Why You Don’t Think Your Photos Look Like You

Tara Well, PhD
3 min readMar 6, 2023

Have you ever seen a photo of yourself and thought, “That looks nothing like me,” but your friends and family love the picture and think it looks just how you always look to them?

This experience is actually quite common. Why does it occur? The answer is simple: Mirrors.

There’s a difference between your image in the mirror and in photos. The image you see in…

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Tara Well, PhD

Psychology professor & writer on the power of reflections. Author of MIRROR MEDITATION — ORDER HERE https://amzn.to/3Llk4rQ www.MirrorMeditation.com