To think that shop changing room mirrors are the most unflattering mirrors of all time?

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I just tried a few things on in H&M and my god, my half-dressed reflection made me want to go on a crash diet with immediate effect(and my BMI is in the 'healthy' range). The lights and angles of the mirror showed up every lump and bump, every dimple of cellulite, it even highlighted my faded stretchmarks from my pregnancy 15 years ago which I don't tend to notice anymore. I also looked about a stone heavier than I actually am. It was thoroughly depressing and I wondered whether it's just me that has this experience or whether I'm just a lumpy lard arse? Surely if the lighting/angles were better they'd sell more clothes because you look and feel good?

Yep they are designed to make you look like an overgrown slug

Yep I always feel like I look horrific to others

Oh no, often it's the other way around and they are deliberately slimming, sorry! Although, I'll agree more often than not, the lighting is startlingly unflattering.

I went wedding dress shopping with my sister, in the mirror she looked like a cartoon princess with a tiny waist, in real life she looked exactly as she should, beautiful but nowhere near as thin as she was in the mirror.

That is meant to say too not to others

I'm sure they're ex fairground fun house mirrors.

They're designed to make you look that way. It's also why they put in terrible lighting.

It's a horrid way of treating your customers. Instead of accepting that the average UK size is 12-14, they try and make people crash to their desired size.

Some mirrors are angled more flatteringly than others. I like those ones. The rest of the time I look fucking dreadful because I'm standing way too close due to the lack of space. I really don't need to see my pale wobbly flesh in close-up.

Debenhams mirror are those slimming mirrors that are made warped to make you look slimmer. I find the cheapo shop changing rooms are worst - primark and select etc.

I find H&M and new look mirrors flattering, but topshop mirrors utterly destroy my self esteem 😂 I think it’s just that it’s showing you a slightly truer reflection of yourself, in harsh lighting and an unfamiliar setting - whereas you’re used to your reflection in your mirror at home, and probably have softer lighting in your bedroom and probably associate better emotions with being at home maybe?

Yanbu. It's hideous.

Yes I’v Heard the mirrors are concave which makes you look slimmer and more likely to buy. When you try on at home do you look worse though and want to bring the stuff back?
Next time I’m in a shop changing room I’m going to look down the side of the mirror to see if it curves in!

And mirrors In hairdressers and lifts! And strip-lighting is no one's friend!!

@Thingsdogetbetter YES my lift at work makes me look pale and wrinkly, I’m only early 30s!

I don't like mirrors 😅

Actually, there was one I liked, when I went to my therapy group, there was a mirror in the ladies which made me look skinny. Oddly, it was right beside the normal mirrors. I could step left and right, and be fat, thin, fat, thin.