Things that you have learned about your appearance by looking at photographs or video of yourself

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My dad sent me DVDs of our family vacation. Things I have learned:
1. I am a very dynamic karaoke performer.
2. I ALWAYS look like I'm drunk.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 11 February 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

However I try to look, I'm still ugly.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

not to do it again

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Confidence is sexy, and I'm not very confident.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

from the side i look like some kind of alien

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

You guys, self-deprecation is so high school. (Saying I always look drunk isn't self-deprecation, it's bragging).

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

No, really, Nick. I would be dead sexy if I wasn't so squirrelly and intimidated in groups of people larger than, say, three.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

I know it *sounds* like self-deprecation, but I'm being genuine.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

Shyness can be sexy too. Think of the librarians, man.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

I discovered my voice sounds a whole shitload different than it does inside my head.

― Dude, are you a 15 year old asian chick? (jingleberries), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

YOU ARE ALL BEEEEAAAAUUUUUUTIFUL!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

That I look even worse when I try to shirk away from the camera.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

the scary thing is, you probably see yourself less than most other people in your life.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

I discovered my voice sounds a whole shitload different than it does inside my head.

Oh, I'm the same. I think this applies to everyone, though - even if you have to listen to your voice all the time, you probably still think it sounds wrong.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

i have really "intense" eyes. i probably look like a crazy person.

― stockholm cindy's secret childhood (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

I saw a pic of me (unaware of being photographed) in shorts at Lake Mead, and promptly lost about 25 pounds. Ouch. That was in 1993 and had only gained about 10 lbs back til a couple months ago, when I added about 8 more. Back to the diet.

And I've seen your pic, caitlin, you are SO not ugly.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

does anyone else have a cellphone that makes it so you sometime hear yourself speaking, a fraction of a second delayed? fuck that's annoying.

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

nickn: no, you're thinking of the caitlin who says she looks like an alien from the side.

does anyone else have a cellphone that makes it so you sometime hear yourself speaking, a fraction of a second delayed?

I thought that when that happened, it was because there was a badly-designed phone on the other end of the line, rather than a problem with your own.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

Think of the librarians, man.

I was telling him to think of the librarians on the Chicago thread!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

maybe caitlin, but it seems to happen no matter who i'm talking to.

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE LIBRARIANS!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

That happens randomly on my phone, no rhyme or reason. Luckily it doesn't happen that often, but it's pretty much the worst thing ever and makes me hate my own voice.

x...post

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

1. No matter what a stripper tells you, hot pants are *not* always a good look;

2. I often look like I'm drunk.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

sadly, that i have a lot more of the chub than i thought.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

all phones are designed so that you hear your own voice back slightly in the earpiece, to help you unconsciously judge your own volume. However, it shouldn't be delayed, and you shouldn't actually notice it.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

I learned from hearing recordings of my voice that I sound like Cousin Oliver from the Brady Bunch.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

(A stripper really had nothing to do with my #1, I'm just listening to Chris Rock. The rest of it still stands, though).

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

I am my father.

― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 11 February 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

There are indeed two caitlins, but I still bet you're not ugly.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

My head looks spherical when viewed head-on.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

I also noticed recently that I have a pretty prominent jawline.. I also needed to stop fucking with my sideburns and let them grow out more

/narcissism

― Dude, are you a 15 year old asian chick? (jingleberries), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

1. Shirt tucked in: I look like a hog
2. Shirt not tucked in: I look like I'm wearing a muu-muu.
3. I could comb my back.

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

1) I really was losing my hair.
2) I really was as out of shape as I felt.

I have since shaved my head, and am trying to eat better / work out more.

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

1) that i am incredibly cute
2) that my bad posture more than makes up for 1)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

That my face is a perfect three dimensional oval, and that I have really mismatched ears.

(oh, and that my default look is with half-asleep eyes like some retarded redneck)

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 12 February 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

that the right lighting makes all the difference in the world

― ()ops (()()ps), Saturday, 12 February 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

virtually every colour in the universe makes my skin look weird

― jones (actual), Saturday, 12 February 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

also i move like the fonz

― jones (actual), Saturday, 12 February 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

I'd bet that you're a lot of fun around the jukebox.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 12 February 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

when i'm laughing in photos it always looks like i am that type of guy who brays and guffaws like an oik. this displeases me a lot.

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Saturday, 12 February 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

also the whole 'wtf is he albino as well as Irish?' thing

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Saturday, 12 February 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

I sound incredibly gay whenever I get excited.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 12 February 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

I am way posh.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

I realise that I am always quite a bit larger than I imagine I am.
I look grumpy most of the time.

― kate/papa november (papa november), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

I learned that my voice is shit and I look like a girl.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

I had little ears until two years ago, but last year they started to grow. Now I'm worried they're going to get really huge.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 12 February 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

On the bright side you could wicket-keep for Australia.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 12 February 2005 02:07 (twenty years ago)

I was mistaken for a lop-eared rabbit yesterday.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 12 February 2005 02:09 (twenty years ago)

Your ears look fine to me, Remy.

