Taking a selfie makes your nose bigger

Selfie is like an "error mirror" that causes your nose to deform. It is quite dangerous that more and more people are using cutlery to improve this situation.

Do selfie photos make your nose look bigger? The answer is yes, at least according to recent research. It can even make your nose 30% larger if you put the phone in the wrong position when shooting.

The short distance from the camera to the face and the wide-angle lenses are considered to cause your nose to grow in selfie photos, according to JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery.

Do you find your nose bigger when taking selfie photos?

The name study 'The distortion of the nose in close-up photos: The selfie effect' confirms this result. More dangerous, it led to more and more people wanting nose surgery to have better selfie photos.

' Young people are constantly taking selfies to post on social networks and thinking that those pictures represent their true faces, which greatly affect their mood,' said Boris Paskhover, professor of surgery. Head and neck, co-owner of the study, said. ' I want them to realize that when taking a selfie, they might be standing in front of an error mirror.'

In 2017, 55% of face surgeries are the result of users wanting to look better when taking selfie, according to the American Academy of Facial Surgery and Recovery. This number increased by 13% from a year earlier.

To measure how much the size of the human nose increased when taking a selfie, the parties used the popular face-based model of the human being and the facial features of a group of different races. .

Ohad Fried, who was in charge of the experiment, studied the face deformity when taking selfies earlier and helped create an image editing tool to adjust the distance from the camera, eliminating this situation. .

Fried's model sees the face as a set of planes perpendicular to the camera's main axis. Then it calculates the change in ratio of width and width between 2 cheek bones at different shooting distances.

A photo of selfie at a distance of 30 cm (left) and a distance of 15 m (right).

The results show that, at the distance of taking selfie normally (about 30 cm) from the face to the smartphone, the human nose will look 30% larger while at a distance of 15 m, the level is only 7% wider.

Obviously, at a very long distance, the user's nose is still deformed when taking selfie. After the study was published, Cnet believed that users would immediately go online and search for 'selfie recipes'. According to them, at least it is better than performing nose surgeries, just to have more impressive selfies.