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Just curious if I'm the only one with vanity problems day to day.  :D

Me? At least 20 - 30 times a day.  :(

i swear, mirrors are evil!

Hmm not sure but it's probably somewhere around 20 times maybe. Before it was to see hrt's effects but now that I'm 2 years in, a lot of the big changes have already happened. The reason why I now still constantly check though is to make sure my posture is good and my hair is lookin super awesome lol

In my past every mirror in my house was covered.

Not any longer ;D

I.... I can't count that far :).

Constantly. Even when I'm out I always have a compact. I was on a date the other day and I kept doing that (not even realizing) and then I set it down and he grabbed it and he was like "you look beautiful, now enough looking!"

I think it's mostly cuz I like to keep hair/makeup in place. I don't look in the mirror if I'm nt wearing makeup and my hairs mussy D;

I always admire myself in mirrors or car windows.  I love how I look when presenting as male or female.

I don't go out of my way to look in mirrors, but when I do see my face, I'm trying to work out whether or not I look make, female, or just plain weird.

I'm happy with just plain weird, truth be known

Quote from: Abbyxo on June 09, 2014, 04:03:17 AM
I think it's mostly cuz I like to keep hair/makeup in place. I don't look in the mirror if I'm nt wearing makeup and my hairs mussy D;

Same! sometimes my eyelashes catch a bit of my eyeliner and when I blink it smudges the bottom of my eye, drives me bonkers lol. I become super meticulous if I'm wearing makeup. Yeah I'm always makin sure my hair is just right!

I forgot to add I like to practice talking in front of a mirror and posing. So I know exactly what my facial expressions are and so when it comes to taking a picture by someone else I know exactly how to best pose myself if that makes sense. Been trying to develop my charisma more, mirrors help greatly with this!

Quote from: Vampire Brianna Terryal Onyx on June 09, 2014, 01:52:04 AM
i swear, mirrors are evil!

Amen to that!! I can't stand to look at mirrors or even reflections of myself. :(

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Quote from: Vampire Brianna Terryal Onyx on June 09, 2014, 01:52:04 AM
i swear, mirrors are evil!

Well of course the vampire would say that you can't even see your own reflection :p

Is it wrong that I actively try and restrain myself but I still look well more than 20 times a day?

Quote from: Lady_Oracle on June 09, 2014, 05:13:15 AM
Same! sometimes my eyelashes catch a bit of my eyeliner and when I blink it smudges the bottom of my eye, drives me bonkers lol. I become super meticulous if I'm wearing makeup. Yeah I'm always makin sure my hair is just right!

I forgot to add I like to practice talking in front of a mirror and posing. So I know exactly what my facial expressions are and so when it comes to taking a picture by someone else I know exactly how to best pose myself if that makes sense. Been trying to develop my charisma more, mirrors help greatly with this!

My problem is I wear under eye concealer and I can blend for days but it always seems to crease. So I dab that every now and then.

I just use liquid foundation mostly. I used to wear concealer but not anymore. That was when I had a beard shadow though. Just a tad bit of foundation evens out my complexion nicely now and doesn't even look like I'm wearing any makeup minus the eyeliner. Been meaning to start experimenting with contouring.

BTW! Abbie your hair looks super awesome in your avatar pic!!

I don't use mirrors unless I'm shopping. I do use my web cam a lot because I use my laptop all the time

Lost count lol

xx

Quote from: Lady_Oracle on June 09, 2014, 05:13:15 AM
Same! sometimes my eyelashes catch a bit of my eyeliner and when I blink it smudges the bottom of my eye, drives me bonkers lol.

I have the same problem. I have naturally long eyelashes and if I get heavy handed with the mascara or eyeliner I later find it below my eyes. I don't put mascara on my bottom lashes for that reason; it goes straight onto my face.

I hated seeing myself in the mirror for years so not doing so now is kind of a habit. I use the mirror when I'm getting ready and if I run across one later I'll do a check to see if my makeup is migrating to places it doesn't belong and that's about it.

You know, I don't really keep count how many times I look in a mirror. It is often as I have to do it every time in in the bathroom. I find that I get fixated on checking myself out in the mirror each time, usually smiling and sometimes even complimenting myself.

