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!

If I managed to be alive beyond my first birthday (which would have been unlikely!) then I would have been in an asylum lobotomised, or a few decades later immortalised as one of the victims of Jack the Ripper! "The Five" by Hallie Rubenhold was very interesting and enlightening on what my life would probably have been like in the Victorian turns!

Bad bad teeth from no orthodontic work I had and lots of fillings , eyebrows I don't pluck and hair I don't dye but Very course dark body hair , moustache and slight beard
Few extra moles I had removed.

Also would have died at 21 from appendicitis

I'd have very long, wavy hair no greys, a chestnut brown would be squinty like OP, I have good teeth so that's a plus, I'm very pale and so no fake tan, I'm overweight atm but I suspect that's the wine so I'd probs be nice and slim without it...

I reckon with no one wearing make up I'd not look too bad tbh!

Not naturally beautiful but I've clear skin, no wrinkles...I'd probs just blend in

If we ignore “died at birth along with mother” then “dead of rare bone disease at 3 months” and complications from 3 broken bones, regular cholera outbreaks in my city through the 1800s, assorted infections, 3 “death in childbirth” events, death last year from strangulated hernia...

Horrendous overbite and wonky teeth, leg hair I can plait, squint from no glasses, exciting scar on my forehead from less adept stitching on a childhood accident.

Same (awesome) stripey grey hair, thinner and fitter because I’d be poor and a manual labourer.

I would look similar to how I do now, but with darker hair (I have highlights, but no greys yet at 47). It would be pretty wild and frizzy though. I'd probably have more wrinkles caused by stress and annoyance with my incompatible husband whom I married for security rather than love. I'd be knackered by dealing with four or so children- no more than that though, as I'd have stopped having sex after that.

I hope I'd be slimmer and fitter with the meagre food and more physically active way of life. For the purposes of this fantasy, I'm middle class though (hey, it's my daydream, I can choose!)

I'd have hairy legs, but they'd be covered by woolly stockings.
I'd smell of rosewater rather than modern eau de parfum. I'd have rubbish eyelashes without mascara, unless there was a discreet 1820s trick. I'd be dressed in the fashions of the day instead of pyjamas.

I'd be dead from breast cancer by 45 rather than 50, unless I'd died from pre-eclampsia with my first child.

I can't think of anything else, but this is a great idea for a thread!

Without modern beauty stuff I'd be quite grey with lots of facial hair and a unibrow lots of bruises from bumping into things with no glasses!
Quite a few missing teeth.

Without medical stuff I'd be dead, quite a severe allergy in my teens.

Worryingly, I’d look like a better version of me! No make up, hair colour and blessed with good teeth, so much the same there. I’d be a bit squinty, due to absence of lasik surgery in 1820, but a lot thinner and likely not diabetic without the indulgence of 21st c overindulgence.

I'd have been dead before I was five from food poisoning (mind you, I got that from my grandmother not knowing how to use a microwave safely, so perhaps I wouldn't have been poisoned in 1820). Assuming I survived into my 40s, I would probably look much the same, but with grey hair and less fat. I haven't had any "procedures", I don't wear makeup, and I don't shave. I'm living my best Regency peasant life here.

Assuming I was still alive ( tore in childbirth x2 plus lots of tonsillitis needing antibiotics) I'd look similar to what I do now, I've had fillings but 200 years ago I'd have had less sugar. I wear glasses but its a tiny prescription, I would just not have embroidered etc in the evenings.

(My dads family still own the village 'inn' so middle class, all other great grandparents peasant farmers, there was apparently a count at some point but don't know how accurate that is!)

For anyone interested in this sort of thing, I can recommend a series of books called The Chronicles of St Mary's, about an institute of time-travelling historians. The protagonist talks a lot about the difficulties of surviving in a time not your own.

Dead at 19 from pneumonia

I'd have white hair around my face but from behind my ears I'd have brown hair without even a bit of white or grey. It's a strict cut-off between perfect colour and the complete lack of colour. A couple of years ago I saw a woman who had hair like that. Apart from bi-colour hair I think I'd look the same, although I imagine a few teeth would have fallen out.

Without contraception I assume I would by now have children in their 20s rather than a 5 year old conceived with a great deal of medical help. Both my children were caesareans so I hope birth would have been easier in my 20s too otherwise I’d be deaded and probably my children too.

Had laser eye surgery some years back so if I was lucky I’d be wearing glasses and if not my life would be severely restricted as I was very short sighted.

Grey frizzy hair on my head. More hair everywhere, or maybe I’d shave.

Thinner without modern convenience food.

Teeth much the same. Maybe I’d have had a few at the back extracted instead of fillings.

I do wear make up but not loads so I would still be recognisable. No medical cosmetic procedures.

It’s interesting to think about!

pretty much the same as I look now.

I'm another who would have died in childbirth. Thank goodness for modern medicine eh!

Looks wise my hair would be brown and not highlighted and I'd be very hairy but that's about it.

At 49, I'd be dead!

I'll buck the trend and claim that in the absence of a modern sugary diet I might actually not have such bad teeth as i do now.

But I'll be grey with straggly mouse hair, and the bits of my face aren't covered by eyebrows like two sleeping ferrets are concealed by a downy beard.

I may well have been eaten by something already though as without glasses I'm blind as a bat!

I'm terribly short sighted, so in prehistoric times I'd have to have worked as something like a bead carver or similar, that can be done very close to the face & traded. My glasses are really thick.

Other than that, I'd look very similar. I'm practically zero maintenance. YY to thinner without modern convenience food. But I'd not be able to walk around much, as no glasses, so maybe I'd be fatter.

I'd have been dead at 10 months old.

Exactly the same except that I would have a slightly bigger gap between my teeth (braces as a child). Haven't had any cavities or lost teeth so would have a full mouth of gnashers but I've whitened them so they'd be darker.

I'd also have worse eczema if there was no treatment or possibly no eczema as it was less common in the past.

Probably would have been thought to be epileptic as I have fits (brain scans show they are not epileptic in nature).

If you mean do I alter my appearance at all? No I don't.
No hair dye or hair dos, no make up, no nail polish, and I shave twice a year. My teeth are how nature made them.
No bras, no shape wear, no high heels
Mid 40s, happy with how I look
I have a few silver hairs, I like them as they are sparkly.
I don't mind a few lines and sun spots, I've lived a really active outdoors life, it happens.
I still shower, and wear deodorant and clean clothes, I'm fit, I brush my teeth.
It's not that I don't care, it's that I don't worry about what others might think while looking at me.
My husband likes what he sees, and so do I, so that's all I need.

Pretty much the same but with scraggly eyebrows and hairy legs! Id probably be thinner and fitter.

I'd be very much like I am now. Short and fat with very long unruly hair. Except I'd have 18 kids as I appear to fall pregnant at the drop of a hat and pop them out like peas out of a pod.

I'd be dead. I had meningitis as a child.

I sometimes think of that too .. no thought is ever truly unique eh