Why You Look Better In The Mirror?

[@ALMSTLRN]

That awkward moment when you don't look good in both

[@MYouTube1]

Yep sad life for us .

[@Corecarex]

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[@Thixico]

the ones that look better up close

[@رزيئة]

Fr malnutrition messed me up 😢😢😢

[@kari6570]

I relate

[@cyberpunk4915]

Wondering why I looked hot in mirror but like a goblin in camera shots

[@bozzbozz2800]

You are just narcisstic and a women thats why

[@hungergameshub]

I still don’t get why the flipped/inverted image of myself is so crooked and asymmetrical! People say “oh you’re just not used to your flipped side” but there’s something more behind it… my eyes, nose, cheeks, look extremely disfigured lol

[@thanos8638]

@@hungergameshub don't try that inverted image filter. That's pseudoscience!

[@LilXancheX]

Same

[@DrSamE]

@@hungergameshub becouse the tilt you see on mirror is on the other side and when you see the flipped it kinda ”doubles” and looks extreme to you + youre not used to seeing that unmirrored image. there you go.

[@a7lasurro]

So the mirror is the real one, Thank god!

[@armyshope]

Yes it is

[@TheArrowedKnee]

It's flipped, but otherwise yes. Everything else is how it actually looks to other people.

[@emanonfound99]

No unfortunately

[@ceruleum_tesserite]

omg thank goodness 😅

[@veronicaisabelhap]

so happy now

[@Laughingcoyote1213]

For the longest time growing up, I absolutely hated how I looked in photos and always avoided joining in group photos with friends and family. So much regret looking back with all those captured memories and me not being in them. My self esteem was basically rock bottom as a teen

[@iamshadowbanned699]

If it's any consolation, supermodel Yasmeen Ghauri hated her looks so much as a teen that she didn't have any pictures of herself as a teenager.

[@jasminetaylor5416]

100% same

[@amazin7006]

​@@iamshadowbanned699 she's capping hard

[@ahem8013]

dude same. i still have a fear of it and theres only a few photos of me in existence to this day.

[@zirconium2014]

I'm glad I sucked up to my insecurities and took the damn photo because y'all I wasn't about to bring attention to myself like the girlies who had to bitch and scream anxiety and not at all feeling anxious on how others around them are perceiving their bullshit again. Its 1000% embarrasing and an annoying burden for everyone to deal with, there's more to the world than how you feel, you all have main character syndrome. You have anxiety about bringing attention to yourself yet you bring attention to yourself by noting you have anxiety everytime of every moment when there's a camera, or godforsaken a PE class 😂😂

[@jacksonmitchell3015]

It's not possible to be attractive in a mirror & not in real life people need to stop worrying! Yes it's a reversed image but look at someone you know in a mirror they essentially look the same to how you see them IRL, same applies to you.

[@goodmorning2386]

That’s the thing!!! A mirror is really quite accurate, all it does is flip you, so if you look good in flipped version, I swear to god you look good un flipped too, it’s just not possible to look good flipped, but bad unflipped

[@رزيئة]

Thanks Jackson, but I only look good from one specific angel 🗿

[@burningedge3502]

I win(even though I knew it) (but I look trash when I keep my hair really short)

[@burningedge3502]

There's a place in my house where two mirrors are in a way you can see your real image, like the one that is not inverted and has the same proportions. And honestly I look better in the real one than I see myself in mirrors.

[@mav3ric100]

You completely missed the point! Look at someone you know during a video chat with camera all up in their face and they don't look the same as if they were standing next to you staring in the mirror. There are distortions that happen as explained in the video. How they look in real life or in the mirror is different from how they'll look on your phone during a video chat or taking a selfie.

[@titaniatixie]

When I was studying photography. I was told the perfect lens to get accurate face portrayal was a 50mm lens.

[@winxclubstellamusa]

Thank you! Do you know what is the focal length of the phone’s cameras? Btw I LOVE your profile picture! W.I.T.C.H and the Winx Club were everything to me growing up.

[@ellobopoderososdl4596]

​@UCRIIGjwDkI24hjjyzPeC0Ng they are up to 12-28mm focal length.

[@winxclubstellamusa]

@@ellobopoderososdl4596 thank you 😊

[@ellobopoderososdl4596]

@@winxclubstellamusa woah thanks I did not know exactly where this profile pic came from. I just got it from Google because wolves are my favorite animal.

