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.

Look at that Bryan Johnson guy he claims to be biologically 37 or 18 depending on what body part he is talking about but he looks his age 45 and he also looks like crap, he looks like Data from star trek weird and unhealthy and he spends millions to reverse ageing and treats it like a fulltime job.

It isn't illogical to say people can look older but not younger because its the truth see your David Sinclair and creepy Brian Johnson for a start. Perhaps its better to say people can look better or worse at a particular age or that they can look healthier or unhealthier for their age but they don't look younger, I have yet to see it.

I know you and many want it to be true that one can look years younger but its just self delusion.

I know you and many want it to be true that one can look years younger but its just self delusion.

I don't want it to be true. I have observed it, as I posted, with my own mother, even as she was very ill and dying.

Well as I say people are often literally delusional when they want something to be true.

I am 68 obviously I don't look like I am 20 anymore but people are surprised when they find out how old I am

As you exemplify in this thread. Sorry to hear you are ageing badly.

I've always been told I look 10 years younger than I am. I think it must be true. I look after myself, take great of my skin, having done facial yoga for many years, and the last 3 years used tretnoin. I also have family genetics on my side.

I have my own unique style. My hair is coloured with a splash of crazy hair colour in it, too. I don't do mutton dressed as lamb mind n

I have looked around at women of my age for years and thought, why do you let yourself go so much.

I mean, letting their hair, skin, and clothing go and not seeming to care.

Fine, we can't all be quirky like I can, but there is no need to let yourself go as you get older.

Even if you look your age, you can still look after yourself. That for me is it. Look after yourself, and you will always look and feel better

Love these threads… this is my sister and I.

Anyone want to have a guess?

I just think it's really weird to care how old people think you look (or say they do).

Each generation - currently - looks younger at 30, 40, 50, whatever, than the preceding generation did at the same age. This is a benefit of greater economic & political security, which grants a better diet, better healthcare, more advanced treatments, safer housing and so forth. All this leaves you looking healthier, less stressed & careworn, more optimistic than your preceding generation.

It can go down as well as up. Average lifespan is actually reducing in the UK, after decades of extension. When I was a kid, 50 looked old and felt old. We're headed back that way, unless younger generations find their political voice and make a difference.

When it comes down to it, you look your age because you are your age, however that appears at present. You need to look to the bigger issues rather than counting your wrinkles.

Both of you are absolutely gorgeous looking, with minimal wrinkles, but jowls and generally more relaxed skin tone would make me guess same age as me for the person on the left, so early 50s. I'd say late 50s, possibly very early 60s, for the person on the right.

i always have looked younger. half fare on buses in my mid 20s. Getting asked for ID even at 40.
Being refused entry to a hotel gym as they thought i was a child. V annoying.

Since I turned 50 it has stopped. People don’t comment anymore!

People are always surprised at my age, and usually think I am up to 10 years younger, and always have done. Nothing to do with lacking wrinkles - I'm 64 - and I'm no oil painting, but I only have a few grey hairs and they're hard to see, don't wear makeup, and it could well be the way I dress. I don't think I look particularly young but other people seem to.

My friend is 50 and definitely barely looks 40. She looks incredibly young. It's her face structure, skin everything. She's had nothing done at all and uses inexpensive facee products but always uses high spf every day.

People frequently think I'm younger than I am. I know I look reasonably good facially and shape wise but I think in my case it's more my demeanour that gives the impression than actual appearance.

So I think in some fortunate caseslike my friend people really can look younger than they are.

I look about ten years younger than I am (I'm late 40s). No fancy skin routine, soap and water, SPF daily since I was in my 20s and I always wear a hat in the summer sun. I only wear light eye makeup and lipstick, and some concealer. My siblings and mum are the same so I think genes also have a very big part to play.

I agree with you OP. I've never come across anybody who has surprised me with their age, people can look good for their age but never really younger. There's so many people who will tell you how much younger they look than they actually are, they just don't, but you end up nodding along in agreement with them to be polite. Just reinforces their delusion.

As I mentioned above, I don't think I look good for my age but people definitely think I am younger than I am, and always have done. I would never tell anyone that (who on earth would?) but they tell me. Just because you haven't met anyone who looks younger than they are doesn't mean they don't exist. It's not necessarily about looking "good", some people just look younger than their actual years. Why is this so difficult to grasp?

I’m 33 and still occasionally get ID’d for alcohol. Last use hit ID’d for a bloody lottery ticket! But I think the look I gave the cashier made them realise they were bein daft

Blonde is mid 40s, brunette early 50s?

You can see obvious fillers on both which tends to date you.

5 years ago when I was 36, people thought I was about 26. I still got asked for ID in supermarkets.

I've since had DTwins.

I'm 41 and look every day of it. Probably more like 45.

A lot depends more on how someone acts and dresses then their actual face. I’ve seen people in their early 20s dress older and get accused of looking like they are in their 30s! They don’t look that old but they act and dress that old. Same the other way round, if someone dresses younger and is less mature in the way they act, they will be perceived as younger. I know many older people with less lines than others, they still look their age

I'm 47, my face is collapsing, and I look like I'm about 950 if that helps anyone on this thread.

Both look great. Few visible tweaks of Botox and filler, so I’d say blonde sister 48- early 50s, brunette mid to late 50s. But again, both look beautiful.

I used to get ided until in my late twenties, was a shock when a family member made a joke about how none of us were going to get asked for id because then I realised my time for it was gone!!

At a distance lots of people look younger, until you get up close and they have wrinkles around their eyes and mouth.
That being said my own sil used to have to show ID in her twenty's through to around 33. We used to always laugh because she is a pharmacist so preparing medicines was her job but in Asda she'd always have to provide ID to buy paracetamol for her little one!

Yes, this is also true of me. People still often think I'm younger, but I think that's based on my immaturity rather than my looks 😁

My DH.
He's 53 but looks mid 40's at most.

I remember putting some pictures on social media when it was his 50th and half the comments wished him a happy birthday and the other half were in shock that he was 50. Loads of people asked if I'd mistyped 40!!

I look relatively young for my age (but not on the same scale as my DH) and it can be a disadvantage at work as people regularly underestimate me and defer to my older male colleague who I actually line manage 🙄