do you ever feel like your mirror is bent/distorted?

[midnight toker]

i have a long mirror in my room, and i'm sure it distorts my reflection to make me look thinner.
i think the way it's leaned against the wall, the flimsy material they made it with is bending and distorting my reflection.
i look the fattest in the workout room mirror; since it covers an entire wall, i get a perfect view of what i actually look like.
GROSS.
anyway, what about you guys?
or am i just crazy?

[miserable_me]

I totally agree! Like i feel like every mirror i look in shows me differently. I never see myself at thin enough, but its like every mirror i look in i see a new flaw. A flaw that the other mirror somehow hid...if that makes sense to anyone. Anyways i HATE it. I wish i could just see me. Like how i really look, how other people see me. Which mirror is telling me the truth? To me its like stepping on a million different scales that all tell me a different weight.

[mard]

yup i have a feeling every mirror and camera lies and it doesnt show you the real figure, it hink they make is look well skiny than what we actually are
:(

[AnnDeSade]

Omg, I've had the worst thing happen to me: All my mirrors in the house I guess make me look slimmer, so I put on an outfit that looked ok, but in no way perfect. So, I went to my friends house, and needless to say, seeing myself in her mirror made me want to throw up:/
But, generally, it should be true that if you stand close to a mirror it'll show you the real picture, even if it's distorted :)

[Calamity]

There are certain mirrors in my house that I never look into! I do my hair and makeup in my bathroom mirror, go up to the master suite and look at my outfit there, NEVER go into the master bathroom to look at myself, ever, and avoid my sister's mirror like the plague. I do the same thing at friends' houses...once of my friends has a little circular hall mirror that just shows my face and shoulders perfectly. Sometimes I go over to his house and make excuses to walk past that mirror a million times. It must be magic, I look so pretty in that one. Ugly as hell in every other one though.

[EnoughIsEnough]

I don't trust mirrors at all because I feel like I look different in each one.

Mirrors in public always make me feel a million times worse...I try to avoid seeing my reflection when I'm not prepared for it!

I don't trust cameras, either. Two pictures on the same night can easily show me looking about a stone different in weight.

[stargAzerkitty]

I don't trust mirrors at all because I feel like I look different in each one.

Mirrors in public always make me feel a million times worse...I try to avoid seeing my reflection when I'm not prepared for it!

I don't trust cameras, either. Two pictures on the same night can easily show me looking about a stone different in weight.

Ah I feel exactly the same.

[brokenbird]

I know what you mean. Being a dancer I am in front of mirrors all day and I hate it. Every twist and turn of my body creates a new roll or pudge.

I literally dance with my back to it when I can so I don't have to look at my gross self.

My hall bathroom is the only place I will put on my make up and my master bath is for checking my outfit.

I once had my husband but me a mirror from a store because I liked the way I looked in it. But it must have been the store lights because at home I couldn't stand it. Lol

[Gremlin]

I hate the way I look in mirrors yet I can't help looking and picking out everything that's wrong. The mirrors in dance studios make me look fatter. I really hate it. Especially when I'm doing arabesques and I look in the mirror. I just hate it.

[Carrie]

I've noticed that the mirrors in stores, such as NewLook, make me look taller and thinner. I hate it.

[HollowedShame]

I don't trust mirrors at all because I feel like I look different in each one.

Mirrors in public always make me feel a million times worse...I try to avoid seeing my reflection when I'm not prepared for it!

I don't trust cameras, either. Two pictures on the same night can easily show me looking about a stone different in weight.

Wow... This.

It's the same for me, I look different in every mirror. Sometimes, I even go and look in all of them just to make sure that I look 'okay'. It's like getting a different opinion with each though. Must be inconsistencies in the glass, but it's certainly frustrating. The mirror in my hallway makes me look like a cow.

[Lonely]

I agree completely. I feel like sometimes I'll look in a mirror and feel okay with myself. But the next mirror I look in, I look disgusting and gross in. Maybe some of it is lighting, but I know it's not just that...

[barely_there]

I hate mirrors. A lot of my anxiety comes from the inability to know how the world sees me. Like, if I look in a mirror, and I see a certain image, and then look in another mirror, and see something else..which one is correct? Which one is an accurate representation of how people perceive me? It's the same with cameras too.

Best,

-L

[AlexisKnowsBest]

I hate mirrors. A lot of my anxiety comes from the inability to know how the world sees me. Like, if I look in a mirror, and I see a certain image, and then look in another mirror, and see something else..which one is correct? Which one is an accurate representation of how people perceive me? It's the same with cameras too.

Best,

-L

This is basically what I had to say, too.
I spend so much time wondering what I ACTUALLY look like to the rest of the world, because I have no idea what I look like.

[Jex]

I'm not sure if it's me or the mirrors. but, I find they make me look stretched and really, really wide... :( ~

[Enigmatic]

I've noticed that the mirrors and lighting in clothing stores make you look like a supermodel... but gym mirrors/lighting and my bathroom mirrors make me look like a fat slob with a puffy face.

The scariest part of it all is... which one is the most accurate? What's real? What do i REALLY look like? What do people REALLY see?

And to add salt to the wound.... I saw recently on a discovery channel show that mirrors only give us something like an 85% accurate reflection...