[@winxclubstellamusa]

@@ellobopoderososdl4596 sorry, I thought that you were OP, lol. But I think your profile picture is really cool too 😊 wolves were my first favorite animal growing up, and I still love them.

[@ryeofoatmeal]

damn no wonder i look 10x better in the mirror and look horrible on camera 🗿 this is why i hate taking pictures of myself

[@izzygee2216]

Ikr same here!

[@TheArrowedKnee]

Same here. Another thing, it's not only the proportions that are off in pictures, it's the lighting too, depending on the quality of the camera. And the frontal camera of a phone is...not great.

[@zippy3253]

Same . That's why I only take videos of myself :)

[@angiepranandari7927]

Same here

[@jonS27.]

Literally me 🗿

[@bonniebrown1566]

This is one of those rare KZbin shorts that actually contains useful information…

[@faith4today]

I was thinking the same thing!

[@Wasthere73]

Unfortunately this short actually filled with incorrect information. The vid mistakes several optical phenomena for each other and use them interchangeably.

[@MarieAntoinetteandherlittlesis]

Okay I look absolutely disgusting in pictures, but I look acceptable in the mirror when I get ready. It’s given me serious photo-insecurity. To the point when I see someone taking pictures I duck out or have a bathroom emergency.

[@deadinside8781]

Same. I think I look ok in the mirror, but the pictures are never good. Messed my perspective up. I wonder what I look like to people, if I'm ugly after all sometimes and want to hide.

[@LadyAyleene]

Same. I loon decent irl and on wedding pictures taken with a good camera. Other than that I look like Gollum and the Grinch had a lovechild that's me. I feel betrayed. Also it took me until 30 to realize I'm not actually ugly, just my selfie camera sucks.

[@user-wn1bv9or2g]

I’ve heard that people with flatter faces tend to be more photogenic, whereas your standard front facing camera distorts features like angled cheekbones or jawline which are generally very attractive features in person

[@volvaheidrbores663]

The pictures aren't accurate either

[@OALM]

Uh you might need to see a therapist

[@7embersVeryOwn]

Finally someone said it!! Lots of videos trying to explain the difference between mirrors and phone cameras solely focus on the habit of the reverse image. While it's also true, this lens deformation thing is a much better explanation

[@pithyginger6371]

The video is misleading. This actually has nothing to do with the lens. It's called perspective distortion and is caused by distance.

[@Lazychia__]

Me in mirror :🧚🏻‍♀️ Me in photos : 👁️👁️ 👃 👄

[@SpaceXplorerOfficial]

😂

[@shalona1974sweden]

🤣 Most accurate comment 👍

[@SAnsari-k5y]

👁️ 👃🏻 👁️ 👄

[@evapawlowska]

😂

[@Learn_with_Garima255]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@BlackJacketJones]

I truly believe that a mauve larger percentage of humans are actually beautiful and would look great in films. Most of us just never get to be filmed with such high quality cameras, lenses, and oat of us ever get professionals to light the set, most of us don’t have companies and designers sending us free fancy clothes to wear. Most of us don’t have a professional editor to edit and color grade. If everyone had what famous people had, then most of us would be just as captivating on camera. And the masses would come to know our faces and see beauty in our features that they would have never noticed had we just walked by them or posted an IPhone selfie online.

[@yusinu6642]

That's so true

[@error-try-again-later]

Agreed, I think a lot of "average" people have lovely facial features and would clean up nicely with the things you just said.

[@AB-he3pp]

I wouldn't say "most of us" but I definitely would say some

[@auburnt2009]

fabulous comment

[@lxuv]

@@AB-he3pp a lot of us, not “some”

[@huh7633]

I'm ugly as shit either way bruh

[@user-kt1kq5ic3p]

Me frfr

[@madallas_mons]

Start mewing, get a good haircut, take care of your skin, get your body in shape and dress weell

[@ChuuMoon777]

@@madallas_mons yes but exclude the mewing part. Getting a defined jawline is just genetics

[@lfabio.n]

​@@ChuuMoon777 Mewing does help some people, worked for me.

[@farhannunazah33]

Hey, take care of yourself. You're not ugly.

[@amarug]

this relates to my "theory of photogeneiety". i always wondered why some people look quite like themselves on pictures while others go from a 8 in real life to a bare 5 on most pictures. my hypothetical answer was always that some people have their features structured geometrically in a way that they appear more invariant under these projection changes.

