Asked By: Abraham Bell Date: created: Jul 13 2024

Why does my face look so weird inverted

Answered By: Miles Cox Date: created: Jul 16 2024

Why Selfies Sometimes Look Weird to Their Subjects Welcome to the department of discarded selfies, a dark place deep inside my phone where dimly lit close-up shots of my face are left to fade away into the cloud. I’ve thought about sending these photos to friends many times—that’s why I took them, after all—but each time my finger lingers over the share button, a few questions stop me: Why does my face look so weird? Are my eyelids that droopy? Is my chin that lop-sided? And how come nobody warned me? encourages photographers to seize control of their self-image by rejecting beauty standards and embracing the imperfect humanity of our faces.

  1. But what about earnest selfies that are just accidentally ugly? Don’t blame your face.
  2. Blame your brain instead.
  3. Selfies sometimes look strange to their subjects because of how we see ourselves in the mirror, how we perceive our own attractiveness, and the technical details of how we take them on camera phones.

Whether or not a selfie is reversed after being shot is a major factor. If you’ve used multiple mobile apps to take pictures of yourself, you’ve probably noticed that some, like Snapchat, record your likeness as it would appear in a mirror; others, like group-messaging app GroupMe, flip the image horizontally and save your selfie the way others would see you—and this version can be jarring to look at.

Part of that is because our faces are asymmetrical. The left and right side of your face may not seem that different, but as illustrates with his portraits, which duplicate each side of a face to create strikingly different versions of the same person, that’s not the case. When what we see in the mirror is flipped, it looks alarming because we’re seeing rearranged halves of what are two very different faces.

Your features don’t line up, curve, or tilt the way you’re used to viewing them. (An episode of the Radiolab podcast, about symmetry, demonstrated this when it flipped, The asymmetry can be surprising even when looking at images of faces we’re very familiar with, not just our own.) “We see ourselves in the mirror all the time—you brush your teeth, you shave, you put on makeup,” says Pamela Rutledge, director of the Media Psychology Center.

Looking at yourself in the mirror becomes a firm impression. You have that familiarity. Familiarity breeds liking. You’ve established a preference for that look of your face.” That’s not just an anecdotal observation, that’s science. According to the mere-exposure hypothesis, people prefer what they see and encounter most often.

In terms of self-perception, this means that people prefer their mirror images to their true images, which are what other people see. Experiments conducted at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1977 support this idea: When presented with photos of their true image and their mirror image, participants preferred their mirror image while friends and romantic partners preferred their true image.

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“The interesting thing is that people don’t really know what they look like,” says Nicholas Epley, a professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the author of, “The image you have of yourself in your mind is not quite the same as what actually exists.” The image in our minds, according to Epley’s research, is way prettier.

In of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, researchers made participants’ faces more or less attractive in 10 percent increments by morphing their features to resemble composites of conventionally beautiful people (or, for the unattractive versions, people with craniofacial syndrome). When asked to identify their face out of a line-up, participants selected the attractive versions of their faces more quickly, and they were most likely to identify the faces made 20 percent more attractive as their own.

When asked to pick the experimenters’ faces out of the lineup, the participants showed no preference for more attractive versions of relative strangers. “They’re not wildly off—you don’t think you look like Brad Pitt,” Epley says. “You’re an expert at your own face, but that doesn’t mean you’re perfect at recognizing it.” The close proximity of our faces to our smartphone lenses doesn’t make that any easier.

Often incorrectly attributed to lens distortion, the way selfies exaggerate certain features is more a matter of geometry, as Daniel Baker, a lecturer in psychology at the University of York,, The parts of your face that are closer to the camera seem larger than other features in comparison to non-selfie photographs, where the distance from the camera to your face is longer and has more of a flattening effect on your face.

(Different lenses, such as wide-angle lenses, can alter this effect, but Baker says the differences are negligible.) So now that you know what makes your selfies “ugly” (to you, anyway), how do you make them more attractive? The Internet is full of suggestions: find,,, and,

  1. But when it comes to making sure your face doesn’t look weird, the answer is simple: Take more selfies, Rutledge says.
  2. People who take a lot of selfies end up feeling a lot more comfortable in their own skin because they have a continuum of images of themselves, and they’re more in control of the image,” she says.

“Flipped or not flipped, the ability to see themselves in all these different ways will just make them generally more comfortable.” : Why Selfies Sometimes Look Weird to Their Subjects

Do you see yourself more or less attractive in the mirror?

