bathroom makeup vanities

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bathroom makeup vanities
Better bathroom lighting??

I currently have 1 tube fluorescent light over the vanity and a ceiling light with three 60 watt compact fluorescent bulbs in them. I hate the lighting in the bathroom. I can’t see anything. My friends bathroom has great lighting, I’d like to improve mine….
Two problems I have, one it’s a rental, so no remodeling and two there is only 1 outlet, it’s on the vanity fixture (so it’s just a single not a double wall outlet) so I can’t plug something in since I need the outlet for blow dryer/curling iron etc. Are there other types of bulbs or fixture covers that will enhance skin, makeup, details, etc?
Thanks mikelyt78, but I did think of that and cleaned them, not much difference. I think they are original to the house which was built in the 60’s so the fluorescent one is like that Bakelite plastic and the ceiling one is the beveled glass.

I hate fluorescent lighting for everything, but especially the bathroom, but one fix that might help a little (not the end all answer, but improvement) check the kelvin rating on the light bulbs. Ignore things like cool white, warm white, daylight ect., The # on the bulb will usually have a ” /# ” at the end like /27 or /42 – this will give you the color.
27 kelvin is really yellow. 42 kelvin is similar to cool white – I think it looks a little blue & makes you look dead. /50 or 5000K I think is the best. Its the brightest & whitest so this might help bring up the light in there a little.
35K, most people see a little red with this. This will make you look better in the mirror – like adds color to your skin, so not a good color if its the room where you put on makeup.

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