[@marceldavis7306]

guess you are photogenic

[@amarug]

@@marceldavis7306 im not, i look like a potato from every angle, in both pictures and in real life

[@marceldavis7306]

@@amarug stf 6 reference

[@amarug]

@@marceldavis7306 ahh sorry, im too old, only played stf 1 😅

[@kat12.]

I already have a round face and the widest bits are my cheekbones and my eyes are (I think) kind of narrow for my face. I go from feeling confident in the mirror and then pretty terrible once I see a photo. I have a couple of friends who are extremely photogenic. I’ve taken photos with them and I feel pretty bad afterwards. This video makes me feel a little better though! At 33, I know it shouldn’t matter, but it is what it is. We all have our moments where we’re not feeling as grounded in who we are and what life has given us. I’ve been pretty down on myself for a while so videos like this really helps.

[@wyclefohara4169]

Same. I'm 28, my cheekbones are wide and looking at mirrors I see an ok oval/heart shaped facial structure but in pictures I look like a freaking alien 👽. Makes me feel ugly cuz some of my friends are extremely photogenic and while I feel great having fun time with them, I spiral down and sometimes even cry when I see the pics we'd taken during the time...

[@idylledoll]

I modelled for years and was told all the time by both agencies and photographers that I photograph harshly and look far better in real life, it sucks in a way cus it means I can easily take a bad photo but I’d rather have it this way than the other way around as some people look way better in photos and I guess that can be bad for online dating situations haha. Lighting and angles are a complicated thing and some faces just compliment the lens better than others.

[@Benny1089]

This is why i always take mirror seflies. I wish i could look the same exact way in the mirror as i do in photos, it's frustrating asf.

[@Cupcakerehab]

I look good in the mirror but when someone takes a photo of me I look horrible. Its gotten to the point where I avoid parties or social gatherings because in this day and age, everything has to be pictured or filmed.

[@softshellroach2372]

yes exactly, it's so annoying. Like I love capturing memories and I get taking pictures but people can't go do anything fun without shoving a camera in your face at some point, and then they go post them all over facebook or snapchat and tag me in them and then I see them and they're super unflattering and it stresses me out cause the whole time I thought I looked cute : (

[@Tamsin_bear]

Well that’s a relief, I often wondered if the mirror was making me look better

[@SohaM-7]

So it isn't?

[@MideastInsight]

EXTERNAL LIMITATIONS OF PLANNING 1. Change in Government/Economic policy 2. Change in the buying capacity of the consumer 3. Change in the competitors policy 4. Change in technology 5. Change in taste and preferences 6. Natural calamity

[@LiviaBrash]

The disappointment of doing this trend with a wide face 😂I was expecting to look cute, instead I’m a potato

[@lybo1581]

I feel you at a deep level my fellow wide face😂

[@benravenwood8535]

A potato is way better than an egg bro 😂

[@chucklenut7974]

​@@benravenwood8535Nah I would rather be an egg

[@shreypatel9379]

@@benravenwood8535 oval faces are more attractive than extremely wide faces imo

[@ioncekilledamanwithmyshoe]

Shouldn’t you already know how wide your face is from the mirror?

[@devicetablet9305]

For years i beat myself up for this. Thanks for enlightening. You’re bringing lot of our confidence to life. ❤❤❤❤

[@batacumba]

As someone with a long face, I hate that selfies make your face look even longer and your nose looks bigger. I’ve always liked photos of myself taken from more of a distance not because I think I’m busted and need to be further for that reason but that my face gets distorted otherwise. But I think some people take advantage of this and I see people with weak midfaces make use of this feature of the front facing camera to make their midface or jaw look more developed. And then you see them irl or in a tagged photo and they look so different.

[@bubbletea-v4717]

that's why I could ruin my day just by looking at the phone camera to see if my hairs ok and see a musty squished bean just to get home to a mirror and it turns out to be completely fine

[@kerenlynmartinez]

bro it's why I don't even look in my camera anymore, i be ruining my own day 😂

[@RTU130]

Hmmm

[@tula1433]

A musty squished bean 🤣💀

[@wolf.eye._-]

😂

[@Jennifer_Lewis_Beach_Living]

That’s true. This is why dating profile experts recommend a professional picture or someone take the picture for you rather than a selfie because the selfie distorts the facial features.

