All mirrors were not created equal.

[Funkymonk1]

Other bad feelings are being worried about doing "normal" things like swimming or going out when it's really windy in case it shows the world how bald you really are. This is especially worse when you're with friends or family.

 

[Agustin Araujo]

Other bad feelings are being worried about doing "normal" things like swimming or going out when it's really windy in case it shows the world how bald you really are. This is especially worse when you're with friends or family.

And that inability to style your hair as you please, it always gets you frustrated no matter how good in a mood you're in.

 

[Goldee Lox]

Get on the carotenoids, no need for tanning salons anymore!

Where do you buy this?

 

[Rudiger]

This is more related to lighting than to mirrors, but the worst thing for me:

Lovely summers day, can't wait to see my friends outside! Sun is shining for once in Ireland! Which everyone loves right? Oh but I forgot (and somehow, I do actually forget still) that I'm thinning badly right the way up to the crown, and anyone who catches a glimpse of my head from an above angle will not believe how bad it is.

My hair has thickened up a bit so it's at least passably not bald any more, but for a few years it was so thin from that above angle, with sunlight directly down on it. Especially bad as we often have picnics and things sitting on blankets in the grass, and sometimes people would be standing up talking, and they'd notice. And in a funny way you get a sense of who's going to be a complete a**h** when they do notice, you know that the nicer people will see it initially, probably glance again, maybe once or twice, and the worst assholes will notice, stare for 30 seconds, look away briefly, stare, and this can go on, and you can even tell by how they aren't focussing on their own speech patterns that they're completely distracted and refuse to be otherwise. And you can even wipe the top of your head, ruffle your hair, as a sign that you know they're looking, and one time I even looked up at a guy, pissed off, and he just asked me with a big friendly smile if I was OK, while still staring at it!

OK but this is another example of how I let it affect me more than I should have, I became self conscious every time anyone stood up or a standing person approached us, I did get paranoid and got it in my brain that people were looking for that angle. On some occasions people may have only looked once, but in my head, I'd still be worried about it all afternoon.

 

[Dench57]

Where do you buy this?

You can buy them anywhere, they're just supplements. I get them off Amazon. Beta carotene, mixed carotenoids or astaxanthin. Astaxanthin is basically a more powerful version of beta carotene with additional skin benefits.

 

[Goldee Lox]

You can buy them anywhere, they're just supplements. I get them off Amazon. Beta carotene, mixed carotenoids or astaxanthin. Astaxanthin is basically a more powerful version of beta carotene with additional skin benefits.

Isn't beta carotene a form of vitamin A? I've always heard Vitamin A is bad for hair growth... Not sure how accurate that is, or if it applies to everyone.

I was on Accutane for six months several years ago and had massive hair loss from it. I could pull several strands of hair out with ease anywhere on my head at the time.. Luckily my hair recovered well from it. Accutane is the mirror image of Vitamin A.

 

[SmoothSailing]

@Dench57

Do you still use the astaxanthin? Have you found it beneficial for your skin?

 

[Dench57]

@Dench57

Do you still use the astaxanthin? Have you found it beneficial for your skin?

12mg Astaxanthin + 50mg Beta Carotene are my skincare staples. Replaces that pasty whiteness with a healthy colour/glow.

 

[SmoothSailing]

12mg Astaxanthin + 50mg Beta Carotene are my skincare staples. Replaces that pasty whiteness with a healthy colour/glow.

Yeah I saw these photos but it seemed to good to be true. If it has this effect I'm amazed more people don't use it here (Ireland). Pale people are everywhere. And the right photo looks far better.

Already started beta carotene, going to start Astaxanthin as soon as I get around to buying it.

 

[blackg]

12mg Astaxanthin + 50mg Beta Carotene are my skincare staples. Replaces that pasty whiteness with a healthy colour/glow.

You may think I'm weird, Dench, but I prefer pasty pale skin over some fake looking "natural healthy glow" any day.

Pasty is so real to me... and sexy as hell!

Edit: On females!

 

[EvilLocks]

You may think I'm weird, Dench, but I prefer pasty pale skin over some fake looking "natural healthy glow" any day.

Pasty is so real to me... and sexy as hell!

Edit: On females!

I prefer pale skin on females too. Before I used to go hard on the self tanner, now I've dropped it altogether. I like the pale skin on myself now.

 

[Marky]

12mg Astaxanthin + 50mg Beta Carotene are my skincare staples. Replaces that pasty whiteness with a healthy colour/glow.

Wonder if this is what Trump overdosed on to get that "golden" skin look:

 

[Marky]

Bathroom mirror lighting is amazing. It makes you look so much better than you really are. And the light reflects in just the right way in the mirror so that it mitigates my diffuse hairloss. I used to think I was average or above average. But when I started looking at my images other than the bathroom mirror, I realized I'm in the bottom 5th perctile in terms of looks. And my diffuse hairloss is extremely noticeable outside the bathroom.

In my experience this can vary wildly, the bathroom lighting at home is just right, feel great leaving the house in the morning, then the bathroom lighting at work couldn't be worse - not only does my hair look zombie-ish it also seems to make any grey hair protrude right out of your head.
Skin looks thinner too - I try not to look when I wash my hands. Amazing how differently we perceive ourselves by how we look at any moment throughout the day.

 

[EvilLocks]

My favourite girl type is one with dark thick hair, dark eyes and natural tan.

You wouldn't like me then. Thin hair, light green eyes and pale. LOL

 

[Marky]

Bad use of self-tanners most likely.

I use beta-carotene myself and I certainly don't look like that.

I can see I'm more orange but it's subtle.

It would be hard to imagine Trump using self tanners at his age. If you mean skin bronzers that you rub on

 

[Marky]

You wouldn't like me then. Thin hair, light green eyes and pale. LOL

Stunning, to me anyway. What a difference a nice mane makes

 

[herehairhere]

The lighting in Sweeney Todd’s barbershop was notoriously unflattering, and some argue that this led to him mercy killing his norwooding customers.

 

[Dench57]

Yeah I saw these photos but it seemed to good to be true. If it has this effect I'm amazed more people don't use it here (Ireland). Pale people are everywhere. And the right photo looks far better.

Already started beta carotene, going to start Astaxanthin as soon as I get around to buying it.

That pic is pretty much the effect it had on me. Don't think it's the same for everyone though.Beta-carotene is barely noticeable, when I added Astaxanthin it really blew up. I'm half Irish so I naturally have the left complexion, with carotenoids I have the right one. I like to be out in the sun during summer too lapping up them sweet cancer rays. Acquire aesthetics or die trying.

 

[kj6723]

12mg Astaxanthin + 50mg Beta Carotene are my skincare staples. Replaces that pasty whiteness with a healthy colour/glow.

I might look into that

While the tretinoin + sunscreen combo has really smoothed out my complexion and is saving my skin for the long run, it also leaves me super pale

Need some alternative color enhancement since I'm basically never exposing the skin of my face to sunlight

 

[Dench57]

I wouldn't kick Michelle Keegan out of bed for farting