The reason you see yourself differently in those different surfaces is because when your brain expects to see something, you see what you already expect to see instead of what's really there. When you look in a mirror, your brain knows you're going to see your own face. So you see what you believe your face looks like. A lot of learning to be an artist is training yourself to see what's really there instead of what your brain expects.
So if you really care, a camera will give you a much more reliable picture than a mirror. If you can put it on your computer and flip the image, that'll help a lot too. Rotate it, flip it horizontally, invert the colors, anything like that and you'll be closer to seeing what's really there.
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