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Started by Bret, Aug 30 2005 09:54 AM

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Posted 02 September 2005 - 01:54 PM

QUOTE(Brittany @ Sep 2 2005, 09:46 AM)
When I put on my make up I got to the mirror near the window and the dun is comeing through, is that what i look like to other people? coz like every mirron is different and i dont know what ones what? sad.gif sad.gif



The way I always see it is that if after putting on make up I think I look ok in a mirror near the window and bright daylight, then that will be the worst I can possibly look that day to anyone, because being in shade/inside doesn't seem to show up as many flaws. However, I don't take into account fluorescent lighting because I tend not to go anywhere that has it really (or avoid such places like shops that use the lighting, lol).

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Posted 03 September 2005 - 01:38 AM

so which lights should you be under to see exactly what other people see? That way I can go by a bulb and test it out...-=)

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Posted 03 September 2005 - 10:38 AM

Ummm, I think just being in daylight you'd see what other people see really. I think fluroscent lighting makes ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE look bad really.

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Posted 03 September 2005 - 06:27 PM

I'm working seasonally in a Wal-Mart at the moment, and of course they have those huge fluorescent lights beaming down. It's truth lighting, let's be honest.

Any redness is exacerbated by such lighting. It's unpleasant, but in a way allows you to build up confidence. When you see yourself in better lighting, you'll be pleasantly suprised. And when you improve in the fluorescent lighting you think: "wow, I must of improved." smile.gif

There's one mirror which happesn to be in the toilets that always makes me look ugly. It's kind of a truth mirror, and I hate looking at it. But as days have passed, the truth mirror image isn't quite so bad anymore...

I'm looking forward to the day where I can look in that mirror and 100% happy about my appearance. I'm getting there, I'm hoping another month, maybe 2, and I'll be free of the redmarks. I'll probably get a coupla spots now and then - but I don't care.

But yes - lighting is a sneaky devil. I'm gonna go look in some good mirrors for a bit. eusa_wall.gif

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Posted 04 September 2005 - 09:26 AM

You're probably right about that sort of lighting they have in supermarkets being 'truth lighting', I've just been thinking of this one particular shop where I live where it just seems to be... a really harsh sort of fluorescent lighting worse than the normal, and I know many people that I know go in there (that don't have any sort of acne) and they say when they see themselves in the mirrors they always feel like they need to put a ton of foundation on. But if they do and go anywhere else with it on, they just look stupidly orange. It's just these horrible lights in this one shop. lol.

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Posted 07 September 2005 - 06:49 AM

The lights they have at dentists offices are by far, the worst. I'm assuming they're flourescent. I hate it because they always show me how my teeth look in the mirror and i'm shocked I could even walk out of the house looking like that. I doesn't even look like i have makeup on. I don't know how anyone could work under those things. Sadly, they're everywhere. I just pray to god that's not what i really look like.

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Posted 07 September 2005 - 07:42 AM

QUOTE(girl3900 @ Sep 7 2005, 09:49 AM)
The lights they have at dentists offices are by far, the worst. I'm assuming they're flourescent. I hate it because they always show me how my teeth look in the mirror and i'm shocked I could even walk out of the house looking like that. I doesn't even look like i have makeup on. I don't know how anyone could work under those things. Sadly, they're everywhere. I just pray to god that's not what i really look like.


Thats the truth lol! I used to have to go to the orthodontist every month when I had braces, and they have the same lighting as regular dentists, plus they show you what they're doing to your teeth in the mirror every time, and evey itty bitty flaw shows up 10x worse.... majour blow to the confidence ugh.....

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Posted 11 September 2005 - 09:50 PM

Just keep doing what you are doing. Lights or not something must be working to help improve your redmarks. I get down about mine, but don't get too down. It'll make you feel bad. For sure you know at least time is working on it!

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Posted 13 September 2005 - 10:01 AM

Ugh I know the feeling. I hate going shoping to try on clothes and see myself under those awful light, no matter how good the clothes looks on my body I look at my face and want to cry like why bother dressing nice with a face full of zits? Or my friend with perfect skin always wants to walk down to walgreens and like you pass the mirror in the sunglasses stands in stores like that and you want to cry too. Like you just see these perfect skinned people trying on sunglasses getting all up close in those mirrors and I know I can never do that. It's just a really bad feeling and I think they should make all lights EVERYWHERE pink or red..hahah then everyone looks good.

