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if u want to make youself look better in pics without resorting to morphing then this should help you
there are many factors that go into how a picture of you will look so this guide will be split up into categories
Distance/Focal point:
what is usually called lense distortion this one is pretty simple to optimize and a lot of you should know about already, u want to take the picture in the mirror or hold out the camera as far from you as possible to minimize the distortion effect. now there are ways u can use distortion to benefit u but i will talk about that later on. this is just about the distance of camera from your face, and focal point too plays a part in how extreme the distortion can get. take some pics from different distances to familiarize yourself with how it works.
most phone camera have a low focal point so using a proper 50mm+ dsIr camera should optimize your looks in this aspect
Angle
In this section i will talk about the angles you want to pick for what the strengths of your face is. and which ones u want to avoid. the most common angles are the front, 3/4, side profile, and then theres everything in between and from different latitudes (high and loW)
rear 3/4 is also a thing too but its more of a lookism meme and no non autist really takes pics from this angle but im going to talk about it anyway.
Front-
symmetry matters the most here from either high or low, as well as general face ratios if the photo is taken directly head on. the eye area can be haloed from a slightly higher angle by giving the illusion of lower set eyebrows, shorter pfh, and more supraorbital hooding, at the expense of making your lower third or chin look weaker. high angle may also expose a far forward protruding nose and it will cover your lip or philtrum in the picture, so dont go too far. in general prettyboys go for this higher angle front - 3/4 picture approach because it shows off their nice youthful eye area and hairline. from a lower angle the nostrils become exposed, the eye area will look significantly worse, the emphasis will be more on the general bone structure and chin/jaw height will look greater. A direct front is considered the least frauded angle, not accounting for physical techniques which are discussed further down this thread.
3/4-
OGEE CURVE. yes thats what this angle is all about, generally this angle is used by girls, as theyre the ones with zygos most of the time. can be a pretty aesthetic angle for guys if you have the curve but if you dont it doesnt matter because most guys who take selfies from this angle are gay, although if you have a shit 3/4 watch out for candids and try to look directly at whoever is looking at you because u dont want them seeing your laterally lacking cheekbones. Chin width, mouth, nose, upper orbitals, and forehead also are shown a lot in this angle.
Side profile-
this one is getting a lot more popularity nowdays. lighting aside, zygos dont matter all too much here, or symetry or width in general. guys with strong ramus, mandible, chin and brow ridge will look good in this angle, and a good nose with high set bridge is also needed for optimal aesthetics. this is a pretty forgiving angle for most guys but a lot of the times people get exposed hard in candids and look ugly, it will be from this angle. Not being recessed is very important to look up to par here. Another point to add is when taking pics from this angle you want your face to be turned slightly more towards to camera, not so its a 3/4 but just enough so that it adds a bit of forward growth illusion, as facing in the opposite direction will make you look extremely flat
Rear 3/4
The most brutally insane angle there is, barely any pics are taken this way, but in real life a lot of the viewers on you will be from this angle. there are 4 things that need to be in tip top shape for you to look good here, its BROW, ZYGOS, RAMUS, CHIN. and then there hyoid, nose even, and mouth which also could fuck things up by sticking out. also you need a wide neck and posterior neurocranium for optimal looks here. or else u will look so narrow.
Lighting
one becomes more important the uglier you are because what lighting does is create shadows on your face from the shape of your face, so if u have an ugly face u will have ugly shadows. doesnt matter all too much for good looking people but there are some standard 'good' lightings that will make most guys look their best. in general wherever the light is, thats the area of face that u need to look good for an optimal shadow/contour. so if u have over protruding nose or bulging eyes dont go for lighting that is on either side of u because it will show, bug eyes also get exposed hard from a low lighting angle. back lighting is good if u have decent lateral orbitals, zygos, jaw and hollow cheeks and doesnt rely much on facial features
high or overhead lighting works well if you have a strong brow ridge but you also need good infraorbitals or else the shadow cast on your eyes will be too tall and will expose your recessed undereye/maxilla. a way to prevent this is leaning your head slightly back and this will also let your chin catch some light so it doesnt look recessed. you can also lean forward but make sure that if you do it youre nose gets zero light at all because if your nose gets light but your chin/jaw doesnt it will show that u have a rat/bird face with recessed lower third.
you also need high set zygos if u want to pull this off or else you will be exposed from a side profile if the light falls too low on your face.
