Gym Fat Mirrors

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  • bepeejaye
    bepeejaye Posts: 775 Member
    Reminds me of the vehicle side mirror warning, "objects in (the) mirror are closer than they appear." :D:D
  • Sara1791
    Sara1791 Posts: 760 Member
    No mirrors in the new gym but I do own a skinny mirror.
  • peleroja
    peleroja Posts: 3,979 Member
    _dixiana_ wrote: »
    jemhh wrote: »
    Oh there are definitely fat and thin mirrors. There are a few stores where I don't try on clothes because their mirrors are really unflattering. It's like that episode of Seinfeld when he goes out with the woman who looks great in one light and then horrible in another.

    Last weekend we stayed in a hotel suite. I walked through the kitchen area, over toward the bathroom, and said "Oh my!" My husband asked what was going on and I said "this is the best mirror ever. I look great in it!" :smiley: It was a super flattering mirror for some reason.

    There is a mirror in my aunt's bathroom that I had this same reaction to. I went to wash my hands, glanced in the mirror and was like "DANG, I look fabulous". I think it was the lighting in there too. Made the highlighting powder I had on that day really pop.

    The opposite is true for the mirror at my salon. I look like a troll in it. They really need to work on that.

    I think it's a rule that even if you're spending $200 on a haircut, the mirror in your salon will make you look like a haggard, moon-faced insomniac gremlin that died a week previously. I don't know what it is but I NEVER feel so hideous as I do in a salon chair...some unholy combination of black cape, bright lighting, wet hair, and bad mirrors? I'm very fair-skinned and so I know I'm not at my best with a ton of white light and black clothing, but still, I never look like that in my bathroom at home somehow.
  • GottaBurnEmAll
    GottaBurnEmAll Posts: 7,722 Member
    Sara1791 wrote: »
    No mirrors in the new gym but I do own a skinny mirror.

    You know what's weird about the mirror we own that's a fat mirror now? It used to be my grandmother's. Back in the day, when it hung in her bathroom, it was known in the extended family for being a skinny mirror. I don't know if it's warped over time or what (this thing is over 40 years old at this point), but it's changed for sure. I'm constantly surprised when I see myself in other mirrors and in pictures.
  • _dixiana_
    _dixiana_ Posts: 3,262 Member
    peleroja wrote: »
    _dixiana_ wrote: »
    jemhh wrote: »
    Oh there are definitely fat and thin mirrors. There are a few stores where I don't try on clothes because their mirrors are really unflattering. It's like that episode of Seinfeld when he goes out with the woman who looks great in one light and then horrible in another.

    Last weekend we stayed in a hotel suite. I walked through the kitchen area, over toward the bathroom, and said "Oh my!" My husband asked what was going on and I said "this is the best mirror ever. I look great in it!" :smiley: It was a super flattering mirror for some reason.

    There is a mirror in my aunt's bathroom that I had this same reaction to. I went to wash my hands, glanced in the mirror and was like "DANG, I look fabulous". I think it was the lighting in there too. Made the highlighting powder I had on that day really pop.

    The opposite is true for the mirror at my salon. I look like a troll in it. They really need to work on that.

    I think it's a rule that even if you're spending $200 on a haircut, the mirror in your salon will make you look like a haggard, moon-faced insomniac gremlin that died a week previously. I don't know what it is but I NEVER feel so hideous as I do in a salon chair...some unholy combination of black cape, bright lighting, wet hair, and bad mirrors? I'm very fair-skinned and so I know I'm not at my best with a ton of white light and black clothing, but still, I never look like that in my bathroom at home somehow.

    I'm not alone, hooray!
  • canadianlbs
    canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
    Alidecker wrote: »
    I just like to stand where two mirrors meet, then I look distorted and usually weirdly skinny :)

    \o/ there's a border between mirror panels right in front of the rack at my place. between sets i like to move myself around so just one thigh is dissected and say 'this is the look that you're headed towards'.


  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    My gym has one that's a skinnier one- the rest are normal looking.

    #notmadatit
  • ericwhitt
    ericwhitt Posts: 87 Member
    I think it was Shark Tank where a woman went on trying to sell skinny mirrors. Her business plan was to sell skinny mirrors to clothing stores to try and sell more merchandise.

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