looked in the mirror, and wished you hadn't?

DD put a photo of me on Facebook yesterday pushing her infant in the 'stroller'. I was a bit pleased at first until I saw the image of a chinless wonder with a large spare tyre and a couple of beer bottles for legs. Huh, so much for the 5:2

My bathroom mirror shows head, shoulders and a couple of inches below but, like papaoscar I dread those in hotels which go much further down and show far too much flab flesh.

We laugh and joke about this because if we didn' we'd put out head under the duvet and never come out!! BUT I was shocked recently by my own reaction to a pic on fb of a friend of many years (who is a very good looking woman) with her DD and DGD. For a moment or two I saw my friend in her daughter and wndered who the grey haired old lady was! <hangs head in shame >

I have a very old photograph of my paternal great grandmother and I see myself staring out of it. Same hair same face.

Actually I think I look better from the back Soutra!

But I have a very special mirror on the wall in my bedroom. It's large, and in it I see the person I was -20-- 10 years ago. Very few wrinkles, quite slim,
no saggy bits and she seems to be smiling.

Not like the hated mirror in my bathroom which is inhabited by the spirit of my great Aunt Betty.

Worse than a mirror is the image on FaceTime.!!!!

I have a theory - if you think you look good, you will look good, because you will exude confidence and joy! Don't study the detail too closely, it might burst your bubble!

When you see that woman in the mirror, smile at her... but put your teeth in first.

Vot did you shay anno? Ah, yes, that's better, the teeth are now in.
AKA can you tell me where you bought this magical mirror? I want one too. soutra I think we all are a bit guilty of that...... thinking our friends look older than us [when they are thinking the same of us] quite funny really. I refuse to look at back views, it's quite enough worrying about front views and remembering to suck in the tummy for photo's. ]
mishap you are probably right, confidence in itself is attractive. Right, repeat after me everyone, ' we are all highly attractive women, at all times of day or night, so much so, that it's hardly safe for us to go out alone'. We may be mobbed! Did it work for you? Perhaps if we say it several times a day?

Looking in the mirror face-wise is a necessity, isn't it for doing hair and make-up. What I hate is the videos of me walking along, or standing still side-ways or rear view, I can't really be that broad can I?

My hairdresser has a magic mirror. I go in thinking that she will exclaim how awful my hair looks and yet once I sit down it looks quite respectable.

I hate looking at photos of myself. I look like an ageing quail or one of those waddly chickens with puffy leg feathers. Not pleasant. The only bits of myself that looks OK and which I don't mind are my hands and forearms. Everything else looks disgusting

Quails are very attractive birds, Rowantree.

ps M&S are still making t-shirts with Very Short Sleeves which show that bingo wing.

Wouldn't it be great if M&S did 3/4 sleeves in the T shirts?I would buy lots.They keep banging on about their long sleeved dresses [it's a start] but we need it in other tops as well.
Rowantree I'm sure nobody else thinks that you look like a quail, and I for one, can't even think what a quail looks like [though we have eaten them at a friends house, but once cooked, hard to tell.]

I have some basic T shirts from M&S that I bought quite a while ago and they do have elbow length sleeves. I love them and although they are quite old now I won't part with them. I also wish they would do them again.

I have quite a collection of M&S tee-shirts with near-elbow length sleeves. like this. I find that they wash well and last year's ones are still in good shape.

sherish - as you can see from my link, they do still stock them and the selection of colours has improved this year.

Yay! Thanks for that anno I think the M&S I usually go to is maybe too small to stock them [I have never seen them there] so I must find a larger store.I would order online but our computer can't deal with the new M&S website, so it's unuseable.

I'd LOVE three-quarter sleeves. I buy many tops from an online company called Kettlewell Colours, who do loads of different styles in a rainbow of colours. UNfortunately they aren't cheap - but I love their wraps which I wear over sleeveless tops to hide my pork sausage arms, and some of their tops are very flattering. Worth looking out for their special offers, or when they have colour sales on

anno - the M&S tops you've shown are much cheaper than Kettlewell, but I do love Kettlewell's range of colours and styles. And they do free delivery so you can try them on in privacy at home and send them back if they don't suit you!

I've just done a Kettlewell order Rowan - I love the wraps too!

I haven't seen them in our flagship M&S either; perhaps they are just available online. Just wondering how low they are - I don't like a round neck style but can't wear them too low.

Will look at Kettlewell later, as I haven't heard of them.

I've just been to the hairdresser, had my highlights done, had a cut and blow dry and I still look like my 90 year old mother.

In my bathroom, where there used to be a mirror, there now hangs an artist's impression of me when I am a very old lady. A present from my husband, I guess, although he's never mentioned it...

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