Direct front lighting is the best choice if you have no real strengths of weaknesses on your face, same with dim lit altho that works better if you want to look like a dark triad guy. overall even lighting is generally the best choice if u dont know what you are doing but most times out in public it will be the Sun VS you and u wont get the opportunity of being indoors where theres lights shining from every angles.
It also must be stated that you can use lighting on one side of your face and this works well if you are assymetric and need assymetric lighting to work into it
lighting can either work for or against you, by highlighting your good traits and exposing your weak ones
Physical techniques
Masseter flex - this is when you flex your masseter muscles, many beginners or retards think this can only be done with closed clenched teeth but if you work on your mind muscle connection you can do this whenever and unilaterally.
Squint - this is when you flex the muscles around your eye area and lower your eyebrows. this is a very sensitive fraud and should be practiced enough so you dont go overboard and look like a retard with it. sometimes u want to not even squint at all and try to look relaxed as possible if u dont have any upper eyelid exposure.
Lower eyelid/zygo raise - this can be done either with or independantly from a squint, although most beginners will not be able to tell the difference from these two. what this achieves is raises the fat from your malar or cheek and puts them higher up on your zygos. this is very important for when light is on your zygos/undereyes and you need to have high set look
Cheek suck - the trick with this is not to make your lips look retarded while doing it. try to suck from the posterior end of your cheeks, not the anterior where your lips are. along with a masseter flex this can
give almost anyone hollow cheek effect, this combination works well in back lighting where only those parts of the face will be highlighted
Chin graft - i dont see many people doing this but when i do its obvious as fuck, seems like nobody but me has mastered it. what you are doing is forcing your chin to protrude by putting suction on your lower lip. now this may cause your chin to look more triangular and pointy and this is usually fine from a side angle but from the front or 3/4 its very noticable. if you master this technique however you can make it look un-noticable from every angle and even do it with open mouth (hard difficulty) or talking (impossible difficulty)
Open jaw (downward jutt) - if you are lacking in mandible height this one is going to help u out a lot. basically you just want to not let your teeth touch together and let your jaw hang down, it will give you some ramus and chin height and taller skull overall. just be careful not to chew food while around others or u will get brutally exposed.
Forward jutt - pretty standard its when you push your mandible forward so you get a underbite, this can usually only be done slightly unless youre in a front angle you can get away with more. this however does make your ramus appear further forward so you arent really increasing mandible length and it could look a bit off if your ear is set a lot far back than your ramus.
Kiss lip - if you have a vertical philtrum and want to get it more curved or forward sloping u can do a slight kissing expression with your upper lip to achieve this effect. doesnt matter at all from a front angle but in side it helps.
Looking slightly up - what this does will make your lower eyelid very horizontal and eliminate almost all upper eyelid exposure u might have. the opposite of this is looking down which most times is a death sentence and will cause NCT especially if you have supra-lateral orbital fat and long eyelashes.
Smile (as an excuse for other frauds) - self explanatory. smiling with clothed mouth lets u easily squint, jutt, graft, pretty much whatever u want. also pulling stupid faces in general usually in group pics is a good excuse to squint or pull a really angry dark triad masculine looking face. just make sure u standing far ahead of others though or u will look like a joke (group pic tip in general)
Pushing your scalp skin down - you can do this by putting you hand on the back of your head and pushing up, the skin on your forehead will then be forced down on your face, giving u a superior brow ridge and lower set eyebrows.
Invisible occiput - this is done when your head is tilted down and jutted forward, it will give u the illusion of a flat occiput. meant for side profile mirror pics.
Camera distortion
A crucial part to frauding that many dont know about is how the angle of the camera or phone itself can be used to create positive distortion effects. most people only know about the distance effect but there is a lot more to cover
Turning the phone to the side or landscape camera - this will make the picture seem wider. Good for narrow skulls but will make your skull look shorter. if ur gonna take a pic of just your eye area though i dont see why you wouldnt do this, because it reduces PFH and adds PFL.
