does anyone like looking at themselves?

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oh lets see yer pick dude, it cant be that bad!

I enjoy looking at myself.

Wow! I'm in the minority here, but I can't stand to look at myself, especially in pictures. I do it, though, obsessively. My husband always sings the You're So Vain song to me. I don't enjoy looking at myself, but I feel that I must pick myself apart, so that I am able to improve my appearance. Strangely, I always look better in the mirror than I do in pictures.

I like mirrors because I'm a good looking dude if I do say so myself. Although I always had this habit of compulsively checking on my hair, which is why I like to keep it short and low maintenance like it is now. I remember many times I'd be walking and if the hair on my shadow looked weird I'd immediately look for a parked car so I could look at my reflection in the window to fix my hair. My hair is incredibly thick and high maintenance and grows in all weird. My hair was shoulder-length for about two years and for every day where it'd be all flowingly fabulous like Fabio, there'd be three or four where it was a misshapen flurry of poof that just clashed with my face shape. In hindsight it was a nightmare, and I had to pack about 15 pounds (I estimate that's how much it'd weigh if I weighed it all) of hair product just to go on a weekend trip. So I was always looking in mirrors out of vanity and out of anxiety about my hair.

However, I dread being shown photographs that I'm in. I used to have a weight problem and for some reason I always looked twice as fat in photos than I did in the mirror. It always came as a severe shock (enough to cause "situational depression" that could last from three days to two weeks), especially how fat my face would be, the double chin, etc., even though I didn't look nearly that bad in the mirror. So for years, I avoided cameras like death. There's been as long as five year stretches where no known photographs exist of me.

Worst of all I hated watching myself on video tape. The way that I moved, talked, sounded, looked, etc. would totally counter my own self image and come as the most severe shock imagineable.

Pictures aren't bad now because I've lost weight. People would say "wow [WildMan], you've lost so much weight!" And I would go "huh!?" Because it didn't seem to me like I had lost very much at all. But then seeing more recent pictures, maybe it really was that dramatic a change! Could I have been delusional somehow, looking in the mirror back when I was fat and thinking it wasn't that bad?

When I was a little kid (like four or five) I used to always look in the mirror and make faces. My dad wanted to discourage this, so he told me the story of a little girl who always made faces in the mirror, until one day her face stuck that way. The only way she could get her face to look normal again was to break all her mirrors. Well, the story worked- it completely terrified me. My dad feels bad to this day!

I actually had to get rid of all my mirrors because every time I caught a glimpse of myself, I kept trying to ask myself out on a date.

I actually would have won People's Sexiest Man Alive award for the past 15 years, but the editors figured that pretty much everyone knew how sexy I am. The real award is actually given to the Second Sexiest Man Alive.

No. I think mirrors make me look fat.

Constantly I look at my muscles though which I don't really consider to be looking at myself it's more like I'm looking at an object or a sculpture or something I built. It's also kind of like you wouldn't cut your hair apply makeup or alter your appearance in any other way without a mirror so likewise you need a mirror to allow you to recieve feedback about the bodybuilding process. I looked in mirrors prior to this particularly in my teens for no particular reason except maybe I thought I might be ugly because I didn't get the social responses I thought I should get if I was good looking. But it was hard to see anything physically wrong with me it was like I could never figure out why I might be ugly but I was never quite convinced that I wasn't (thought I was missing something other people could see).

I'm very confident in how I look. After all, body image is very important at this age. Honestly, I can think of way more things I like about how I look rather than what I don't look.

Yeah, I stare into the mirror. I do it to try and understand who I am; it hasn’t worked so far, or perhaps it has.

I hate the sight of myself. Whenever I look in the mirror, I see a face that looks worse than a bull's ass. I only look in the mirror when I absolutely have to (such as when trying to make myself at least somewhat presentable).

I love the mirrors. Even if I can't see myself in them though.
But I do like to look at myself, and have since I was a late
teen, and first started enjoying my appearance.