If you wear foundation and need reading glasses

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Last week a lady at Bobbi Brown put foundation on my face, this week I tried Clinique. Both times it looked great when I looked at it in the magnifying mirror in the store but when I put my reading glasses on it looked caked and my pores looked massive.

So ... are my reading glasses giving an accurate or exaggerated view (given they're for reading)?

And please be nice (but honest) because I'm not young and look shit so need something!

It's your glasses.

Thanks MUM!

Sure you're not just being nice?

Maybe.
I think glasses and contact lenses can distort an image.
I opened the thread because I always get make-up on my specs.

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I would think that with reading glasses you're just seeing it as someone who doesn't require glasses would see it aren't you? I'm short sighted and don't need reading glasses but surely they just correct your long sight to make it normal?

Reading glasses magnify, they don't correct your vision.

Fuck that's what it is!!! I have exactly same problem and spent fortune on different primers (I have five...). I never even thought it could be my glasses :(

I can't remember how it works, but I think it's if you look at yourself in a full length mirror, corrected vision will make you look fatter than you are.
Digital cameras tend to make me look thinner. I suppose changing the angle of the camera might help.