Do you think you look your age ? Or younger or older

[Lardlizard]

Facially I think I look slightly younger although aware people say they aged suddenly
Have noticed an improvement with higher end skincare

@dumplingPie I agree. Anyone who actually knows the person or who meets them at some point will instantly know it was a filter anyway.

I think I look my age - body ok, but lots of laughter lines oh and 5 dc taking their toll!

I am 49 and think I look exactly that. I really think most people do.

Tinty, your ‘today’ pictures are lovely

I look older at the moment as pregnancy ages me but when not pregnant I look at least 5 years younger. It runs in my family, my aunt turns 60 in July and looks about 42.

Younger. Someone was surprised I was 51 and thought I was younger. Didn't ask how young he thought I was.

Thank you Oldbutlovely, and I think you don't look old but you do look lovely. You also look nice and slim, which gets harder as you get older.

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You look early 40's to me, I think you look very good. Not what anyone would imagine when you think of a 50 year old.

Hard to say as it varies so much. Sometimes people are genuinely shocked that I'm 52;but other times I get no reaction at all.
My youngest is 7 so people tend to think I'm younger because of that I think.
I have good skin and a nice hair cut and I'm clever with make up (less is more over 50) but I've never really lost weight after DD which I think is ageing.

I definitely look 50 !

I had my kids a little than older than normal at 40 and 38, and lost one in pregnancy at 46.

I’d had a decade of DV before leaving with my toddler and newborn-in-arms.

I then jumped out of the frying pan into the fire and have had a couple of years of abuse from a family member, and continuing narcissistic issues from my mother.

But I passed my driving test at 47, am about to be married for the first time age 50, and I read books about solo female kayakers in their 60s and 70s paddling around Vancouver Island on which I plan my own trip in 10 years, and I’m still healthy, have young kids, a well respected and lovely fiancé, so I’m incredibly grateful to be alive, and don’t really care how old I look, despite still believeing from a child actually, that I’m ugly looking.

But we still sit here on the sofa genuinely astonished that the bloke off First Dates is ‘our age’ when he looks 60 . We deluded ourselves !

It’s true what our elderly re,stickers used to say to us as kids though. “I might be 60 my little granddaughter but I still only feel 18 inside”.

I still feel 28.

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Nameynameychangers early 20s?

I look young enough to have inadvertantly got a child's bus fare at 29, and been refused service for alcohol without ID at 37. That puts me around 12-13 years younger if the bus driver was confident I was 16 and shop assistant thought I was 25 or under. When I've been chatting to people in their early 20s, they struggle to believe I was well into my teens before they were born. People tend to be surprised that I have an 8 yo. When he was born, the nurse giving me my medication was double checking that I was the right person and date of birth was correct because despite my yellow hues and odema, she thought the DoB was a decade younger in error.

Build and clothing can play a part. I'm short with small build and small bust. I used to physically blend in with my classes of y7 and 8s. My clothing size hasn't changed since reaching adulthood (pregnancy/ postnatal excepted).

My family do look youthful. We have a soft face shape that doesn't go gaunt or angular. I showed someone a family photo and she was astonished that DM was mid 50s and DGM 80. Under close analysis I am getting some softer, fine smile lines and have a couple of hidden grey hairs that have so far evaded comment from DH, but it does surprise me that so many school friends are begining to look middle-aged on pictures as they approach 40.

It does probably help that my build hasn't changed since my late teens. I still wear some clothes from 20 years ago that have looped back into fashion. There is a picture of me on the wall at 15, and I don't think I look 23 years older now although my hair hasn't changed significantly since then! I only wear light make-up on rare occasions for going out at night, and have only recently started using foundation.

Probably about my age now. When I was younger I definitely looked younger than I was but I think I've aged over the last few years

Also not helped by the fact my DS1 has aged a lot - he's 15- so now I have to be older to be his mum IYSWIM? I had him quite young.

The most recent time my age was questioned was when I was asked for ID to buy a scratch card ... the day after my 30th

Wow Rivers, what an amazing story, you are a true survivor (and look great in the pics too!!)

Tinty, thanks for the comments. I am quite slim still but am getting very grey haired and wrinkly 😂

I have to say I’m loving seeing what some of you look like, adds a whole new dimension!

Always been told I look younger. I used to hate it. I revel in it now.
Not posting a pic though. Me and camera really do not get on., Plus I'd be worried about the DM picking this up and my gob staring out at everyone.

Awwlookatmybabyspider

Opps didn't think of that bloody DM they keep ruining all the threads on Mumsnet these days.

If the DM pick this up I'm suing

I want to say I look my age I don't think men really get asked about there age

I've always had good skin, which I think makes you look younger. Then I had a baby. Now I definitely look my age if not several years older 😂

I'm not posting my picture because I'm too scared of
a) being part of DM feature and
b) people guessing I'm 15 years older than I am and
c) I don't know how to apply a blurring filter that makes my eyes bigger, my skin brighter and my 'laughter lines' disappear.

I'm in my 50's, my oldest child is 30, unless I start to pretend I was pregnant at 12, it's pretty obvious I am not a young 'un. Even though in my head and heart I am 22 and always will be.

I used to look very young for my age. In fact, when I was 26 and travelled abroad the person doing the security checks at the gate said she couldn't do me because of my age and when I asked why she said it was because I was under 16!

Now I'm pushing 40 I just look like any other 40 y old. I have a belly, I have grey hairs, I have fine lines around my eyes and I am developing jowls.

I have all the youth and poise of a wrinkly ballsack.

What does DM mean?

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