On a typical day, I will get up and use the toilet followed by looking at my morning face and hair in the mirror. After that, I will pick out clothes and hit the shower. Usually I'll take a peek in the big mirror to see how my chest is progressing before I get in. As I'm getting dressed, I'll watch myself put my clothes on in the mirror. After that, I will use the mirror to do my hair and put on makeup. Any other times I use the bathroom doing the day, I will always take a look to see how my hair is holding up at the very least. Sometimes I'll go into the bathroom just to look at myself in the mirror. It could easily be 50+ times on some days. I tend to get joy out of seeing the girl in the mirror smiling back at me.

Oh, I don't know, it could be hundreds of times.

Quote from: Evelyn K on June 09, 2014, 01:50:20 AM
Just curious if I'm the only one with vanity problems day to day.  :D

Me? At least 20 - 30 times a day.  :(

I don't see it as a problem.  To me it's all in good fun.

I have a mirror on my desk at work.  I sit at my computer with my back to the door; the mirror on my desk alerts me to people entering my office behind me when I have headphones on.  I can't help but glance at myself in the mirror throughout my work day.

At home I have huge mirrors here and there.  The mirror in my bathroom is 8 or 9 feet long and maybe 4 feet tall.  I see myself from the hips up every time I go in the bathroom.  Also, there is a full length, 6 foot tall mirror at the end of my hallway, so every time I walk down the hall my reflection walks back towards me.

Plus, you know, I wear makeup and have very long hair.  I check my makeup, brush my hair, etc.  Sometimes I just like to look at my tattoos or check my lipstick.

I hadn't really thought about it, but I look at my own reflection in mirrors a lot!  I love me!  I love how I look!  Why on earth would I avoid mirrors?

Hey look!  There I am now!

Quote from: Hikari on June 09, 2014, 06:39:11 AM
Well of course the vampire would say that you can't even see your own reflection :p

Is it wrong that I actively try and restrain myself but I still look well more than 20 times a day?

i can see my reflection.............its just i either look like a cow or i scream in horror. i was forced to have a mirror cover on my coffin lol. now its my children that cant see their reflection cause they dont have shadows xD

Several times a day. When I am brushing my teeth, shaving, or washing my hands.

LOADS OF TIMES.

Practical reasons ? Shaving, Brushing, getting dressed, each times I set my hair, just before I leave the house.

And aside from those. every time I walk in my room. My vanity mirror is straight across from my door :P

Yes we call the large full body mirrors, vanity mirrors lol. But now I smile at what I see. (is that so bad?)

Oh yeah. I forgot about the living room mirror. But I don't really count that since I'm not really looking at it. I just catch a glimpse of myself if I am stretching, singing or thrashing around to some tunes.

Quote from: Abbyxo on June 09, 2014, 04:03:17 AM
Constantly. Even when I'm out I always have a compact. I was on a date the other day and I kept doing that (not even realizing) and then I set it down and he grabbed it and he was like "you look beautiful, now enough looking!"

Yep... you do :)

More often than id like. Half of which I do for security and the other half of the time I do for destruction. Sometimes mirrors look at ME instead >_< does my phones inverted camera count?

I'd probably look more often if I looked more like Emily or Abby ;)
I think I'm a wee bit over the hill.

all the damn time, i think who is this handsome guy lol jp, I normally look in the morning before work and then when I get home from work, so will say 2-3 times a day, its mostly me criticizing myself and finding faults in were I fail at passing, but then there are times were I do think i look good and my confidence goes up, depends on my mood i guess

But you are handsome. I'm a girl lov'r, but just saying.  ^-^

Are we counting the fabled black mirrors in this? If so then "I'm so vain I know this song is about me." If not once in the morning before I leave,  after I've been to the bathroom and every time I catch my reflection in something shiny

so glad it's not just me. I carry one with me everywhere of course....and then there's the one in the car, which gets used at every red light...and the one on the golf cart at work...and then there's the security camera in my office, which I can see on the monitor, and thus gets used as a mirror.