Tilting the phone or camera forward - this will place you in the higher part of the pic and you will seem vertically extende
Tilting the phone or camera backward - The lower part of the pic wil be vertically extended and the upper half will be vertically shortened
Twisting the camera right - puts you in the left side of the screen (asymetry)
Twisted the camera left - puts you in the right side of the screen (asymetry)
make sure u arent twisting the camera unless you are doing side profile then u might want a slight right and obvious back tilt (lower third height increase
Rep this shit fuckers took me like 2 hours give or take
there are many factors that go into how a picture of you will look so this guide will be split up into categories
Distance/Focal point:
what is usually called lense distortion this one is pretty simple to optimize and a lot of you should know about already, u want to take the picture in the mirror or hold out the camera as far from you as possible to minimize the distortion effect. now there are ways u can use distortion to benefit u but i will talk about that later on. this is just about the distance of camera from your face, and focal point too plays a part in how extreme the distortion can get. take some pics from different distances to familiarize yourself with how it works.
most phone camera have a low focal point so using a proper 50mm+ dsIr camera should optimize your looks in this aspect
Angle
In this section i will talk about the angles you want to pick for what the strengths of your face is. and which ones u want to avoid. the most common angles are the front, 3/4, side profile, and then theres everything in between and from different latitudes (high and loW)
rear 3/4 is also a thing too but its more of a lookism meme and no non autist really takes pics from this angle but im going to talk about it anyway.
Front-
symmetry matters the most here from either high or low, as well as general face ratios if the photo is taken directly head on. the eye area can be haloed from a slightly higher angle by giving the illusion of lower set eyebrows, shorter pfh, and more supraorbital hooding, at the expense of making your lower third or chin look weaker. high angle may also expose a far forward protruding nose and it will cover your lip or philtrum in the picture, so dont go too far. in general prettyboys go for this higher angle front - 3/4 picture approach because it shows off their nice youthful eye area and hairline. from a lower angle the nostrils become exposed, the eye area will look significantly worse, the emphasis will be more on the general bone structure and chin/jaw height will look greater. A direct front is considered the least frauded angle, not accounting for physical techniques which are discussed further down this thread.
3/4-
OGEE CURVE. yes thats what this angle is all about, generally this angle is used by girls, as theyre the ones with zygos most of the time. can be a pretty aesthetic angle for guys if you have the curve but if you dont it doesnt matter because most guys who take selfies from this angle are gay, although if you have a shit 3/4 watch out for candids and try to look directly at whoever is looking at you because u dont want them seeing your laterally lacking cheekbones. Chin width, mouth, nose, upper orbitals, and forehead also are shown a lot in this angle.
Side profile-
this one is getting a lot more popularity nowdays. lighting aside, zygos dont matter all too much here, or symetry or width in general. guys with strong ramus, mandible, chin and brow ridge will look good in this angle, and a good nose with high set bridge is also needed for optimal aesthetics. this is a pretty forgiving angle for most guys but a lot of the times people get exposed hard in candids and look ugly, it will be from this angle. Not being recessed is very important to look up to par here. Another point to add is when taking pics from this angle you want your face to be turned slightly more towards to camera, not so its a 3/4 but just enough so that it adds a bit of forward growth illusion, as facing in the opposite direction will make you look extremely flat
Rear 3/4
The most brutally insane angle there is, barely any pics are taken this way, but in real life a lot of the viewers on you will be from this angle. there are 4 things that need to be in tip top shape for you to look good here, its BROW, ZYGOS, RAMUS, CHIN. and then there hyoid, nose even, and mouth which also could fuck things up by sticking out. also you need a wide neck and posterior neurocranium for optimal looks here. or else u will look so narrow.
Lighting
one becomes more important the uglier you are because what lighting does is create shadows on your face from the shape of your face, so if u have an ugly face u will have ugly shadows. doesnt matter all too much for good looking people but there are some standard 'good' lightings that will make most guys look their best. in general wherever the light is, thats the area of face that u need to look good for an optimal shadow/contour. so if u have over protruding nose or bulging eyes dont go for lighting that is on either side of u because it will show, bug eyes also get exposed hard from a low lighting angle. back lighting is good if u have decent lateral orbitals, zygos, jaw and hollow cheeks and doesnt rely much on facial features
high or overhead lighting works well if you have a strong brow ridge but you also need good infraorbitals or else the shadow cast on your eyes will be too tall and will expose your recessed undereye/maxilla. a way to prevent this is leaning your head slightly back and this will also let your chin catch some light so it doesnt look recessed. you can also lean forward but make sure that if you do it youre nose gets zero light at all because if your nose gets light but your chin/jaw doesnt it will show that u have a rat/bird face with recessed lower third.
you also need high set zygos if u want to pull this off or else you will be exposed from a side profile if the light falls too low on your face.
