Please don’t lie to me anymore! This past weekend, I went to CVS to get a new passport picture taken so I can renew my passport. The young lady was very nice and took three pictures. When I didn’t like any of them, she gladly took three more. Needless to say, I didn’t like any. My neck looked horrible! For the second batch, the manager suggested putting my hair behind my ears, so I did, trying to cover my neck a bit, it didn’t work. I couldn’t ask her to take more pics, I had to accept that this is just the way I looked. By the way, I had waited until I had makeup on to hopefully look better, that didn’t work either!
My mentioning the mirror is because every morning for years and years I sit down in front of my 10X magnifying mirror and pluck, squeeze and analyze my face. I couldn’t survive without this mirror, ( I have a portable one when I travel). Anyway, I apply makeup in this mirror too. I don’t wear a lot of makeup. I do my brows, (another obsession), shadow, (silver/greys), sometimes liner and mascara and finish with blush. In the end I think I look pretty good. I get up, put my glasses on and look in the regular mirror and am happy with the results. I think I look good, maybe even pretty.
This is where the problem comes in. No matter how I feel and what I see, the truth comes out in photographs! (I recently got my new driver license picture ID too). The photographs seem to tell the truth of what I truly look like. What I see in the mirror is what I want to see, how else could they be so different? I wonder, if you look at yourself long enough, do you find your looks get better? I don’t know the answer to that. I don’t spend a lot of time in the mirror. My morning routine is about it, unless I am wearing makeup and will look again when I wash my face. Anyway, I really hate the way I look in pictures!