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The reason your face looks wrong in photos
More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. We do look different in photos versus a mirror. If you're anything like me, you've had this experience: You see a photo of yourself--maybe on a day you actually felt relatively put-together before leaving the house--and you suddenly feel betrayed by your own face. For me, it's usually some combination of the following: one eye squinting against the sun, a smile that somehow always turns into a tortured rictus, my chin multiplying despite my best "strategic selfie " angle. So, if the relatively inoffensive face I saw in the mirror is me, and the deeply unfortunate JPEG is also me, which do I believe?