I feel generally crappy about my appearance, particularly when trying to get dressed up. Any advice much appreciated!
I'm 38, with a BMI of 22 (163cm, 58kg).
I have naturally red/blonde hair, blonde eyelashes and eyebrows; blue/white skin with lots of moles and freckles; light blue eyes. With this colouring, makeup always makes me look like I'm in drag - just looks awful.
I grew up in Australia, and live in NZ, and do a lot of sport, so have quite badly sun-damaged skin, with big forehead and eye wrinkles.
My hair is very thin and very fine, and tends to look bald at the back, unless it's held in a ponytail. But the ponytail always looks kind of wrong, and looks like an "Essex facelift" in photos because my hair is so thin. Short haircuts have always looked awful though - again, my hair is too thin. I think I might look better with grey hair - at the moment, thin, long, slightly curly hair on me looks like an old person in an inadequate wig.
My teeth aren't great, they're a bit crooked and two incisors are broken and grey. I can't get them capped because they'll probably just crumble to bits (and I can't afford it anyway).
Generally I feel ok about my appearance when covered in sweat and mud, red-faced, having just run up a mountain or something. I look much like anyone else in a pair of nylon shorts and a merino tshirt. I have the figure of a middle-aged runner, i.e. flat chest, muscly legs, with not much of a waist, but not actually particularly fat.
When trying to look good, I feel fat, awful, self-conscious. I always look terrible in photos from formal events. Makeup looks bad. No makeup looks bad. Hair always looks dreadful. Clothes never fit properly and always look unironed. Colours look wrong, black looks harsh. Grey tshirt and black pants kind of look OK but most of my wardrobe isn't grey or black. It's beginning to get me down that I always look so terrible.
HELP!!!!