What age do you think your looks started to fade ?

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LardLizard · 14/02/2018 23:30

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 ?

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cheapskatemum · 16/02/2018 19:57

I noticed my face aging when I was between 46-50 years old. Then I started looking younger again! I honestly think it was to do with the stresses I was going through in my life at that time: 4 teenaged DSs, one with SLD & ASD, DH working abroad. Life was just tough and that was reflected in my face (I felt! Thinking back, people used to say I looked well on it!) Now DSs are adult, I think I look younger at 57 than I did at 47.

Verbena37 · 16/02/2018 19:57

Totally depends on what I’m wearing (mumsy looks older than going out for the night). Or depends on how knackered I am, which since about 38 (I’m now 40), has been pretty much full time knackered!

Weight also makes a difference. I seem to have much nicer skin now than in my early 30’s but again, when I’m tired, my skin looks pale and washed out.

I reckon, if I lost a lot of weight and had a child who actually didn’t need me sitting with him going to sleep around 12:30 every night, I’d look pretty ok until 50

woodhill · 16/02/2018 19:59

Clarins double serum helps but yeah it all catches up.

Lulu777 · 16/02/2018 20:00

I recently turned 40 and feel like it's hitting me now. I've always had a kind of youthful, natural look, which I can't quite carry off now. I've been experimenting with makeup and hair, but I think ultimately it's about acceptance. I had twins at 33 and my god but they have aged me! I look so young in the photos when they were born and so does DH... he also looks his age (45) and judging by my friends' partners it's a complete myth that men age better than women!!!! Embrace the grey, the wrinkles, invest in good haircut and clothes.... that's my new motto.

HazelBite · 16/02/2018 20:01

I'm 66 and I'm still fabulous

Seriously, like a previous poster having a thyroid problem in my 40's changed my looks, howver I decided in my mid 30's that I shouldn't leave the house without make up, (for the greater good of the population in general).

I think its really up to you to make the best of yourself whatever age you are.

overnightangel · 16/02/2018 20:03

“But I still say, looks don't fade, you just change a bit. Not necessarily for the worst, unless you're in denial that you're getting older.”

This.

ReelingLush18 · 16/02/2018 20:04

DSibs and I were mistaken for teenagers well into our 30s. Sadly I no longer feel or look young for my age .

Too thin can be as ageing as being overweight, particularly if one has smoked for years too.

overnightangel · 16/02/2018 20:09

I have a Male friend from uni who I still see every so often, he looked like a (second rate) boyband member at the time when we were 19/20, all fresh faced, but now he’s a bit older he feels like his looks of gone but I think he looks like someone I want to jump on much better now with a touch of grey in his hair and in his stubble and has grown into himself a bit more. He was nice looking but shy I think attractiveness as you get older comes a lot from confidence and how comfortable you are in yourself (cheesy but true)

falsepriest · 16/02/2018 20:10

I was a cute little bugger at 5. Not so much in the 20 years since.

SukiTheDog · 16/02/2018 20:10

Nice one Hazel. I love to put my face on. For ME. No one else, just me!