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Posted 24 October 2005 - 07:52 PM

hey all im only new here so be gentle.

Anyway i have this same problem as well. I thought my face was clearing up, people were even complimenting me. I was eating the right foods, found a product that worked and Vitaman E was clearing up my scars.WRONG! it must have just been the mirrors in my house giving me an illusion.

I looked in a mirror that was getting direct sunlight and it looked like my face had been hit by napalm!so red.. scars everywhere... pimples that i didnt know exsisted... craters from an asteroid... you name it.

Anyway looks like i can never go out in the sun ever again i hereby announce i am becoming a Hobit or a caveman.

AHHHH thanks for letting me get that off my chest.


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Posted 25 October 2005 - 09:41 AM

It's true... where I work is 100% flourescent lighting. I was wondering why I always looked like crap at work but not at home

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Posted 25 October 2005 - 12:54 PM

OMG SO THATS THE REASON!

but whatever, lets face it. Ppl with clear skin looks normal under any mirror

its just us.

lol

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Posted 25 October 2005 - 03:49 PM

bah... sunlight make red marks look really red... so it's annoying 2 sad.gif

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Posted 28 October 2005 - 06:33 AM

ughh the supermarket and dentists have bad lighting, but so does hair salons!!

yesterday, i was gettingmy hair done, and the lights were horrible! i didnt even want to look at myself. she was all close to my face too and the whole time i was wondering what she was thinking about my face.. it was depressing! lol

they should make flo lights illegal! that would rock!

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Posted 28 October 2005 - 07:04 AM

QUOTE(hi everyone @ Sep 2 2005, 06:36 AM)

my classrooms are fluorescent lights..sucks ass


I know your pain.... sad.gif

QUOTE(Axl_Rose23 @ Oct 25 2005, 01:52 AM)

hey all im only new here so be gentle.

Anyway i have this same problem as well. I thought my face was clearing up, people were even complimenting me. I was eating the right foods, found a product that worked and Vitaman E was clearing up my scars.WRONG! it must have just been the mirrors in my house giving me an illusion.

I looked in a mirror that was getting direct sunlight and it looked like my face had been hit by napalm!so red.. scars everywhere... pimples that i didnt know exsisted... craters from an asteroid... you name it.

Anyway looks like i can never go out in the sun ever again i hereby announce i am becoming a Hobit or a caveman.

AHHHH thanks for letting me get that off my chest.


thx lol you made me laugh at your asteroid comment lol

i know what you mean... sun makes your redmarks even more red...

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Posted 28 October 2005 - 07:24 AM

i thought it was just me..th other day i tried on clothes in the change room, 1 of those brightly lit changerooms with white walls and white curtains with a bright bulb coming down..and i felt like a freak..not just the ghostly white face looking back at me, but my hair, my cellulite i didnt think i had..the little hairs on my legs..absolutely everything magnified to make me look like a monster. i walked out feeling like a monster..i was sure everybody was normal looking except for me. i felt like giving up, the next day i went and got my hair done, a tanning session and wore extra makeup then usual..i was in such a bad mood i got a headache and felt like crying, i just wantd to get out of the shopping centre..and yet other days ill look in the mirror at home that makes me look healthy and tanned and i think im pretty..then i feel like is this really me? what do i really look like? now i know why im so sensitive to certain places, its like im only comfortable during the summer time because of sunlight, a dark room or going out at night. any other lights i just dont feel right being in...this is some crazy feeling, i want acne to go..

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Posted 28 October 2005 - 06:50 PM

^ I know exactly what you're talking about

Those type of changing rooms and lights show up EVERYTHING, things I've never even seen and don't appear to exist in ANY other mirror I've ever looked in, stretch marks I can never see in any other light, and show up every broken and damaged strand of hair ffs. I guess the only consolation is that for me at least the only places I go that have those sorts of lights are women's clothes shops that I can afford to avoid...
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