Beautiful signs of aging

[KoreyBay18]

Crows feet!

I love them. I think they make any face instantly more beautiful.

What are your favourite most beautiful signs of aging?

My multi toned grey hair.

My single (at the moment) silver curl, it looks really pretty.

Ooh this is encouraging. I'm 30 but been going grey since 25, and I'm aiming to eventually ditch the dye. Glad to see the first two comments embracing the beauty of silver hair!

This is brilliant!

I have some little creases on the side of my mouth that I think add character

@Ionlydomassiveones I honestly think this happened to me immediately after I left my exhusband. Still raising a young child but the stress and worry was gone and I glowed.

@happylittletree that is lovely! So beautiful to see on your face just how much you have smiled in your life.

Some women really lighten up once the worry and anxiety of raising children is over. Nothing more lovely than a relaxed face and an easy laugh

That’s pretty sexist and misogynistic

I'm 34 and love the grey streaks

Pure white hair and how my face looks more sculpted and cheek bones more defined as my skin has lost elasticity.

“ Some women really lighten up once the worry and anxiety of raising children is over. Nothing more lovely than a relaxed face and an easy laugh

That’s pretty sexist and misogynistic”

Um…it’s the truth - to some extent!

I say to some extent as mums always worry about their kids even when the kids are like 30 years old!! But not as much as they did when they were in some charge of them.

My hair has gone wavy! I love it! The texture has completely changed and it's weird but brilliant!

I also love hands as they age - thinning skin almost crepe paper like, more prominent veins. I think it looks really elegant.

@Elieza raising kids doesn’t make women uptight or ‘ugly’.

Do you think the same about men?

I've kept my hair long, and stopped dying it 2/3 years ago, it's long and grey now, and I love it! Also helps grey is trendy at the moment

@Flowersinthefireplace no I don’t because I don’t think men worry as much about children in the first place so they wouldn’t get so much relief after they grew up and weren’t so much their responsibility.

Now that’s a sweeping generalisation but it’s based on all the dads I know. It was always the mums who worried most. I don’t know a single dad who worried more about a child than it’s mum did. Again, this is based on people I know.

I’m not saying it should be like this. I’m just saying that it’s the way I see it happening. Whether it’s politically correct or not is of no interest to me. It’s just the truth.

I don’t know any gay couples with children well enough to answer for them. My answers are based on straight couples I know.

@Elieza I’m sorry that you and your friends have a these unfair relationships then. Always strive for better, you deserve it

@KoreyBay18

Crows feet!

I love them. I think they make any face instantly more beautiful.

What are your favourite most beautiful signs of aging?

I love a swathe of grey in dark hair.

This thread puts me in mind if these lyrics. I find it a lovely song, very much a love song, written decades in to a relationship.

I’m SO tired of starting to read interesting threads only to see them derailed by another poster honing in one one seemingly un PC comment. It’s so fucking boring.

@Ionlydomassiveones you are so right. I’m not far off 40 and I still love clothes and care about my appearance but I definitely care a lot less about what anyone else thinks of me and it is liberating.

@Flowersinthefireplace why is it sexist and misogynistic? I’m not asking to be shitty, I genuinely want to know why you think that?

@Journeynotdestination

I’m SO tired of starting to read interesting threads only to see them derailed by another poster honing in one one seemingly un PC comment. It’s so fucking boring.

Yeah this is true - no thread is complete without the words " internalised mysogyny " 🙄

Feet that look as if they've walked a lot of miles, clad in flip flops.
Nicely scrubbed, clean toenails, and weathered skin.

I’m much older than you OP

I love my slightly weathered skin, I look so healthy. My natural grey hair with its interesting variations in shade. My laughter lines. I even love my slightly rounded belly.
I don’t need to impress, I don’t need to be noticed, I can just ‘be’

I love the way the grey has come into my hair. It’s the platinum blonde highlights that my hairdresser said she couldn’t do for my hair type.

And the changes in the skin around my eyes make them look kinder and friendlier.

Oh, and I’ve always had scars on my arms, but they have faded and mellowed and look more like part of me.

I also look hot in reading glasses

I needed this thread today! Thank you.