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Why do i look so different in the mirror than i do in pictures!?
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That's because you are use to seeing yourself the only way you can and that's a mirror image!. All other people see the reversed image of you!. If you take a photo and print it reversed, you will enjoy it much better because that is the Image you are used to seeing!.
It's an old trick used by photographers trying to sell portraits!. Reverse the picture and print it that way and people will buy more!. Our faces are not identical when one side is compared to another!. If we make a photo of ourselves using only half our face and the flip side of that half for the other , we would look totally different!. Our faces are not symmetrical!. Both sides do not unnecessarily match!.Just as we don't here yourselves talk the way other here us!. Most people don't like to hear themselves on a tape recorder because they think they sound funny!. Its just that they don't get the same sound waves as someone speaking to them does!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Hi Rachel

When you look in the mirror, it is a flat image with no depth perspctive whereas in real life, you are in 3-D!.

You might notice that most photo shoot of any models are always taken at a right or left angle of the face!. Why we do this is because, we have a good and bad side to a face or should I say, one side always looks better and that is the side most models shoot from!.Www@QuestionHome@Com