the light... it burns!


dress - H&M
sweater - f21
belt - f21

It doesn't happen often, but I thought I looked amazing today when I looked in the mirror.. my hair looked nice, makeup came out great and I was happy with the clothes. Then I took my picture :-\ Anyone else have this problem? You look SO good in the mirror, but then once you take a picture it's like what the HECK happened?! I'm convinced that my face must look best mirrored, since the only self-portraits I like are taken with photo booth, which flips your image, and my reflection in the mirror always looks so much better than I do on camera. Am I just crazy or does anyone else feel the same way??

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I actually went to bed last night at 11pm (though, sadly, I fell asleep before Dirk Bogarde even showed his lovely face in So Long at the Fair... I was THAT tired) and woke up, astoundingly, at 6:30am!! But this whole daylight thing is going to take some getting used to. My eyes are burning, and I don't know if it's from the glaring light beaming in through my windows or the fact that I'm still majorly sleep deprived.

5 comments:

Sarah said...

Brilliant!

Andi B. Goode said...

You look lovely. But I know what you mean - I feel the same with photos (probably because we are used to looking at our faces the other way around, like you said).
-Andi x

Annie Cristina said...

I think you look great, but I know exactly what you mean, too. I always think I look better in my mirror than in pictures. What's up with that?

As for the sleep thing, since I'm a teacher, my sleep patterns go to hell during the summer months. I mean, my bedtime becomes 3 AM and I'm waking up at 1 or 2 PM. Then I have to get reacquainted with waking up at 6 AM for work! Madness. Since I go back next week (gulp), I've been forcing myself up earlier than usual. Woke up at 10 AM today. (Hey, it's a start! :p)

Millie said...

Utterly gorgeous.

(And, I'm not just being nice or whatever. THAT IS SERIOUSLY WHAT POPPED INTO MY HEAD WHEN I SAW THE PHOTO!)

Sally said...

You look amazing!! Awesome photo! And I totally know what you mean. I'd really prefer it if I looked like my mirror image. I dislike most photos of me and it rather irritates me that they show the more truthful version of me.