Is what we look in the mirror or the camera more how we actually look?

Whenever I look in the bathroom mirror, I look good, but whenever I take a picture of myself, my bad skin and oily skin show more and my face shape looks uneven and I look like I have a huge forehead. I just took it with my iPhone with no filter on. Is the camera or the mirror more real?

I'm sure someone else can give you a better answer, but my guess is how you look in the mirror is how you look; under those conditions anyway. What I mean is, when you look in the mirror you aren't using a flash. The lighting in the room at that time doesn't accentuate any flaws perhaps. I don't know where you are taking your picture or what the lighting conditions are but I would guess it's different than when you look in the mirror. I suppose the camera itself also has different settings that could influence the color, brightness and so forth. A different camera might make you look different. If you see them compare images of the same object taken by two different cameras they can look quite different. One can be bright and yellowish, another can be more muted and bluish. So I'm saying that the camera can alter the way you look or accentuate certain things even without a filter.

It depends on what lights you use where ever you do your makeup. The best way to check is under different lighting that's why makeup artist have a mirror that has different lights with yellow, blue, or florescence light to see how you look in different lighting. Because different lighting will make you look different.

Uh yea

Every person perceives thing differently. I, of course, look at myself in the mirror every day, but while at times I find myself attractive, I often feel that I'm more physically attractive in a video. Sometimes seeing yourself in a still photo can make you feel like you are attractive or unattractive, light and angles have a lot to do with it. It all about how you percieve yourself.

The mirror and cameras are both deceptive.