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Post by ZandraJoi on Jul 2, 2022 20:54:26 GMT -5
www.naturalawakenings.com/2022/06/30/402772/don-t-assume-selfies-show-true-facial-features "The more than 100 million cell phone selfies taken every day have produced an unanticipated outcome: a documented uptick in plastic surgery. Younger women in particular are increasingly showing cosmetic surgeons their selfies to demonstrate why they want to change the size or shape of their nose, but these concerns may be based on a distorted perception because selfies distort facial features, say researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern. In their study involving 30 subjects, they took one photo 12 inches from the face with the arm bent and another at 18 inches with the arm straight. When comparing the 12-inch selfies against a third photo taken five feet away, the researchers found that, on average, the nose appeared over 6 percent longer and the chin seemed 12 percent shorter. This created a distortion total of over 17 percent in the nose-to-chin ratio. Selfies also made the base of the nose appear wider relative to the width of the face. “If young people are using selfies as their only guide, they may be coming to plastic surgeons to fix problems that don’t exist except in the world of social media,” says study leader Bardia Amirlak, M.D." My notes: My advice, stop with all the selfies. Maybe have someone take a good couple of pictures then focus on living in the Now.
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Post by lainee on Jul 4, 2022 15:13:16 GMT -5
Not interested in taking a selfie, so I wouldn't know...LOL
Interesting article, though :-)
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Post by golden on Jul 6, 2022 0:22:20 GMT -5
I have took more selfies and all looks very different to each other, even with different mobiles will show different colors lol.
These are just our faces only, but true colors are not visible always, anyway we can only enjoy what we have instead of going to photo studio.
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Post by Prometheus on Jul 8, 2022 15:46:17 GMT -5
Interesting. I know that certain angles are more beneficial than others when trying to highlight your best features or to downplay what we perceive as faults in appearance. Definitely have taken my fair share of selfies, though most of them are of my face only.
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Post by lammchen on Jul 13, 2022 15:18:46 GMT -5
I'm very picky about my selfies and I can see how the camera really distorts. Some of the pics just look alien like! I know I'm weird, but.... LOL
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Post by demonskeith on Jul 20, 2022 0:24:21 GMT -5
Most selfies do seem rather forced and not showing joy or whatever the person is experiencing. The person knows they are taking their own pic, so they don't worry as much if they mess up or if the perfect moment is captured.
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