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I've just had a week doing outdoors stuff on holiday....freshly creamed up, I look ok...better still with a little mascara but travelling home with an ill child, beautification wasn't a priority and I had a huge shock when we arrived home and I looked in a mirror!!

Too much heat/cold/swimming/cycling....or am i just beyond repair for good....dark puffy eyes, open pores, bagginess. Gross, really. Just wondering if I've not noticed before, because I don't pay much attention tbh...

I'd frighten the children if I didn't wear make-up!

Have also noticed that I cannot go without moisturiser...I see my mother looking back at me if I do .

I generally use a tinted moisturiser and mascara on top lashes most days and look imo ok.I would wear more but I run when the dc are at school so would look ridiculous trotting around with a big sweat on and a full face and I know that women who wear lots of makeup to workout/train in are generally articles for piss takes

Bloody hell, yes

TBH I still look rough with makeup!

I sure do, but my OH says I do not look that different with or without makeup but I'm not really sure that is a compliment !!!.My eyes are the giveaway, more and more crows feet appearing as the years go by.But hey thats life !!

I look FUCKING AWFUL

Absolutely fucking awful

I'm 35 and now look awfull without make up although I do blame YOU LOT, too many late nights and too much

Kids, work and MN is a drain on my pores

I used to look fresh a youthful,even at 40,without makeup.but now at 48 I look as though I have a particularly vicious type of flu if I don't at least put a bit of concealer on the red/blue bits and colour on the blue/white bits.

I'm in my 30's and look hideous without makeup, but sometimes just don't have the time. Hate it though.

I don't leave the house without a full face of slap. Not ever. If there was a house fire I reckon I'd at least grab the tinted moisturiser. Without make up I am the walking dead.

From about 44-45 the decline seems quite rapid - tis depressing! Just have to find something else you can be good at - for me is my intellect, am an academic so no one cares what you look like

I'd better cultivate my intellect then... agree post 45 it all speeds up.Plummeting oestrogen.Great.

Always wear make-up for work and going out.

Without it I look scarily like Mads Mikkelson, and not in good way.

I've put on Laura Mercier tinted moisturiser because a chap's coming to give quote on the gutters. Ooh, here he is.

Now I'm back. Quite expensive quote, but he's very handsome.

I have always worn make-up. A lot of make-up. I really enjoy it.

In my 20s I thought I actually looked better without it. I wore it to look more sophisticated, more polished, to get taken more seriously at work.

In my 40s I know I look way better with it. I wear it to even out my skin tone and disguise shadows and lines, to fill out my over-plucked eyebrows and put some colour back into my tired skin. OK, I wear it to look younger.

I cannot thank you ladies enough!!! My mother was indeed staring back at me, she's a good looking woman but 67 I am not!

Will investigate tinted moisturiser TODAY! Thank you all!

Try Bobbi Brown Skin foundation. A bit more coverage than a tinted moisturiser but it goes on just as easily and the colours are great - so natural - and so much better than the often pinky tints of tinted moisturisers. I cant leave the house without it on.

I have started to get really dark purple shadows and a sunken area under my eyes, and my fine lines and wrinkles around my eyes are bad. Don't know why as I've never really been a sun worshipper or a sunbedder or a smoker. In the winter I look completely shit all of the time, but not nearly so bad in the summer. I definitely look tons better for wearing some makeup, but I actually look older, and worse with too much make up on, than none at all. It can look a bit caked to your wrinkles if you are not careful.

I tend to get the sympathetic 'ooh, you look a bit tired' comments if I don't wear makeup. That would be because I haven't concealed the big dark circles under my eyes.

I don't look my age- so I'm told- but sans makeup I feel a bit haggard.

I put make up on every day and I more more than I did when I was younger. The trick is not to wear to wear the right sort - light coverage, luminous bases and illuminators, matt/shimmer eyeshadows (not glitter), no bright jammy lipglosses. It needs to look like you're not wearing it IYKWIM.

Chanel Vitaluminere aqua is good.

I look ill and tired without make up but am happy with way less than I used to wear in 20/30's. Tinted moisturiser, bronzer for colour and at least mascara every day. I actually feel like a bit of a 'clown face' with much more on these days

Plus def hit an all time low in winter months but pick up a bit with (a tan) some sunshine.

I used to look pretty close in age to my younger by seven years sister. Now I,m 45 she looks 30 - the fucker.

And look 55!

No, I look fabulous. But I am very short sighted and completely deluded.