Buffyverse - Mystical Mirrors

[Crewman47]

I'm watching a season 5 episode of Angel just now where Harmony is the main focus and it start off with her morning routine including washing and brushing teeth. Just wondering that for Vampires like Harmony, where they still care about how they look, life must be hard when you don't have a mirror reflection to look at so why do you suppose no one ever thought to design a mirror that would be able to show the reflection of a Vampire. Could probably make quite a profit out of it.

 

[RoJoHen]

I've always wondered how vampires groom themselves since they often like to look pretty (including our boy Angel). I think it's funny that they don't really question it.

 

[Ethros]

As Willow said in Buffy 2.05 'Reptile Boy'
"Oh! Sorry. The reflection thing that you don't have. Angel, how do you shave?"

One of those things I guess, dramatic license.

 

[Hermiod]

^Does Angel's facial hair even grow ?

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Yes it does. he has a beard in the episode where he's tortured by the First in a flashback.

Also they could groom themselves Mr Bean style: Make a Polaroid to see how they look. then groom, then Polaroid to check again. Repeat until satisfied.
They switched to cell phone cams lately, though.

 

[Ethros]

It wasn't a full beard, but Angelus had a moustache and little goatee in 1838 (Buffy: Amends), so I guess so

A very dodgy moustache too

 

[WendellM]

Nowadays I guess vamps would just use a small camera with a flip-around screen.

 

[Velocity]

the shaving shouldn't be too bad because with no heartbeat, they wouldn't bleed. No vamps running around with little pieces of toilet paper on their faces...

 

[Rii]

I'm watching a season 5 episode of Angel just now where Harmony is the main focus and it start off with her morning routine including washing and brushing teeth.

I find it interesting that Harmony looks into the mirror as she does so, even though she can't see herself. It's a natural thing to do given the relative positions of the basin and mirror, but I've always thought it was a little sad also, an instinctive action left over from before she was turned only a few years back. Perhaps she'd stop doing it in future years as memories of that time receded, or perhaps it would become something she (consciously or otherwise) holds on to as a remnant of the person she used to be.