- Adjustable tri-fold makeup mirror with cool fluorescent lighting
- Regular reflection and 5X magnification
- 4 color-correct light selections
- Folding back, collapsible side mirrors, and built-in outlet
- Measures 19 by 12 inches when fully extended
Product Description
5X Tri-fold MirrorAmazon.com
High magnification, versatile illumination, and multi-angle viewing make this tri-fold mirror from Jerdon a virtual cockpit of makeup application. Structured for panoramic viewing, the mirror features two adjustable side panels, plus a center section with regular reflection on one side and 5X magnification on the other. Two bars of fluorescent lighting offer cool, glare-free illumination, and the color-correct light menu lights your face for day or evening, the office or home. A built-in outlet accommodates curling irons and roller sets, while an adjustable backstand offers 11 angles to work from. The entire unit folds up flat for storage.
Though the mirror does not feel as substantial as the company’s all-metal models, it does roll several features into one compact model. In addition, the reflection is consistently clear, and the side panels stay put where you place them. Fully extended, the mirror measures 19 by 12 inches. Jerdon includes a one-year warranty. –Emily Bedard
I love this mirror. I had one similar to this for years and it broke. I bought another mirror with a very small bulb and it was awful. Like putting makeup on in the dark! This mirror has florescent bulbs just like my original mirror and it works great. Nice and bright!!
Rating: 5 / 5
This Makeup Mirror worked ONE TIME ONLY.. I had this same model Before, and it lasted about 3 -4 years,..The New one I just Purchaced Broke (would not turn on) after the First use.. Sandy, Beaumont, Texas ( P.S. I am ordering a Conair !!)
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this for my wife’s birthday. It works very well and she loves it so much more than her old one.
Rating: 5 / 5
First of all I love to read the reviews and look at the pictures. It helps make online shopping so much easier to know what you are getting.
This morning my husband and I had a discussion about mirrors. I just turned 55, just got my first pair of real, full-time, long overdue, eyeglasses to replace those reading glasses I have lived in denial with for so long. For a little makeover I got a new hairstyle and, with my new hair and glasses look, I now want to spruce myself up and start wearing makeup more often again too. I discovered though, that you couldn’t wear the glasses and apply eye makeup. So I was back to where I was before, not caring about putting on makeup because I simply can’t see to apply it. I mentioned, to hubby, I now needed a magnifying mirror.
This got started when my husband was looking for a hand-held mirror (for another, non-grooming reason) this morning. At that time I also remembered that back in the late 60’s and early 70’s, my mom had given me a, variable lighted, standup, swiveling, magnifying, makeup mirror, similar to this style. I think it was a GE brand. I loved it. They were a popular item back then. Today it seems they are hard to find, with only a few models made anymore. I had lost track of that mirror and hadn’t thought about needing another makeup mirror until now, 40 years later!
The real clincher was that hubby also said he’d always thought it would be great to have a mirror for shaving. (I’m not sure whether he meant tilting or magnifying or both? Yes, of course, we have a regular mirror on the wall we have always used!)
I hunted this mirror down on Amazon and the price was right with free shipping. I looked at the Conair model (Conair also has one without the side mirrors). A reviewer mentioned a Jilbere brand. I looked at those too. The Jilbere’s were more expensive and the Conair could be had for about $9 less than this Jerdon one. But reviewers convinced me that the Jerdon was better lit. I’m not sure hubby ever considered or knew about mirrors being lit at all, but when he sees it, I know he’s going to be a stickler about the lights being bright enough for him. I also know, at my age, how I’d like nice bright lights too. This made the little bit of extra money for better lighting well worth it.
I also read a review of the Conair (somewhere, maybe not even Amazon) that complained that the center mirror swivel should be horizontal to tilt without having to adjust the mirror stand, and not vertical. I suppose you can look at it both ways though. The Conair is adjustable horizontally on the mirror stand AND swivels vertically. Maybe the dual action, even if a little more inconvenient, is a plus for you. I opted though, through reading the Jerdon reviews, and the picture showing the horizontal tilt (very helpful), that this made more sense. The Jilbere appears to swivel vertically. (My old GE swiveled vertically, as I remember, and I vaguely recall thinking it wasn’t my favorite feature to have to adjust the stand for the horizontal tilt.) I figured the vertical angle views could be adjusted enough for my needs on the side panels. Although the side panels are not magnified (side panels are not magnified on any models at all) this still seemed like the one for me.
Pictures of it in different views, especially the closed up view, also revealed that it was styled with clean lines that hubby would like and wouldn’t seem like too much of a feminine appliance.
I have to laugh though. Hubby indicated a round standing mirror with his hands when talking about it. Oh my, I looked at the hundreds of those babies that are available now. My personal opinion of them is that even the nicest ones look like a chintzy little utility tool item (albeit handy) that was made in China and you got from Fingerhut. The mirror floating in space (but necessarily supported by some apparatus) style just turns me off. There are a few modern looking rectangle, freestanding and wall mounted jobs but they are always more expensive than they I’d care to pay and, in my minds eye, don’t look a whole lot different than the little round ones. No matter how they dress it up they just look like a time worn, antiquated (albeit handy!) design. It’s sort of like a toaster. There’s not much you can do with a toaster that makes it so significantly modernized and updated that it doesn’t still look much like any toaster that was made 50 years ago.
In reality even the cheapest unlit round ones are ridiculously priced for such small little viewing areas. Forget the designer lit ones with fancy frame and base finishes. They run in the hundreds of dollars! Unbelievable! I also read that the lights are often specialized and irreplaceable. They are often battery operated, no thanks. Features like dimming, color change, or an outlet on the base, wall mounting brackets ect… make the itty-bitty things incredibly pricey. Give me a makeup mirror that looks like an official appliance and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg, instead of a cheap looking tool that cost more than my microwave oven! Maybe hubby didn’t know they had these big mirrors. I did because I remember my one from the good old days. He’s going to love it!
Oh, and many thanks to the reviewer that explained about holding the light switch a few seconds. It doesn’t bother me to do that and, if I remember correctly, I think I had to hold the switch on my old GE mirror too. One of the first upfront reviews I looked at was the one about the bulbs burning out but the other reviewer, favorably clearing up the mystery, eased my mind. Great piece of advice, instead of thinking the bulbs don’t work. When I got the thing I did spot the note right above the button, explaining the holding of the switch also. Some people never read labels though.
My next challenge is that those stupid little round mirrors would have fit much better on my tiny little bathroom vanity countertop a whole lot better than this rig, but I’ll make it work somehow. After all you can close it up and store it, and those little round ones are pretty much destined to sit on the vanity top all the time.
Rating: 5 / 5
Have loved the conair tri fold makep mirrors since I was a child. My last one lasted over 10 years!!!! What a great product, and all I had to do was call them to order new light bulbs for it every couple of years & they came promptly. Finally it saw its last days, but it served me well & I would highly recommend it.
Rating: 5 / 5