What would you look like left to nature/200 years ago.

[Coldemort]

Lockdown boredom musings....

Without medical/cosmetic interference what would you now look like?
I'm nearly 40.

I had dental treatment for 4 missing teeth so would have huge gaps in my front teeth.
I've terrible eyesight so without contacts/glasses I'd walk around with a permanent squint and I'd imagine terrible crows feet.
My hair is an uninspiring brown, wouldn't look too different but wouldn't have my highlights.
Body hair..... good god youd be able to plait it. Same with eyebrows. and mostache
I've had a bit of botox so more wrinkly.
I have a skin condition which causes abscesses so without surgical treatment I'd have huge boils/abscesses all down my thighs.
Oh - had a tooth abscess as well so possibly might have lost my teeth by now.
Wouldn't have ears pierced.

So toothless, boily, hairy and squinty! Lush!

Well, dead obviously

Mid industrial revolution @Daydreamsinglorioustechnicolor. It started around 1780... although would have depended where in the country you were.

@Daydreamsinglorioustechnicolor

200 years ago was 1820, was that pre industrial revolution then? My history is bad.

Just coming to end of industrial revolution. Maybe should have said 500 years ago!

Dead after a difficult birth

Snagged toothed with a severe underbite.

Faded ginger hair - I guess a warmish light brown with grey around the temples.

Crows’ feet and number elevens.

Hair would be even frizzier and wilder than it already is.

Oh, I thought we were just doing beauty stuff.

I’d be dead then. I’d have died in childbirth at the age of 24.

If by some miracle I made it past by 2nd birthday and got to adulthood, I'd have incredibly frizzy hair and be 3 stone lighter at least, due to crisps not being invented yet.

@LunaNorth

Oh, I thought we were just doing beauty stuff.

I’d be dead then. I’d have died in childbirth at the age of 24.

I did mean beauty stuff. Dont mind the derailment though!

I sound very arrogant but for the most part I'd be okay. I like my facial features and hair colour, my hair grows well so it would be long and thick. Teeth are straight. Body hair quite fine.

BUT. I have very fair skin with rosacea. My skin looks rough dry and ruddy without due care. It just can't look after itself well. It turns into normalish skin in summer but most if the year it neds extensive management to not be dry and gammony. It can't exfoliate itself well and also doesn't produce any natural moisture. Same with hair actually. Grows great and is fine and thick but i literally forgot what it looks like without being well conditioned - it would be much frizzier I imagine!

Probably would be thinner. Less junk food (not that I'm overweight). Less sugar so possibly better teeth? Or much worse with no toothpaste.
Rough dull skin from the smokey, polluted air. Older looking hands from manual work / housework.

I'm 30 and have two kids. Would I have had many more in those days (lack of contraception), probably, so I guess aesthetically my lady bits might be worse!

Without vaccinations, probably dead from meningitis or smallpox...

Quite similar to now.
Teeth maybe a bit wonkier and I couldn't have my contact lenses.
I'd probably be thinner, though. Every cloud.

I'd be bones in the churchyard by now.

So much slimmer

200 years ago is 1820, it’s not that long ago.

If have a very full and impressive goatee. Thank you PCOS.

I'd be a 'cripple' on account of my congenital hip dysplasia - in fact I would have been if I'd been born even one generation earlier. I was lucky my parents lived where there was a very good paediatric osteo surgeon who had just invented a new new method of dealing with complicated dysplasias like mine (which was found very late, as no one believed my mum that something was wrong, even though I was her third child!) - now I just have a slightly dodgy leg and poor joint mobility, but no general mobility issues.

Although, coming from a Catholic (Catholic and incredibly fertile, the magic combination) family, I shudder to think how many children I'd be on.
It could be 6-8 kids. It might be 16-18. God.

I’d probably be an attraction in a circus during those times with the beard I could grow without today’s methods of removal

I would be grey so would look really old! But apart from that I don't think I would look that different.

It's moot really though as I would be dead from cancer by now anyway!

Crooked teeth and very grey !

Like the OP I'm terribly shortsighted, shortsighted enough to cause me real problems with correction, actually, so yes to squinting and probably quite bashed and bruised from waking into stuff.

I have naturally good teeth, so even without toothpaste and dental appointments they'd probably be better than most. I'm not especially hairy, and I don't dye my hair or wear a lot of make up.

I reckon I'd look ok, but wouldn't know if I didn't as I wouldn't be able to see myself anyway.

My curly hair would be a frizzy mess. Unless I was rich - can I be rich? Then it would be tumbling ringlets that would be the envy of society.

Except I would have died from pre-eclampsia ten years ago.

I would be pretty much unable to see a thing (need a strong prescription) with a huge overbite.

I'd have died more times than I can count... otherwise crap teeth (though that's true anyway, especially this year with my dentist shutting for lockdown and then for emergencies only). Lots of dental issues means dead. I'd be slimmer. Untreated medical conditions would be the cause. So dead. Have more kids. Die in child birth (the first time and subsequent times too!). Also crazy and a drunk without modern interventions (even with those it's been a battle!). Again dead. Dead dead deader and more dead 😂

@beela

My curly hair would be a frizzy mess. Unless I was rich - can I be rich? Then it would be tumbling ringlets that would be the envy of society.

Except I would have died from pre-eclampsia ten years ago.

Ah but remember little women when they created the ringlets with a poker and it burnt and fell out.... think I'd rather have temperature controlled tongs!