[@planckismus]

That seems common sense, a selfie would seem very low effort especially if you don't have any other photos

[@Justanothercog24]

But almost no one knows the why. Hence why so many ppl have complaints about "they didn't look like their pic". Then you have filters... They only came about to combat those lense distortions, but it's still a whole extra element of fakery. Like a smoothed distortion over another distortion.

[@bambeliful]

I *only* look good in selfies. Not regular pictures or mirror

[@rexiee333]

Us

[@precisism1804]

That doesn’t sound like that would be a thing but hey

[@tabassumsaraah]

Samee

[@zhin8294]

I'm guessing you're fat and the distortion in the camera makes you look more "normal" and not like a pancake like in the mirror 💀

[@perhapsitsnoelle]

my face looks terrible in full body shots

[@Jay_Hendrix]

Technology literally making people insecure Also that last girl is a doll 😍🥵

[@peachyemi870]

Fr

[@malloryknox6802]

Photography has existed for like 200 years 😂

[@AngstG]

omg yes...

[@hai-ic1rt]

Yeah

[@Kiara_kh]

Creep

[@sunnyquinn3888]

Wow, the girl backing up from the camera looked like 2 completely different people!

[@BeeGeey]

I knew my phone's camera wasn't doing me any favors!

[@darklight4867]

That transitioning was so good at the end

[@A.Rose.G]

This may explain fifty percent of modern anxiety and depression 😂 cellphone cameras.

[@samanthakim5035]

True

[@joansmith7649]

Solution: Put the damn cellphone down and actually do something constructive like build a deck.

[@A.Rose.G]

@@joansmith7649 Are you yelling at yourself? 🤷 😂

[@joansmith7649]

What are you talking about? I'm not the one staring at selfies and whinning about my appearance in mirrors. I am too busy to be depressed and worrying about my nose. Of course, the under 40 crowd has nothing but time to do these things. So yeah, they are depressed because they are average looking and not all that attractive. Is this news?@@A.Rose.G

[@A.Rose.G]

@@joansmith7649 It was just that you were on the internet, not building a deck.

[@toowild6628]

It’s not about barrel distortion, it’s about perspective distortion, which is a different thing. If you get close to a wide-angle rectilinear lens (a lens with close to zero barrel distortion), your face will still look thinner than it would when it’s further away from the lens. This shows it’s about perspective. If you know about the dolly-zoom effect in movies, you’ll know that moving a camera closer to your subject while zooming out will seem to make the background shrink, while moving further away and zooming in will make the background get bigger. This effect also changes the way the face looks - it can either ‘flatten’ the face in the ladder case, or stretch the y-axis in the former. This is perspective distortion. On the other hand, barrel distortion probably wouldn’t affect the face that much in most cases. Outside of fisheye lenses, most modern lenses don’t have extreme enough barrel distortion to meaningfully alter facial proportions.

[@leila7954]

The girl in the beginning looks absolutely majestic

[@ZulAydy]

When watch over how I much changes gotten after some photos or selfies captured turns me to be an anti self captured, until I joined a band and knows how good is memories, it makes me don't want to regret tons of moments will fades vainly. We know today camera is easily accessible just grateful for it.

[@Fishmans]

Doesn’t that mean people with overly wide or proportioned faces would actually look better close up in selfie mode, since it distorts them back to a theoretical ideal standard.

[@shrn4697]

yeah, i gained some weight and look like a pancake, but in selfies my face elongates and looks waaay better

[@bubbletea-v4717]

yeah it does kinda make rounder/shorted faces look better (depending on what you see as better), it's also true for the opposite that people with longer faces (oval, rectangle, diamond etc) would look like a bean like the guy in the example

[@shreypatel9379]

@@bubbletea-v4717 Not every diamond face is long. I have a diamond face shape with really wide protruding cheekbones but not proportionate facial height. It looks abysmal

[@namak7547]

@@shreypatel9379 i'm pretty sure we call that a heart face not so much a diamond face, right?

[@shreypatel9379]

@@namak7547 Heart face shape has wide forehead. Mine doesn't. Mine has a narrow forehead, wide cheekbones coupled with a narrow jaw. So i am pretty sure it's a diamond face shape

[@krystalgomez2300]

THEY LOOK GOOD BOTH WAYS

[@carolinelaronda4523]

I was just doing this with my dog today and she looks so cute in person but when I took a picture of her she just looked different and wasn’t as cute, so I totally agree with this .

