Why do you look better in the mirror than in pictures?
I'm Dr.
Johnny.
And I'm answering this for you today because you look
way better than you think.
I see patients every day and I go through.
Time and time again.
So I'm going to give you four or five reasons why you're looking
way better in the mirror than you're looking in pictures.
And I'll tell you this drives billions.
I'm going to say billions of dollars to the aesthetic market.
Every year.
People come in crying because they saw a picture and it just
didn't look like themselves, but they look good before they went.
What happened?
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Here's four reasons.
Number one, and this may sound a bit obvious, but it's lighting
depending on the lighting.
You're going to look 10 or 15 years younger.
Yes.
It can make a huge difference.
You want to avoid overhead lighting and you want to have direct lighting.
One simple change can make you look younger.
The selfie light, but when you're on with people, you
can't really control the light.
Or can you, because we're taking pictures all the time in a set of
meetings, it's all about having late coming in and not a lot of
backlighting that throws the camera off.
So pay attention to lighting.
Number two, when you looking in the mirror, remember
you're seeing a reflection.
So a reflection is just that it's the light coming right back at you.
So it's not true.
A picture.
So the mirror doesn't show you a true form of the picture and I'll add to that.
We all know our good side.
A lot of people do at least, uh, because when they come in, they'll
say, doc, when you're working on me, the right side is the side.
I like, I hate my left side.
And typically that's going to.
The rounded side.
They don't like the rounded side.
They liked the sculpted side, which is typically the narrower side of the face.
The bones on the face are different.
And so we're not going to be complete mirror image.
Um, but in fact, the sides of the face we say are sisters,
they're not identical twins.
Uh, and that creates some asymmetries, which is overall a good thing, but
it's why you do not look the same in the mirror as you do in pictures.
Next is the fish eye effect or the effect of when the camera's
close the nose, the chin, the forehead looks bigger and distorted.
And I sounds obvious again, but people forget this.
So by you putting the camera further away and sometimes your arm can't
extend that bar, you look much better.
I recently have gotten.
Somewhat fancy.
It opens up and it has the cameras on the back.
It has a camera on this side and there's a camera here on the, on the front.
They all give different pictures.
Sure.
The resolution is different, but it just goes to show.
I can look reasonable.
And I open use the other camera.
I look way less reasonable in that view.
So the camera be mindful that camera's not actually how you look and you
want to avoid kind of the fish eye look, and you can have apps that give
you a fish eye look, but it makes it look like you're looking through a
fish eye and it's a distorted image.
It's actually.
Not you finally there's movement.
So muscle movement.
And I deal with this day in and day out, because as an example, think of filling
lips, lips can look good at rest, but when you smile, the dynamics can change and
there can be asymmetries with movements.
So while you're in the mirror, you might look good because we are subconsciously,
we distort our face to make up for the asymmetries, such as a lower.
A crooked smile.
So in the mirror, you're not going to see that.
Whereas in real life movement, you're going to definitely see the asymmetries.
And when you smile in a picture, you might have a really big smile because you're
happy that accentuates that asymmetry versus in the mirror, you're just having
a fake smile, which might look better.
So dynamics are all important, but here's what I want you to know.
Uh, even though you might not like that, look in the full.
Most people don't recognize it.
Most people don't see it as a problem.
We're way harder on ourselves than anyone else even recognizing it.
And that's why when I'm doing a consult with a patient, I point out the asymmetry.
Because I am going to alter them and take them more towards symmetry, but
so that they don't percent rate on it.
And just reassuring people that no one notices these things for the most part.
And in fact, it makes people even more trustworthy than a.
Fully symmetric face motor movement gives this character.
It's beautiful and it's perceived by others is beautiful.
So we're much harder on ourselves with movement and that's why
in the mirror, you might.
Much better because you're moving your face to adjust for the things in your head
that you think are not attractive about yourself, but most people never notice.
And some people just need to be told that.
So yes, you might look better in the mirror than in pictures, but under.
Likely you look better in real life, much better than you think.
I see it day in and day out.
And I have to tell my patients, I want to hear the comments below for
you, from you and the other tips and tricks that you can share with us.
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