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

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

So the mirror is the real one, Thank god!

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

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

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

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.

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

I'm ugly as shit either way bruh

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.

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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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 .

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

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

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

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

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.

This isn't lens distortion but perspective distortion.

Explains why I don't look good on camera lol

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

The girl in the beginning looks absolutely majestic

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.

Guys mirror is of course the real one. Who the hell would think cameras are?

That transitioning was so good at the end

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....

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.

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

THEY LOOK GOOD BOTH WAYS

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I like how that last one gets hotter the further away she gets from the mirror.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ahhh thank you, I seriously needed this video. The other day I almost freaked out bc of a selfie I took and I just looked so weird, my face shape and my head looked so so different, that I got like "🤔🤨, do I looked like this? Why do I look different in the mirror?!?" Haha But then I also find that in different mirrors I look different. Could you explain that as well? TYSM! Blessingssss

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

Why I never take selfies, because I know I’m way more handsome then what the phone is showing me 😂

The second guy at the start of the video looks like human Shrek 💀

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

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.

What if you look good in the zoomed in version lol

i like myself only on close-up photos. when i move away from camera, my head becomes big and features like eyes, lips, small. i’m glad many people realise that they look better irl, but i’m not one of them xdxd

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

Thank goodness I look good in the mirror. I hate taking pictures because I always look like shit.

I'm not a selfie person so I didn't even noticed any difference, and when I do I just tend to move my camera the farthest as my arm can go

The second guy is literally shrek when he turned human 💀

I didn’t know bout this, my mirror be making look hella pretty but I try to take pictures with my camera I look like fish, not the koi or jelly fish type but like a catfish😂, so I was giving the name at work “mirror selfie Queen” 🤣

i still will never know how to take a good picture 💀

People are better looking when further away from the camera

well thank god mirror is real

Needed this today.

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

Name of the filter please?

Ah I always wondered why I looked so ugly when I took a selfie, thanx for explaining that 😂

Someone needs to solve the mystery of how you look the smartest guy on the planet while you are at a salon before getting a haircut

So which is the perfect camera lens for accurate photography?

I’m ugly in both 😅

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

Me looking into the mirror: wow I am so cute! Me in the group photo: who is this auntie😮

Okay, so you can't trust cameras but can you trust the mirror?

This was the excuse Mikayla peterson used to denu her plastic surgery

so all we need now is a mirror that takes screenshots 🤞🏻

I look bad in all types of pictures. And even in the mirror I sometimes get the ick from myself😭😭😭 I wonder if I'd be happier if I could see myself as beautiful even if no one around thought that way

No wonder I hated taking pictures

Whats this filter called?

So you look better the further away you are. Good to know for my more introverted days

I prefer my mirror image. It’s weird though bc I look good before I take the picture but it’s awful once it’s taken 😂

So people see me as i look in the mirror?

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* 😊

Omg so I'm not ugly. Thank God!

“You look better in person” now makes more sense😂

so how do u take better selfies then?