Menopause Matters Forum
General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: Pennyfarthing on June 02, 2017, 05:49:55 PM
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there must be! Went out today and put on some nice summery trousers and a top, checked the mirror and I Thought I looked OK. I've lost nearly 1.5 stones (but it's taken nearly a year!).
I got into the city and kept catching sight of myself in shop windows and I looked flipping awful! I went out in a good mood and came back miserable. :'(
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I want to know how they get the hair salon mirrors to make your new haircut look really nice but when you get home it just doesn't look the same in your own mirror. Well mine doesn't anyway :-\
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It's the shop windows, not you! I never recognise that woman looking back at me ::)
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Exactly- you think " who's that auld git? " until you realise it's you! I've always been a slim hourglass but now I look like a wee dumpy matronly tumbler!!!
And you do know that a lot of shops use mirrors that make you look slimmer than you actually are?
S'no'fair :boobs:
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Mind you I think some people have magic mirrors because they obviously don't show what the rest of us see. Young women with acres of white wobbly belly on show with skin tight leggings and obviously wearing a thong.....really.
Then the men with long shorts, socks and sandals with a tight T shirt stretched over a massive belly.
Yep magic mirrors ;D ;D
I hate changing room mirrors. They don't tell the truth....or they tell too much of the truth.
Never happy me ::)
Mrs Brown
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Yeah Ma Brown- I reckon you spotted me out and about today! ;D
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Dont think so Michellemabelle ;D ;D
It's always puzzled me though.
They probably ask someone....do I look nice.....and then they beleive the person who says yes.
One of life's great mysteries and the thing that makes people watching totally compulsive. ::)
Mrs Brown
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Oh dear- I shouldn't laugh but I do...
You should pay a visit to my local town. It's totally eye popping. I'm terribly judgemental in supermarkets too when I look at other people's trolleys'. I try not to be, I'm just a horrible person :-*
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Not horrible at all. Also, looking at what people wear on their feet - I could cure the UK's bad backs :D
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Ha ha ha. Aren't we just Grumpy old women ( and proud of it !)
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Does it take one to recognise one :D
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Indeed- our impeccable dress sense, sensible shoes and under the breath ( not always ) muttering are dead giveaways x
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Some folk don't look in mirrors at all, well they can't, can they, or they wouldn't go out as mutton thinking they are lamb. ::) Me never. ;D ;D ;D
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:lol:
I avoid mirrors in the house as I don't have time to look except when I'm excavating my chin of course ...... but OH! those shop windows :(
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I'm usually horrified by what I see when I look in the mirror, shop window, etc. as I think I look old, fat and ugly, but other people don't seem to notice and sometimes people will tell me I look nice even though I feel ugly and frumpy next to them. Maybe they're just being kind, or maybe they thought the same when they looked in the mirror, yet I think they look nice. Maybe we're far too judgemental about ourselves and kinder to others (with the exception of muffin top baring and far too tight clothing wearers), or maybe we don't care how someone looks and dresses as long as what's inside is nice.
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My problem is that I think I am 2/3" taller than in reality ..... so that short dumpy woman in the window/photos surely can't be me! that's when I realised how dumpy I have become, 15 years ago I saw some 'photos :-\
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I saw lots of magic mirror people today.....
I am my own worse critic though
I did ask hubby about this and he really doesn't notice what others wear. He is simply not interested....which worries me slightly as I often ask him if I look nice in ...... :o
Mrs Brown
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https://www.menopausematters.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,35766.0.html
I am thinking that this seems to be a common symptom of this middle aged time of life when the person we knew ourselves to be starts to show signs of the ageing process. It is a transition between not recognising the older person we are becoming and acceptance of the signs and wisdom of the years.
I only ever knew my Nanna as 'old' but I always thought her facial lines and wispy white hair was beautiful.
We all have an inner beauty beyond the outer appearance and we need to be able to find, and accept, it. I am trying, I really am :-\
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My inner beauty is really not bad it's what it's packaged up in that's causing the problems. ::)
Some bits look as if they have stretched in the wash and other bits need a good iron.
Mrs Brown
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:rofl: you have a way with words Mrs Brown :)
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Oh I definitely need a better washing machine for my body. :rofl:
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:yipi: :veil: