When did you start to notice that you'd aged?

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I'm turning 27 next week, which obviously I know is not old but I've just looked at myself in the mirror whilst I was doing my skin care and I'm already noticing more lines and creases! Especially around the eye area 😬

I'm dreading aging more and am starting to think about getting some Botox.

At what age did you start to notice?

I’m 34. Last couple of years of years I’ve noticed it but coincidentally I have a 2 year old DD. I looked absolutely lush and glowy with my boys, she has 100% stolen my beauty 😄

Getting old is a real privilege though, better than the alternative and am loving my 30s OP! Also loving facial yoga and my plant-based retinol product thing (v v sensitive skin so can’t do actual retinol). Never say never but Botox is a no from me for now.

I'm 40 and I think I look great!
People tell me I look youthful - for 40.
I've got fine lines around my eyes and light frown lines, but I think I look roughly the same as I did when I was in my 20s (albeit, you can definitely tell I'm 40).

I'm 40 and healthy bmi. I have a very round baby face for my weight and I hate the sun so I don't really have wrinkles yet.

BUT I've been on an exercise kick recently and I definitely do not have the same stamina I did 10 years ago. I don't even really get the same endorphins, which sucks for motivation.

Pregnancy at 37 really did a number on me. I could cry looking at pictures of myself in 2019

Mid40s. Collagen levels start to drop in peri and everything looks less plump and starts to sag. And my waist disappeared overnight.

I was 44 and was drying my hands under a hot-air blower. Suddenly noticed the skin on the back of my hands was rippling in the breeze.

About 41/42 I didn't know it but I was going through the menopause, I was drinking more (covid) put on weight, hair thinned and was generally suffering menopause symptoms. My best years where my face and figure were great, was between about 26 to 37. I was trim, my face was slim, I dressed well and looked great. I'm looking better now I'm mid 40s as I'm on the mini pill to help menopause symptoms and I've lost 3 stone, but my hair is still a mess, its still a bit but thin, my skin is okay, I've noticed a loss of muscle tone in my body but at least I'm no longer over weight and look good again in my clothes. With make up and well fitting clothes a feel like myself again. It's taken a long time.

I thought that was hilarious and fascinating in equal measure when I first noticed it.

This is a great post - your first paragraph especially is so true. When you're inspecting your face from 2inches away in the harsh glare of bathroom lighting its easy to forget most people are 1m away in nice warm natural light!

45 started to look more my age. Up until then people were surprised. Now I’m 53 and lines are least of my worries. Skin starts to lose firmness. I haven’t sat in the sun since my 20s either! I think aging is more than skin though, it’s attitude and style and I think I’m still young on those fronts.

Mid 30s. 37 now, I have forehead creases, dark bags under my eyes and some greys. I definitely look older than I am

I've also read it’s a scientific age people notice, next one is 32 I think

Ha! 27. Wait till you get to 52.

I'm 34 in a couple of weeks. Had a hard few years and I feel like I have aged a lot in that time. Still no greys, but wrinkles are getting deeper

Me too. It started a few months ago. I'm 47.

Just shy of 50, started going grey. Thankfully otherwise not too bad

41 in the sense that I felt I looked OK for my 40th but it started to go a bit downhill from there. My body is still in shape but my face has definitely started to sag a bit in a way that's difficult to explain!

I don't feel I looked or felt any different between the age of 21 and early 30s, in fact I think I looked pretty good at that point and certainly didnt think I was old. By mid 30s I had a young child so other things took over/distracted me and now suddenly I'm past 40 and getting myself back a bit and thinking 'where has the time gone'. Sort of like I've aged without noticing.

Absolutely this

SPF is your friend . Face , neck and hands starting now OP.

I have had deep forehead wrinkles since I was a teen. I used to get teased about them.

I am now 51 and they have never increased and I have no other wrinkles so I'm good.

I did notice my first ever grey hair on my 40th birthday. I am now about 10% grey and may dye it (keep thinking about it) but one day if i can be bothered or don't forget.

I do use SPF sporadically. But generally speaking I'm okay with how it;s going. My weight on the other hand- been worried with my weight since my early teens and quite sick of how I feel about it now. It's a blight.

Late 40s to coincide with peri , massive change in that year though when my periods stopped .

Since I hit my forties. Up until then I looked good for my age and even having two non sleeping DC in my late thirties didn't seem to affect me too much. But I turned 40, the pandemic happened a few months later - and it feels like someone hit the fast forward button! Now almost 45 and every day I spot something new to feel depressed about. Hair and skin are dry, face is sort of melting and now my neck is getting in on the act which is so depressing.

Body is actually ok apart from the aches and pains, so that's something.

Trying to be accepting of it because it's not going to improve and I refuse to go the Botox/surgery route. But yeah...it's a kicker.

Mid 50s when the grey started.

Not that it bothered me though.

I think a few greys mid 50s is acceptable.

Also just a sign of getting older.

I'm 60 now & don't feel that I have aged.

I can still do what I want to.

I think when that begins to change I'll be aging.

I really started to notice it when I turned 50. I thought I was doing okay until then!

Age 36 after I gave birth to my second is the first time I looked in the mirror and saw someone I didn't recognise looking back.. Around that time I was also diagnosed with a thyroid issue which I think was making things worse. I decided to start taking better care of myself and now I think I look good and am happy with what I see in the mirror (for the most part). I definitely think that having children ages you and that as you get older it gets more important for you to make an effort in caring for your appearance. Wish I'd started sooner.