Do Mirrors Make You Look Thinner

Or maybe my mirror is warped and makes me look thinner to myself.

Do mirrors make you look thinner.

With patent pending technology the mirror whittles your. According to the daily mail graphic designer and entrepreneur belinda jasmine founded a company called the skinny mirror which sells full length mirrors that use curved glass technology to make. When curved vertically you either look taller or shorter. A mirror that s tilted toward the back makes you look longer and leaner so check the.

Maybe i m just an optimist. 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. Now a new product is trying to capture that same deceit. The top and bottom edges are usually straight.

The skinny mirror promises to make your reflection appear ten pounds slimmer. I m the reverse i look better in the mirror pictures are always a disappointment. This happens when the mirror isn t properly flat. Slight curvature along only one axis can make a person look fat or skinny.

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 not curved horizontally you look wider or narrower. 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. A mirror that is tilted even slightly forward will tend to make you look shorter and wider she said.

When the mirror isn t perfectly flat it will deform the image. 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. This is very common for large mirrors because they are very thin compared to their size.

Slight curvature along only one axis can make a person look fat or skinny.