LebenistneHure
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I've created a few threads before claiming how different lighting can make or break your face. But now I've started to realize something else. Mirrors. How can you tell if what it's showing is true?
We got a new bathroom at home, and we installed a new mirror. It's no news that some mirrors can morph the image, depending if they're more concave or convex on either the horizontal, or vertical, or maybe both axes. Well, how can you claim you know what you actually look like? This is the same issue with selfies distorting your face, and camera lens: no two images are the same. And I'm starting to think, unless you get a scientific grade mirror, there will be some sort of error in the mirror. I know I don't look the same in any two mirrors at my house. It's like fun-house mirrors up in here: sometimes you look good, sometimes you look incel. I realize this doesn't play a role in many people's looks, but when you're like me, literally borderline looks, where it counts if my face is proportionally wider by a couple of mms, it plays a huge role. And in my case, I can't claim I know what I actually look like. In one mirror my face is harmonious, in another it's not. Same with images.
So I'm kind of stuck now. I don't know what the hell to do. It makes all the difference if my face is wider by a couple of mms, because that makes both my IPD and my pfl wider, and I actually look harmonious. A tiny change in that? Or god forbid, my midface appears to look a couple of mms longer than I initially thought? I look out of proportion. And this is why I claim I don't know what I actually look like. It's not like I can go to the scientists and ask for a flawless mirror. Maybe all the mirrors in my house are wrong, and a third one is right.
When you see yourself in a bathroom mirror when you're out somewhere, how can you tell it's not fucking with you? I might sound like a mentalcel here, but honestly, one tiny change in the width/length of my face is the difference between perceiving myself as a sexy demi god, and an incel. It's fucked.
We got a new bathroom at home, and we installed a new mirror. It's no news that some mirrors can morph the image, depending if they're more concave or convex on either the horizontal, or vertical, or maybe both axes. Well, how can you claim you know what you actually look like? This is the same issue with selfies distorting your face, and camera lens: no two images are the same. And I'm starting to think, unless you get a scientific grade mirror, there will be some sort of error in the mirror. I know I don't look the same in any two mirrors at my house. It's like fun-house mirrors up in here: sometimes you look good, sometimes you look incel. I realize this doesn't play a role in many people's looks, but when you're like me, literally borderline looks, where it counts if my face is proportionally wider by a couple of mms, it plays a huge role. And in my case, I can't claim I know what I actually look like. In one mirror my face is harmonious, in another it's not. Same with images.
So I'm kind of stuck now. I don't know what the hell to do. It makes all the difference if my face is wider by a couple of mms, because that makes both my IPD and my pfl wider, and I actually look harmonious. A tiny change in that? Or god forbid, my midface appears to look a couple of mms longer than I initially thought? I look out of proportion. And this is why I claim I don't know what I actually look like. It's not like I can go to the scientists and ask for a flawless mirror. Maybe all the mirrors in my house are wrong, and a third one is right.
When you see yourself in a bathroom mirror when you're out somewhere, how can you tell it's not fucking with you? I might sound like a mentalcel here, but honestly, one tiny change in the width/length of my face is the difference between perceiving myself as a sexy demi god, and an incel. It's fucked.
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