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 ?

Early 50s for me.

As soon as I had kids and swapped sleep for cake.

Maybe about 60 for me. I know I will forever look young

I am still simply stunningly gawgeous at 47. But I keep it well hidden

I'm going to be sixty next birthday and am told I look 45. Mainly just feel grateful to be alive and to feel the same in my head as I did at around thirty. I think that sunshine ages skin faster than anything so I always wear sunblock on my face March - October, and don't sunbathe. I'm a bit overweight but not what you'd call fat ... well, some people might! ... and I really love clothes. Looking back at photos I was at my very best at 28 and then around 40, but pretty good now too. I have noticed that I have to spend a lot more on "maintenance" than I did, and Wouldn't mind a neck lift, but in the main feel lucky. The only real bummer is that I can no longer wear high heels! Also have to evaluate whether some items of clothing are too young for me, such as the low heeled silver ankle boots I had my eye on last year and eventually decided that would be straying into "mutton" territory.

I think I have become better looking as I got older - am mid-30s. I becams more groomed, more confident and I have strong features which seem to be bearing up well. I am slim, slap on sunscreen (only ever got burnt once on the back of my legs as a child) and eat healthily but also enjoy the odd drink!

My only concern is my acne scarring - rolling scars which I know will look worse as I lose collagen in my skin :( Seeing a very fancy Harley St dermatologist to sort it all out though!

I have gone the other way around. I started to look much better in my mid 30s.

It helps that I had children at a young age and I've now got more time to spend on how I look now.

I don't have wrinkles yet at 36 and my fringe took some years off me.

I'm 25, still look good in my eyes.

Don't smoke, drink or do drugs. Think I'll still have it when I'm 90.

Yesterday! I am 53 and yesterday I looked in the mirror and thought “oh no”.
I have always worn factor 30 plus sunscreen, never smoked and that and good genes has meant the ravages of time have held off a bit .
I love some of the comments here though.
I have met superficially gorgeous 20 something’s with no depth and gorgeous 80year olds with lined faces but character and wisdom - I want to be that 80 year old!

My mum is still very beautiful at aged 62, and so is my 70 year old aunt.

So no, looks don't fade with age, but mine got better with age.

Looking older does not mean your looks start to fade.

41 - now. I suddenly look like a pie that's been left in the rain. I didn't mind a few lines and tbf the lines are still less than some people I know in their 20s, it's the sagging. Even my eyelids are sagging, though they were always puffy/hooded anyway.

I don't know how much is due to age and how much to putting on a lot of weight in teh last 2-3 years, but it's not a good look.

48 in a few weeks and I feel like I look terrible all of a sudden. I was really poorly in the summer and I think illness has helped age me

Exactly the same here Arch it’s so depressing. When your eyes are naturally hooded anyway, ageing makes them disappear altogether. Some mornings I wake up looking like a Shar Pei. 😩

Mine faded at birth.

35 - I looked in the mirror a week after my birthday and spotted the grey hairs. I look like a fat, frumpy middle aged hag and I hate it.

45 but as soon as I cut out sugar, I can knock years off

I’m 43. Last year a lady couldn’t/wouldn’t believe I had a 15 year old son. She said she thought I was her age, I looked at her and said I probably am. I thought She was 34 or 35. She said she was 28.

I know I look younger than my years but I’m not THAT young looking. Height, weight, lifestyle and genes.

I noticed my mum started looking her age after she turned 60.

35 for me too actually. It really was a turning point. I was 43 yesterday and am sitting in a private hospital right now awaiting my two procedures I’m having done this morning to sort out my drooping, hooded eyes. My skin is absolutely fine, but the genes I got from my father re. weak forehead and deep set eyes have done me no favours at all.

This is a sad thread. Don’t we have it hard enough? Why should we be thinking our looks ( if such a thing exist) exist only so far and then that’s it? Do we then disappear and become less loveable and desirable? What’s the implication? I want to be loved for me, not what I look like.

Am in my 60s. Until a year ago I looked much younger but I suddenly began to look my age. Turkey neck, lip spread, dark hairs on my upper lip, unfurrowable brows, wrinkled forehead, hair all grey. Not at all how I want to look but a bit of slap and some hair colour help. I guess the decline was happening all along, I just didn't notice!

I think about 33 for me. My face suddenly went very gaunt and has stayed that way (36 now). I don't have any wrinkles, I just look...different.

I'm 28 and it's not so much fading, but losing it's elasticity. It doesn't look young and fresh anymore.

My hands are worse.

38

NOW age 42, coinciding with having a 3 year old and a new baby last year. Being a mum has definitely sped the ageing along!

46 was a turning point. Mostly the eyes just looking tired really with more pronounced dark circles. Just a general tiredness about the face that wasn't there before.

I quit booze recently, not for cosmetic reasons but it really has helped bring colour back to my cheeks. My skin is brighter since quitting and I suspect it's because I sleep better now.