Not to understand why my face looks so awful in pictures??

[Tryagainplease]

Lighthearted!

I don’t think I look too bad when I look in the mirror. In fact, when I make an effort and put a bit of make up on I actually think I have quite a nice face. But I have never ever in my whole life seen a picture of myself where I think I look good.

Seriously, the few times I have attempted to take a selfie have made me quite depressed with me asking myself “ugh, is that really my face? Do I really look that bad to other people”

I don’t lose any sleep or anything over it but… what is the deal??

I photograph really badly and always look slightly drunk, even when stone cold sober. In real life I’m considered quite attractive, even sometimes glamorous. But in photos I look like someone you’d try to avoid.

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Have also wondered about reverse dismorphia. Get it with my weight too. Think I look not too chubby. Then see a photo

I have a much younger friend who loves to take selfies and photos with friends. She always looks stunning in photos, in real life, dragged backwards through a hedge… she tried to get a nice photo of us multiple times but gave up. I look so gormless. My parents sent back my school photos as they looked awful. I’m just not photogenic in the slightest.

I look ok in the mirror in a certain light but if what people are seeing in reality is the photo version of me I honestly must have a face likes a melted wellie and thats depressing.

Here are some tips.

Zoom: find the 'touch up my appearance' slider on the video dashboard. It works.

Selfies: difficult because having the camera close (as it must be if you're holding it) can distort the perspective of your face

So get a little tripod and learn the multiple photo features in your phone. Take LOADS - and delete most of them. This will help you learn your best side, best angle, best exoressions when you know you're being photographed.

Only be photographed with camera lens at your eye level or a wee bit higher up. Keeps everything looking tight and un-pouchy.

Keep away from overhead light or harsh side lighting. Filtered daylight straight on is best.

Practice and practice - like anything else being photographed well is a skill. You can be sure models, film stars, TV personalities, royalty etc have learned the skill.

Mobile cameras have weird lens sizes that make most of us mere mortals look weird. I’m quite facially asymmetrical too, OP and phone selfies are the absolute WORST

I was talking to DD about this today. Some people are just naturally photogenic. I know real life gorgeous people who cannot take a decent photo and people who aren't that attractive in real life, who look stunning in photos. It's all to do with lighting, angles and feeling comfortable in front of the camera. I used to model and there really is an art to working the camera which doesn't come naturally to most people. I learnt so much from photographers about how to pose and even then I struggled to take good photos a lot of the time🙈 Some of the girls just couldn't take a bad photo, they were amazing and booked loads of jobs, I was a tad jealous 🤣

Oh good I look awful too in every photo unless I take a well aimed selfie!

When someone else takes one I swear I look old I've put on about two stone - it's so depressing

I don't photograph at all well, never have, but sometimes it's so bad I don't even recognise myself - I look like someone you see on those 'most wanted ' police mugshots. Passports and driving licences...jeez, my nightmare.

It's not just my face op. Any photo of me physically disgusts me. I am just repulsive. I look in the mirror and think yeah that's ok. I then see a photo and think what is WRONG with me!

There’s a trick to it. Push your bottom jaw a little forward, lift the corners of your mouth, place your tongue on the roof of your mouth to hide a double chin, don’t stare at the camera, look over the photographer’s shoulder. Try to get the angles of your cheekbones by presenting side on if possible to look thinner. I sometimes grab my inner cheeks between the molars to lose a little cheek fat. Still look terrible though. Just not wuite as terrible as before.

I always thought this but now looking back on older pictures I think I look great compared to now 😂 I remember photos I thought I looked huge in and now I think my god look how tiny I was. Snapchat filters really help me to look like less of a potato now.

@EmpressSuiko

I will add that different camera lenses will affect how you look in the photo.

This!

Better to take a photo from a distance, with a timer, with your phone, then crop it if you want a head and shoulders pic.

Some phones are worse than others, an LG I had took brilliant selfies!

@ScreamingMeMe

Pictures don't lie. What you see in a photo is how you actually look.

Maybe for you.

It's not about looking "wonky" or asymmetrical for me. My face just looks like abog, white egg, whilst in real life I have some bone structure. I also have big eyes (my best feature and something I receive compliments on) - they don't stand out at all in photos. It's so weird.

Not for me because I don't see my face how other people see it, I see it how we all see our own faces so I look weird in photos.

I've never come across anyone who doesn't look the same in RL as they do in basic unfiltered photos. From this thread though it seems lots of people have.

I look awful in photos - I really don't think I look that bad in real life! I am just not photogenic and pretty much always dodge photos - whether selfies or just shots of me.

I actually noticed this when I was deleting photos/ videos in a friends' WhatsApp group to free up some space on my phone - all my friends had no issue taking selfies and posting them but I would just never do it as I look so godawful!

I feel the same. I mean I don't think I'm Kylie Jenner or anything but there are a few times where I think I look quite nice. I take a pic or someone else takes a pic and I look horrific and about 20 years older.
I took , IMO 2 nice ones last week though so I put one on my WhatsApp profile. one person commented on it and asked if it was my sister (who he has never met!) and DH said I looked weird! So that didn't really inspire confidence!

I’m exactly the same - look perfectly fine in the mirror but like the beast from the pit in all photos (selfies and photos taken by others, although photos taken by others are worse). Really and truly ugly compared to (I think) a solid 7/10 in real life. I know someone hi is the other way around - though n the flesh, nothing much to look at (not ugly, just fairly plain). In photos she absolutely dazzles - so beautiful. It’s nothing to do with filters as she is the same in any photo from a selfie to what would be an unflattering shot for most taken by someone in a muddy field.

My mother looks amazing in photos, dazzling, always has. She’s lovely in real life too, but she takes a wonderful photo. I look alright in real life but I’m not photogenic. I think my mum is because she has a wonderful smile, whereas mine is just… fine. I think people will good smiles always photograph well.

Same here! Certainly not amazing looking at all but I think I look human at least. I can get a good selfie if I take loads where I look acceptable but in normal photos by other people I look awful, my face looks huge ( round faced anyway) I look bigger in size. My lazy eye looks really tiny, my hair looks shit, I can’t pose or look natural. Errr yeah so I hate photos! No idea what my fella sees in me if I actually look like my photos 🤦‍♀️

I’m not photogenic. I often have a “ I look like Angelina Jolie” day in my mind , when in reality I look like Rose West

If you take a selfie, flip it. It makes all the difference!

Me too. I also hate video calls, because I can see myself on the call and everything is wonky and wrong. I check the mirror before a call, and I look fine, turn on my webcam and urgh! It’s Grotbags

Me too. My features look out of proportion in a selfie and wrinkles pronounced. I hope I don't look like that in real life!

Thats why they do screen tests for movies and tv - you just dont know from real life how people will photograph. Some people look much better, some much worse. I am with you, dont feel I really like good in photos.

That's because a mirror is an opposite image of your face

How you look in photos is what others see when you walk down the street

@JigglyPiggly

That's because a mirror is an opposite image of your face

How you look in photos is what others see when you walk down the street

That makes me feel soooo much worse 😭