Have you ever looked in the mirror and seen .................... your grandmother?

I’m a female image of my father and my son is the image of him too. It’s strange as my son is the age I best remember my father.

Sorry... I misred the title. No, not my grandmother.

Chewbacca you made me laugh out loud. Yes, I look just like Granny Bailey now. I showed a friend a photo of my 22-year-old self: long straight hair, willowy figure, mini skirt, contact lenses and she couldn’t believe it was me.. Now I’m bowed with arthritis, balding, wear glasses, the contours of my legs & body ( I was known as “ Snake hips Bailey” in my youth) lumpy but hey: I’m still here. Granny Bailey died of a heart attack before she reached my age and the drugs are evidently protecting me from a similar fate - provided my husband doesn’t incense me with uncontrollable rage with his shenanigans.

Occasionally, and strangely enough only yesterday. I was combing my hair, put the comb down and just glanced in the mirror again and there was my mother!

Yes, I certainly see my mother. Her hands are on the steering wheel as I drive and I see her often in the mirror. The first time I saw my grandmother (paternal), looking back at me, it was a surprise but not unwelcome. People always likened me to my dad. I see him in the mirror too. ?

.....my very much missed mum

See mum and sister (who always looked like her) is bit scary!!

Yes I do - every time I brush my very thick hair. My hair is the bane of my life but it must me down to my maternal grandmother.
A few days ago we visited MIL who we haven’t seen since last autumn. As we were leaving she was stood at the bottom of her path and I turned round and I saw her mother down to a tee. A bit unnerving at the time. Discussing it with DH and he said he had the same thoughts.

Close! When I use two mirrors and look at my profile, I have my mother's cheekbones. However, when you look at pictures of my father's female cousins when they were young, you'd swear you were looking at a picture of me. I was showing Hubby a picture of Dad's maternal grandmother when she was a young mother, and according to Hubby I strongly resemble her as a young woman. (Dad's cousins who I resemble are his double first cousins; Grandpa's brother was married to Grandma's sister. Consequently I didn't know which side of his family I most resembled.)

Not to my grandmother but definitely to my only paternal Aunt. Same eyes, face shape and mouth. We got on well. I liked her.

It's strange, I always thought I looked like my father as I have his colouring but as I have got older and greyer, I can see that I have the same bone structure, shape of mouth and set of eyes as my mother and grandmother. Still gives me a shock sometimes when I unexpectedly catch my reflection!
I also, going from photographs, have identical (and quite unusually shaped) hands to my great grandmother, which no one else in the family has inherited so far.

Yes, just recently, something about the nose and eyes. It was a shock when I saw my mother looking back at me in the mirror, will it be my GGM in a few years time? Not that I ever met her...

Yes. Over the last couple of years I seem to have grown my grandmother's ears.

No I have never seen any resemblance to my GM and not even my own mother. I have been told I do look like my mother by other people. My mother always said I looked like my fathers
side of the family.

I have an older cousin who was born near the end of the war.
That cousin has a daughter five years younger than me and we look almost like twins all my friends comment on the likeness.

I don`t look like my mother or grandmother,yet my Aunt and Uncle says that my mother will never be dead as long as i`m here.
And i still don`t see it.

When I look at my sister I see my mother. When I look in the mirror I see my father.

I don’t see my mum in the mirror but feel that I display some of the traits I remember as a child, now that I have children if my own ?

In answer to your question Avalon - the answer is thankfully no,

One evening whilst on holiday abroad (those were the days, eh!) DH took my photo, all glammed up, I thought. Well I looked like a strange combination of both my grandmothers. My sister tells me I remind her of our dear Mum. Can't be bad, can it?

I am having dinner with my ‘grandmother’ this evening. In the form of my younger sister. I look like my father. My daughter even complains if I don’t wear nail varnish as she says without colour my hands are identical to his.

I see my aunt looking back which is scary.

I see me in the mirror but photos - I see my late mother. It is quite a shock at times, particularly when I accidentally take a photo with my phone and suddenly see my mother unexpectly.

I have never seen a photo of my maternal grandmother, she died when my mum was about 8. But, I do look like my mum.

Not me. There are only a few photos of one GM, who died when I was four, and my other GM died 36 years before I was born and there is only one photo, which we don’t actually know is her.

I see my dad and/or my late sister reflected back at me nowadays, although curiously, it’s only ever in one particular mirror we have. ?

My maternal grandmother had soft curly white hair. I have grown mine in the past year and found that it too is curly. Yes, I do see Granny in the mirror. She suffered from lumbago to which I can also relate. But she was very artistic and did lovely embroidery and I have not inherited those skills.