To be fed up of this woman on FB?

[AquaBee]

Firstly she runs an MLL business which specialises in beauty. So that probably has something to do with it.
Anyway, she is how 41 and ever since she was 40, she has gone on and on about greying hair, ageing skin and deep fine lines that she is now experiencing. Most days there is a post about it and yes as I said, a large part is to sell her products I know. But also, the idea that 40 is decrepit and that you have to work super hard to look halfway decent is just absurd to be honest. I have blocked her now but aibu to feel like this ?

@BreadInCaptivity

The first few responses to this effect are being complete serious

Is it Tropic? I got a peek into the scary world of Tropic when I went to a ‘party’ and saw how culty it was, it really creeped me out and the ‘ambassador’ (lol) did the same self deprecating “Ooh my laughter lines!” Nonsense. She looked great. They also practically orgasm over its founder, the bird of the Apprentice who was as dumb as a brick. They MUST be told to say how pretty she is. This ‘ambassador’ waffled on for 5 minutes about “isn’t Susie beautiful”. I was sitting there thinking I’d signed up for a facial.

She added me on FB and I keep her on as a source of amusement - the ‘before and after’ pictures are my favourites. “This is my forehead before using Overpriced Orange Serum and this one is after”. We can see you frowning in the first one Julie, your knitted eyebrows give you away!

I suspect these people may be overweight and that’s what’s flattening the wrinkles out

I have no idea who this woman is but people with wrinkles aren't doing anything "wrong".
My forehead has tons of lines and I'm only 42. It's generic. I have zero crows feet at my eyes while other people my age do start to age there first.
Who cares. It's all normal and nothing to be worried about.

*genetic

Surely you are not forced to follow her?

You either sound jealous or have big issues

I’m 37 and have a face like a sad scrotum …. Getting old is a privilege that not all of us enjoy.

37 also. I don't understand the offence here as I have a face like a bag of spanners compared to when I was in my early twenties. Most people my age and over do have to work harder to look halfway decent. It's not absurd, it's simply fact. (Apologies to the naturally-line-free-from-a-dab-of-Astral brigade on here).

Also- saleswoman attempts to appear relatable by waffling about herself and hopes to trigger same insecurities in women around 40 (her market), thus peddling her snake oil. Is that not what they all do? You've blocked her now so I don't get the big fuss unless I'm missing something.

@Minimili Apparently it's a thing you can get through the menopause. But I am 40 and have had itchy ears since I was a teenager. I think it's probably an allergy to something. Allergies can just appear out of nowhere.

When I was a kid at high school, anytime you went to see the school nurse with nausea/headache/broken leg, the nurse asked if you were pregnant. To me the peri/menopause thing is like that. Once you get to 35, whatever the symptom is it's because of peri and you may as well just shrivel up and die. So depressing.

Same but I am 59, I got asked for ID in tesco. Don't have a wrinkle on me either. Not one line lol

I’m 104 and have to remember to take my ID to nightclubs. So annoying

I'm 802 years old still get asked for ID on the odd night out.

This thread is sad

Someone with wrinkles can still look more than halfway decent

Once you lose the mentality that to look decent you have to look very young, the world becomes easier and cheaper and you become happier

This is how I feel when someone about a size 12 goes on about how fat they are.
I tend to agree now and say they look awful. It tends to shut people up.

Like I say, I think many people crowing they don’t have one line are overweight and the fat is ironing out the wrinkles. TBH I’d rather have wrinkles than have such an overweight face.

OMG we need to be friends, I do the same 🤣 I don’t take kindly to fishing. If you want people to say you look great say “how do I look”.

Who is she to you to be on your Facebook?

I'd say she's unreasonable to talk such shit, but you were unreasonable not to a) call her out on it or b) block her earlier.

I think the laughing emoji is appropriate for those kind of comments.

As you say - she's just trying to flog her crappy MLM products by implying that we all need to be paranoid about ageing. YANBU to be annoyed and you've done the right thing by blocking or muting her.

I love skincare and makeup, and I'm 48. Yeah, there are some things about my face that I preferred when I was 25, but on balance I'm pretty happy with the way things are going. Also, I don't seem to be experiencing any perimenopause symptoms yet and I don't have any grey hair so your (former!) friend can do one!

She's getting ripped off buying these shitty products and pretending to run a business. She's forced by the cult of pyramid selling to post hundreds of nonsense to shill her tat at all human and financial cost!

🤣 I'm not fat it's genetic. I know plenty of healthy looking people over 50 who aren't wrinkly. I'm not scrawny though. Just a healthy weight. But some of them are very slim. I also know some skinny ones who are very wrinkly but they don't have a good diet.

I knew a lady of 90 without wrinkles. My friend's aunt. No work done but she had always looked after her skin.

It's often just the luck of the draw.

Well I'm two hundred and eighty seven, I have no wrinkles and I smell of apple and cinnamon so there.

I'd have been tempted to keep her unblocked and troll the shyte out of her, but I'm just a 40 year old whose fat pads out her wrinkles and is reasonably sure I don't smell, despite also being perimenopausal, and I sure as shit don't use MLM crap.

Bet you don't look as smooth as me

Ah yes I remember the “could you be pregnant” questions!

It is highly possible I just have an allergy or it’s just from wearing AirPods constantly like I originally suspected.

I didn’t realise how much I’d get treated as worn out and decrepit in my late 30’s, it is hugely depressing when men are getting the opposite treatment and not as if they are on the scrap heap. I’d heard that women become invisible and I’m really starting to feel it’s true.
I know some women don’t care about getting older and actually feel more confident with age and embrace it. I’m hanging on to my youth with a vice like grip and wishing I’d appreciated it more!