"The face you have at 50 is the face you deserve"..............

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

What do you reckon then?

[victoriapeckham]

Is that a quote from someone? It s great.

[fastasleep]

Well my mum's a &%&&%&* and she looks like a haggard old witch with a body too small for her masses of wrinkly skin I know that was cruel! But it's truuueee. She's 55. I dread to think what I'll look like! Especially if I keep making comments like the above!

[fastasleep]

Good quote lol

[aloha]

I think it was Coco Chanel.
The modern mantra is 'the face you have a 50 is the one you can afford'.

[fastasleep]

My mum's smoked for a good 35 years though and drinks like a fish....so I'm hoping I won't be quite as bad!

[aloha]

Yup, Chanel.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.
  -- Coco Chanel

[victoriapeckham]

Haha, it s a good incentive to be a sweet and kindly person throughout your 40s, rather than grumpy old battle-axe which is way I'm going. Altruism cheaper than La Prairie.

[fastasleep]

Aww life's not fair is it, but at least she's a lovely person and she's still here to be lovely! that's the most important thing

[Twiglett]

my mum smoked for a decade I think, never been much of a drinker - she's 67 now and if I look half as good as she does now when I reach 50 I'll be ecstatic

[Rhubarb]

I can think of a lot of people who are gonna be MINGING when they reach 50 then! Nice one!

[Twiglett]

she is funny but egocentric, generous but intensely selfish and believes the world revolves around her. she goes barking mad regularly

[fastasleep]

I think I've met more bitchy people with unhaggard faces actually, maybe because the nice ones worry about things more?

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

The marketing men did their job on me when I was about 7, with the Atrixo handcream ad (it was rubbed in to one leaf and not another). Leaf without cream shrivelled and disintegrated.

I've always thought if I don't slap some moisturiser on regularly, I'll shrivel up and disintegrate!

[Gobbledigook]

If I look like JT I'll be ecstatic - she's always told how young she looks and how she doesn't look old enough to have 3 kids aged around 30.

[snafu]

Are you after some babysitting then, gdg?

[Mothernature]

This will be me then ! at 50

[Gobbledigook]

Ooh, Snafu, what a marvellous idea! I hadn't thought of that

[handlemecarefully]

I reckon it's mostly true - you will generally get more winkles if you have been exposed to much sun / alcohol / smoking, and generally less if you eschew all three.

But I think a few wrinkles are a small price to pay for the old bottle of wine or 3.

[soapbox]

I'm with Aloha on this one!

The richer you are these days, the less wrinkled!

I don't think the rich deserve to be unwrinkly at 50 anymore than I do

[WideWebWitch]

And who was it who said a woman gets to an age where she has to choose between her face and her arse? Meaning that if you are fatter than you should be it plumps the wrinkles out nicely I think! I'll be ever youthful then (in my dreams).

[Gobbledigook]

I think smoking, sun and stress are probably the key factors - not alcohol so much unless it's really excessive.

Comparing dh's 2 nans is amazing - one who has smoked all her life and the other who hasn't. The one who has smoked has a face like an ordnance survey map () and the other has a face that is so unwrinkled you wouldn't believe it if you saw it. She swears by Oil of Ulay.

Even at age 32, myself and my SIL I would say have got quite different skin - she's a smoker and I'm not and I think mine looks significantly healthier. And dh's Mum looks quite a bit older than my mum - again, MIL smokes, my Mum doesn't.

[handlemecarefully]

Good genes have a part to play too. We have fat genes in our family sigh, however my parents (mum is a chubber, dad isn't) both look young for their age

[Sonnet]

My mum has fantastic skin despite minimal facial care - a wash with soap and slap on the oil of olay - could have something to do with being a non-smoker,non drinker, and a sun avoider!! I don't smoke but I do drink, I use to worship the sun but hide behind factor 30 to 60 on my face now!!