[@Langaslangas]

😢

[@elise3036]

I look weird in selfies. This explains a lot. My nose isn't my best feature, but in selfies it looks like I need emergency plastic surgery.

[@LostNFound432]

Same! Now that i think about it, I never thought my nose was big my entire life until I got a front facing camera phone in like 2006 lol

[@daniamar89]

Same 😅

[@Raoxa]

Same, my nose looks small and pretty in the mirror, in selfies it looks bigger and unflattering on my face. Similar with my eyes, they look pretty and big in the mirror but small and boring in selfies

[@maissa_slm2667]

BRO SAMEEE

[@radialwavellite5310]

Me too!I My nose !

[@YTStoleMyUsername]

I can only look slightly socially acceptably on phone camera shots due to the default filters. When I once had a virtual video call with a doctor over the phone, I saw myself on video and the had turned the filter off. I looked like a gargoyle. Then I learned a bit more about why we look different in mirrors vs cameras. I think there's more to it than just the distortion of your face shape and facial features.

[@mariam1361]

us chubby people with a round face don’t like this trend…

[@WilliamAfton984]

I HATE ROUND FACES SO MUCH BRO I WANNA DIE 😭

[@Kima89]

You are not alone sis

[@neptune6619]

Me with my square face too 😢

[@xt-cj7jg]

@@WilliamAfton984 you can lose weight man, round faces in general look pretty good if you have a decent body fat, since it makes you look more 3d from shadows n stuff

[@KoiAi_]

😂 my apologies to anyone who's ever laid eyes on me, I blame it on my parents, its essentially their fault.

[@jonathanman8299]

Actually dont blame it on your parents bcs youre born out of your parents its your faith to born not good looking 😂

[@KoiAi_]

@@jonathanman8299 lol 🤣 you're right, plastic surgery exists

[@tasha4400]

Yikes

[@KoiAi_]

@@tasha4400 learn to laugh, life's too short to be serious all the time.

[@Zen_XD279]

IT LOOKS BETTER ON ME NGL CUZ I HAVE A SMALL FOREHEAD AND WIDE FACE SO IT DOES THE OPPOSITE AFFECT FOR ME

[@non-fictionbeing5530]

Thank u. I've been telling myself that the mirror is more accurate than a camera lens but no one has ever validated that theory till today

[@santiagocruz9426]

That's correct, I'm old, so I remember playing with camera lenses, but I don't know if people look better but definitely different

[@MonsterDroiid11]

I look ugly but skinny on closeup and then i look kinda cute but fat in the far away pics… idk i prefer the mirror

[@pinkroses135]

If you have brown eyes and really fair skin it does a weird contrast thing where your nose definition or any definition disappears like an alien or something too. Those cameras definitely alter things pretty badly.

[@dandyjandon4231]

the mirror is real, camera can oonly capture so much which is why photo's are edited in photoshop. The human eye also doesn't see peopl elike how a camera does cause of depth and being 3d.

[@VasiliZgRR]

When I look in the mirror, I am good looking, good facial expression but when I take a picture or camera I look like Stephen Hawking....I never understood this....This is why I never want to take a picture of myself....

[@ellobopoderososdl4596]

because selfie cameras are bad. if you want nice pictures go to a professional photographer.

[@callmevamp6382]

omg i cant LOL stephen hawking

[@ggxghxh]

Stephen hawking💀💀

[@MaseraSteve]

Or buy a tripod and try to experiment the height and distance that it captured to avoid the distortion! After trying with that tripod, I ended up with one of the most flattering images of myself that I ever taken. Never Looked back to selfie convenience, unless my face is something equivalent to a greek god or Tom Cruise@@ellobopoderososdl4596

[@kaithleen3872]

thanks for explaining this with science about perception so cool

[@moneymakinmitch8130]

that’s why i never take pics with the back camera

[@silverkitty2503]

I can if its a small phone ..but if its a larger phone it gets hard to get all of my face in for some reason ..or im not centered in the photo. i tend to look best when someone else is taking the photo.

[@benravenwood8535]

My face looks worse with back cameras

[@MohnJarstonWasThere1907]

Makes me feel just a little bit better about myself, thank you

[@fan8432]

This isn't lens distortion but perspective distortion.

