Mirror or photos? Which one is more accurate?

[ky.ascension078]

I'm asking this question not only to understand which one to trust, but also to find out how cooked I am?
A few days ago, someone took a photo of me, and I noticed one eye appeared slightly more closed than the other. I understand that everyone has asymmetries because no one is perfect. I get that.
However, when I look at myself in the mirror, my eyes are perfectly fine, hence my confusion and my request for clarity on this matter.

 

[cromagnon]

if you're asymmetrical in pictures you're asymmetrical irl

 

[Deleted member 100972]

Picture

 

[crazedhaver25]

photo taken on the back camera of the phone is more accurtae because the mirror inverts the image, the phone does not. but you've seen yourself on the mirror more so you've gotten used to it

 

[Ghoulish]

Mirror, photos are distorted asf. Although lighting in a mirror can also give you an inaccurate impression of yourself

 

[ky.ascension078]

I don't even care if I'm cooked or not, as long as somebody can tell me the source of the eye asymmetry. Is it the upper eyelids? The eyebrows? The lower eyelids? I've been trying to find out for the longest time, I just can't seem to find it

(I did suffer an injury on my eye once like 6 years ago (left on the picture), could it be trauma?)

 

[TheoRaven]

Hooding sits lower on one eye and you have some undereye volume loss in the other eye that causes your lower lid to not be as straight.

Relax your frontalis and maybe get filler to fix the volume loss.

Could also be that you sleep on your side and have some swelling around the "larger" appearing eye.

 

[ky.ascension078]

Hooding sits lower on one eye and you have some undereye volume loss in the other eye that causes your lower lid to not be as straight.

Relax your frontalis and maybe get filler to fix the volume loss.

Could also be that you sleep on your side and have some swelling around the "larger" appearing eye.

Thank you so much. I can now be at ease, knowing that I might be able to change something (according to your response), but more importantly WHY it's cooking me. The stress I put on myself, for knowing the what, but not the why was crazy

What I've gathered is...
- Relax my eyes
- Get some filler
- Sleep on my other side/ on my back?

 

[bloodboy]

Just take 2 mirrors and put them at 90 degree angle and there you go, most accurate. Also stop scrunching your eyebrows together you look weird

 

[bloodboy]

To specify,

Thats what i mean, but you can take literally any 2 mirrors and they dont have to be that perfect

 

[TheoRaven]

Thank you so much. I can now be at ease, knowing that I might be able to change something (according to your response), but more importantly WHY it's cooking me. The stress I put on myself, for knowing the what, but not the why was crazy

What I've gathered is...
- Relax my eyes
- Get some filler
- Sleep on my other side/ on my back?

Sleep on your back to prevent any weird fluid build ups anywhere on your face.

 

[ky.ascension078]

Just take 2 mirrors and put them at 90 degree angle and there you go, most accurate. Also stop scrunching your eyebrows together you look weird

I'm not. I just have a resting mad face, which is annoying as it makes me less approachable. Thanks tho, I'll definitely try the two mirrors method

 

[aviddd]

camera distortion isnt real, if you arent confident with how u look on camera then its over, simple as that

 

[Deleted member 93631]

Asymmetries will be invisible in the mirror. The back-camera will point it out a lot more.

Videos from the back-camera should pretty accurately show how you look irl in motion, but if you have doubts with the camera/distortion take a mirror pic/video with ur phone then flip it. Should show how you will look irl.