What age do you think your looks started to fade ?

[LardLizard]

I think I still look pretty great at forty, don’t think my skin looks forty at all
So I’m wondering when will I really notice it ? Know it’s different for everyone
I’m think maybe after 50 now ?

I'm mid 30s and think my looks are starting to fade. I think having young children, lack of sleep, lack of time for yourself and generally being run ragged has a lot to do with it.

Sometimes I think I look alright : then I look at my reflection compared to DS (4) in the mirror and think oh fuck

Exactly stoplickingthetelly

(looks in mirror) Not today anyway!!

I'm 36 and look better now than I ever have before.

Partly because the benefit of time, effort and money means I can afford lovely stuff to chuck on my skin, better clothes and an all-inclusive gym membership so I don't just lie on the sofas looking like a potato each night after work like I did in my twenties. And partly because I realised that I needed to look after myself if I wanted to look 'nice' a while younger once I hit my thirties.

I'm lucky with my skin and my sisters are exactly the same. We're blonde and pale with bright blue eyes and chubby cheeks (despite none of us being overweight) and none of us seem to have aged much since our twenties.

I don’t think I was all that to begin with, but at least I look young for my age, apparently. When I recently told someone (who had no particular reason to flatter me) that I’m 50, his jaw dropped; he thought I was in my 30s. My partner is older still but looks even younger than me.

No children...

when people add "for her age" on to compliments

I'm 26 and I am already starting to look older and dull. I spent my late teens/early 20's looking about 12, now my forehead looks like an old newspaper and my eyes are horrendously dark.

I think lots depend on your life style snd the age you have kids. I had my family young so by 40 they were all teenagers. Now 50 I have grandchildren and often get taken for thieir mum.

You got to make time to sleep, excerside, eat well snd have your hair styled regularity and coloured.

Ain’t always easy

I’ve just been and had a look at my 40 year old self in the mirror and thought ‘god, by anyone’s standards my looks have started to fade.
Then I realised I’m only thinking that because I’ve been reading this thread.
Now I think I’ll go back to my life of blissful ignorance where I never read glossy magazines and I feel gorgeous.

can usually keep most or her looks until the menopause or thereabouts

ODFO with your ageism and misogyny.

The brain declines after the mid to late twenties too, physical powers begin to fade

What do you mean by this?

What about all the research on neuroplasticity?

I don’t think I ever had any real ‘looks’ to ‘fade’.

I’m 29 and when I look at pictures of me at 18/19 I think Iook dreadful! So much better now. I feel like I’ve sort of grown into myself :)

35, probably not coincidentally after having my only child. Lost the weight but my skin looks old now.

I think a lot is about bone structure. I was always pretty but I have no cheekbones and now I have jowls and not do pretty anymore. I look like my brother in drag now.

I'm 46 this year and I've suddenly begun to notice a 'jowls' a-coming. My under eyes also look puffy, but that might be because I'm so bloody tired and working too hard.

I'm fortunate to say that I honestly have no crows feet or forehead wrinkles yet.

I am overweight though. I reckon if I lost a few stone the wrinkles would come.

It's a mixture of genetics, what we do to ourselves like sun exposure etc and then the stresses we endure.

My Mother looked truly beautiful in a head turning way until she was in her early seventies. Then her fourth heart attack destroyed her. My Father died at 84 with hardly any lines.

All her daughters have inherited her high cheekbones and heart shaped face though as we have more than one Father we dont actually look alike. DH says she look very like Honor Blackman. Genetically I'm very lucky.

Three of us look a lot younger than we are, the other two sisters, were both in really awful abusive relationships for years and it aged them.

My hair really greyed out at 46-47. If I didn't dye it it would be grey, I reckon. When it's newly coloured I look ok (unless you look too closely under bright light) but when it's got grey edges I look so washed out and old!!

Very interesting replies
Personally I do think men’s looks fade too, for want of a better phrase than fade which I must admit isn’t quite the right term yet everyone seems to get what I mean
Bumped into an ex couple of years back, when I dated him he was literally Hollywood film star looks tanned, toned fab hair amazing smile but he was so boring, he thoug because he had a physics degree he was the most intelligent person to exist, in fact when I here he simply red song
So beautiful, but oh so boring it’s him to a tee
Anyway when I bumped into him he was there to service the refridgerator at the place I was eatting lunch with friends
And he now had a big tummy the pregnant sort of tummy, bad choice of glasses that made him look a bit like a sex offender, hair gone all thin and balding tbh I wouldn’t have even recognised him
So personally I do think same can happen to men

I have never been very high up on the scale of attractiveness. I have found that as time has passed, it has become a more level playing field, in that I now (at 60) compare quite favourably alongside my peers.

I haven't put on weight, which I think has helped to make me look 'young' (from a distance anyway!) and I have never smoked and am not a sun bather, so my skin is not as wrinkled as some.

I still feel "young", though I realise that I am probably delusional!

I am 56. My looks have not faded Ihave grown into them!

I never had them but I think I'm looking worse and older now and I'm mid 30s

I think men hit their peak in their 40s though and start to fade around 60. But I like an older man so that might be skewing things!

41. Almost overnight too. Bastards.

I have stupidly angular bones, olive greasy skin and hardly any greys and at just shy of 47 I think I’m looking pretty good.

Disclaimer - I didn’t have much in the looks dept to start with!