[@jasonphan2001]

It's both

[@fan8432]

@Jason Phan No lens distortion is a different thing, usually on very wide angle lenses that warps an image, creating a fish eye effect. This video specifically demonstrates how the distance between the subject and camera creates a different look, but this is entirely due to how closer objects will appear larger relative to further objects in a frame which doesn't change with a different different focal length lense.

[@jasonphan2001]

@@fan8432 There is least distortion in the very center on the lens, being really close with your face is going to take up more space & be outside of the center & around the coners which distorts the image. Try taking mirror selfie then tilting your phone slighting purposely placing your head at the corner of the shot, it will elongate or widen & distort your face. Most smartphone cameras especially front facing, put wide angle lenses to fit more people in but distorts a whole lot. Girls play with this angle & distortion to get longer legs in pics & stuff. That's why smart phones are now adding tons of cameras on the back. Back then they only had one camera & went with wide angle lens for best picture in most senerios but now added larger mm lenses for those portrait shots.

[@jasonphan2001]

@@fan8432 This video is about why you look better in the mirror looking back at yourself than looking at yourself through selfies. Like you said wide angle lenses cause distortion & most smartphone front face cameras use wide angle lense.

[@fan8432]

@Jason Phan just because a camera uses a wide angle lens doesn't mean that it has lens distortion. You can tell if it does by taking a picture of gridlines and seeing if those lines bend. On my phone, even at the widest option, it doesn't have lens distortion on the front or back camera.

[@Ninjette]

I dont like using my front cam. It makes my face slimmer but longer. I always use the back cam cause my face looks round like irl. If my video/pic is mirrored like how it is on tiktok I always flip it back to normal so i dont get used to it.

[@TJ-Judge]

Its because you dont really look the way u do on camera.... obviously. Filtered thru a camera lens. I mean have u ever noticed that u look different in photos taken by different cameras or camera phones? That is just how u look through that particular lens. The Mirror is how u actually look

[@tokarev177]

Nope its not dont fool people..

[@Justanothercog24]

yep! I've even noticed some will totally change the way my skin color looks. I have a warm undertone & a cool overtone. If a camera pics up my warm undertones, I look red & splotchy. In real life, I'm more on the pale side. With a decent lense & good lighting, my skin looks like porcelain & that's without any filters. It can be very confusing to the brain though.

[@barbaraspencer8927]

Lighting makes a BIG difference in how your mirror image is portrayed. Lighting has a HUGE impact on MOVIE MAKING!! Ask any movie DIRECTOR or ACTOR.......LIGHTING CAN MAKE YOU OR BREAK YOU!!!🎥 🎞 📽 🎬

[@catheriney6209]

I look great in the mirror, ok up close on a camera, and like an ugly egg with the zoom filter!

[@DANGJOS]

Yep, a close camera emphasizes the difference in distance between your nose and the camera and your eyes and the camera. When the camera is further, the relative difference is smaller compared to the distance to the camera

[@Jan-kw1qr]

Yeah but my problem is which mirrors in my house are distorted lol

[@pelesaudavel7655]

I have a distorted mirror!! It's a new mirror we bought for us and I was like "wait...I'm not this tall" and my aunt was like "wait...I'm not this thin." We felt so lied to. "Is this a prank? One of those carnival mirrors? Why are you lying to us? w h a t i s r e a l i t y ? 😭

[@rocky1raquel]

@@pelesaudavel7655 heeeeeyy,,, one of those mirrors can help you lose weight, no joke. If you keep seeing yourself thinner every day, your body will eventually comply. (And hopefully will stop wanting pizza n such) 🙏🏼😂 My daughter dropped about 15 lbs bc she just kept telling herself she was getting thinner bc the mirror showed that to her (she was about 15).

[@pelesaudavel7655]

@@rocky1raquel our minds are full of surprises, huh? :)

[@jakephilips123]

Also, im sick and tired of hearing people say that true mirror is how other people see you. Now, im not saying that regular mirrors are more accurate, but true mirrors can exaggerate assymetries. This is all pychological, btw. Basically, if we've been looking in a regular mirror our whole life, then flipping it will exaggerate assymetry.

