A word of advice when looking in the mirror .....

Agreed, it’s much nicer seeing oneself as a blur! You forgot to mention suddenly noticing the incipient beard, too.

Even better if you close your eyes??

I could pluck my eyebrows if I used a magnifying mirror, but............

And by the same token, get your friends to remove their glasses when they arrive. It also means they won't see the dirt and cobwebs.

You know that trope in old films, where a woman removes her glasses and a man suddenly notices her her and says, "My God but you're lovely!"? Well, the older people's equivalent is where the man removes HIS OWN glasses and then realises how lovely she is.

It's when you see yourself on a family Zoom get together.
It's rather a shock.

The most important thing is never, ever, do what I once did, put a mirror on the floor and lean over it to pluck your eyebrows. It was about 15 years ago and I’m still recovering.

My zoom picture was similar, I must practise some better angles.
I did experiment by putting on a face mask at one point but no-one noticed. They were too busy doing a quiz.

I find sitting well back on a Zoom call helps, so at least I’m not looming out at everyone and scaring the grandsons. But I have noticed my complexion looks very ruddy on Zoom. I’m not sure whether I’m blushing, suffering from HBP, or have just been overdoing the Rosy Glow face cream. I don’t look like this in the mirror. Not in a dim light anyway (I do favour a dim light).

The problem is that DIL's mum looks naturally lovely