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 ?

Very shortly after my 40th birthday, sorry OP! I had surgery which affected my hormones, which is probably why. I aged about ten years seemingly over a few months. It won't be so very long till I'm 50, and I'm hoping that, with a bit of self care, I'll make it to that bday looking good for my age.

Will everyone please stop banging on about having your hair coloured regularly and how those telltale roots will age you ?

Skin tone lightens with age. Hair going silver will actually suit that tone better. I believe it looks more ageing to see very dark obviously coloured hair with a lighter skin tone and some wrinkles.

I grew out the silver after twenty years of colouring it. My hair has never been in better condition and I don't worry about the badger stripe after four weeks. I enjoy my silver as am aware some people don't make it to my age.

I think drinking lots of water helps ageing skin, along with wearing less makeup as you get older. Less is more. I started to look older in early forties. Sometimes looking at an old photo of yourself can be a bit of a shock !

This thread is depressing. I pray that by the time my 10 yr old dd is middle aged we would have moved on from this. I don’t want her growing up with the notion that her looks and age are the only thing going for her. She is very pretty and people tell her that all the time but rather than be pleased with that it annoys me because they don’t comment on her beautiful personality or beautiful nature. We age, it’s part of living, a privilege some don’t get. I’d rather look at a lovely, smiley lined and well lived face than a tight, shiny botoxed and filled one that has a weird robotic smile and still doesn’t look youthful just strange! Just look at all those ‘housewives of...’ tv series, those women are all 40’s/50’s and look just wrong, not younger just urgh!!

I was doing fine until about 36. It all went abruptly south from there. Nearly 41 now and when I look in the mirror I am shocked to find Theresa May peering back at me. I figure I'm just going to focus on my beautiful mind for the rest of my life and pretend my face doesn't exist.

This year 😭😭😭
I'm 42 and suddenly noticing lots of wrinkles and crinkles 😐

Whatever age you are when you have children 😂 another one in the mid-30’s club here but I feel like I’ve aged 10 years in the last 10 months since having my DS!

I got married at age 31.Met my sister at the station the night before the wedding, hadn‘t seen her for a couple of years. (Hen dos weren‘t thst big in those days). She got off the train and the first thing she said to me was, ‚Jesus! You‘ve aged!‘.

Since turning 40. I've always had good skin, but now I look harder somehow. I try harder to look groomed otherwise I look like a bag lady. I also noticed my first wrinkles under my eyes the other day. I don't really worry about it though. I've never relied on my looks and never had a lot attention from men. I look nice and I make an effort, so i am doing ok!

It was fine until 45. I'm 48 tomorrow and look tired I think now. Or sad. The droopy eyes are annoying. I'm happier but I need to tell my face.

You can bet your life no man would start a thread like this.

About four years ago, at age 49, I was indirectly paid a great compliment by an old friend of my DH, who I hadn't seen for a decade (and who I never got on with that well).

We bumped into each other in the street and he just stared at me and said "What are you on? What are you taking? What've you had done?!" I apparently hadn't aged a bit in his opinion!

I had the same experience in reverse last week. I bumped into a very attractive old friend at the gym, who I think is now 49, and she looked incredible - not a day older than when I'd last seen her a decade earlier. I really wanted to go for a coffee with her and grill her about what she does/takes to look that good. Maybe next time!

I’m 52 and still look very well. I am fortunate to have very good genes.

28ish

You can bet your life no man would start a thread like this

Damn right. They're discussing more important topics. No wonder women can't take on top jobs.

I don't know. I stopped giving a shit in my mid 30s, a decade ago.

Great post speakout! I tend to agree.

"Youth is wasted on the young" (Oscar Wilde) is my favourite quote ever as it's so true!!

40. White hair at my temples WHITE!!! Veiny eyes, wrinkly hands, knackered all the time...

You can bet your life no man would start a thread like this

Who cares, they have their own boring shit to deal with. We don't have to be the same as men to be equal to them.

My undereye area is looking particularly faded today. No matter how much sleep I get, or how much moisturiser I slather on they always look crepey. I feel like smearing all my mirrors with Vaseline.

I don't think that we really know. I used to lament my loss in 30s/40s but now i see old photos and i was quite cute. But now, mid 50s, menopause has arrived fully and I'm beginning to notice a new phase.

I made it a point not to over wash my face, no cigs. Little alcohol and weightbearing exercise and yoga. My breasts are happily still in an alright place after dc bf and good exercise habits.
An odd aside, I'm usually considered pretty, in life but I'm horribly unphotogenic. Horrid photos, even my loved ones cringe.

I needed a head shot for something and bc I'm so embarrassed, I took my own photo/selfie in the bathroom mirror. I was surprisingly not horrid. When i told my son, he said our photos taken in the mirror are "the way we truly look."

I can only hope. :-)

Around 45. I'm nearly 49 now and ageing very fast. When I was in my late 30s people used to say I looked 10 years younger because I have quite babyish features - chipmunk cheeks, large eyes, full lips, small nose - which make me feel quite grotesque now if I'm honest.

I'm standing up for older women, looks don't care they change. I can't understand this obsession with youth when being older is a natural phenomenon. It a load of hogwash from the beauty industry, and magazines where women in their 40s try to convince us that we should all look in our 20s

My face still looks ok, but my hair is rubbish now and I'm too fat. People guess my age at 35, I'm 45. I think I mostly lost my looks around the same time as getting pregnant. Luckily I don't care too much about appearance.

I don't know re men - we went to a wedding last year and met a few of my husband's friends that he hadn't seen in a decade. They were really taking the Mickey out of his grey hair and calling him a silver fox, then teasing another bloke for having a middle aged gut. I thought they were really cruel to each other.

“You can bet your life no man would start a thread like this”

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Plenty of men’s forums out there that discuss the same stuff

41 for me. This year so far I’ve found out I’ve got high cholesterol, 2 of my teeth have cracked/chipped off and now I need glasses. I’ve put on a stone since turning 40 which actually I believe is filling out some fine lines. Neck is just starting to go too.