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Why do I look weird on camera???

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Fruity1112 · 24/08/2020 19:29

Hello,
I'm mid 20s. My boyfriend is extremely photogenic, like very! Every photo looks like him.
Me? Not so much.

It's like the camera distorts my face. I think I look lovely in the mirror and then someone takes a picture and my face looks all squashed and double chinny.

It happens so often that there is a joke in my friendship group about me being unphotogenic.

I havent thought about it until today when boyfriend jokingly filmed me tidying without me knowing and I was chatting to him. He showed me the video and I looked horrendous!!! My face was so round with a double chin, my makeup looked cake, my face once again looked squashed.

But I don't get it because in real life I'd say i'm fairly attractive. I don't get why i always have a massive double chin on camera as that double chin is not there when I look in the mirror and I am not overweight at all!

I'm just disappointed by the video as I didnt even know I was being filmed so that was me in ny natural state and I still look awful:(

OP posts:
PumpkinPie2016 · 25/08/2020 16:41

I don't like photos of myself either. A photo taken on a phone is the worst -I always look awful.

However, when I got married, the photographer took lots of photos and I like them all.

I think the camera/lens makes a difference and the person taking the photo!

UnaCorda · 25/08/2020 20:02

[quote Fruity1112]@TitianaTitsling yes i've heard that too but I dont understand hiw anyone can find me pretty or attractive if I look like I do on that video - literally I looked like the hunchback of notre damn[/quote]
Is that the sweary version of the Victor Hugo classic? Grin

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