Hey Amanda, I was just thinking this same thing (in the other direction, though ^_^) I was taking pictures of outfits so I wouldn't forget what to wear, and I thought I looked fine in the mirror, but then the picture looked terrible. But later my friend was taking the pictures, and after she took one she looked at it and said, "Wow, you looked a lot more passable in real life than in this picture." So I think it's just a "cameras are sucky sometimes" thing.