The mirror me and the photo me?

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~Just Me~

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Actually dude it just means your better looking in person.Be glad you aren't like people who don't look like themselves on photos lmao.Thats why blind dates would fit for you so well.You don't have to show yourself off meaning your better off without a picture.Usually pictures take angles of your face.So that means your really handsome from all angles!No homo tho
 
I think I'm a pretty handsome guy. People tell me I'm good looking and girls think I'm good looking. I have no problems with girls. When I look in the mirror I don't think I'm ugly or anything. But when I look at photos of me, I look really bad. Even if I'm not doing any weird facial expressions or anything. I look completely different to what I see in the mirror and I think I look ugly in photos. Why is this? Is this some kind of mental condition? I absolutely dread going out and getting my photo taken because I know I'm going to look horrible. And most importantly, when people look at me, do they see the mirror me or the photo me?
 
Hmmm....y'know, I get the same thing. i photograph horribly, and im not ugly. I think they see the mirror you. The picture you is probably just caused by bad photography, or a number of issues that could affect picture quality.
 
This happens to me all of the time. I look horrid in photos, but not as bad in mirrors - or in other people's eyes.
Maybe you just don't take good photos. Don't get married. I hear they take lots of pictures at those things.
 
so may be you are not photo genetic. but why does it matter when the rest of your life is moving on so smoothly. besides, if you such a charmer in reality people won't really care if you look good in pics or not. this is just in your head!
 
A mirror will not reflect an exact image of you unless it is a "true mirror." Lighting, and angle of perspective also have a lot to do with how you see yourself in a mirror and how you see yourself in a photograph.

Don't forget that perception is subjective.

Unless your perception of yourself is causing stress and in some way drastically begins to inhibit your life (social life, work, school, anxiety), then you likely do not have a mental condition.
 
I think it has something to do with being alive. Sometimes part of beauty is movement and the life you see behind the eyes. When you look in the mirror and when people look at you, you're alive. But on a photo you're 'dead', so to speak.
How do you look in videos, I wonder?
 
Agrees with Just me...Its better to be good looking in person.
Some people just dont photo well. its nothing really bad.
At least yes those myspace pictures where no1 looks like their pictures. Its really scary because you dont know who is who.
Anyway if its really a huge issue. Grab your camera and a whole lotta batteries and take a bucket load of snaps of yourself. Try and work out how to look good in pictures. Do it in the mirror.
Pose. But dont use those myspace angles. yuck!!
 
Well i think your being to paranoid about how you look but if not you may not just be a Camera person well, if someone looks at you i bet they see the normal you not the one you see.
 
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