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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I seem to look fine in the mirror but I am a hellish ghoul in pictures.  I can’t explain that except I wonder if it’s because the mirror is twice as far away — like if I’m looking at myself in a mirror 2 feet away, is that like being 4 feet away?  Does that mean I look okay from 4 feet away?  
I tried to take a picture today of me with my I voted sticker and just deleted all of them.  It was too depressing to look at them.

I’m generally fine provided I don’t look at pictures of myself!  Someone posted a thread complaining she was not in any pictures from a work event and I thought “that’s my ideal outcome.”[/quote]

Oh same. I look good in like one out of every 50 photos taken of me but I look decent in the mirror. I really, really hate the era of the phone camera and social media. I hate being surprised with a photo of myself on social media. And inevitably people always want to take photos at events where I'm dressed down and haven't done my hair. That will be the photo my MIL wants to post to Facebook as opposed to the one from Thanksgiving dinner where I wore a flattering color and did my hair. So frustrating.

I will say that I've better learned the stuff that will make me look better in photos and try to do that stuff as often as I can. Whitening my teeth and really good oral hygiene is big. Wearing my hair down and blowing it out (and also wearing it about two inches shorter than I always want to think I should). Wearing clothes that fit well and present well (stuff that doesn't look easily wrinkled or attract lint really easily). Wearing a bit of lipstick.

I'm not a supermodel and I still look weird in a lot of photos but if I do those things I still look a million times better and don't have that "ick, I'm ugly" feeling that used to when I saw photos of myself.[/quote]

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