How do you tell if a mirror is two way or regular mirror?

Question

How do you tell if a mirror is two way or regular mirror?

Answer 1

if you walk up to the one way mirror and look closely into it, you cant see through it. If you look at a two way mirror closely, you can see through it to the other side. The reflective material is not as thick as a one way mirror

Answer 2

Place the tip of your fingernail against the reflective surface and if there is a GAP between your fingernail and the image of the nail, then it is a GENUINE mirror.

However, if your fingernail DIRECTLY TOUCHES the image of your nail, then BEWARE, for it is a 2-way mirror!

It is called mirrorpane.

So if not at home and changing before a mirror, do the "fingernail test".\

Mirropane is usually installed into a wall like a window,

not hanging like a picture so that is one giveaway.

Another thing is the auditory difference between mirropane

and regular mirrors.

Knock on the glass and if it is a mirror, it will have backing and most since there is no hidden room behind it, it will be a duller sound.

The two way mirror will sound like knocking on a window since there is nothing directly behind it, only the edges are touching the wall as a window does.

A regular mirror normally hangs on a wall with a light edge frame on it directly. Why would anyone go to all the extra trouble of installing a mirror into a wall if they can just hang it on it.

Also, although in a dressing room youhave no control of thelighting, you can cup your hands and press your face to the glass and look for a lit room behind it as mirropane will let in 12% of the light and you will see a room behind the mirror that is lit more than the light in your room.

Answer 3

The best way to see if a mirror goes both ways is to ask if it's attracted to both Orlando Bloom AND Keira Knightley.

Answer 4

Duh if you can remove it from the wall two way means it only looks like a mirror but is a window from one side and that means there would be a room on the other side.

Answer 5

Hanna, if you look like your Avatar I would worry about two way mirrors also!

Answer 6

Look at the other side.

Answer 7

If you are in the police interrogation room it is a safe bet that the mirror is two way!

Answer 8

a two way mirror is the door to perception. a one way mirror ain't. try reading alice in wonderland, that may help.

you could have the two way inner outer/1-2 mirror/3D effect by consuming some elusive psilocybin.

do let me know your adventures tho.

Answer 9

Find out which bars it goes to. Regular bars or Ahem.. two way bars.

Answer 10

go up to a regular mirror in your home.  Put your fingertip to the glass. you should be able to see a little gap between the reflection and your finger.  that gap is the thickness of the glass.  the actual reflection that you see is a thin film on the back of the glass.

A two way mirror does not have this gap because it is made differently.

Answer 11

Any kind of laser or red light will be seen from the opposite side of a two way mirror