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 ?

Sun damage is a big one. I have a couple of friends who were blonde bronzed beauties in their youth with very leathery skin now. I'm always preaching at my young adult kids to get the sunscreen on.

I know loads of beautiful ladies of all ages. If you’ve got it, you’ve got it.

I’m 37 and still get compliments and hit on by men (sometimes a lot younger). I don’t smoke, rarely drink alcohol and use sun screen. Seems to be working so far

I agree with doobigeta too about a strong face.
I’m 37 and think I look better than I ever have done, yet I have some grey, wrinkles and could do with loosing a stone.
At 20 I had a very round face, but now as I’m losing my facial fullness my cheekbones are finally standing out, it’s great!!

For me it was about 40 and I had a facelift aged 44 I am now 46 and feel great.

I am late 50's and I work in a predominately young environment.

It was my birthday at the beginning of the month, so I was asked my age a fair few times.

I joking replied "Oh early 40's" and feeling it.....

My lovely staff didn't believe I was 'that old'. Shock horror!

I still haven't fessed up :)

I've lost mine completely in the last 3 months, 37yo. I don't even look human any more working on it though

I was stunning when younger, although I didn't really appreciate it or understand the repercussions of it. I think this was an advantage because I never really based my personality or life choices around my outward appearance.
I'm 40s now, and don't think I look worse, just different. I still get approached, still attract attention, but it's taken me years to mature into my looks. Taken me decades to understand that I can't escape people's first impressions of me.

Mid forties

Was just discussing with a friend - we always assumed it would be a gradual change but it's seems more to go in jumps of suddenly looking much older

Well I remember reading something that was widely circulated a couple of years ago that said that, for the average woman, it was 22 with a major drop at 26

In all fairness though I think that I list my looks when I became a mother so the age thing is quite irrelevant in my case.

I was helpfully told by a family member that I 'used to look really young' before having my baby!

At 45

mid forties... it's not the face that has changed.. it's my neck.. its really noticeable

Oh the neck. Yes I'd forgotten that. Oh dear.

I was fine until about 40 then hit the slippery slope.

35 (I'm 38). I don't think I'm unattractive now and still get compliments, and I'm fairly wrinkle-free, but my skin tone and jowls let me down and I just look... older. I don't smoke though and my hair has always been very thick and doesn't need dyeing (I have to yank out the odd grey hair every few weeks).

Wrinkles in my 30s didn't really bother me but my face started to sag in my mid-forties

i noticed my decline at 50, (others probably noticed it 40-onward..lol .) at 57 all i see is hooded eyes, crepey decolletage, emerging jowls, thinning hair;

i have noticed my 'peers' with similar, plus the puckered lip lines or 11 lines between the brows, (we are all easy-going, not health and fitness types) and one (smoker) has very dry-looking criss cross lines across her cheeks and noticeable droopy skin

1 'peer' who is 60, looks 40- slim, blond, firm-jaw , a few laughter lines, but slim and fit...not sure if its her healthy diet, no caffiene, little alcohol, regular 5k running, or her toy boy!!

also in our group we have one 60 yr old, red-head, fine, smooth skin, size 8, thick hair, bright eyes, never smoked but enjoys a drink,doesn't limit her diet, looks fab

As you get older it's said you have to choose between your face and your figure. Slightly plumper faces tend to look younger. And some slim women can look fairly scrawny.

I'm starting to notice it now at late forties.

I think it's a very individual thing.

Frankly, I look a lot younger than many of my friends at a similar age.

My DF (who I look like) looks a good 20 years younger than he is.

I've always been good re: skincare but smoked right through to my early forties - so no brownie points there.

I think a big part of it is staying relatively slim (size 12) and genetics tbh.

I have friends who have lived very "super" healthy lives that have aged worse than the "merry" smoking/drinking brigade friends.

Tbh I think taking care of your hair makes a big difference. I don't necessarily mean losing the grey - one friend absolutely looks better for going silver - more a great haircut and good basic day to day make up that isn't what you wore 10 years ago.

I find I look better now with less make up but a very defined haircut.

I'm also far more picky about clothes. I buy less, but more expensive quality items.

Upshot is I'm happy to be aiming for old but classy

Yes I have some wrinkles but fuck it - I've earned or enjoyed every one of them....

I don't think looks have to fade. They change, but you can be attractive at 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 and even later. It does take some work and, most of all, thinking.

I also think vegans look older earlier- the late-twenties ones I know easily look 10 years older.

I'm 47, I'd say at 40 you no longer feel young, for me anyway.

But, I do feel capable at this age, I'm not going to figure out much more than I can now, if that makes sense.

Fuck I'm 36 on Friday

Downhill from here