to wonder why there is no camera in the world that can capture my beauty?

[WhiffofSnell]

Honestly! I look shit in just about every photo taken of me!
My DSis and SiLs are no better looking than me ok my DSis is but they always look acceptable in photos. My teenage DDs are both averagely attractive (obviously I don't tell them that) but the camera loves them. Why doesn't it love, or even quite like, me?

I've been forcing myself to be in more photos lately even though I look awful. My mum was the same as me, HATED having her picture taken. Literally the only picture I have of us together is from my wedding. She died suddenly and too young and I find it really sad that I have so few photos. I know one day my children will want to have some photos of me and them.

I look evil in photos and just given up now! ( not a beauty so i just put it down to that)

I'm the same, BUT, I read somewhere that because photos are mirror images, you might look better flipped back round - it does improve my own pics but only slightly.

Get a grandchild! Honestly - all photos of me have been dire until DGC came along. All the photos of me with DGC are really quite good. Even DC have remarked on it!

I look terrible in photos. Always have.
As for passport photo booths, it's as if I've gone in and the only options are "serial killer" or "one of their victims". I look evil or dead. Occasionally both.
The best picture I have is when someone managed to catch my lazy eye in action. I'm looking in two different directions.

I look really pretty in photos - much much better than in person. I would definitely prefer to look better in real life! I’m just glad Ive settled with a family as OLD would be a nightmare - theyd be so disappointed when they met me.

Weirdly enough my sister takes terrible photos - and is a beauty in person. When her ex’s family met her one of his (rude) aunts actually said “oh thankgoodness you look much better in person”

I'm definitely not a head turner, but a friend of mine looked at a photo of me recently and said, 'you're quite photogenic ' .... wha?! ... is the end of that sentence 'for a such a real life minger?!' 👹😀

When I look in the mirror I look fine, but in photos? Jesus wept!

My husband agrees and it’s been known for him to take a photo of me and delete it immediately before I’ve seen it

Whenever I have a photograph taken, the millisecond it takes for the shutter to snap, someone wheels me off and substitutes MY MOTHER .....

I have no middle ground in photos. I either look reasonably good or utterly shite. I'm not pretty, but I scrub up ok, but the photos of me are extremes.

This with a filter 🤭

When my dh takes pictures of me he waits too long and l get awkward and look strained..l hate them. But when my dc take unexpected ones randomly l surprise myself.
Also at late 50s l always feel who is that older lady as in my mind l am no more than 30 and the 8 stone l was then.
I think young people now have so much more practice at taking photos they look lovely but there is a huge pressure for them in that too.

Cani join your band of un-photographic beauties?

If I know a photo is being taken, I freeze, and end up with a lop-sided half smile. My hair always looks flat and lifeless also. I have a short pixie-type hairstyle which always look glamouiress and stylish on older celebs,and I think looks ok in everyday life, but not on photos.

I do not photograph at all well. I’m so glad I’m old. Being a teenager in the age of Instagram would have been punishing for me.
I always look bad but if I do that camera flip thing on my phone to take a selfie, it is freakish. Nothing is where I think it is. It looks like a Picasso painted me (during the cubism years) while I was wearing an Andrew Lloyd Webber mask!
My optician told me I have a very asymmetrical face. It doesn’t look so bad to me but what if everyone else is seeing the flipped round iPhone version?

Same here,i am always horrified when i see a photo of myself and try not to have any taken
Same with mirrors,i dont look so bad in my mirror at home but avoid shop mirrors like the plague,

Perhaps this is Samantha Brick's problem - because she's nothing special in any photo I've ever seen and yet apparently everyone she ever meets falls in love with her. Originally I thought she was blind, daft and/or stupid based on the fact she says her husband is gorgeous but he's actually Demis Roussos, but perhaps he, too, just looks shite in photos?

The exact angle makes a huge difference to how you look in a 2D photo. A while back I posed for a photographer to practise on, half an hour of turning a few degrees at a time. About 1000 shots, 800 straight in the bin, but half a dozen rather good ones. Problem is I have no idea how to explain exactly how we got those ones!

A new friend wanted to take a selfie before we went out. Not my thing but new friend and all so I went along with it warning her that my face looks like it's melting on photos. A few clicks later, lots of phone magic and filters....'oh yeah...you don't look how you look in real life do you?'

Yep I know that feeling well! In person I think I'm ok, I'm definitely no beauty but I look perfectly acceptable...in photos I seem to lose all definition of my chin, or gain several extra chins, and gain slightly panicked eyes (probably because I'm thinking about how bad the photo will turn out!). I try so hard to just avoid having my photo taken now.

For me, nothing beats the horror of picking up my phone and finding DS has left it in selfie mode. Cue 10 seconds of trying frantically to turn it off while not looking at the hideous apparition gurning back at me.

I feel your pain OP.

I also have a problem with cameras - they all seem to contain software that swaps me for my mum! A scruffier version of my mum, but still that weary, irritable expression. I am not beautiful, but know that I am a chilled, edgy hippy chick with just the one chin...fucking cameras!!

This is one of life’s eternal mysteries. My sister, my adult daughter and I all have pretty much the same face (although DDs is not wrinkled), but even though our features, bone structure etc are pretty much identical, they both look great in photos and I look like a potato with eyes, nose and lips drawn on.

I look fat with dimples I have come to terms with it now as few years down the line appreciate the photos

I'm the same. The sad thing is some people look at photos and say no that's how you look in real life , if that's the case I need a paper bag asap!
I have very low self esteem but I do get told I'm very pretty ( I don't think it and I do have a very big nose which ruins my face), in mirrors I look quite good, it raises my self esteem then I take a photo thinking how can it turn out bad when I actually look nice today..and bang! there goes my self esteem again..
I propose a world without cameras.
I honestly don't think anyone hates photos as much as me. But I'm glad I've found a group to belong to.