自拍，即拍摄自己的人像照片。现如今，越来越多的人喜欢自拍。以下是一篇有关自拍的英语作文素材，欢迎阅读!
How many times have you taken a selfie, only to hate how you looked?
You aren’t the only one. It’s common problem, but not everyone is picking a new Instagram filter as a quick-fix.
Some people are turning to expensive surgery in hopes of snapping a better picture, according to a recent survey by the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
But that might be a big mistake. A new study found that for many, the problem is not in the nose. It’s in the distortion(扭曲)of the image created by the way they hold their smartphone cameras.
Selfies don’t work like mirrors. Instead, they’re completely distorted — especially when it comes to the nose, according to new research published in the medical journal JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery.
“Selfies make your nose look wider and thicker when it really isn’t, and people like a smaller nose,” Boris Paskhover, a facial plastics and reconstructive surgeon at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and the study’s lead author said. “My fear is that the generation out there now doesn’t know. All they know is the selfie.”
The researchers looked specifically at selfies taken from 12 inches away — a common distance for someone snapping a selfie without the assistance of a selfie stick. In a selfie taken from that distance, men’s noses appear 30 percent wider and women’s noses appear 29 percent wider than they actually are.
A photo taken from the standard portrait distance of five feet, meanwhile, has no discernible (that can be noticed) distortion.
Paskhover hopes this will give people pause when considering anose job (an operation on the nose), which he said can run upward of $15,000 and might be one expensive disappointment. “If you go to someone who’s inexperienced,aesthetic (美学、审美) outcomes are variable,” he told the network. Any surgery also carries risks.
The American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery survey found that 55 percent of facial plastic surgeons treated patients who “want to look better in selfies” in 2017. And that’s a 13 percent increase from 2016.
