Why does skin look awful in sunlight?

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Always thought my skin was pretty good - took a selfie in the sun and omg it was awful. So bumpy and dry with peach fuzz and stray hairs sticking up everywhere... it's really knocked my confidence!

Why does my skin look great indoors but awful in the sun? And how can I fix it?

Because you're human, not a real life filter! For peach fuzz and stray hairs though I dermaplane. Makes make up much smoother and flawless

Oh I know what you mean. I look about 80 in sunlight.

I'm not sure there's anything to be done really. It's like dirty windows in summer - they really Lahore up.

Put on sunglasses and style it out!

thanks tresmal - does the hair grow back thicker when you dermaplane it?

blasted pimple - this totally! I look like another person in the sunlight 😂all I can see is the dry pores!!

Nope that's a myth. You're not affecting the follicles in any way. Also, it's incredibly satisfying 😂

Haha I do find plucking out the thick hairs on my chin very satisfying 😂I've just bought a Philips Lumea to use on my face and was planning to shave before it, but will look into dermaplaning instead - thank you!

I remember my beautician trying to tell me my peach fuzz would grow back thicker if I dermaplaned. Nearly rolled my eyes out of my head. It's absolute nonsense. A quick Google will tell you the same. So if you want to dermaplane you can.

Most people look better in softer lighting. That's just life. Like remember in the olden days when you'd be feeling great in a nightclub, chatting away to someone... and then the lights would come on really bright? Ugh shudder.

Hahaha, the nightclub analogy made me laugh! Thank you - it just really threw me. I've been feeling a bit low about my facial hair for a while and seeing it all highlighted in the sun just really knocked my confidence - it's like walking around all day thinking you look great and realising your dress has been tucked into your underwear 😂

Found this video really helpful and reassuring -

It sounds silly but everyone else looks fab in the sun. Maybe it's one of those things where you just notice your own flaws but nobody else does as they're too busy worrying about their own - defo about to up my water intake and skin routine though!! I don't really have one other than using natural oils as a moisturiser so need to get on it!!

I have always thought that a bit of peach fuzz is perfectly normal.

Stupidly, I looked at myself in a 10 times magnified mirror. Then I decided I was going to remove upper lip hair and a bit of peach fuzz.

My mother and my sister both said it's totally unnecessary. My sister is in the position where she feels she really has to remove dark facial hair and she said "why would you put yourself through that if you don't have to".

Anyway - after doing it, I now notice it growing back. So I won't do that again.

Re full sun, it seems to me that you'd have to catch a really unfortunate angle and probably have a brilliant camera in order to see that?

But it is normal and human. I think we're probably getting used to people who are airbrushed in real life.

I have a neighbour who just looks absolutely magazine perfect even when you sit next to her on the sofa. She spends hours on her appearance and a lot of money too. She obviously enjoys it so that's great.

But I have to stop myself feeling inadequate whenever I see her, and realise that she has basically created an Instagram-perfect version of herself.

I feel like a bit of a plum, because I saw something on QVC, years ago, and they said oh, you don't realise how many imperfections you have on your skin until you get a really great magnifying mirror. And now I'm thinking to myself, no one is ever going to see you in that magnification and nor are you....

The only reason I got the magnifying mirror was because I was looking for an folding mirror and it happens to come with a small fold out section that does 10 times on the side.

Maybe I should just put some masking tape over that and forget it's there!

Sorry, that was long.

Thanks Emma, I totally get this and have also been told not to touch my facial hair too unless I really have to.

And you're spot-on - it's just becoming so normal now to see perfectly airbrushed people in real life and people who have had enhancements (no judgements for anyone does have them, of course). The other day I caught myself looking at my lips in the mirror and thinking maybe I should have some filler put in. No reason other than I'd been watching a lot of TV with women who had had it done and seen quite a few women when I was out and about and suddenly my lips felt so small in comparison. My lips are actually naturally full and I love them but it's funny how the eye gets manipulated if it sees something enough and normalises it to make you feel inadequate...

It reminds me of being a teenager and trying to starve myself for a day because I didn't have any cheekbones and really wanted to look like all the models in the magazines. That was my teenage brain before I fully got photoshop was a thing, but funny how these things run deep even in adulthood when it comes to unattainable beauty standards. I just wish we weren't so judged as women for/on our appearances.

And you're so right - no one will ever examine you under a magnifying glass - at least I hope not! 😂defo mask it up and forget about it!

Dermaplaning doesn't make your hair grow back thicker but it does grow back blunt ends instead of natural, soft ends. Mine felt like stubble. Never did it again.

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I have been shaving my face for over a decade it does not grow back thicker but any regrowth of course its going to look spikey initially then will be as soft as long hairs.

I was using a family members bathroom the other day which was full of natural light (ours isn't). I realise I have the beginnings of a saggy neck which I definitely cannot see in my bathroom mirror.

Does anyone have any recommendations for literally anything that might help?