Why do some mirrors make me look ugly??

I looked in several beauty shop mirrors lately..and I look like a haggered old..chubby woman..but I looked in a hotel hallway mirror..with bright lights near it..and I looked pretty..and cameras sometimes make me look like the main character on Sling...

Blade..and others make me look like one of Charlies Angels..So WHY is this? I've been told Im very pretty..but some beauty shop mirrors make me look like a monster..for real..Help..It's freaking me out..and why do some photos look like that..?

It's all in the lighting. . . . .

OMG, that's exactly how it is with me! Sometimes I look in the mirror and I'm like damn girl, you are one sexy beast, then I look in other mirrors and I literally look like some kind of a creature out of a horror movie. Lighting is VERY important. Generally, beauty shop mirrors are not flattering (you think they would be though, lol) because the lighting is flaurescant, which is the WORST KIND. Seriously, my eyes look all beady and it exaggerates my dark circles. The most flattering lighting in natural. Not bright sunlight, but normal, natural. It also depends on the angle of which the light is hitting your face. For example, I find that if it's hitting my face straight on, I look best, but if it's from an angle (like beauty shop mirrors usually have lighting from above), I look hideous. It's also the kind of mirror. Some mirrors make your face look longer or shorter or narrower or fatter).Most mirrors aren't very flattering, so don't worry, I'm sure you're pretty. People have told me I'm pretty too but for the longest time I was obsessing over the stupid mirror. You just gotta give yourself the benefit of the doubt and trust the people;you are pretty.

that happens with me too. i think it depends on lighting, angle that you're looking from, and like the mirror could be tilted or something. i dont know. usually in clothing stores, they try to make you look thinner. well thats what i think. and it could just be your own opinion at the time, or changes in make up? idk. hope that helped?

yup its the lighting

Not only lighting, but I heard it was also just the fact that a lot of mirrors are simply different. They aren't all made the same way, and also the age of the mirror, etc...It is too bad with all the technology we have today, that one cannot get the mirror to pinpoint exactly how the person in the reflection looks like. Some mirrors will make a person look fatter, older, skinnier...it is kind of frightening in a way, to know that you really don't quite know what you look like .
Well, one cannot obsess over a mirror. Just like the camera doesn't give a true account of ones identity. They say that some cameras put 20 pounds on a person sometimes.
Oh well.
dormguard

ya if theres more light then it will really show your not so perfect features, and they will make them look really drastic, when im sure theyre not! this has happened to me several times!!!

I imagine the lighting in a beauty store would be terrible on purpose in order to get people to buy products that they don't really need to make themselves prettier.