Do I look different in other people's eyes?

If the human eye looks at you through a mirror, then yes. It doesn't matter whether it is your eye or that of someone else's (other than the slight difference in perspective angle.
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Is your mirror image what others see?

There's a difference between your image in the mirror and in photos. The image you see in the mirror is reversed compared to the image that others see face-to-face with you. Your friends are familiar with your non-reversed image, while you are familiar with your reversed image in a regular mirror.
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How to see what you look like in other peoples eyes?

Hold two hand mirrors in front of you with their edges touching and a right angle between them like the two covers of a book when you're reading. With a little adjustment you can get a complete reflection of your face as others see it. Wink with your right eye. The person in the mirror winks his or her right eye.
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Is our eyes inverted or mirrored?

It is generally known that our eyes form an inverted image of what we see and that the brain corrects the scene to look the right way up.
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Is the back camera how others see you?

Back camera is how you look from other people, and typically shot from distance people normally see you, so perspective will be also likely going to be close.
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Where can I see my real face?

Hold two hand mirrors in front of you with their edges touching and a right angle between them like the two covers of a book when you're reading. With a little adjustment you can get a complete reflection of your face as others see it. Wink with your right eye. The person in the mirror winks his or her right eye.
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Which camera shows the real you?

I found the front camera gives more pleasing pictures than the back one, for example, the pictures taken by the back one often shows my eyes are proportionally smaller. Also the front camera seems to produce completely dark pictures when the lighting isn't good, while the back camera can still produce clearer pictures.
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How do others see my face?

One major factor is that photos generally show us the reverse of what we see in the mirror. When you take a photo of yourself using some (but not all) apps or the front-facing camera on an iPhone, the resulting image captures your face as others see it. The same is true for non-phone cameras.
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How do people see me?

The image you see in the mirror is inverted. Other people see you the way you appear in a photograph, not the way you appear in the mirror. People see the outside appearance, like a picture or mirror reflection.
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How do others see my face inverted?

Not the person other people see, since our reflection in the mirror is reversed by our brain. Raise your left hand, and the person in the mirror raises their right hand. From the way we part our hair to the way we smile, our faces are not symmetrical.
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Do we look better in real life?

Do we look better in real life than picture? If you think you look better in person than in photographs, you're probably right. According to new research by psychologists at the Universities of California and Harvard, most of us succumb to the "frozen face effect" in still photos -- and it's not very flattering.
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How do people see you in real life?

The image you see in the mirror is inverted. Other people see you the way you appear in a photograph, not the way you appear in the mirror.
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Should I trust the mirror or the camera?

When it comes to appearance, which is more accurate, the camera or the mirror? A flat mirror has no aberrations or distortion like a lens does. So your reflection in a mirror will always be a more accurate representation of you.
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Is the mirror accurate to what you look like?

In brief, the mirror is not an accurate depiction of what we look like because of self-enhancement, familiarity. Information attributed from: Liu et al.
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Which is more accurate mirror or photo?

The mirror is more accurate, since it doesn't exhibit any optical aberrations. You can't achieve that with any camera. Only flat mirrors can do this.
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Do people see you more attractive?

A new study shows that 20% of people see you as more attractive than you do. When you look in the mirror, all you see is your appearance. When others look at you they see something different such as personality, kindness, intelligence, and sense of humor. All these factors make up a part of a person's overall beauty.
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Why do I look weird inverted?

Why is looking at yourself inverted so weird? Your face looks weird in a non-mirrored selfie because the brain isn't used to seeing this version of your face!
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How are people mirrors of you?

The concept that everyone is your mirror is essentially telling you that the qualities you see in your partner, whether you admire them or not, are your mirror—they are showing you something about yourself.
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Can you ever see your own face?

But the mirror view is rotated 1808 from direct view. For your eyes are aimed outward though they are seeing inward, from the mirror in front of you. Although you can't see your own face directly you can see your body without a mirror.
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Why does my face look lopsided on camera?

Why does my face look completely different in pictures? It's called lens distortion and it can render your nose, eyes, hips, head, chest, thighs and all the rest of it marginally bigger, smaller, wider or narrower than they really are.
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Is my face lopsided in real life?

This is normal, as almost everyone has some degree of asymmetry on their face. Natural asymmetry is unlikely to be a cause for concern. In fact, some research indicates that natural asymmetry is both normal and desirable. Some people may have more noticeable asymmetry than others.
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Who is the real me mirror or camera?

The camera picture is more "real" in the sense that you mean, because the mirror image appears reversed left to right. That mirror reversal is called "lateral inversion". It's a little bit complicated to explain properly, but you see that reversal of your true self, in a plane (flat) mirror.
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Do real cameras distort your face?

The reality, in fact, is that the camera lens is distorting our facial features. So little-known is this nugget of information that I too stopped in my tracks when I scrolled past an IG post pointing to the fact that a camera can change your appearance, depending on the lens.
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Does my face look like the mirror or camera?

This may be because when we look in a mirror, our image is reversed left to right, which can make us look different than we expect. In photographs, however, our image is not reversed, so we are likely to perceive ourselves as looking more like we do in reality.
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