Magnifying Mirror on the Wall Who is the Hairiest of them All?

 According to my eye doctor, reading glasses are needed around ages 42-44. I was 46 when the number 6 and 8 started looking the same. I suddenly found it too dark in every restaurant to read the menu. I believe my eye doctor because he told me I got a 4 year pass and my family has been supporting him and his family for years. So here is the question, how do you see to put on your eye make-up? Do you buy a magnifying mirror?

Magnifying mirrors are very mean. They show every pore, wayward hair and line on your face. The regular bathroom mirror is much more forgiving, but we of the farsightedness just cannot get close enough to put on make-up. We have all tried putting on face make-up and then taking off the glasses to put on the eye make-up, only to re-apply once we look into the magnifier.

One of the side effects of menopause is hair thins on our head and sprouts more on our upper lip and chin. Did Disney cast that wicked stepmother correctly, or was the poor woman just menopausal and with-out reading glass or a magnifying mirror?

There are magnifying mirrors that light up. I hear that women with poor lighting or no natural lighting in their bathroom really find these mirrors helpful. This may be true but I would never give a friend a magnifying mirror, even a zoom deluxe lighted model as a gift. On the other hand how many girlfriends have made pacts with each other about the long chin hair that suddenly appears? That pact is, “I will tell you or pluck it off your chin, upper lip or wherever if you cannot do it or see it yourself!” Spouses or partners may mean well but a true girlfriend will do the work, once of course she puts on her readers.

Are you in a love-hate relationship with your magnifying mirror?


Now if you see the old ladies with lipstick way above their lips and blush waves heading south on their cheeks are you more sympathetic?