I brought my mirror and went to class that has fluorescent lights this morning and holy hell, my face was like a fucking Swiss cheese. I thought I look good whenever I leave the house.
Then just now, I took the mirror outside my house and my face didn't seem too bad.
According to YOU, how do you assess the lighting of the following in terms of how bad your acne looks?
-bar/club
-movie theater
-outside in the snow
-outside in the sun
-classroom
-inside of a car
Any particular area that stands out as the best or the worst?
That's why I don't check my face when I'm out places - except for in public bathrooms if I don't avoid the mirror there. If I feel like my skin looks ok when I leave my house in the morning (after looking in my bathroom mirror) then I feel a little more confident for going about my day than if my skin had looked horrible when I left. If I were to check my skin in different lighting throughout the day that would just depress the hell out of me. I spend a lot of time either in full sun light walking to class and then fluorescent in class rooms / labs and I know that lighting is horrible - so I try to ignore it and how my skin must look and try to just remember it didn't look so bad when I left and pretend that's how it looks in that current lighting.
I guess it's a bit of an 'out of sight, out of mind' sort of thing.
I'd say the best lighting is 'dull' lighting though - like on an overcast day. Or in a dark room with no lights at all haha
That's why I don't check my face when I'm out places - except for in public bathrooms if I don't avoid the mirror there. If I feel like my skin looks ok when I leave my house in the morning (after looking in my bathroom mirror) then I feel a little more confident for going about my day than if my skin had looked horrible when I left. If I were to check my skin in different lighting throughout the day that would just depress the hell out of me. I spend a lot of time either in full sun light walking to class and then fluorescent in class rooms / labs and I know that lighting is horrible - so I try to ignore it and how my skin must look and try to just remember it didn't look so bad when I left and pretend that's how it looks in that current lighting.
I guess it's a bit of an 'out of sight, out of mind' sort of thing.
I'd say the best lighting is 'dull' lighting though - like on an overcast day. Or in a dark room with no lights at all haha
I do the same thing, if I feel confident when I leave in the morning I'll do better if I don't check my skin throughout the day or it'll make me feel self-concious.
Lighting is something I worry about a lot because of my skin. I hate white lighting like the fluorescent ones in most shops and when it's a cloudy day. I probably look just as bad when it's not cloudy but when it's sunny I feel better in general. I prefer dim, warm lighting like the lights/ lamps you'd have in your house but with no natural light from outside, so at night time.
It really is a shame that so many of us have to feel so awful about ourselves simply because of the quality of the light.