I really am terrible :P

Haha, way more than I would like to admit...  Most of the time it's to look and think blech (I'm not full time yet), but sometimes it's to smile!  I'm really hoping that soon I get to smile a whole lot more.  :)

Quote from: Evelyn K on June 09, 2014, 01:50:20 AM
Just curious if I'm the only one with vanity problems day to day.  :D

Me? At least 20 - 30 times a day.  :(

Got you beat!

I have a mirror sitting in front of me at all times! So 50+ and then multiply some more.

I'm being serious here too, sitting right on my desk to the side of my laptop. I use it for plucking facial hair in the morning and applying make-up, but since I keep it there I also see myself all the time. Extra bonus, its good for watching a movie on tv too without me having to turn around, so I can do what I want on my laptop and see tv which is behind me at the same time, oh, and myself of coarse.

Oh, unless I'm out shopping or at work, then barely at all. Wouldn't want anyone to get the idea that I was vain.  ::)

Quote from: LittleEmily24 on June 09, 2014, 03:20:01 PM
More often than id like. Half of which I do for security and the other half of the time I do for destruction. Sometimes mirrors look at ME instead >_< does my phones inverted camera count?

You got me laughing with that..."Sometimes mirrors look at ME instead"  :D

(Let's not get me started on what I do at department stores!)

Why not, I'm feeling frisky right now, I'd love to hear what you do in department stores.

I'm waiting...

Hehe. Megan in all seriousness, how do you highlight your hair? Salon? Kit?

What colors are you using? I want your shades!

Those are called natural highlights, sometimes it comes with age. I've never heard anyone ask about the white streaks that way before...highlights, how cute.  :-*

Way too much!!!

What is really strange is that I look different in all of them! I was just at a store today and had to use the bathroom....I never used this one before. When I looked in the mirror to adjust my yoga pants I seen curves I never seen before, and it wasn't a full view mirror. There are some dressing rooms and bathroom mirrors that because of the lighting, I look atrocious!! At work I am constantly catching my image in windows and doors, I also do use some mirrors there as well. The images of myself I hate the most are ones of me from the closed circuit TV's in many stores nowadays. UGH!!!

Quote from: Megan Joanne on June 09, 2014, 09:33:14 PM
Those are called natural highlights, sometimes it comes with age. I've never heard anyone ask about the white streaks that way before...highlights, how cute.  :-*

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i tried looking into the mirror but i ran o.o

I am recovering from FFS.  I look all the time.  I'm watching myself heal and actualy get better looking....

Jen

I could probably lose an eyebrow and not notice for three days...

Because I work in an environment that frowns on diversity, I refuse to have my hair neat and tidy like the rest of the clones. I try to strike a balence between long and short hair, so I constantly preen myself as much as possible, even in door windows or vending machine reflections.

I also practice my adorable duckface as mych as possible. Hell, I've come a long way!  :-*

I don't do mirrors .. I don't even do pics .. I do know why ... seeing myself is a little slap in the face :(

Quote from: Christine Eryn on June 09, 2014, 10:44:36 PM
Because I work in an environment that frowns on diversity, I refuse to have my hair neat and tidy like the rest of the clones. I try to strike a balence between long and short hair, so I constantly preen myself as much as possible, even in door windows or vending machine reflections.

I also practice my adorable duckface as mych as possible. Hell, I've come a long way!  :-*

Well if it's any consolation, I do like to blow little kisses to myself in the mirror every once in awhile. Tell myself little jokes. Maybe a pep talk. ;D

Actually I never understood duck faces, what's up with that in selfies?

It depends if I'm going out or whatnot. But after 15 months HRT I stopped looking for changes, though Ive prolly changed more recently than ever. There comes a point where the obsessiveness of it all fades, and you just go with it. Once I get laser, Ill look even less, since ill need less makeup. I've come to a peace with what i look like, as I used to say ugly. But now I think not so much.

Many times! I am very passable but it's only because I'm always striving to be "perfect". Every chance I get I look in the mirror and fix my hair. People close to me tell me that it gives me away because I am always playing with my hair. I am trying to work on that.

