Fitting Room Mirrors Make Me Look Fat

I thought because the mirror in the other store didn t make me look like this.

Fitting room mirrors make me look fat.

I know i am not that small but i think my mirror in my bedroom remind me of a fun house mirror. Another physics teacher dr. For some reason it stretches my imagine like a dressing room mirror. Because i know that it s not my body it s the horrible crappy florescent harsh overhead lighting.

Initially i loved the large dressing room. I stepped into the fitting room with high hopes only to be deflated by the glaring lights which highlighted every bit of imperfection i didn t even know i had. To make you look thin your image needs to be compressed horizontally or extended vertically over time most mirrors. Does this mirror make me look fat.

Also my mirror in my bedroom make me look heavier and the mirror my bathroom make me look smaller. Am i imagining this. This is why i started changing with my back to mirrors in dressing rooms. Slight curvature along only one axis can make a person look fat or skinny.

A completely flat mirror will show an image behind it of exactly the same shape and size as the actual object. And thereafter my entire shopping experience took a straight. They say the camera never lies but one thing amanda platell has learned is that mirrors do. To make you look thin your image needs to be compressed horizontally or extended vertically.

Ken mellendorf of illinois explains it like this.