Why You Look Better In The Mirror Than In Pictures

so tell me if this sounds familiar years so you're getting ready and you see yourself in the mirror and you look pretty good you're feeling yourself right so later on you have somebody snap a picture of you just for future reference and you look horrible well I think we've all been there before and there's a scientific explanation on why that happens what's going on guys welcome back to my channel it's Brett maverick here I hope you all are having an awesome day so far so this used to happen to me all the time especially when I was in the gym pumping iron you know when I was big into fitness modeling stuff like that I look in the mirror and I look like I had this perfect physique perfect proportions and symmetry then you know I let somebody snap a picture of me and my abs look distorted my chest looks awkward everything just looks off right so I became pretty interested in this topic and there's a really simple explanation for it the explanation is reflection you see when you're looking in the mirror you actually are seeing a reflected version of yourself you're not seeing your true self so if you're looking in the mirror and you usually part your hair to this way in real life if somebody's looking straight on at you your hair is actually going to be going opposite way because what is your true appearance is reflected on the mirror for instance if I was to draw a dot on the left side of my cheek and then when I look in the mirror it's gonna appear to me on the left side but if I was to snap a picture straight on it will be on the right side most people I've met feel like they look worse in pictures than they do in the mirror a few people feel the opposite way so you're probably thinking oh no I knew it I'm actually ugly and no that is not true and here's why it's just that you're not used to what you're seeing because of a few different variables the first variable is that when you're looking in the mirror you're moving and you can kind of contort your posture and your body and your facial expressions to form a more pleasing up when you're just taking a one frame picture straight on you're not going to be able to have as many frames to choose from to make yourself look good so it's just this one snap judgment of what you might actually look like and because of this people look at themselves in the mirror so they feel like they know the right body posture and facial expressions to make that'll make them look good but then when they have a picture snapped of them straight on it's actually the opposite so it looks completely different from what they're used to seeing in the mirror so this is one of the main reasons why people appear so much different in pictures than they do in mirrors and another reason that you do actually look good you're not ugly I promise is that people aren't as critical about you as you are on yourself they don't notice every little detail on you like you notice upon yourself right you spent so much time getting ready looking in the mirror you know if you're a girl doing your makeup or you know doing your hair that you're so used to what looks good on you and you notice every little detail about your appearance when people see you from the outside they're looking at you overall they're not obsessing over that little pimple bear and that little blemish there and that hair there they're just looking at you overall and that's how they make a judgement about what you look like I remember talking to one of my exes about this a stunning beautiful woman and she thought that she looks so bad in pictures when in reality I feel like she looked better in pictures then she actually Ted why not she tried to emulate her mirror look so the fact of the matter is you probably look somewhere in between how you look in a mirror and in pictures but you're just so used to how you look in a mirror that everything else is gonna look weird to you something that I notice is that if you have an iPhone and you're using the front-facing camera that actually portrays a reflection of the reflection so it actually shows you how you actually will look straight on so if you actually want to see what you look like use the front-facing camera on your iPhone but then snapchat and Instagram camera just shows a reflection so that's what it's gonna look like if you're looking in a mirror so I don't know pick the poison with your options there so if you're feeling really insecure about how you look in pay I have one simple advice for you and this is something that has helped me immensely not that I really cared that much but it's just practice spending time in front of a camera or having lots of pictures taken of you so you can kind of adapt to how you're being portrayed I've spent so much time in front of the camera and in front of my computer editing these videos that how I see how I see myself from a camera's view is pretty much normal to me now so when I take pictures I use my front-facing camera on my iPhone or I'll just have my friends take pictures of me with a camera and it looks fine I mean it looks normal because I'm used to it so I hope this kind of puts you guys at ease your don't look horrible you're just not used to what you're seeing don't try to go change up yourself you know if you put your hair this way don't try to change it up because it's just gonna look strange and people aren't gonna be used to it you'll be switching things up on them and they're not gonna be used to what you look like that's it guys I hope you enjoyed this video I want to know what you guys think about this whole up paradox I know it's really strange but let me know in the comments what do you think if you haven't already subscribed turn post notifications on and until next time peace out you

Channel: Brett Maverick

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Length: 5min 26sec (326 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 14 2019