To look attractive in the mirror but not in photos?

Right before taking a selfie for a profile I'll look at myself in the mirror to see how I look and will think I look pretty good. Then I'll take out my phone and aim it at myself and look at my image in the screen, I'll think I don't look quite as good as in the mirror but still ok. But then when I take the photo I'll always be shocked with how repulsive I look. It's like the phone just exaggerates all my worst features to make a caricature of me. I'll literally take a selfie in front of the mirror so I can compare the mirror with the phone, and the phone just looks completely different. It's like it's using an 'ugly' filter. My phone camera is decent enough, 6 megapixels, so I don't think it'd be that.

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  • renabee

    raqeeb is wrong. Your "real" face is not the one you see in the mirror. You look different in your selfies because our faces are not perfectly symmetrical and when you take the image, your phone flips it. We are used to what we see in the mirror because we see it so often, that's why when we see images of ourselves in real life/selfies, it's so off-putting. Unfortunately everyone sees the reversed turnip in real life and not what you see in the mirror, but i've asked multiple people to look at me in the mirror and they say I don't look any different. Don't worry, nobody notices, we are just too critical of ourselves. Google "true mirrors" if you want to know more.

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  • dimwitted

    My pics are hideous. But meet me in real life not so bad. This was affirmed at the last Christmas party.

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  • JustAHuman

    Yep. We're all like that.

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    • notsaying4life

      Some are just the opposite :)

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    • b3arboo

      But are you really human?

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  • paramore93

    Have you tried mirroring your selfies? I think I look like a turnip unless I mirror mine.

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  • raqeeb

    In mirror you look with 576 Mega Pixel camera which is human eye which has very large focal length, you look good in that but when you look through with 6 Mega Pixel camera which is very very small as compared to human eye then you miss too many dimensions angles and focal length that make you ugly, but in real when you look in mirror you are looking at your real face.

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  • noid

    This happens to me a lot too. And I haven’t googled it.

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  • BlackCandle

    Just Google it. It's normal.

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  • Jdlc

    I have always thought I look ok in the mirror but like shit in a picture. I found some of the problem is the lighting for the picture. I aimed my camera at the mirror and took a selfie. What a difference

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  • Wellyoudliketoknoweh

    In rl you are constantly moving, seeing yourself in the mirror in better angles also. In the picture, well, you stop moving in the picture, but you haven’t stopped in rl and it may have captured a weird pose from a weird angle you didn’t want to have. It’s like me taking pictures of my drawings, alsways looks shit and different. Without a good camera and good lighting I respect anyone who can take a good picture of oneself

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  • leggs91200

    yeah like others said, "mirror" your selfies. That means flipping them horizontally. It is one of those photo edits that isn't "cheating".

    Other than that, I think in the mirror we see just what we want to.

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  • bbrown95

    Very normal, I feel this way as well. I will look in the mirror and think I look nice today, then pull out my camera to take a picture and be pretty disappointed in what I see, lol. I don't know what it is, but I've never mastered the art of the selfie and I hate 99% of pictures of me.

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