eli5: is a video more accurate than 2 mirrors facing each other?

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Today I put up a mirror at a 90 degree angle to another mirror in order to “un-reverse” the reflection, my face looked absolutely other-wordly bad, it looked very skinny, but when I look in the mirror my face looks normal.

After that I took multiple videos using my phone’s camera and the result looked more or less the same as when I look in the mirror(without the 90 degrees thing), So now I’m kinda left confused.

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What I’m getting at is the following, with the two mirror method my face looks skinny and that doesn’t make sense cuz in videos and pictures my face looks normal, so now I’m kinda freaking out over this.

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The proportions of your facial features will depend on the distance you’re viewing your face from. There isn’t really a “more accurate” one. Using two mirrors means you’re viewing your face from “further away” than the distance the phone is viewing your face when taking a selfie.

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