In a series of studies, Epley and Whitchurch showed that we see ourselves as better looking than we actually are.

Asked By: Andrew Walker Date: created: Aug 24 2023

Is a mirror how you see yourself

Answered By: Donald Smith Date: created: Aug 27 2023

When you look in the mirror, you are only see the REVERSE of your face, not what everyone else sees. The only time you see an actual (directional) representation of your appearance is when you look at a photograph of yourself. This is why we think we look different in the mirror than from photographs.

How can I see my face as others see it app?

Want to see what you really look like? A regular mirror flips your image, so you’re not really seeing what everyone else does. With Truth Mirror, a true mirror, the image you see, is what the rest of the world sees when they look at you! If you use the built in IOS camera app it shows a mirror image while previewing and then flips it to true when you take your pic, so you can’t really see what your picture will look like.

  1. Now with Truth Mirror! You can preview your TRUE image and pose for self portraits and take a picture of the actual preview.
  2. Then you can add captions, goodies, and frames to your pic and share it via Facebook, Twitter, e-mail, etc.
  3. After over a MILLION downloads we have done a full rebuild with some new features! – Now you can choose to not save pictures you take to your camera roll so they are only in the app and then you can save and share the good ones 🙂 Perfect for secret shots you don’t want showing up in your photo stream across all of your iOS devices, your choice.

– New Photo preview thumbnails. – Choose either volume button to trigger your shutter without touching the screen and ruining your shot! – Turn the screen flash on and off. And of course as always you can flip the image back to a regular reversed image so you can see the difference! Get it now to see what you really look like! 1.1 Million people can’t be wrong, get the best, simplest, most secure selfie app in the store! For more info on true mirrrors check out these links! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-reversing_mirror http://www.radiolab.org/2011/apr/18/mirror-mirror/ Truth Mirror™ is a Trademark of BMM Inc.

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Why are TikTok videos mirrored?

TikTok has a habit of flipping videos, so they’re a more accurate representation of you. We’re here to show you how to revert your videos back to how you intended them to be. – TikTok flips your videos to represent the real you. The version of you that other people see when they look at you.

Asked By: Walter White Date: created: Oct 30 2024

Should you trust your mirror

Answered By: Isaiah Simmons Date: created: Nov 01 2024

The only difference between a mirror and a camera is that you are reversed in the mirror. Otherwise, they are both just as ‘accurate.’ Here’s the thing: the camera/mirror doesn’t matter. Distance matters.

Do I look the same in the mirror as in real life?

Our faces aren’t symmetrical, and so, it does matter and change looking at your ‘true’ face or to its reflection. This happens to almost everybody; I see myself awful in photos and way better in the mirror, while general opinion is good about me. Humans have a very precise ‘software’ for face analysis.

Is A mirror Inverted?

Why does a mirror reflect an image with only left/right reversal, but not top/bottom reversal or any other reversal? | Notes and Queries | guardian.co.uk