Quote from: Vampire Brianna Terryal Onyx on June 09, 2014, 01:52:04 AM
i swear, mirrors are evil!

Naah they ain't *looks at mirror some time later during the day* damn it shes right!
I don't know I just feel good when I see how I am now, but its worse on dates tho I keep using my compact to check if my hair is in a mess or if my makeup is running or something, and my boyfie is sitting there staring at me the for the past few times I did it, so I put it back in my handbag or whatever im carrying and he rummages through it, grabs my compact and flings it really really far away, and I say 'what the heck was that for?' and he goes: 'meh beautiful girls like you don't need a compact' emagerd! He is just too sweet! But still.. mirrors... they are evil.. I think they know something..

between 0 and 10

mostly just to check my make-up and hair

now my mirror is mocking me! i swear, if it was a human, i'd bleed it dry *bares fangs*

Quote from: Evelyn K on June 09, 2014, 06:25:53 PM
But you are handsome. I'm a girl lov'r, but just saying.  ^-^

lol thank you

Quote from: Abbyxo on June 09, 2014, 04:03:17 AM
Constantly. Even when I'm out I always have a compact. I was on a date the other day and I kept doing that (not even realizing) and then I set it down and he grabbed it and he was like "you look beautiful, now enough looking!"

I think it's mostly cuz I like to keep hair/makeup in place. I don't look in the mirror if I'm nt wearing makeup and my hairs mussy D;

Quote from: ~Evelyn~ on June 10, 2014, 07:19:48 AM
Naah they ain't *looks at mirror some time later during the day* damn it shes right!
I don't know I just feel good when I see how I am now, but its worse on dates tho I keep using my compact to check if my hair is in a mess or if my makeup is running or something, and my boyfie is sitting there staring at me the for the past few times I did it, so I put it back in my handbag or whatever im carrying and he rummages through it, grabs my compact and flings it really really far away, and I say 'what the heck was that for?' and he goes: 'meh beautiful girls like you don't need a compact' emagerd! He is just too sweet! But still.. mirrors... they are evil.. I think they know something..

I just love the girly girl aspects you two have going on here. Totally awesome you perfectionists!  :-*



I voted 10 to 20 a day. Though honestly I look at my face every time I can find a reflection. I use to dread to see myself and now... I cant get enough of seeing the changes  :laugh: :angel:

I used to hate hate hate mirrors, but now that my hair has gotten much longer I find myself looking in the mirror much more often, it's a small step towards acceptance :)

Not many, now that I've cracked most of them.

Well, does it say smth about me that I have mirror apps both in phone and tablet? :).  People would never have any idea if You are browsing boards, checking emails or SMS :). Being very active cyclist, I use every opportunity to check if my hair needs to fixed (wind, dust, loosing bobbypins :) etc etc etc).

I hate it when SCP-1471-A (http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1471) keeps on popping up in my reflection (creepy picture warning).

On a more serious note, I'm slightly vain but I will never look in a mirror in low light.  I want to get a body length one when I move out, but I plan to put it away behind a wardrobe when I go to bed.

Quote from: Kimberley Beauregard on June 11, 2014, 05:35:51 AM
I hate it when SCP-1471-A (http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1471) keeps on popping up in my reflection (creepy picture warning).

Seriously, is that affecting ppls computers? I just looked, read and wondered where on earth people find these things.....
On another note I look only when I'm walking down the street in my reflection, apon walking into shops,reflections in the window at my "GIRLS" and how well they're developing...

I look at the mirror in fear and then I'm usually like, ok, I look ok, phew!   Then a little while later I'll think, do I still look ok, though?   The cycle continues...

Since the beginning of puberty until like last October I evaded mirrors like a vampire. I couldn't withstand the look at someone I believed is not me.

Then there was a transitional period of when I started to practice the usual hair combing, a bit of make-up (really a bit as being semi-blind I didn't want to cause more damage since I can't really see my right cheek in the mirror).

Now I look into a mirror so many times. So I guess 20-30 perhaps? I don't really count. But I always have to smile  as finally I see myself. I hope it's not just thanks to the fact my sight is really bad :-) .

Too many Lol I'm so vain