Direct front lighting is the best choice if you have no real strengths of weaknesses on your face, same with dim lit altho that works better if you want to look like a dark triad guy. overall even lighting is generally the best choice if u dont know what you are doing but most times out in public it will be the Sun VS you and u wont get the opportunity of being indoors where theres lights shining from every angles.
It also must be stated that you can use lighting on one side of your face and this works well if you are assymetric and need assymetric lighting to work into it
lighting can either work for or against you, by highlighting your good traits and exposing your weak ones
Physical techniques
Masseter flex - this is when you flex your masseter muscles, many beginners or retards think this can only be done with closed clenched teeth but if you work on your mind muscle connection you can do this whenever and unilaterally.
Squint - this is when you flex the muscles around your eye area and lower your eyebrows. this is a very sensitive fraud and should be practiced enough so you dont go overboard and look like a retard with it. sometimes u want to not even squint at all and try to look relaxed as possible if u dont have any upper eyelid exposure.
Lower eyelid/zygo raise - this can be done either with or independantly from a squint, although most beginners will not be able to tell the difference from these two. what this achieves is raises the fat from your malar or cheek and puts them higher up on your zygos. this is very important for when light is on your zygos/undereyes and you need to have high set look
Cheek suck - the trick with this is not to make your lips look retarded while doing it. try to suck from the posterior end of your cheeks, not the anterior where your lips are. along with a masseter flex this can
give almost anyone hollow cheek effect, this combination works well in back lighting where only those parts of the face will be highlighted
Chin graft - i dont see many people doing this but when i do its obvious as fuck, seems like nobody but me has mastered it. what you are doing is forcing your chin to protrude by putting suction on your lower lip. now this may cause your chin to look more triangular and pointy and this is usually fine from a side angle but from the front or 3/4 its very noticable. if you master this technique however you can make it look un-noticable from every angle and even do it with open mouth (hard difficulty) or talking (impossible difficulty)
Open jaw (downward jutt) - if you are lacking in mandible height this one is going to help u out a lot. basically you just want to not let your teeth touch together and let your jaw hang down, it will give you some ramus and chin height and taller skull overall. just be careful not to chew food while around others or u will get brutally exposed.
Forward jutt - pretty standard its when you push your mandible forward so you get a underbite, this can usually only be done slightly unless youre in a front angle you can get away with more. this however does make your ramus appear further forward so you arent really increasing mandible length and it could look a bit off if your ear is set a lot far back than your ramus.
Kiss lip - if you have a vertical philtrum and want to get it more curved or forward sloping u can do a slight kissing expression with your upper lip to achieve this effect. doesnt matter at all from a front angle but in side it helps.
Looking slightly up - what this does will make your lower eyelid very horizontal and eliminate almost all upper eyelid exposure u might have. the opposite of this is looking down which most times is a death sentence and will cause NCT especially if you have supra-lateral orbital fat and long eyelashes.
Smile (as an excuse for other frauds) - self explanatory. smiling with clothed mouth lets u easily squint, jutt, graft, pretty much whatever u want. also pulling stupid faces in general usually in group pics is a good excuse to squint or pull a really angry dark triad masculine looking face. just make sure u standing far ahead of others though or u will look like a joke (group pic tip in general)
Pushing your scalp skin down - you can do this by putting you hand on the back of your head and pushing up, the skin on your forehead will then be forced down on your face, giving u a superior brow ridge and lower set eyebrows.
Invisible occiput - this is done when your head is tilted down and jutted forward, it will give u the illusion of a flat occiput. meant for side profile mirror pics.
Camera distortion
A crucial part to frauding that many dont know about is how the angle of the camera or phone itself can be used to create positive distortion effects. most people only know about the distance effect but there is a lot more to cover
Turning the phone to the side or landscape camera - this will make the picture seem wider. Good for narrow skulls but will make your skull look shorter. if ur gonna take a pic of just your eye area though i dont see why you wouldnt do this, because it reduces PFH and adds PFL.
Tilting the phone or camera forward - this will place you in the higher part of the pic and you will seem vertically extende
Tilting the phone or camera backward - The lower part of the pic wil be vertically extended and the upper half will be vertically shortened
Twisting the camera right - puts you in the left side of the screen (asymetry)
Twisted the camera left - puts you in the right side of the screen (asymetry)
make sure u arent twisting the camera unless you are doing side profile then u might want a slight right and obvious back tilt (lower third height increase
Rep this shit fuckers took me like 2 hours give or take