  • Why does a mirror reflect an image with only left/right reversal, but not top/bottom reversal or any other reversal?
  • Jim Barnard, Bolton UK
  • Left and right are the only directions which are described relative to the observer. Up and down (and north, south etc) are independent of whichever way you’re facing. When you look in the mirror, up, down, east and west are still in the same place. But you read printed text from left to right – not east to west – hence the problem with ‘mirror writing’.
    1. Benet, London
  • A mirror doesn’t reverse left to right either as you will see with an asymmetric object. Imagine the mirror is one of those impression taking toys that had a dense number of pins in which are pushed back on contact and retain the 3D shape. Now imagine pressing your body into it and step back. The illusion is, because we are roughly symmetrical, that there has been a left/right inversion. The reality is your right side is on the right side of the image.
    • R. Shaw, Bramshill, Hampshire
  • Mirrors don’t reverse left to right, they reverse front to back. Consider this, when you look at yourself in a mirror, it appears to you that your reflection is another person who looks just like you standing behind a piece of glass, at the same distance from the glass as yourself and facing you. To get there, you reason, that person walked behind the glass and – here’s the important bit – turned 180 degrees about the vertical axis to face you. Now his/her left hand should be opposite your right hand, and vice versa. In fact this assumption is wrong. Your reflection didn’t do a 180 degree turn. It was reversed front to back with no rotation at all. Your brain mentally subtracts the 180 degree turn that you assume must have happened from the observed front to back reversal and what do you get? An apparent left to right reversal!
    1. Mike Burton, Twickenham UK
  • The mirror does not reverse images from left to right, it reverses them from front to back relative to the front of the mirror. Stand facing a mirror. Point to one side. You and your mirror image are pointing in the same direction. Point to the front. Your mirror image is pointing in the opposite direction to you. Point upwards. You both point in the same direction. Now stand sideways on to the mirror and repeat. You are now pointing in opposite directions when you point sideways. Place the mirror on the floor and stand on it. This time you point in opposite directions when you point upwards and your upside down image points downwards. In all cases the direction reverses only when you point towards or away from the mirror. The answer stems from the fact that a reflection is not the same as a rotation. Our bodies have a strong left-right symmetry, and we try to interpret the reflection as a rotation about a central vertical axis. We imagine the world in front of the mirror has been rotated through 180¡ about the mirror’s vertical axis, and it has arrived behind the mirror where we see the image. Such a rotation would put the head and feet where we expect them, but leaves the left and right sides of the body on opposite sides to where they appear in the reflection. But if instead we imagine the world to have been rotated about a horizontal axis running across the mirror, this would leave you standing on your head, but would keep the left and right sides of your body in the expected positions. The image would then appear top/bottom inverted, but not left-right. So whether you see the image as left-right inverted or top-bottom inverted, or for that matter inverted about any other axis, depends upon which axis you unconsciously (and erroneously) imagine the world has been rotated about. If you lie on the floor in front of a mirror you can observe both effects at once. The room appears left-right reflected about its vertical axis, while you interpret your body as being left-right reflected about a horizontal axis running from head to foot.
    • matthew payne, london
  • You must have some strange mirrors. My mirrors don’t reverse anything, each section of mirror simply reflects what is directly in front of it. Hence whatever is on my right as I look into the mirror will be on the right in the mirror. Nothing’s been reversed it’s just a reflection, that’s all.
    1. Seth, Edinburgh UK
  • Lie on your side and look in a mirror. Now what sort of reversal is it? A mirror image is not left-right reversal, it is simply a mirror image.
    • David Pearce, Birmingham UK
  • If you want to understand mirrors then it’s helpful to read a fascinating article in the February 2011 edition of Scientific American (page 43). The subject is not mirrors, it doesn’t even mention them, but it explains the confusion. How can mirrors reverse the horizontal axes but not the vertical? It is not just in England that they appear to perform this remarkable trick; the same happens in almost all countries. Almost all. There is a small part of Australia where the reversal does not occur. The article I mentioned is about the peculiarities of languages and their influence on perception. For example some have no words for past or future, others have no words for large numbers. The native language in that part of Australia has no words for left or right – that is, it has no local axes. Instead all references are global: North, South, East or West. So you have to say things like “The cup is South of the plate”. Now travel there and look in a mirror. Raise your North hand. The image raises its North hand. Raise your South hand. The mirror has no horizontal reversal. It is a peculiarity of English that we use global axes to describe large objects, like countries, but local axes for small objects like those in a room. A mirror works in global axes but we relate to it as a small object. So we correctly interpret its vertical properties (up and down are the same in both systems) but we misunderstand it horizontally. Hence the bizarre properties of mirrors are not caused by physics – they are caused by language.
    1. Geoff Steel, Kington, Herefordshire
