Do Mirrors Make You Look Thinner

A mirror that is tilted even slightly forward will tend to make you look shorter and wider she said.

Do mirrors make you look thinner.

Although you left the house looking like a 10 those awkward group selfies make you feel more like a 5 prompting you to wonder why do i look different in pictures it s a weird phenomenon that thanks to selfies is making people question their own mirrors. When the mirror isn t perfectly flat it will deform the image. A mirror that s tilted toward the back makes you look longer and leaner so check the. Slight curvature along only one axis can make a person look fat or skinny.

If seen from the side there is a slight curvature in the edge. To make you look thin your image needs to be compressed horizontally or extended vertically. Maybe i m just an optimist. Anyway just stop looking in the mirror i stopped looking at photos and that seems to be working just fine.

Now a new product is trying to capture that same deceit. This happens when the mirror isn t properly flat. In gyms the top of the mirror is made to lean forward slightly making your upper body closer to the mirror which in turn will make you look bigger. I m the reverse i look better in the mirror pictures are always a disappointment.

The skinny mirror promises to make your reflection appear ten pounds slimmer. When curved vertically you either look taller or shorter. In clothing stores the top of the mirrors lean away from the viewer so that the women who shop there look slimmer when trying on the clothes. Or maybe my mirror is warped and makes me look thinner to myself.

The top and bottom edges are usually straight. When not curved horizontally you look wider or narrower. With patent pending technology the mirror whittles your. To make you look thin your image needs to be compressed horizontally or extended vertically over time most mirrors.

Most mirrors bend over time top to bottom.