Your appearance when you first look in the mirror is how you appear to others

The hopes of mirror-viewers nationwide took a knock today, as it emerged that your appearance when you first look in the mirror is how you invariably appear to others.

Research shows that mirror-viewers will often modify their hair and tilt their faces to cast themselves  in the best possible light. However, it also shows that within moments most people’s faces will have moved to a new position relative to the light source, and their hair will have reverted to its previous state of unbecoming disarray.

Clive Jones, 27, told us “This news comes as a real shock to me. I’d always thought that once I’d primped my hair and hit the town no-one would detect my grimly receded hairline. It seems I was wrong."

Meanwhile, Michael Oliver, 29, explained, ”Despite my advanced years I’ve always gone for the windswept, laid-back, indie look. If I’m honest I can’t say any girl’s ever gone for it, at least, not since my freshers year of uni. But I swear to you that in those precious, fleeting seconds in the gent’s before I head back to my depressingly male-dominated corner booth, I look like peak bloody Zach Effron. No study's taking that away from me."