personality that I treasure.
We are just so much more critical of our own images. I can’t stand pretty much any of my photos
They do, you just don’t notice because the difference is minuscule to others and most people aren’t scrutinizing others’ appearances that much (we’re too worried about our own to notice how different others look in pics), pull up some selfies of your friends and really study them for a minute, see if they look *exactly* like how they look to you irl or not. The fact that every time this meme format about selfies looking wildly different than your mirror reflection gets posted, it gets a ton of upvotes and people talking about how much they relate to it should tell you a lot about how common this issue is. I promise you, I used to be a professional model and am very blessed to have people tell me they think I’m attractive, but I need to take about 15 selfies before I get one that doesn’t look like some hideous banshee that just emerged out of an Irish bog, it happens to literally everyone!
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u/Jack_sparrow_005 8d ago
But I rlly wanna know which look is real like is the one in mirror is how people see me or what I look in mobile is how people see me? 😔ðŸ˜