  • We call it a left right reversal because we consider the image to be ‘us’ only,who has reached behind the mirror & rotated by 180 degrees from current orientation in say XY plane, keeping the Z constant. But in the same way if we consider ourselves moving in YZ axis from over the mirror like an astronaut & reaching behind the mirror, our head should have been below & feet upwards, which is not there.therefore it has reversed in vertical also. Finally the question has arisen due to the fact that since human can only walk on earth,there imagination does not permit them to fly to the back of the mirror.
    • prashant shrivastava, bhopal india
  • actually it does. Follow these steps, spread your arms horizontally in front of a mirror. now bend your body 90 degrees from your waist so that left hand touches ground & right hand indicates the sky. Now observe in the mirror, your image is touching the ground with right hand.the image is reversing vertically also.
    1. prashant, bhopal india
  • It’s a popular trick question. A mirror reflects photons, not images. Thinking of many tiny bouncing photons rather than a flat image helps explain this mental puzzle. In a well lit room a mirror bounces away photons at all angles all of the time, but only photons that bounce toward your eye reach it, forming the image in the retina and visual cortex. Photons reflected from your left hand striking the mirror near your right hand bounce away from your eye and so you don’t see them. The photons probably have changed direction a few times along the way before hitting your eye, but there never was an image until it was formed in your retina and visual cortex.
    • Karl Lilje, Cape Town, South Africa
  • A New Approach to an Old Problem
    1. MikeO, San Diego USA
  • Of course mirrors reverse directions, they reverse the directions of light rays. But the left-right dichotomy is surely the outcome of our mental processes. See, we can place a mirror in 3 categories of planes with respect to us. FRONT – Here the image seems to face the opposite direction (that is our mental process) and the left-right is reversed (which is not actually happening, there is no 180 degree rotation, because my right hand is not his right hand, mirror images are not superimposable, this is called ‘chirality’ for an asymmetric C-atom). There is also basic in-out reversal, if I face East, my nose is Eastward with my ears, but the image’s nose is Westward with his ears. SIDE – Here my right hand is his left hand and if I face East when I move my right hand Southward the image’s left hand moves Northward. The basic in-out reversal is doing all these. Also my nose is slightly leftward with my ears to a viewer facing the sidewise mirror, but my image’s nose is slightly rightward with my image’s ears to the viewer’s image (just like the FRONT). TOP – Now the top is reversed (satisfied?), my image is heading so-called downward. This is again the basic in-out reversal. But wait, my right hand is the image’s left hand. Both I and my image face East (the explanation of facing opposite direction is not working) and the in-out operation is done with the top-bottom reversal (Sorry Mr. Geoff Steel, the image’s head is towards cardinal down, the super Scientific American article is fine but that is not the proper reason, see, in the SIDE case, when a Pormpuraaw wonder girl moves her South hand Southward her helpless image moves her North hand Northward, even in heavenly Australia. And, well, Physics is not any cause, it is an effort to understand the ’cause’). So what is only left is really that mental process. Our brain tries to place our head downwards facing the same direction and sort out what is right-left.(You don’t believe ? For the FRONT and SIDE it is easy for our brain. But for TOP, brain is not used to do this. SO IT TAKES TIME ! Now you understand that there is a process). The process is the reason. We (our brain) place(s) our head first. Still not convinced? Lie horizontally in front of a mirror. Your right hand is upwards (say), your image’s right hand is downwards. See, top-bottom (with mirror) is reversed, but with you it is still left-right reversal. Why? Your brain placed your head horizontally first.
    • Pratap K. Saha, Kolkata, India
  • You guys are making it too complicated. The text reverses left-to-right because when you turn the paper towards the mirror, YOU’VE reversed the writing left-to-right. Then you just see a mirror image of it. Try writing on a transparency, and hold it up so you can read it correctly. Then hold it in front of the mirror. NO REVERSAL.
    1. Alan P, Hudson, OH US
  • I wish people would stop trying to explain this with quirks of language or “how the brain works”. If that’s all scientists did, we wouldn’t get anywhere.
    • Adam Gulyas, Edmonton Canada
  • Close one eye. Look at wall with two windows, but one is actually a mirror. If light bounces off everything in reverse angle, then we should experience mirror image like camera obscura. But, only one parallax results, not total. Brain should not be able to know difference in mirror and window. Why?
    1. Michael Choate, Irving USA
  • It does reverse top/bottom when it is below you.
    • Andrew Erickson, San Diego, US
  • It is an enigma that just occurred to me in depth. It is a mirror image or what you see if you were looking from the mirror but still gazing forward. No, wait. If you look at a mountain in a lake it is upsidedown. But not left to right. The image depends on the plane of the reflec tive surface as to what we see from where we are. It is something one could puzzle over for many hours. Kinda like an Escher picture with its impossible planes or a Moebus strip, one sided piece of paper puzzle. Impossible, yet there it is, in the flesh before you. Or is it behind you. Hang on. Which way am I facing here, I mean there.
    1. Kerry, Sonoma, USA
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: Why does a mirror reflect an image with only left/right reversal, but not top/bottom reversal or any other reversal? | Notes and Queries | guardian.co.uk