[@useraccount2507]

This is why there is exactly 2 pictures of me in existence. Yes, just 2. This is exactly why I avoid taking pictures and I don't care for other people's pictures. I much prefer REALITY and MOVEMENT. Not some 2D snapshot variation of a human's existence. People have this weird automatic thought process of what a person is like based on a picture i.e. someone smiling in a picture with a group of "friends" gets people automatically thinking "Oh, they're a happy friendly person who is social and/or has lots of friends". Seriously, it's an innate response. Almost like common sense flies out the brains of people, and in that moment people seem to forget that 1. people generally tend to SMILE in posed photos, and 2. It's not difficult to stand next to people. *In reality, the "happy, social" person you see in the photo could be a depressed, depraved, antisocial people-hating maniac* 😊

[@asdfghjkl-jk6mu]

real.

[@acatwithinternetaccess9433]

You can always draw yourself instead of taking a photo. Or commission someone to

[@Justanothercog24]

Thiiiis! Humans rely far too much on photos to make decisions these days. One of the many reasons I believe online dating is nonsense.

[@BeatBoxBrian]

Great explanation

[@nuttmare9438]

This explains why i hate nearly all my photos! Yet in the mirror I'm a model lol!!!😅

[@jonathanman8299]

Nah picts or bullshit 😂

[@livefree4729]

For years i been taking close up picture of my face got a whole gallery of them … and i been struggling with facial dysmorphia. And key to looking in mirror is looking at your whole face.. for so long i was looking at parts of my face as a whole

[@jadesmith7983]

Just don't flip your phone to the back camera. It makes my face more asymmetrical and I fear it's how I really look.

[@planckismus]

It just shows you the asymmetries that you have gotten used to from looking at yourself the same way

[@jadesmith7983]

@@planckismus But which way shows how you look to other people.

[@planckismus]

@@jadesmith7983 It's not like there's a difference to other people they are just flipped and only look really different to you

[@jadesmith7983]

@@planckismus Oh ok.

[@WitchOfTheWilds07]

They are all real. If you stand very close to another persons face you will look like the selfie. Our eyes have a natural distortion built in unlike a telephoto lens.

[@thiskid990]

Lol I had really severe body dysmorphia growing up, I was always asking google if you really look how you do in photos.

[@Vegan_scorpioo]

you're the one and only natty person on the internet who i'm following now but i discovered you've been making videos from literally 13/14 years ago up until now! ❤

[@DanishBashir-sz6vs]

But I look different in different mirrors too I look thin face in some and fat face in some ... You have got me concerned now.

[@MissKrisLoves]

Some mirrors are crappy

[@samanthakim5035]

My face looks boxy(or rounded sometimes) when I'm in group pictures but in a mirror, my face looks great and pleasing, I could also see my jaw feature. Taking selfies makes my face diamond or oblong, which creates the illusion.

[@effieli7230]

How to find this filter in TikTok? The proper name?

[@Patryyyyck]

bump

[@vaticancitybride7137]

I believe I look better in my mirror then I do in photographs.

[@ChopstickUrFootOff]

i’ve had people tell me I look better in real life okay never take pics, cool, got it

[@ac-jn1iq]

I’ve also had people tell me I look better in real life lol

[@Justanothercog24]

Same. Most pictures tend to capture my Gollum side.

[@definingslawek4731]

It’s perspective distortion not lens distortion, lens distortion is something else. If you take that wide angle lens and make a picture from the same distance as the longer lens and crop it to match field of view, the shape of the face will be the same.

[@jollydd]

Explain why does everyone look the same way in photos as they do in real life but I look like a chewed up cheeseburger? *Asking for a friend…*

[@hdajq892ey7]

because you know your face way better. you think they always look like that but they are 10x uglier too

[@Qwerty-vo8do]

its because your the only one who finds it weird because your so used to seeing yourself in mirror. mirror shows us a left to right version while the camera shows the opposite which is right to left (depends on the camera) but that doesn't mean that mirror doesn't show you what you look like both does shows you what you look like just in a different perspective. a camera might be inaccurate due to the focal lengths or maybe bad angle while a mirror is inaccurate either from a bad lighting and its left to right reversal.

[@MusicalMarzy]

I liked him in 200mm lens so much!!

[@baby.nay.]

Being zoomed in also lowers pixel quality so , we all look better that way

[@chaosevolution]

Wish phones could use larger focal lengths.

[@napoleon9514]

So you're saying I'm more handsome in real life than my phone shows.

[@TheArrowedKnee]

Usually, but not always, yes. Some people might benefit from the distortion of the camera lens.

