Community Chat

[Shanus]

Models study themselves in the mirror and in photos to learn their best side, best angles, chin down/up, face pointed up or down to alleviate shadows. You rarely see them face on in the camera and they’re usually photoshopped anyway. Younger women have become obsessed with this, too.

Unfortuneately, social media, especially selfies, have made women fixated on perfection and youth. Accept who you are and go out in the world smiling knowing that you’re the best on the inside. After all, that’s what matters most. The rest is rather superficial. 

[Lucky Charm]

I usually take good pictures, I prefer candid shots where I don't know when my picture is being taken. 

And I prefer to take candid shots of other's --as opposed to everyone dropping everything and twisting their heads and smiling from ear to ear.  Kind of unnatural looking.

The WORST is when I pick up my phone to turn it on and all of a sudden---THERE I AM.  Looking down (my neck!), readers on, no makeup, hair a mess.  I scream sometimes when I see me.  

[Shanus]

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@Rockycoast wrote:

Photos are definitely a truer image than a mirror.  We can fool ourselves into thinking the mirror is wrong. Can't do that with a photo.

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@Rockycoast   If you want to make minor makeup changes, you can learn a lot from photos. Print one and post it next to your makeup mirror. Brows look too thin or thick for your face...tweeze or fill in. Face in photo too pale or complexion look dull? You can double check foundation shade and finish, add a brighter blush or maybe hair color is wrong for your coloring. Eyes disappear? Liner and mascara. Dark circles, a brighter concealer, etc. You can even contour under chin and cheekbones (for planned professional pics only like in wedding or other special occasions where you know you’ll be photographed) to thin the face and double chin. This is not every day makeup.

[kivah]

All my life, I've never been able to look in the mirror. I avoid it at all cost. 

[Vivian]

I’m now 72 so although I still go to aerobic dance and Zumba, I don’t look like I did 50 years ago. In those days, I was told by many people that I looked a lot like Natalie Wood. I was stupid enough to allow my husband’s fraternity brothers to enter me into a beauty contest. In those days, being pretty was more important than being smart. I soon learned that was all wrong. I hunkered down with my schoolwork and graduated from an Ivy League university. That made me far more proud than the silly beauty contest. The heck with that mirror!

[on the bay]

@Suziepeach -

We love you!

[suzyQ3]

Well, on a positive note, I love my voice. As for mirrors/pictures, I have to agree with those that say photos are usually what you really look like.

Funny thing, I just renewed my driver's license, and I told the "photographer" that I was NOT going to smile, this because I noticed the wrinkles in recent photos in whicH I was smiling.

She said that I have to smile. :-) I said nope. My picture ended up making me look as if I had just been charged with murder.

Moral of the story: Go for a few wrinkles and SMILE.

[Suziepeach]

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@on the bay wrote:

@Suziepeach -

We love you!

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Thank you @on the bay. Love all of you too.  Needless to say it took a little while to get over but I did.  So many mean people in our world, had my husband heard him we'd of been kicked out.

Thanks to everyone!

[suzyQ3]

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@Suziepeach wrote:

I had a guy at Disney tell me how fat and  ugly I was.. nice huh? 

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@Suziepeach, this literally makes me sick to my stomach. No matter our age, stuff like that still feels as if you've been stabbed. No words.

[Suziepeach]

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@suzyQ3 wrote:

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@Suziepeach wrote:

I had a guy at Disney tell me how fat and  ugly I was.. nice huh? 

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@Suziepeach, this literally makes me sick to my stomach. No matter our age, stuff like that still feels as if you've been stabbed. No words.

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I think he'd been drinking and his wife just stood there, I stared a hole through her as something told me he was an abusive man..  it was very hurtful but what goes around comes around.. am a firm believer in that..

Thank you @suzyQ3 ...