Which camera is real front or back?

My phone is Kyocera Hydro Icon with Android 4.4.2. I use its back and front cameras to take pictures of my head and face at distances around an arm’s length. I found the front camera gives more pleasing pictures than the back one, for example, the pictures taken by the back one often shows my eyes are proportionally smaller. asked Dec 29, 2015 at 3:51 Tim Tim 445 3 gold badges 8 silver badges 21 bronze badges 1 Resolution governs quality of pictures

  1. The back camera invariably is of higher resolution and is meant for better quality. Typical resolution is upwards of 10 Megapixels
  2. Front camera is not meant for high resolution and was intended for visiting the image during video chats. With demand for better quality (including “selfies”, it is now typically upwards of 2 megapixels and in recent phones 5 or more. Dark images as reported is less for to quality of camera but more to do with subject focus and lighting conditions

Edit OPs concern is more about “distortion”. To reduce distortion

  • Take the snap at arms length, picture would be smaller but less distortion
  • Reduce aspect ratio (if default is higher) to 4:3
  • Keeping the subject and camera at same level and experiment with aligning your face to the top/bottom edge of photo to see if it reduces distortion
  • Try an app like Cameringo, which augments photo taking capabilities considerably and adding effects (I use the pro version of this but more for rear camera shots and both trial and pro versions are good). This may also help tackle the rear camera issues faced

answered Dec 29, 2015 at 5:00 beeshyams beeshyams 39k 30 gold badges 116 silver badges 264 bronze badges 1 Interesting question. I found that the back camera does kind of “distort” the face when used for selfies, probably because it was constructed for capturing objects/persons at a longer distance (probably because of the “barreling” effect etc.).

The selfie has less MP but it does show the aspects of the nearby face more correctly IMO. Even concidering the lower photo quality of the selfie camera I would still use it for selfies, back for full body in mirror etc. As a blogger I first wanted to mount a tiny mirror on the back of the phone so I could use the back camera for selfies because of the higher MP.

But I found out that this camera was in fact designed for another purpose. The moment the camera is 1+ metres away from the person, everything looks fine. It’s the handheld selfies where the back camera “problem” starts to appear. My phone is a Huawei Honor 6. 2

Asked By: Isaac Sanders Date: created: Jul 31 2024

Why do flipped images look weird

Answered By: Adrian Ward Date: created: Jul 31 2024

The mirror is a reflection. It’s not the real you. – Although we’re the most comfortable and familiar with the face staring back at us while we brush our teeth in the morning, the mirror isn’t really the real us. It’s a reflection, so it shows how we look like in reverse.

  1. Because we’re so used to seeing the reverse version of ourselves, seeing how we look in pictures can be jarring.
  2. And unless you’re blessed with a perfectly symmetrical face, the photo version of yourself can be even more wonky.
  3. We see ourselves in the mirror all the time—you brush your teeth, you shave, you put on makeup,” Pamela Rutledge, director of the Media Psychology Center, told The Atlantic,
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“Looking at yourself in the mirror becomes a firm impression. You have that familiarity. Familiarity breeds liking. You’ve established a preference for that look of your face.” Scientists call this the “mere-exposure” effect. Basically, it’s a behavior concocted by psychologist Robert Zajonc that says people react favorably to things they’re most familiar with.

How do you know how I really look like?

Unless you are particularly thrown by the fact your image is flipped, and what you see on your right others see on your left, a mirror image is the most accurate reflection of how you look to others. Can you show a ‘what I think I look like’ photo and a ‘what I actually look like’ photo?

Asked By: Kyle Powell Date: created: Jan 06 2024

Is the TikTok camera mirrored

Answered By: Howard Ross Date: created: Jan 07 2024

TikTok loopholes? – Another way we’ve stumbled across works as a loophole. As mentioned previously, if you upload a video straight from your phone to TikTok using the front camera – the app will automatically invert your face to mirror mode. Despite flipping it within our camera settings and editing the recorded video within our phone’s photos, TikTok would still flip it.

If the video we recorded was kept in mirror mode, the app would leave it be. However, if we edited it and flipped it vertically, TikTok would continue to reverse our edit, sending us back to square one. How did we get around this? Well, the only way we easily found, was to upload more than one video clip.

We inverted our video to our preferred way on our phone camera app. Then we took to TikTok and uploaded the same video twice. TikTok only flipped the first video, but kept the second one as we had intended for it to be. So, we then simply went into adjust clips on TikTok and deleted the first clip.

Why does inverted camera look weird?

Why Selfies Sometimes Look Weird to Their Subjects Welcome to the department of discarded selfies, a dark place deep inside my phone where dimly lit close-up shots of my face are left to fade away into the cloud. I’ve thought about sending these photos to friends many times—that’s why I took them, after all—but each time my finger lingers over the share button, a few questions stop me: Why does my face look so weird? Are my eyelids that droopy? Is my chin that lop-sided? And how come nobody warned me? encourages photographers to seize control of their self-image by rejecting beauty standards and embracing the imperfect humanity of our faces.

