Iphone selfies make me look awful?

Has anyone taken a close up selfie with their iphone and think they look terrrrrrible?

Like i don't look that ugly when i look in a mirror lol

Holding any camera close to your face causes severe distortion. Good portraits are taken with medium telephoto lenses from around 10-20 feet away.

Me too, I guess my arm isn't long enough to take a good picture. Of course I never take selfies and wonder why people do it.

  • Why isn't my Iphone (5) taking regular pictures and only able to take Selfies? When I take a picture of the object in front, the screen goes blank and the picture doesn't get taken. It then slides to the start page. When I start the camera it goes on flip mode automatically and only takes selfies. any idea what's the problem here?
  • Why is the iPhone 5s battery so awful? Just got brand new 5s yesterday. Immediately turned off all of the battery-hogging features (LTE, location services, notifications, app refresh, spotlight, airdrop). I don't hav any music or videos on here. All I used was safari and email. But the battery drains before my eyes. What the hell? Even my 4-year old iPhone 4 lasted longer. What gives?
  • Why does the Iphone 5 Camera take such odd selfies? The photos come out looking a bit scary. Even some pics I have had taken from a distance. Like. That doesn't look like me at ALL?! And yet the mirror pics look alright even nice in my view. what is the deal. My mom said the same thing about selfies with her Iphone 5. I don't have an Iphone (or smartphone) but considering getting a newer model.
  • Why do old cameras have awful pic quality although the MP is higher then my phone? So I have an old compact camera with 12.1 MP, which i got around 2010 or 2011. I recently got a charger to charge my old camera to try out cuz I thought it would have a better quality then my iPhone 7 Plus (12MP). But when I tried taking pictures with my old camera it looks like it only have 1MP. I'm so confused because the MP are the same yet the photo quality has such big difference. Any idea why?