Question

You see an upright, magnified image of your face when you look into a magnifying cosmetic mirror. Where is the image? Is it in front of the mirror's surface, on the mirror's surface, or behind the mirror's surface? Explain.

Short answer

As an outcome, the picture is generated beneath the surface of the mirror.

Step-by-step solution

Definition for spherical mirror 

Spherical mirrors are curved mirrors that would have the shape of a sphere carved out of each other.

Concave and convex spherical mirrors are the two sorts of spherical mirrors.

Explanation

Now, a convex mirror has the property that no matter how far an object is positioned from it, the image will always be smaller in size, virtual, upright, and situated behind the mirror.

You will see an upright and magnified image in the question.

So that a convex mirror cannot magnify an image, the cosmetic mirror you're looking at will be almost certainly a concave mirror.

Table for summarizes the image creation criteria 

The following table summarizes the image creation criteria for a concave mirror based on object position:

Center of curvature of mirror is $C$.

Focal length is $f$.

Now match the two given image features specified in the question to the five situations in the table above. If the picture is generated before the mirror, it will be larger and more upright.