But what about earnest selfies that are just accidentally ugly? Don’t blame your face. Blame your brain instead. Selfies sometimes look strange to their subjects because of how we see ourselves in the mirror, how we perceive our own attractiveness, and the technical details of how we take them on camera phones.

Whether or not a selfie is reversed after being shot is a major factor. If you’ve used multiple mobile apps to take pictures of yourself, you’ve probably noticed that some, like Snapchat, record your likeness as it would appear in a mirror; others, like group-messaging app GroupMe, flip the image horizontally and save your selfie the way others would see you—and this version can be jarring to look at.

Part of that is because our faces are asymmetrical. The left and right side of your face may not seem that different, but as illustrates with his portraits, which duplicate each side of a face to create strikingly different versions of the same person, that’s not the case. When what we see in the mirror is flipped, it looks alarming because we’re seeing rearranged halves of what are two very different faces.

Your features don’t line up, curve, or tilt the way you’re used to viewing them. (An episode of the Radiolab podcast, about symmetry, demonstrated this when it flipped, The asymmetry can be surprising even when looking at images of faces we’re very familiar with, not just our own.) “We see ourselves in the mirror all the time—you brush your teeth, you shave, you put on makeup,” says Pamela Rutledge, director of the Media Psychology Center.

“Looking at yourself in the mirror becomes a firm impression. You have that familiarity. Familiarity breeds liking. You’ve established a preference for that look of your face.” That’s not just an anecdotal observation, that’s science. According to the mere-exposure hypothesis, people prefer what they see and encounter most often.

In terms of self-perception, this means that people prefer their mirror images to their true images, which are what other people see. Experiments conducted at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1977 support this idea: When presented with photos of their true image and their mirror image, participants preferred their mirror image while friends and romantic partners preferred their true image.

,, and

“The interesting thing is that people don’t really know what they look like,” says Nicholas Epley, a professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the author of, “The image you have of yourself in your mind is not quite the same as what actually exists.” The image in our minds, according to Epley’s research, is way prettier.

In of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, researchers made participants’ faces more or less attractive in 10 percent increments by morphing their features to resemble composites of conventionally beautiful people (or, for the unattractive versions, people with craniofacial syndrome). When asked to identify their face out of a line-up, participants selected the attractive versions of their faces more quickly, and they were most likely to identify the faces made 20 percent more attractive as their own.

When asked to pick the experimenters’ faces out of the lineup, the participants showed no preference for more attractive versions of relative strangers. “They’re not wildly off—you don’t think you look like Brad Pitt,” Epley says. “You’re an expert at your own face, but that doesn’t mean you’re perfect at recognizing it.” The close proximity of our faces to our smartphone lenses doesn’t make that any easier.

Often incorrectly attributed to lens distortion, the way selfies exaggerate certain features is more a matter of geometry, as Daniel Baker, a lecturer in psychology at the University of York,, The parts of your face that are closer to the camera seem larger than other features in comparison to non-selfie photographs, where the distance from the camera to your face is longer and has more of a flattening effect on your face.

(Different lenses, such as wide-angle lenses, can alter this effect, but Baker says the differences are negligible.) So now that you know what makes your selfies “ugly” (to you, anyway), how do you make them more attractive? The Internet is full of suggestions: find,,, and,

But when it comes to making sure your face doesn’t look weird, the answer is simple: Take more selfies, Rutledge says. “People who take a lot of selfies end up feeling a lot more comfortable in their own skin because they have a continuum of images of themselves, and they’re more in control of the image,” she says.

“Flipped or not flipped, the ability to see themselves in all these different ways will just make them generally more comfortable.” : Why Selfies Sometimes Look Weird to Their Subjects

Do I look the same in the mirror as in real life?

This may be because when we look in a mirror, our image is reversed left to right, which can make us look different than we expect. In photographs, however, our image is not reversed, so we are likely to perceive ourselves as looking more like we do in reality.

Asked By: Elijah Brooks Date: created: Feb 01 2024

Is there a way to see who looks at your TikTok

Answered By: Jesus Hayes Date: created: Feb 04 2024

Tap Privacy, then scroll down and tap Profile views. If you don’t see this option either, make sure your TikTok app is updated.3. You’ll be given a list of everyone that’s looked at your profile in the last 30 days.