so I've been catfishing myself...

[EARFQUAKE]

Sometimes wonder if I have that body dysmorphia thing, but in reverse. Think I am a certain size, looking cute. Then I see myself in a mirror next to someone else and think, damn, I am about her size?!?!
Happened to me just this week.

I have BDD bad

 

[Black Barbie]

I always have people tell me I'm pretty and then when I look in the mirror or at photos I think I look #teamaverage. I think it's mostly because I have a more angled face so it can look really weird in photos or in the mirror, but look good in motion. Same thing with my body. My mom, sister, and friends will say I have a shape, but it looks like the rectangle body type

 

[Princess Coco]

I have BDD bad

So do I. Lets be friends.
You're actually gorge though

 

[GoldCoastSaint]

Glad im not the only one. Be bomb in the mirror, cute in the 4th selfie, hideous if someone else takes the pic. But in videos Im a dream. I just go with what the videos show.

 

[LeeDoubleLee]

I always have people tell me I'm pretty and then when I look in the mirror or at photos I think I look #teamaverage. I think it's mostly because I have a more angled face so it can look really weird in photos or in the mirror, but look good in motion. Same thing with my body. My mom, sister, and friends will say I have a shape, but it looks like the rectangle body type

Rectangles aren't bad. A lot of beautiful women have that body type

 

[Black Barbie]

Rectangles aren't bad. A lot of beautiful women have that body type

I don't think of the rectangle as a bad thing. My frustration comes from how my mom and sister see my body shape than I do. We never agree on what it is. My mom and sister say hourglass and I just don't see it. Funny enough my mom thinks people with hips look weird.

 

[HabitualChiller]

I did the same thing and I looked better than I thought I did.

What I see in the mirror actually looks worse than how I look in reality.

 

[Trapperman Dave]

Oh girl me too! Sometimes I'll take a selfie of myself to verify this phenomenon and my face is crooked af. I look like Steven Hawking.

I'm not photogenic at all. I guess I'm #teamugly, but I be thinking I'm cute looking in the mirror. I thought wrong .

Let me be the judge for research purposes

 

[Paradise]

Stop being so hard on yourself! everyone has something about themselves that they don't like.

You just gotta play up the things you do like.

 

[Youhadasparkwhenustarted]

Our eyes do an AMAZING job of correcting visual mistakes, asymmetry especially. I learned this when I first started to paint, I would do something I thought looked okay, but then I'd comeback a few days later and realize it's wack and full of mistakes. Same thing applies to our faces, we're so used to looking at ourselves in the mirror that we get used to -and eventually disregard- some of our more subtle flaws. So when you first look at yourself in a mirror image it can be really jarring. The thing is, this same type of correction applies to how other people look at you too, so even though you notice your flaws when you first see yourself in the correct perspective, rest assured that the people who see you everyday are used to how you look, and don't really notice your flaws either, they just see you for the beautiful you that you think you are.

 

[EARFQUAKE]

Our eyes do an AMAZING job of correcting visual mistakes, asymmetry especially. I learned this when I first started to paint, I would do something I thought looked okay, but then I'd comeback a few days later and realize it's wack and full of mistakes. Same thing applies to our faces, we're so used to looking at ourselves in the mirror that we get used to -and eventually disregard- some of our more subtle flaws. So when you first look at yourself in a mirror image it can be really jarring. The thing is, this same type of correction applies to how other people look at you too, so even though you notice your flaws when you first see yourself in the correct perspective, rest assured that the people who see you everyday are used to how you look, and don't really notice your flaws either, they just see you for the beautiful you that you think you are.

 

[Princess Coco]

I'm so used to looking at myself with filters so when I see myself without them im like .

 

[Token]

Ok so I'm tryna figure out how to do this



Also, I just noticed LAST YEAR that one side of my top lip is smaller than the other. Saw a picture of myself and was devastated.



Edit: So I did it and I think I might actually be cuter that way? if that's the case, why am I so popped in pictures? It ain't adding up.

 

[RoyalQ]

When i take pictures i realized that my jawbis crooked to the right. I have no idea how that happened. Also i have 2 different eyebrows.
Am i the onky one who thinks my pictures look better upside down? Idk what it is. I take a selfie and i see my crooked jaw and weird eyebrows and the pic looks bad. But when i hold it upside down i look really pretty. Whats up with that?

 

[OfTheCross]

I be telling my girl whenever she takes more than one selfie or picture that the "bad" one is who she is.

Women so caught up on their looks that they lie to themselves.

I don't even look in the mirror when I'm washing my face