jackie100
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I look in the mirror so much that I can't really see what I look like anymore and sort of became desensitized to what I look like. For example, I have always been doing dark brown smoky eyes and wear colors like satin taupe etc and I thought it looked ok. I'm nc20, asian, with brown eyes btw.
I started taking self portraits with a camera, just because I'm vain and want to see what I look like and what my makeup looks like and brown smoky eyes didn't look good at all (at least not when I applied it on myself). I tried a medium grey'ish color on my eyes and from looking at the pics I noticed it made my eyes pop much more.
I also took pics of different combos and that made me realize certain colors were not flattering on me a tall, for example, hue washes me out but I never noticed how bad until I took pics of it.
When I looked in the mirror it looked ok. And I learned from studying pics of my makeup that on me, my lipglasses look better just by themselves, without layering them over any lipsticks, when I compared pics side by side...
Does anyone else have this? Like, you thought you looked a certain way but when you started taking pics of your makeup you realized that you look different than you thought? Or that the makeup looked different than you thought? Or that some colors just aren't flattering?
For some reason I can't see this when looking in the mirror but when taking pics it's more obvious.
So then I started wondering which one was more accurate, the mirror or photograph? And then I also wonder how I look like to other people. Sometimes I wish I could step out of my body and see myself from another person's point of view to see what I "Really" look like, in terms of makeup, face shape, body shape, hair, just everything.
I started taking self portraits with a camera, just because I'm vain and want to see what I look like and what my makeup looks like and brown smoky eyes didn't look good at all (at least not when I applied it on myself). I tried a medium grey'ish color on my eyes and from looking at the pics I noticed it made my eyes pop much more.
I also took pics of different combos and that made me realize certain colors were not flattering on me a tall, for example, hue washes me out but I never noticed how bad until I took pics of it.
When I looked in the mirror it looked ok. And I learned from studying pics of my makeup that on me, my lipglasses look better just by themselves, without layering them over any lipsticks, when I compared pics side by side...
Does anyone else have this? Like, you thought you looked a certain way but when you started taking pics of your makeup you realized that you look different than you thought? Or that the makeup looked different than you thought? Or that some colors just aren't flattering?
For some reason I can't see this when looking in the mirror but when taking pics it's more obvious.
So then I started wondering which one was more accurate, the mirror or photograph? And then I also wonder how I look like to other people. Sometimes I wish I could step out of my body and see myself from another person's point of view to see what I "Really" look like, in terms of makeup, face shape, body shape, hair, just everything.