Why do I look better in front camera than back camera?

Why do I look like a whole different person in selfies and pictures taken with the back camera? Phone cameras use wide angle lenses, which distort faces. The back camera is worse because it's much closer to your face, so makes your nose look big.
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Is front or back camera more accurate?

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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Is the front-facing camera how others see you?

The front facing camera does not mirror the video it takes. It mirrors the display when you are taking it, so it looks like what you would see in a mirror. The saved video is in the correct orientation. This is done to aid in taking the photos and videos.
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Is the back camera or mirror more accurate?

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 back camera clearer than front?

Megapixels. The quality in megapixels of the rear-facing camera far surpasses the front-facing camera. You may be wondering what they are talking about when megapixels get mentioned, so let me explain.
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Why do I look good in front camera but not back?

Why do I look like a whole different person in selfies and pictures taken with the back camera? Phone cameras use wide angle lenses, which distort faces. The back camera is worse because it's much closer to your face, so makes your nose look big.
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How 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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How do I see myself as others see me?

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.
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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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Does mirror show your real face or camera?

In short, what you see in the mirror is nothing but a reflection and that may just not be how people see you in real life. In real life, the picture may be completely different. All you have to do is stare at a selfie camera, flip and capture your photo. That's what you really look like.
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How do people see you as?

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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Does the back camera distort your face?

Simply put, the closer the phone is to your face the more distortion will occur. So yes, don't worry, you don't have a big nose, it's just your camera lens.
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Why is my face uneven 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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Do selfies show the real you?

All photos are lies, distortions of the truth, and that goes double triple for selfies. Every photo in existence is altered and constrained by many factors, including the camera itself, the focal length of the lens we use, lighting and posing of the subject and the perspective from which the photo was taken.
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Why do I look uglier in pictures than real life?

“According to the mere-exposure effect, when your slight facial asymmetries are left unflipped by the camera, you see an unappealing, alien version of yourself,” Wired explained. In other words, the camera version is like an unfamiliar portrait of ourselves that we neither recognize nor care to.
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Do we see ourselves uglier?

In a series of studies, Epley and Whitchurch showed that we see ourselves as better looking than we actually are. The researchers took pictures of study participants and, using a computerized procedure, produced more attractive and less attractive versions of those pictures.
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Why do I look good in real life but not on camera?

This is because the reflection you see every day in the mirror is the one you perceive to be original and hence a better-looking version of yourself. So, when you look at a photo of yourself, your face seems to be the wrong way as it is reversed than how you are used to seeing it.
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Do I look different to others?

We do look “different”, but that is only because the mirror reverses the image of our face. Other details are reflected reversed as well, but the mirror provides the same exact data, but reversed laterally, because it is a reflection. But this difference exists only in our eyes and mind and can seem exaggerated, ...
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Why do people look better in front camera?

Because most of smartphones have that beauty face feature on by default for the front camera. So what it does is make your skin looks nice without pimples and make it smooth. So that's the reason people looks nice in selfie rather than the rear camera…
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How do you fix a lopsided face?

Treatment options to fix an asymmetrical face and correct the effects of the aging process usually include a combination of dermal fillers and botulinum toxin.
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Asymmetrical Face Treatments
  1. Cheek Sculpting (or Cheek Fillers Treatment)
  2. Chin Sculpting.
  3. The Brow Lift.
  4. Non-surgical rhinoplasty.
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How do you fix face asymmetry?

No matter your age, the easiest way to correct facial asymmetry is with the help of either braces or, in more severe cases, corrective jaw surgery. Dr. McGrory recommends a series of treatment methods designed to realign your bite pattern in a process called intercuspation.
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Do cameras exaggerate asymmetry?

Taking face photos with short lens cameras and up close results in the whole face, nose, and eyes appearing wider and face and nose longer than in real life. This facial widening distortion also causes the ears to disappear on the photographs. Additionally, any nasal asymmetry maybe exaggerated due to stretching.
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Why do I look lopsided on back camera?

The camera lens is not the human eye

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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Do people see me how I see myself in the mirror?

No. 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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Why does my face look fat in pictures but not in the mirror?

The width of the lens, as well as your distance from the camera, can make you look larger or smaller in photos than you do in person or in the mirror. But rest assured that most times, this is truly an optical illusion based on the photography equipment you use and the clothes you wear.
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