Hasn't it ever happened to you? You go to a store, pick up a few things you fancy, get into the dressing room, see yourself naked in the damned mirror and fall into a depression. The worst thing is that you didn't look like that three hours ago when you left home. This happens to me every time I go to an INDITEX shop (think Zara, Massimo Dutti, Pull & Bear, Bershka, Stradivarius... for the European girls out there). After getting depressed once and again, I realize it ONLY happens when I go to these shops. When I go to other stores, I look fine. So I have come to realize that it's the light they use in the dressing rooms. It's badly positioned and the color is just wrong, so it creates shadows all over your curvy body, including flabby bits, wrinkles (if you have some), stretch marks and cellulite. Now, why do they do that, I have no clue. But I almost never buy stuff there just because of their dressing rooms, which narrows my buying possibilities a lot, since those are the major shops in Spain for people my age and my budget. When I do buy stuff, it is because I check myself in the outside mirror AND I feel strangely positive that day so that nothing can make me feel bad. Otherwise, it ends in failure.
So if it ever happens to you, just know that it's not you, gorgeous ladies, it's the light!!!