[@deaddeer7179]

Yea youre gorgeous and i personally attest to that anyone who disagrees can fight me

[@wheniztheend]

I can't tell which one I like more. My selfie cam looks slightly more pleasing to me for some reason. But I do have a large forehead (due to receding hairline) but it looks big either way.

[@boki1960]

Me who thinks I look better closer on selfie than in mirror or far lense

[@SnowLeopardForever]

I have ALWAYS been unphotogenic. It takes effort to get a picture that is an actual reflection of what I actually look like. But my sister is very photogenic, it takes her no effort to get a great picture of herself. That is because our face shapes and surfaces (for lack of a better word, are different) she has a wide, heart shaped face that is flat (i.e. softer, less defined cheeks and a flat forehead) while my face is not wide, oval and my forehead and cheeks curve, are more defined. I once read an article that explained why some faces are photogenic while others are not and it stated that people with wider, flat faces are more photogenic than those who don’t have those features. And it has to do with the way camera lens interpret those features.

[@gregh2003]

Whats this filter called?

[@deus5185]

yeah look it and tell me pls

[@gregh2003]

@@deus5185 Guys, it is called "face zoom" in tiktok

[@helens1083]

Because in the mirror is what you really look like and that’s how people see you. It also destorts body pictures and such! That’s why I hate my picture taken! I’m built in the right places, a little on the husky side but it just seems it makes you look bigger

[@thanos8638]

So which is the perfect camera lens for accurate photography?

[@fan8432]

It depends on how much of your body + background you're trying to capture. For portraits, it's 85mm+.

[@michellemarie1197]

Yes!! I always think i look better in the mirror than in photos

[@carolin2220]

Is this why we look heavier/fatter in pictures too. These phone cameras mess with our minds

[@7o2nicole]

My sister has a significant scar on her face. When i look at her directly, i do not see it. When i look at her through the mirror (doing her hair) the scar is blatantly obvious. Is it a love lens?

[@Loverofartsandmusic]

Explains why I don't look good on camera lol

[@calmingwhitenoise5]

That why oval faces are in trend because whether its low mm or high it doesn't change there face shape. That's why we see people with big and giant chins in film industry while they look strange in real and people with round or full face looks fatty or disproportionate in films but in real they are cute and attractive

[@OMGMyHypeBoyKeita]

I’m glad round faces look better in person cuz my face always looks so fat in photos 😭😭

[@DragonQuest27]

doesn't matter how far away from the camera I am, still look ugly 😿

[@dash2535]

I feel like the last girl looks good in both. Her natural features are so wide and spaced out, that when distorted she still looks like a regular person. Just one with wide pretty features and the other more elongated w a more oval face.

[@armani007]

Name of the filter please?

[@rebeccaanderson4445]

When I got my first digital camera, I suddenly thought I needed some serious plastic surgery. This message is seriously needed.

[@toshiamiyumi2604]

This is why you should not judge people from editing their selfies I always make my face wider with a smaller nose cause that’s what it’s like irl.

[@carrington2949]

Yeah, don’t judge me because I am too damn lazy to do all of that! 😂

[@genericsidecharacter8915]

Ok that dude right before you started explaining it looked crazy good. Super high PSL

[@BrocksJellyFilledDoughnuts]

Bro I swear I feel good af and then my front camera humbles my ass ☠️

[@vicky_skates]

i don’t think my nose is big in mirror but in photos it looks so big. im happy to hear this

[@Unknown-vf8qz]

So which one is real, mirror or picture

[@mergerogue4291]

I’m wondering. Coz I’m definitely ugly in one. So I wanna know which is real. 👀 XD

[@ALMSTLRN]

Mirror

[@stranger45369]

Mirror is close to real. Or you can say real but reversed

[@somerandomguy3037]

Mirror is the closest to the real you the only difference is it is reversed. Cameras tend to distorted your face. So if you look good in the mirror you probably look good in real life or at least this is what I understood.

[@Thomas48484]

When you look at someone else in the mirror they look the same only reversed, so naturally that means that the mirror is accurate except reversed. Whereas camera lenses have distortions, angles, etc. Mirror is closer to real life than a picture.

[@ZahraMahmoudzadeh-cp6zo]

imma use this from now on. i'll update-

[@rebelyellmeh]

This kinda thing saved me $10k cuz now I don’t want a nose job anymore lol

[@Silvia.Araujo]

Take a picture with the back camera and flip it