How is my photo? (weird facial expression)

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Accurate.

You don't look REALLY weird or creepy in this photo, just a little off. Your facial expression is fairly neutral overall. Not sure what look you're intending to go for in this pic, but it's not REALLY bad, just not particularly good, either.

Personally, I'm *not* a photogenic beautiful person that takes a bunch of selfies. Some find me attractive, I'm sure, but I'm just not one of those people who takes a bunch of pictures of myself for social media.. ever. I'm in a few pics per year and they're usually pretty sh***y snapshots, especially if I've taken them myself.

I have a lot of VERY photogenic friends. Some of them are online personalities, others are models, others are salespeople, others are just gay boys that like to seek attention on Facebook. My point is that they've learned HOW to take better pictures of themselves from angles that make them look their best. Yes, you could have a different/better facial expression (maybe a smile?) that could improve your pic, but I think another huge change would be if you read up on some online tutorials of HOW to take a proper "selfie" and then practice. I've read some tutorials recently out of interest and there's a lot of good advice. Also, some of my gay selfie taking friends have made FB posts teaching each other how to take better selfies. The BIGGEST single piece of advice from tutorials and my friends' posts is to elevate the camera above and aim it downward towards your face while looking up a bit - it makes for a much better pic, regardless of facial expression.

Practice making different facial expressions and changing variables of your camera angle/body position & you'll learn how to take better pictures of yourself if that's a goal you'd like to achieve.

Myself? I'm in the "I know I don't take good pics of myself & don't care," category because I almost never take pics of myself to post or use for anything, ever, so it's one big "meh" for me. But if it's a thing you want to improve, do a little research & a lot of practice and you'll end up with ever better results.

Actually you remind me of Robert Pattison a little bit.

He is the actor who played the high school vampire dude in "the Twilight Saga".

You know...that guy who goes out with Kristen Stewart (sometime off screen IRL, as well as on screen in the film series).

A guy could do worse than look like someone who goes out with Kristen Stewart .


If that's "looking weird" where do I sign up for it?

Well, i tried to smile but... I think it's weird. what do you think?

https://s31.postimg.org/me2h3xvgr/PSFix ... 191134.jpg

It's sort of an "enigmatic" type of smile. Rather like the Mona Lisa.

There are men here who would kill to have your looks.

I would have----had I been 19 years old.

You worry too much about your looks, man. It just might be interfering with other things in your life.

To me you look happy. And that is all.

Just my opinion, but you look a lot like a young Itzhak Perlman with a little bit of a young Robert De Niro and a young Al Pacino, not to mention a young Paul Simon ... every one of them talented and attractive.

Who did I end up looking like? Brent Spiner (Star Trek's Lieutenant Commander Data); and, I still look like him after all these years. Talented, yes, but not as attractive as Perlman, De Niro, Pacino and Simon.

But i wish i had a normal smile. Not an enigmatic smile

New pic is an improvement for sure.

Definitely keep snapping more and checking them out and seeing what you think of them, pick the best ones, post them here for others' reviews and feedback. I bet you'll find that the more you take, and if you read tutorials and follow advice, like most anything practice makes perfect so the more you do this the better you'll get at it and the better the photos.

Maybe try one standing up vs. laying down & have the camera angle tilted down from above? That's the "classic" selfie angle.

I have to agree with Svurb, ever since i started lifting weights (and they don't even need to be huge ones) it increased my overall confidence in how i think i look.
You might think negatively of how you look, but you need to get feedback from other people when you interact. If you talk to someone and act nice, you look better to them and you feel better about yourself.
I think a smile would definitely help too. Nothing weird at all about the photo!

Your face is completely free of defects and abnormalities. You should be thankful for that.

Just make an effort to smile a little more--but not too much.

People tell me I look mad most of the time. I'm mostly sad at all times.