When choosing a makeup mirror magnification that best suits you, you have to consider the following:
Your vision-If you are farsighted, mirrors with magnifications between 5x to 20x are best, depending on how much aid you need to enlarge your image.
Position of the mirror-If you plan to mount it on the wall and a bit farther away from your face, you need one with lower magnification like 3x to 5x. The higher the magnification, the closer you will have to be to the mirror for a more detailed image, so If you plan to use your mirror up close you can use 10x to 20x magnification,
The degree of magnification usually depends on your personal preference and requirement. For those with normal vision, makeup mirrors with 3x-5x magnification are generally sufficient.
Extreme magnification may sometimes cause dizziness and nausea for some customers. And you need to be fairly close to the mirror to see a clear image or your image will appear upside down. Depending on the magnification level of your mirror, you have to be close enough and still be comfortable using the mirror.
Check out Mirrorvana’s magnifying makeup mirrors with 1x magnification to 20x magnification.
Yo, let’s get this straight. If you’re the type of person who’ll spend 45 minutes every night pouring over every pore in a magnifying mirror, stay far, far away from the $30 Tweezerman LED 15x Lighted Mirror, because you’ll never want to leave the house!
You can see freakin’ everything with it. It gives you hawk eyes. Every pore, every “experience line,” every rogue lunch lady chin hair that has so far eluded you. Tweezing is hella easy with this thing, too, and dare I say it — oh, so satisfying. Nothing will be able to escape your tweezers.
It’s a 15X magnification mirror with a built-in battery-powered florescent ring light and three section cups in the back to attach it to your bathroom mirror if you want.
The ring light is pretty lame, though… I could do without it because the button is hard to get to, and the light is this unflattering greenish color that gives my face a Gollum-like pallor, so I just keep it off.
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But the mirror itself is great, and the 15X magnification is more than enough. When I’m plucking my brows, or — ahem! — my Magnum P.I. mustache (which looks like a shag carpet when I hold this mirror up to my face), I can see every hair, even the tiny, barely-there hairs that just sprouted up and I would have missed with a regular magnifying mirror.
Pluck, pluck, pluck! Before you know it, every one is gone, and your upper lip and lids are smoother than a baby’s bum.
I like holding this mirror while I pluck, because it perfectly fits in my paw. Sure, you can also suction it to a flat surface using the cups on the back, but I prefer to move it around in my hand and check things out from different angles.
FYI, the intense magnification can be dizzying sometimes, so I try not to move the mirror too quickly; otherwise, I feel like I’m on the deck of a deep-sea fishing boat from Hades.
The Tweezerman 15X Magnification Mirror is $30, and you can find it at Macy’s.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen