The mirror lies!

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Back in grade school days, I found out how actors used two mirrors so they could see themselves in a reflection of a reflection. This is how other people see you and also how the camera sees you on film. When you look at yourself in a mirror you see your opposite not the way you truly look to others. The fact that we are asymmetric not symmetric means that the two halves of our face or even our body are not the exact same. I experimented using CorelPhotopaint by disecting my face and cutting and pasting the left and right sides of my face and copying them and reversing them so that I then had 3 images of my face, one was my face as I see it in on camera, which would make my mirror image a 4th image of my face, then I used the right half and left half as both halves to create two composite images of my face. One looked happy, the other angry. I read in an article of Psychology Today that indicated that the reason we look different on both sides of our face when using a piece of paper or cardboard to hide one half of our face at a time, was due to the two hemispheres of our brain, one being the reasoning half of our mind and the other, the emotional half. Your mirror doesn't let you see yourself as others see you. No doubt this was how they used this information to generate the character of Spock of the original series, Star Trek, because Spock was half human and half Vulcan, that is, half of his personality was emotional, a human half, while the other half was influenced by logic, from his Vulcan influence. But getting back to the two mirrors, It is usually a 3 way mirror that most people in makeup rooms use to see themselves as others see them and to get a good idea of how their makeup looks before they hit the stage.