― youn, Saturday, 12 February 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY! SIT ON IT

― come on sock it to me, Saturday, 12 February 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

My nose points to the left -or is it the right?

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 12 February 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

I learned that I am not photogenic.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 12 February 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)

1. I look like shit.
2. My skin color is nice around relatives, but around lighter-skinned people, I look like a fucking Ecuadorian. :(
3. My hair cannot be tamed except through extreme methods.
4. I have a pretty good voice, if a bit freakily deep at times.
5. I really shouldn't step outside in public without makeup.
6. My nose is fucking HUGE.
7. Same goes for my lips. (Some may think large lips = asset. No it isn't.)
8. I either look very mean or overly happy.
9. Humanity would benefit from my hiding my as much of my entire self as possible from view.

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 12 February 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

I am starting to sound more like I hoped.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 12 February 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

1. my nose is weird somehow, but I've never been able to figure out exactly how
2. I'm skinnier than I think I am, and I'm all elbows and arms and kind of move oddly. When I see myself on video, I remind myself of this guy:
http://www.alicia-logic.com/capsimages/nx_012JackPole.jpg

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 12 February 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)

(1) Facial expression that I think are going to make me look cool and dignified only make me look like an ass.
(2) There are certain angles I should never be photographed from.
(3) I have exceptionally strange hair.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 12 February 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)

(1) Facial expression that I think are going to make me look cool and dignified only make me look like an ass.

Alex - you're so OTM. I'm the same way; except often I think I'm making slight, wry, and subtle gestures that're broadcasting like the fucking ten o'clock news. I see videos of myself, for instance, and think 'why the hell do I look like I'm puckering-up for a kiss?' only to remember that I was trying to subtly purse my lips, or look contemplative, or some such thing.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 12 February 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

I learn that I have a really unfortunate-looking profile.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Saturday, 12 February 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

GOOD POINTS:
1. My nose isn't as huge as I always think it is.
2. I am very good at doing bunny ears on other people, they're always perfectly placed and the victims never know it.
3. Most of the time I don't look like I weigh 200 lbs.
BAD POINTS:
1. I have an increasingly big meaty head.
2. My body language is a cross between "awkward" and "fucking awkward."
3. My voice is the voice of me when I was eleven.

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 12 February 2005 03:42 (twenty years ago)

I am depressed cagey and effiminate

― Aaron A., Saturday, 12 February 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

but at least I'm not effeminate!

― Aaron A., Saturday, 12 February 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

Actually I have another one: I look best (and not drunk) when I'm actually drunk.

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 12 February 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

from studying hours of video footage of myself, i discovered i was gay.

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Saturday, 12 February 2005 05:26 (twenty years ago)

(1) Facial expression that I think are going to make me look cool and dignified only make me look like an ass.

haha

Yeah, I think everyone figures that out eventually. Or should.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Saturday, 12 February 2005 06:13 (twenty years ago)

thanks to my degree in photography, im pretty awesome at making myself look good, even if its just with a cameraphone.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 12 February 2005 06:19 (twenty years ago)

oh, like that's really difficult!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 12 February 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

Also I slouch all the time, and when I catch myself doing this in a mirror I straighten up for a while, but 10 minutes later I'm doing it again.

And the loss of hair used to bother me, but now I don't care so much because I've got a bigger problem: I've noticed the skin on my face is losing elasticity, which really makes me look older.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 12 February 2005 10:06 (twenty years ago)

1) My face is about 800 times fatter than I think it is.
2) The space between my two front teeth makes me look mildly retarded.
3) I move my eyebrows way too much when I speak, and since they only move up at the inner corners, it's really hideous and I should learn how not to do that.
4) I look like a hunchback and my face is starting to swallow my neck.
5) I have a horsey laugh and when I get excited I sound like a tv sitcom geek that one is meant to ridicule.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Saturday, 12 February 2005 10:41 (twenty years ago)

I need to wash the chocolate off my hands [in-joke]

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 12 February 2005 11:05 (twenty years ago)

1 I am ugly.
2 I have a very nice voice.

-> I have a face for the radio in other words.

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Saturday, 12 February 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

1) I'm nowhere near as pale and pasty as all my white English friends. In fact I have quite a nice natural tan pigment.
2) my hair's looking good for once.
4) my voice is fine if I speak with confidence, otherwise it's a dull, incomprehensible, hurried mumble.
5) my body language is a bit gay and jittery. Calm down man.
6) that big blue shirt doesn't suit me, but the blue Paradiso t-shirt I bought in Copenhagen looks really nice.

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Saturday, 12 February 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

My face is getting longer and my nose is getting bigger. I am very relieved at both these developments.

― Kate Kept Me Alive! (kate), Saturday, 12 February 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

I look nervous and unkempt.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, 12 February 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Maria, none of the pictures you've ever posted here make you look like that at ALL. You seem extremely kempt, and preternaturally calm, actually, like someone who lives on an island and is starting a radio station while raising 1 1/2 kids and a Scott.

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 12 February 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

I can strike a pose.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 12 February 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

1. I should probably consider using some sort of product for my hair
2. I've got a sweet ass

― Will(iam), Saturday, 12 February 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

From videos:

1) Most of the time I look all right. I mean, most days in the mirror I am between highly beautiful & shit, I vary a lot. Seeing videos of myself, I realize that the effects of the small changes in my hair, skin etc are not very apparent and that I actually look pretty much the same every day like most people I see & that I do not mind much the level I inhabit. I am happy.

2) I walk as if I think I'm cool. People at school laughed at my bouncing walk & I did not know what they meant. If anything, the only falsity in my walk was that I tried to do it more poncily. To no avail. I walk as if I think I'm cool. I do not mind this even. I possibly look like a twat, but surrounding me are many twats who think they're cool who suffer no consequent depreciation in quality of life & I am not aghast at such a walk/life.

3) I nod my head when other people are talking to me in an interested/quizzical/almost-ironic way. I did not realise I did this until I saw the videos, and when I saw it I knew I had subconsciously stolen the gesture from Dylan in Don't Look Back. I don't mind this, & I would only like to steal more of his moves.

Video is cool.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 12 February 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

My mouth is a bit askew.

― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 12 February 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

Pictures are awful. My jaw does not fit my face. My legs/arms do not fit my torso. I slightly sway when I walk (even when sober). My voice sounds a bit like minnie mouse. (and yes, everyone sounds different to themselves than to the rest of the world because the sound waves created by the vibrations of your vocal cords move like faster through your own brain than through the air)

― mouse (mouse), Sunday, 13 February 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

1. i always have bad posture
2. i pout a lot
3. i have nice rosy skin even when sober
4. juicy dick-sucking lips
5. famine-victim arms
6. girly hands

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 13 February 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

i hate the way i sound when recorded.
i usually look more sickly and skinny in pictures than i think i am.
i hate my facial expressions even though most people think that they are priceless.

― t0dd swiss, Sunday, 13 February 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

I nod my head when other people are talking to me in an interested/quizzical/almost-ironic way.

The only thing I remember being taught in high school Personal And Social Development class is that this, done properly, is a Good Thing.

(the first course we did in PSD, right after arriving at secondary school, was "how to be a good listener". It's the only PSD course I still remember - for some reason, our school never went for the condoms-on-bananas thing)

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 13 February 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

1.I have a very low voice but I always seem to be giggling while talking, so it goes up and down a lot in weird patterns. (as I discovered while watching a video of myself this weekend)
2. I'm always dancing/striking a dumb pose for the camera and ruining any chance of looking elegant.
3. I have an extremely broad bridge to my nose.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 14 February 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

I have a great singing voice. I would be a great stage actor. If only I had some self-belief.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 14 February 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

That I should dodge the cameras at all costs.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Monday, 14 February 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

I look like a twat while punching the air repeatedly under a spotlight.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 14 February 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

I have a fairly unfortunate large-ass-to-skinny-leg ratio.

― known vaginatarian (nickalicious), Monday, 14 February 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

I look like a twat while punching the air repeatedly under a spotlight.

Yeah, don't try this unless you look like Rosie Perez.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 14 February 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

1. my mirror lies
2. i am BRIGHT PINK.

― cis (cis), Monday, 14 February 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

I walk as if I think I'm cool. People at school laughed at my bouncing walk & I did not know what they meant. If anything, the only falsity in my walk was that I tried to do it more poncily. To no avail. I walk as if I think I'm cool.

1) I was laughed at for my walk in school too. I don't walk as if I think I'm cool, I wiggle. Obv. this look stupid on a 12 year-old, but I think I may have grown into it. When I saw myself on video I was made to feel slightly better by one of my male friends saying "it gives you a kind of cartoonish sexiness." I can live with that.
2) I dance just like my mum.
3) I have a flat face.
4) Lord in Heaven, I have extremely red cheeks.
5) I often look drunk.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 14 February 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.whatsbetter.com/static/images/18315.jpg

Anna, yesterday.

― cis (cis), Monday, 14 February 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

I have a Charlie Brown round head.
I squint a lot.
I am going bald (something I didn't accept for years, even with photographic evidence).

― mike a, Monday, 14 February 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

I have a dreadfully ocker voice, moreso than I hear of myself.
When I laugh, I do this thing with my upper lip that looks dorky.
I have very red skin, I hate it.
My hair can look really cool in photos.
I was a lot skinnier in my depressed phase 3 years ago than I realised.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 06:35 (twenty years ago)

I am shiny, and not in a good way. I accept this now, but spent several years as a teen frantically applying pressed powder, which just made me look like a half-assed goth.
I am deadly pale even when I think I'm looking healthier. Oh, apart from when exertion has brought enormous blotches of red blood to inconvenient places under the surface of my body.
I should never attempt to smile for photos, as this makes me look chipmunk-cheeked and moronic. Surly is best.
My hair is sometimes cool, but is normally dishevelled by the time someone takes a picture of me while dancing (when the shininess is at maximum also).

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

I have put on more weight in the face than I think I should have.
My nose in profile is bigger than I'd like.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

I'm much skinnier (positiviely scrawny) and older looking and pale (as a ghost) and I look terrible when I smile. I hate having my photo taken. Haven't seen myself on video for years, thank the Lord.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

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