How selfies make your nose 30 per cent larger

Wednesday 4 April 2018, 16:32 by Michelle Peeters | 7,844 views | 3 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

The rise of smartphone selfies has caused major changes in how people see themselves. This video from Vox explains why selfies make our noses look huge.

The reason is perspective distortion. A new study has shown that a selfie taken at a distance of 30 centimetres from your face makes your nose 30% wider and 7% larger than in a portrait taken from a distance of one and a half metres.

This distortion has a major effect on how people see themselves. Many even make fairly radical decisions after seeing this.

In 2017, 55% of plastic surgeons reported having performed facial surgery on people who wanted to look better in selfies. This was a 42% increase compared with 2016.

You might expect a selfie stick to be the perfect solution to this problem.

Scientists at Princeton have now also created a tool that can manipulate the distance between the camera (smartphone) and the nose, making the skewed proportions a little more balanced again.

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Michelle Peeters is fotografe en oprichter van DeuxBleus Fotografie. Michelle herkent het bijzondere in het gewone en het gewone in het bijzondere. Ze heeft zich nooit willen specialiseren en is daardoor van alle markten thuis.

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3 comments

martinphili wrote on Wednesday 4 April 2018 at 20:26 | reply
Ja, daar hebben we het wel eens eerder over gehad
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Irma wrote on Friday 6 April 2018 at 05:01 | reply
wow dit is leuke info. Leuk Michelle dat je dat toch weer vind ik geniet met volle teugen van je artikelen. Zijn de eerste die ik steeds lees! Dikke duim.
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Michelle Peeters wrote on Friday 6 April 2018 at 09:44 | reply
@Irma: dankjewel, wat leuk om te horen!
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