5 Halo Ring Lights for the Perfect Selfie – Lifehacker Australia

Everybody wants to look their best in selfies, and this range of halo ring light options will make your Insta posts pop.
Nearly every smartphone you can buy comes with some kind of beauty mode for the front-facing selfie lens. Sometimes its a straight AI call to try to improve your features, while sometimes theres a sliding scale of Photoshop-esque smoothing. Theres a fair amount you can do on-camera to improve your selfies, but you cant easily modify the level of light around your face.
Thats where a halo ring light comes in. Human beings dont actually have flat pancakes for faces, and thats a big problem if youre trying to get a perfect snap. Our faces are contoured with bumps and lumps, noses and eyeball sockets and plenty of other places where light can fall unevenly, making us look significantly less attractive. Its an issue that only gets worse with age, because every wrinkle is also a potential source of shadows. Unless youre going for that perpetually hungover/sleepy look and very few of us are thats less than desirable.
A circular ring light often also called a Halo light can solve all of these problems by providing a balanced lighting array around your entire face. With LED ring lights, you can also often opt to use colour washes on the light itself, which can be great for accentuating particular features, making the most of your makeup, or just to present you in quite literally a new light.
Neewer Camera Photo Video Light Kit: 18 Inches/48 Centimeters Outer 55W 5500K Dimmable LED Ring Light $119.99
Neewers Photo Light Kit contains everything youd need to get started taking better selfie shots or making YouTube or TikTok videos. It features a 48cm ring light with 5500K lighting very bright in lay persons terms along with standard orange and white colour filters to let you get your best-looking video the first time out. The included tripod can hold your phone in the middle of the ring for easy shooting or a DSLR, and it comes with a simple Bluetooth shutter so you can quickly take shots or shoot video.
UBeesize 10 Selfie Ring Light with 50 Extendable Tripod Stand $83.99UBeesize pitches its 10 halo ring light as being perfect for live makeup tutorials or any other kind of live-streaming youd care to engage in with a simple tripod and Bluetooth remote also part of the package. The 10 ring light offers three white colours warm, cool light and daylight with 11 different intensity settings for each colour temperature.
UBeesize Dimmable Desk Makeup Ring Light $49.99If you shoot your video from your desk or while sitting down you probably dont need a tripod, and this is where the smaller Ubeesize Dimmable Desk Makeup Ring Light might be a good match. Its functionally much the same as the Selfie Ring Light, so you get three colour temperatures and 11 intensities to choose from, but with a smaller and simpler desktop-style tripod that can take up to two kilos, so its not just limited to simple smartphone use.
Neewer Table Top 10-inch LED Ring Light $33.99The price is attractive, and while you might think that means Neewers Table Top 10-inch Ring Light is super basic, youre actually getting a fair quantity of features for your money, including three light modes white, yellow/white and yellow 10 levels of brightness and a simple desktop stand. Its pretty clearly built mostly for smartphone use, although it does feature a universal ¼ screw thread for other camera types.
Neewer Camera Photo/Video 14 inches LED SMD Ring Light $90.99If youve already got a tripod youre happy with, Neewers larger 14 halo ring light might be the right buy for you. This kit includes a 14 5500K ring light with variable dimming, orange and white plastic filters and its own power supply a rarity among halo ring light setups that usually presume youll use your phones charger or a portable battery to give them their glow.
Editors note: Descriptions and features are as taken from manufacturer/seller claims on Amazon.
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