This means the nose and chin will look much bigger, even though the face overall looks slimmer. This creates a distortion making the features closer to the camera look larger than they actually are. A selfie is typically clicked at a much shorter distance from the subject (this distance for a selfie is the length of your arm or selfie stick, as opposed to a few feet when someone else is clicking the photo) and with different technology (wide angle lenses in the front camera of a cell phone, versus a zoom or narrow lens in the back camera / head shots).
Selfies or self taken photos, and smartphones are ubiquitous today. To minimize this distortion a standard distance of 5 feet (1.5 meters) is ideal for photos. The important thing here is to know that you are not your selfie: you don’t look like that.Ī study found that selfies taken at a distance of 12 inches (30 cm) can make noses look bigger - as much as 30% bigger.
In many cases selfies prompt a person to seek cosmetic procedures to edit their real features, often to match a filtered or altered selfie. Taking and sharing selfies is also linked with anxiety, mood changes and damage to self esteem. A selfie invariably morphs facial features - for better or for worse (noses are certainly worse off) - thus selfies are not a reliable assessment tool for aesthetic medicine.
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