malinke-lonnaa:

future-struggling-musician:

You know when you feel hot and you try to take a selfie but turns out you’re a hideous goblin? Cause same

sorry I saw in your tag it’s cause you saw in the mirror you were great looking, don’t change that opinion cause of the camera, keep that opinion, it’s true. not cause I’m complimenting but because the camera is actually lying. I just wanted to say something because a lot of people on here feel they’re actually good looking when they look in the mirror but when they take a selfie it’s always ugly. there was a very popular post that replied to someone that said they look good in the mirror but ugly in selfies that it’s because the mirror is flipped, and that you look actually really look like you look in your selfies, and not the mirror, because that’s how people see you in real life “unflipped”.  and everyone left it at that, and mad people felt completely sad, even though it was like 99% wrong. The 1% truth about it is that yes it is flip (but even the flip changes nothing and you can just flip it back around), but the 99% false thing about it is that you don’t actually look like you do in your selfies. At all. Not a little bit. Selfies are close to the face, and they distort how you look EXTREMELY. Even the people you see who take Beautiful selfies faces are distorted, they’re just lucky it was distorted in a way that makes them look better. Some people may look very beautiful in real life, but are unlucky on how a selfie chooses to distort their face. (Because the selfie is close) and does barrel distortion and does multiple different types of others distortions

Example of the distortion:

You’ll never notice it because you never question it, because you think it’s just giving you what you supposed to look like. But selfies/cameras actually change your whole entire face. The majority of people will even notice that their ears disappear during a selfie. And yes, this is every single selfie, again some people are lucky their face can be distorted into something good.
Another example:

You may not have noticed, but that’s why most people who take selfies turn their heads to the side to try and find some kind of angle (that angle is still distorted, it’s just the distortion they subconsciously find best)

(That’s why I don’t take selfies and always tell people I swear I look better/different than my selfies). 

Again, when people say “I’m not photogenic”, that’s actually a completely real/backed word. The camera affects different faces differently.

So yes, the way you look in the mirror really IS how good you look. It may be flipped but that’s literally it.

 If you want your face not distorted, youll notice you look better when it’s someone else taking your picture standing further away. Some people even like the distortion because the distortion makes them look better. If it’s not for you all you have to do is do what professionals do, easily have someone take your picture from a further away (or set it further away, and then zoom in/crop to whatever you want)

Remember that even then there are distortions, rely on your mirror, despite what was said before, your selfies are not what you look like to people irl, if you look good in the mirror, you good.