Does anyone really look younger than their age?

[smoleyjolie]

Online on forums, social media, on dating profiles and even in real life people claim to look younger than their age, they are X age but don't look it. They get ID's in the supermarket buying wine.

I am always highly sceptical because I've know people who say to my face how they look like they are 25 when they are actually 38 because they have no lines or wrinkles when I am looking at them and thought they were actually in their 40's and they have obvious wrinkles and grey hair, people are delusional! Honestly the capacity people have to delude themselves about anything is quite staggering and I have never met someone who claims to look younger and it actually turn out to be true.

When I was younger I thought some older people looked younger so I once thought a woman when she was 49 was closer to 30 but that was because I assumed all people of 49 looked "old" which isn't the case at all and looking back she looked great but she also looked her age which is fine.

Going back to the first case where the women was convinced she looked over 10 years younger, what could I say I just said yeah you look great and its the same anytime anyone makes that claim. People aren't going to dispute it.

I did. I was often mistaken for 25/27 when 31. Then I had children. Now I am an aged hag.

You’re only 40! My general view (not a rule) was that it’s post 45 that ageing catches up with you. Hence all the 30-40 year olds claiming to look young is a bit 🙄 of course you do. Ageing doesn’t kick in until later. So it’s all a bit irrelevant to claim you get ID’d in your 30s. Many people do.

It doesn't prove your point at all. I regularly go into the waitrose with colleagues from work (it's next door) and they don't get ID'd while I do.

Oh dear....it sounds as though I've touched a raw nerve. It's certainly nothing to do with 'looking young' in my case because as I said, I'm 51. Really, stop obsessing with age and be comfortable with who you are.

I regularly got asked for id up until the age of 30. I now have 3 kids and I'm 41 (feel 401) and look like all the other 40ish women I know...

I haven't been ID'd in years. I definitely don't look 25!

Thank you for your opinion. I don't know why you're addressing it to me in particular.

I don't agree that I haven't aged at all between 15 and 40, nor that in five years time I'll suddenly become deeply haggard overnight. Maybe I will, but it's conjecture at this point. As for not aging, I look significantly older now than ten or twenty years ago. But I have been hearing since the age of 15 that I look younger than I am, which is what we're talking about on the thread. Apparently no one ever looks younger than their age - any age. But that's not my experience based on comments from others, so I'd like to be able to express my opinion that people can be perceived to look younger than they are. If that's alright with you?

Come on, she in no way looks early 60s - people are just being mean now.

I'm 35 and got ID'd yesterday. I would say I look 25 - but I rarely leave the house and have been this way for a decade so I think that it's the lack of sun exposure 😂

Im regularly told I dont look my age, in fact people take the pee and ask if ive got a painting in the attic.
I am 45.

My stock response to this is that I am fat, which pushes out wrinkles, so I dont have any.
I also dont have kids which contributes I think.

I have a photo of me at 19 on my FB and one of my colleagues asked when I decorated my living room when I became confused and said I haven't we figured out that she thought the photo was recent and I'd changed my wallpaper. Also last week the amazon man refused to leave an age restricted parcel with me as I had no ID. I'm 39. I honestly to god have no lines or wrinkles, I do dye my hair but I have done since I was 17.

I'm always told I look easily 10-15 years younger than I am. Always have done.
Last time, I was with my friend (3 months younger than me) and she popped off to the loo, and someone at the table next to me asked if she was my mum!

In mitigation I was wearing DD's jacket & boots with jeans, my friend was more dressed for her actual age (smart trousers, sensible shoes, coat and scarf, & carries a handbag).

I’d say I look my age (30) but I still get I’d in supermarkets, got id for an energy drink last week and when I tell people my age and that I have 2 dc’s they are usually surprised ( not like fake surprised to be nice) I’ve had a colleague as for proof that I was the age I said I was. I’m also a student nurse and most of the other students think I’m of similar age to them which makes me laugh because I’m well past the hanging out of pubs at 4 in the morning era.

@JRM17 I am 46 and don't have any lines or wrinkles but you can still look your age with smooth skin as I do, perhaps you looked older at 19?

I’m mixed race. 40. People are left gobsmacked when I tell them my age. I have never been able to buy alcohol without ID. I’m told I look mid to late 20s. My dad is the same - he looks even younger for his years.

Of course they do. Just as many look far older than their age - especially those who have sunbaked, used tanning booths, smoked, drank in excess, had meth and other drug habits, eaten an unwise diet, never smiled, and numerous other causes. People who have lived in poverty, suffered poor health, and great stress, who live in polluted towns, have lost their teeth, can't help the way they age. But most of what ages us facially and internally is within our power to effect.

David Sinclair, the aging researcher, has a boyish face and uses Botox. But compared to many other men his age - who look like Santa Clause - he is very youthful.

It's all comparative. Some women in their 70s and 80s look early to mid 60s. My mother, even while dying, looked better than most women in their 50s.

Its amazing that there are so many of you out there who people always think are so much younger even 15 years younger! I have never in my life met anyone who looks anywhere near that much younger or to be honest anything other than their actual age. I have however met plenty of people who insist they look younger because everyone always thinks they are 10 or 15 years younger (sure they do) or that they get asked for ID "all the time" but they never do look younger, not in the slightest so I take all these claims with a huge pinch of salt.

@highandwindymoors David Sinclair looks his age, he has smooth skin but he doesn't look like a young man, I don't even think he has a particularly boyish face, hair perhaps but not his face.

You need to get out more if you think that no-one looks markedly older or younger than their age. My mother did - everybody remarked on it, even those who loathed her.

I didn't say he looked like a young man. But he looks younger than many standard men of his age, and many men in their forties, who are greying, bald, wrinkled, obese, sagging, leathery, or covered in sunspots and wrinkles.

@highandwindymoors Like I have said elsewhere on this thread you can look older or worse than you should at your age due to unhealthy habits i.e. have more lines, sun damage, obesity as you say but that doesn't really work the other way round. David Sinclair looks his age, he looks healthy but he looks his age.

You are 46, you say? Wait another 10, 20, 30 years and see the vast differences in the way people of both sexes age around you, and then review your original question.

Well that really takes the biscuit for a bad argument, you know I do know people older than 46, even much older and I known many of them for decades so I am well aware of how people age.

I'm 35 and regularly get mistaken for being a lot younger and get ID'd regularly. It baffles me but my parents and grandparents look younger than their years so I guess it's mostly genetics. I haven't always looked after my skin like I should with spf and have had periods of my life where I've been super unhealthy. I'm now a size 8 though and have never had any Botox or fillers and wear natural make up which I think helps

This whole thread is you lodging a bad argument and refusing to hear others' life experience and point of view.

It is illogical to acknowledge some look much older than their age, care of lifestyle factors, and refuse to believe that others look markedly younger than their age.

The difference between biological and chronological age is well studied now, and the internal differences often play out on the face and overall skin.

I'm mid 40s. I think I look my age (I definitely feel it) although lots of people are genuinely suprised, but only knock a few years off. But I really don't have wrinkles (oily skin, so still the occasion zit, so not exactly thankful for that) And I definitely don't have any grey hairs. The people in my family usually get to late 50s before the first one appears, but still have mostly dark hair at 70.
I agree though, that anyone who is 40+ and say they look in their 20s are delusional!