Do Pictures Lie?

[sareca]

I actually think pictures make my hair look worse. But I think I need a new camera.

Your hair is beautiful BTW.

Same here. I think they make my hair look worse too.

I also think your hair is beautiful.

 

[tocktick]

my hair generally looks the same as it does in real life. but then were times where my hair looks smaller in photos than it really was and sometimes the flash made my hair look patchy when this wasn't the case in natural light.

i've only just recently taken a picture where i think it makes my hair looks longer/bigger than it really is. but maybe i'm hesitant to believe that's all my hair because i was braided for 3 months plus my hair was somewhat stretched in that photo anyway.

eta: i also agree with the poster who said her hair looks like a "black mass" when it's curly. i have coils all over my head (i'm pretty much 4a all over) and they are usually very well defined. in pictures, this is not the case. i cannot even get a decent texture shot, tbh.

 

[jwhitley6]

I think my hair looks much better IRL. Pics do sometimes lie but not in a good way for me.

This is exactly how I feel....Def better IRL.

 

[zzirvingj]

This thread is right on time because I was just thinking that my hair doesn't look as good IRL as it does in pics. Maybe I am just being self conscious, but it never seems to look as long IRL *to me* as it does in pics. It's weird, LOL...

 

[SEMO]

i think my hair looks better in real life when its curly, when its straight it pretty much looks the same.

in its curly state on camera, all you see is a black mass, but in real life the curl pattern and color shows up ALOT better than it appears in pictures.

That's interesting b/c your curly pics look like they have great curl definition to me.

But I understand what you're saying. A lot of times I have to try different lighting to get a truer picture of how my hair looks when I take pictures. Pictures often make my hair look worse (to me) than it does IRL.

 

[HoneyDew]

I think my hair looks much better in person that it does in pictures.

 

[JerriBlank]

I think my hair feels better than it looks...
I also just realized that i really need to put some pics up cause the only one i have is in my profile,therefore,you guys don't know what the heck i am talking about

 

[ItsyBitsy]

I think my hair looks much better in person that it does in pictures.

Mine too! I know one reason is because I need a new camera

 

[MsKipani]

i think my hair looks better in real life when its curly, when its straight it pretty much looks the same.

in its curly state on camera, all you see is a black mass, but in real life the curl pattern and color shows up ALOT better than it appears in pictures.

I agree. It varies on whether or not my hair is straight or curly, but sometimes I do feel that the camera is not nice to my curly hair
When my hair is straight it and I have a picture I'm like wow my hair looks great! lol

 

[Softresses]

My hair looks better IRL. Maybe it's the lighting I take my pictures in.Maybe it's the amount of pixels in my camera...need a better camera. Or my hair just isn't perfet....yet.

You look like you could be my hair relative!


Softresses

 

[Chanteuse]

I always think that my hair looks prettier, and the I look better and thinner in pictures than I do when I look in the mirror at myself. My husband tells me than I have a warped misconception of the way that I really am.

Your hair is beautiful!

The bolded is me to a tee (except the husband part, lol). I often take pics after getting my hair done and I'm like "wow my hair looks really good in these pics - but it doesn't really look like that . . . does it?" I think a lot of it is a warped perception for me b/c I wear protective styles a lot of the time so I just don't have an accurate mental perception of what my hair really looks like. The other part of may just be good lighting

 

[KiniKakes]

I agree. My hair looks way thicker in pictures. It is so fine and flat in person.

 

[Poohbear]

Yes.

For example, when I take a picture of my afro, my afro in real life is actually bigger and more voluminous than in the picture.

 

[song_of_serenity]

My hair looks really light and red in pics but IRL its not that bright reddish color.

MINE too! I'm officially claiming you as a semi-hair twin!
My hair...well. Sometimes it looks longer in person, sometimes, shorter.
~*Janelle~*

 

[STLCoverGirl]

Yes.

For example, when I take a picture of my afro, my afro in real life is actually bigger and more voluminous than in the picture.

I think my hair looks thinner in pictures, especially when I wear it curly or in a braidout. I will grab the camera and try to capture "a good hair day" and when I look at the pics, it's soo disappointing. My hair can be huge (how I like it), and the camera does not reflect that.

 

[Je Ne Sais Quoi]

I just hit on this yesterday in another thread. For me i think the pictures make my hair look thicker and shinier than it is in real life. erplexed

 

[kbfluff]

Yeah, I think the camera does add 10 lbs...lol to my hair that is

Honestly, I believe that I am suffering from hair anorexia. Everyone in my circle comments on how nice, long and healthy my hair looks...while I'm thinking that it is short.
I like my pictures to refer to when I am in a weave/protecting because maybe it reveals what others see in me that I don't see.

 

[PinkPeony]

Yes,my hair never looks how I percieve it to be.
it either is longer,fuller OR shorter and thinner.

 

[TaraDyan]

Sometimes my hair looks thicker and shinier in pictures than it does in real life; but other times, the photos make my hair look pathetic. It also depends on where I take the photos of my hair (for example, the photos I take in the bathroom have less light than the ones I take in my living room). I always have to consider my lighting source (is there enough light in the room, is the flash trippin' out on me, etc.). I have to explain this to people all the time when they ask me how my hair changes from month to month. It seriously depends on how the camera chooses to behave at that moment.

 

[BillsBackerz67]

my hair is pretty accurate. I always feel like I have thin hair

 

[esoterica]

The flash of the camera always makes hair look much shinier than it actually is. Many people are fooled by that when looking at Fotki albums. My photos are mainly to document length, not shine, so I'm not too worried about that side of things. My hair does seem to look thicker and heavier on camera.

 

[Poohbear]

I think my hair looks thinner in pictures, especially when I wear it curly or in a braidout. I will grab the camera and try to capture "a good hair day" and when I look at the pics, it's soo disappointing. My hair can be huge (how I like it), and the camera does not reflect that.

Don't you hate that? I be feeling the same way sometimes. Maybe if our arms were longer, we could really capture the true essence of our hair.

 

[Maa Maa omo mti]

I'd hate for people to see me IRL and be like "damn, her hair ain't really all that erplexed " LOL.

I get paranoid like this too

 

[justNikki]

It varies for me...sometimes, I'm having a great hair day and it seems like everyone notices but the camera!!! Sometimes, I capture exactly what I see (whether good or bad) and sometimes I look at those pics and I'm like...that's WAY cuter than my hair is actaully looking right now.

 

[sylver2]

nah..to me my hair looks much better in person then pi..

 

[Alisha08]

nah..to me my hair looks much better in person then pi..

I agree with this as well. My hair looks 500% better in person. In my fotki my pics my hair tends to look thin, dull and dry. :-(

 

[mzcris]

I think my hair looks better in person than the pics.

 

[trini_rican]

Yes. I can't quite capture the thickness or the shine (if I put flash then the photo's ruined) length is hard to capture also. Shrinkage is a *itch. So combing the hair to show the length then grabbing camera to position of perfect capture and it's drawn up again. I hate it but it's the only way to track the progress.

 

[Ms Lala]

Thatz funny, because I was thinking the opposite when I took pic yesterday. My hair liiked a lot fuller in person. Maybe it is my "vision" and not the camera.

I agree, when I take pics my hair doesn't look as full to me. People always comment on the thickness and fullness, then when I take pics it just looks average.

 

[atlien]

My SO takes my pictures for me and when he looks at them he always says my hair looks better in real life. I think so too. My layers and my little brownish color don't show up in my pictures...it just looks black.