Looking In The Mirror

[RichardA]

This morning I had on a blue button through denim skirt and a white polo top, and I looked in the long mirror I the hall and I thought I looked quite good, but I then thought is this the same as an anorexic person who looks in the mirror and see themselves as being fat.

[Milfmog]

...or the overweight guy, going grey and wrinkly who looks in the mirror and sees Adonis reborn? (A better statement of my problem with mirrors). I still find that to be objective about any of my chosen looks I need to photograph them; somehow mirrors are always too kind.

Have fun,


Ian.

[couyalair]

Too kind?
You are lucky, Ian.
When I look in a mirror, I see an ugly old man, at least 35 years older than I am.

I keep buying new mirrors, but it makes no difference. Don't know why.

Martin

[Big and Bashful]

I might be 21 stone but I am anorexic. Everytime I look in the mirror I see a fat person looking back.

[Kirbstone]

Turkey neck, wrinlked face, sparse white residual hair with a comb-over bit striving to hide the bald pate doesn't relate much to the hirsute dark-haired young blood my wife married 43 years ago. Shocking thing is that the deterioration is unstoppable!

T.

[crfriend]

Geez, guys, we sound like a collection of teenage girls whining about how fat and ugly they are!

I came to accept the fact that I am not getting any younger, nor will be getting so anytime soon. So, I took the unconventional approach and decided to just enjoy where and who I am and what I look like. Besides, Sapphire likes the crows-feet around my eyes when I smile.

I suppose the best bit of advice I ever heard was, "Don't take life so seriously -- you're not getting out alive." I figure if I live a good decent life, and manage somehow to leave a positive mark or two on the world (graffiti aside) I'll have done well.

Cheers!

[rick401r]

Jeez, you guys make me feel good. When I look in the mirror I see a thin old guy,beard turning grey and in need of a trim. Blond hair down to my shoulders, one tastfull tattoo, a double pierced ear.Too bad I don't feel as good as I look.

[janrok]

Now I don't know what kind of magic mirrors you guys have but if I look in mý mirror I see myself just the way I am.
Not a pretty sight perhaps but alas, 63 years of hardship leave their marks
Jan.

[skirtingtoday]

For me, when I was younger, I didn't like what I saw in the mirror. Too thin, knobbly knees, hair that didn't stay where it was combed and more. I thought then that I wasn't good-looking at all and that it would be a real struggle to even get close to the opposite sex. Shyness didn't help either.

Now, at 58, I am happy with how I look in the mirror because I think I am happy within myself and am a lot less self-conscious though I would like to lose a little of the middle-age spread (not too bad at the moment but it's beginning to stick...)

[skirtingtheissue]

I figure if I live a good decent life, and manage somehow to leave a positive mark or two on the world (graffiti aside) I'll have done well.

Well, you've certainly left a few thousand positive marks on the Skirt Café!

Like Skirtingtoday I'm also 58, and find it amazing that one's appearance can change so much over the years and yet from one day to the next change is imperceptible.

I don't spend a lot of time with mirrors, but when skirted I love seeing the reflection in shop windows, which reinforces the positive energy of the skirt.