Just went into a changing room with 360 degree mirror

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Oh good lord, my side profile is hideous. I have a slightly hooked nose anyway that doesn't help but I have a strong jaw which has weakened?! Jowls aren't too bad but jeeeeez.

I realise my lips naturally sit in a downward turn, I pulled the corner of my lips into a half smile and it really helped but from the front I look demented.

I then saw some footage of me on one of my kids' phones and I realised I look down a lot - so unflattering

I am now pulling my head up and walking around with a face set like the joker......

Also, I was wearing no makeup but my neck is an entirely different shade?

What's the answer? Face lift, electric dace tool, face yoga, products, balaclava?

Those 360° changing rooms should be outlawed 😂. I look terrible in them.

I bet you look way better than you think!

Don’t go in another one!!!!
I bet you look fine. Which shop inflicted this on you (so I can avoid)

Become a hermit.

This has made me giggle as we can all relate.

I totally have a face two shades darker than my neck too - I have to wear fake tan on my neck to even me out.

Not all mirrors are the same. Don't believe it. I look very different from one mirror to the next. And lighting, I look best in full sun, but worst under bright lights. Go figure!

Same in hairdressers, I hate staring at myself in them, I look like Gollum!

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I hate M&S mirrors. Horrific. Also Next. And my hairdressers mirror. Traumatising.

Yes to changing room and hairdresser mirrors designed to make you hate yourself and (presumably) spend more on yourself to compensate.

In the plus side my conputer camera is magic and I look fucking gorgeous in Teams meetings.

If it was M&S, then it's lying. I've never exited an M&S changing room without a whole new list of horrifying physical features I didn't know I had.

You all guessed it - however unflattering mands mirrors are - the camera doesn't lie and I do have jowls forming and a 'dropped face'

I do gua sha twice a week and use a jade roller - what else should I do - sleep upside down? 🙃

Yeah what is it with mirrors in hairdressers?? They are ALWAYS the most unflattering, whatever time of day you go and wherever you sit. Is this some kind of inside trade secret?

Idk what’s going on with mirrors these day but every time I look in one a slightly saggy middle aged woman looks back at me 🤷‍♀️. Weird.

The answer is obviously to not include the bit above your shoulders when you look!

I find not using changing rooms useful. I buy clothes, try them on at home (in a flattering light with wine) and ask my DHs opinion. I want to believe that ageing is a sign that I’m still alive, and that’s preferable to the alternative, and with that comes lines, wrinkles, looser skin etc. but I still sometimes yearn for the 25 year old me!

I think exactly the same thing when I see myself (I’m 53) but then I think, ‘I see other people from the side all day and I don’t think anything about the way anyone looks from any angle.

I’m almost 100% sure you look fine, those mirrors should be banned!

Ha, yes! your post reminds me of an interview I watched with the author Abigail Shrier. She said ‘show me a woman over 40 who looks in the mirror and isn’t shocked at the age of the woman looking back’.

I’m 53 but still look 23 in my head.

Hairdresser ones are the worst, nothing to do for hours except leaf through a shit old copy of Hello and try and avoid eye contact with hideous overly lit scraped back hair self.
yuk.

When I catch a glimpse of myself in Asda mirrors I am sorry I left the house.

Must be the lighting but no matter how much effort I have made I look like death warmed up- puts me off shopping in there to be honest.

When I get home I often run to the mirror and am shocked at how good I look!

Possibly my mirrors at home are overly flattering or maybe just need a clean 🤣

Buy your clothes from Vinted. So much less stressful.

Those rooms are just mean, mean, mean.

I didn't realize how bad the lighting was in my normal hairdresser's room until she went on maternity leave and I went to someone else. It was as though I had shed 10 years. 1st hairdresser lighting: old, washed out hag looking back at me. 2nd hairdresser's lighting: not-so-bad older woman who doesn't look like she is on death's door. Lighting is so important. I am now back to my original hairdresser and I have resolved to simply not look in the mirror!!!

Damnit! I have that same mirror!

You're not alone, in fact I'd say this is just a completely normal part of the human condition. Mirrors are alarming!

My dh puts off going to the hairdresser because he hates it when they do the double mirror thing and he sees the back of his head.

I have a mirror-to-room ratio in our house of about 0.25 so I can avoid seeing myself too often - I occasionally realise I've had a rogue chin hair that's been allowed to grow quite long without me noticing! Still worth it, mirrors are alarming.

God yes I had the hairdresser experience the other day. Sat there wondering how I can look ok in the mirror at home yet in the hairdressers I always look like a 250-year-old, stressed-out toad. I’m always slightly worried the hairdresser will just sigh and say “I don’t know why I’m bothering tbh, look at your face what’s the point.”

Then got home and while attempting to check out my haircut from the back, gave myself a full view of my profile with double chin and Windy Miller nose. Ffs.

There is something wrong with every mirror! I must be haunted by an old woman with a miserable face with the beginning of 'marionette' lines and grows feet. The only good thing is I have a fat face so the lines are not so obvious. I just have a number of chins!!