Aibu to say that there is nothing less flattering than

[Isthebigwomanhere]

Sitting in the hair dressers chair looking at yourself. Every imperfection and line and wrinkle for ages ?

I always think my face looks enormous. Embarrassingly huge.

I look like a big toe in the hairdresser's mirror.

Beza

I'm constantly surprising myself in mirrors and not in a good way. I have one mirror in my house in which I look vaguely acceptable and in every other mirror on the planet I look like a scrawny but strangely saggy and lumpy old woman with someone else's hair .
I do get respite at the hairdresser because I too take my specs off . There's no way I want to sit looking at myself for an hour. Same in a restaurant.

I always look best after a bath - when the mirror is all steamed up :)

When I go to the hairdressers I am genuinely shocked at my reflection. I try to avert my eyes. Everywhere else I would gladly check myself out in a mirror so I don't have a body dysmorphic thing going on. Shops have lost a lot of money from me because of their changing rooms. My body is not perfect but it does not resemble lumpy porridge so why does it in the changing rooms?

Always a full face of make up to go the hairdresser.

@tigerbear I am also reading this sitting in the salon chair, head encased in tinfoil. Cursing myself for not putting a full face of makeup on before I came....

Perfectly timed thread

"Every imperfection and line and wrinkle for ages ?"

Nope. I am very short sighted, so when the hairdresser is colouring, cutting or blow drying my hair I don't wear my glasses and only see a blurry image of myself.

@OutInTheCountry TK Maxx mirrors are the worst! Last year before holiday I'd exercised and dieted, looked good I thought.

Saw myself in the TK Maxx mirror and it was just hideous. Ruined my day it did ☹️

@Underthefur 😂
I’ve been here since 4.30, with at least another 40 min to go, how about you?

YEP I hate the hairdressers mirror too. The hairdresser always looks OK though.

I also look shit in clothes shop mirrors.

@MeltedEggMum

I about cried trying on bras the other day. The lighting made me look like a swamp monster.

PMSL. Sorry but that made me LOL!

@omione

Ladies just like yourselves, stuff what everyone else thinks(tbh nobody has noticed ), stop the selfies and stop liking and commenting on FB or WA photos and give everyone a break.

PMSL, you can tell this is a man!

MorondelaFrontera - oh no; you are so, so wrong there if you think this is the worst it gets....
Remember this when you are in your sixties and trying on bras.
That post baby belly is still around, just older and more wrinkled. And the boobs have travelled south to join it.
Deep Joy.

The mirrors in H&M fitting rooms are the WORST IMO.

@tigerbear only half a head for me tonight, I've been here since 6, should be done by 7.45.

Hope you're pleased with your new "do" 😁

Awful.

I look like an egg.

You would think that shops would get a bit more savvy and design the lighting / decor / mirror angles in the changing rooms to be a bit more flattering wouldn’t you? I mean, in the interest of actually making a sale?
Most changing rooms I’ve ever been in have the most unflattering lighting, and 9 times out of 10 I don’t end up buying the stuff I’ve tried on. I shop online instead and try stuff on in the comfort of my bedroom with the lights dimmed

I’m the same as most shortsighted pp’s - everything’s a flattering blur.
However, have you had passport photos taken in a photo booth? Especially now you have to remove your specs. Awful is too kind a word.

This thread has made me happy because I thought it was just me who looked so hideous in hairdresser mirrors.

Bra shopping is traumatic. I spent a whole Saturday trying on bras about a month ago. Talk about feeling like a freak of nature...

I hate it too. Normally I don't wear any make-up but at the hairdressers I always wish I had a full face on!

Processedpea - I put my glasses on once the colour is on as I can always clean the dye off the arms of my glasses!

I do full make up before going to get my hair done too, which is all well and good until you get your colour washed off and the apprentice who’s been shoved on shampoo duty sprays you in the face and you end up back in the chair looking like you’ve survived a monsoon

I'm so glad it's not just me! I sit there getting more and more miserable about my piggy eyes, big ears, thin lips. I'm spending nearly a hundred quid every 8 weeks to bash my self esteem. Wah

Omg that lizard Demon. I love it. It's like looking in a mirror

I'm so glad I'm not the only one.

I look okay in all my mirrors at home - not today though, as I haven't had much sleep and I've got a cold.

But it's as if hairdresser have special mirrors to show every flaw. I'm sure I can't really be that ugly. Where do they buy them?

And changing rooms in clothes shops.

Okay, I'm a woman of a certain age, but looking at the inside of my thighs and in the mirrors at home I have relatively little cellulite on the my legs, but as soon as I get into a changing room the backs of my legs turn into the surface of the moon, and become twice their normal size.

Is it the lighting? Is it the mirrors? I think we need to be given some answers here.

Yes. Hate it. But the reason I hate it is that I know it’s the truth. Normally I bing a bit of make-up on, check my clothes are on straight and that’s about the only time I’m in front of a mirror. Having my colour and cut done is the only time I sit in front of myself and see myself chatting. It means I see what everyone else sees and it’s not good.

@Underthefur I’m finally done, and living it! Thank god, after 3.5 hours!
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