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Feeling quite aggressive about ageing

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FluffyCubs · 25/05/2015 19:43

Got a face fulla fillers but I just need radical.
I'm saving for a facelift
And bought a dermastamp
And am now considering ingesting untested c60 to combat ageing, even joined a bit of a cranky forum (longecity)

Anybody else being quite obsessed and stepping beyond creams etc?

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Sallystyle · 26/05/2015 22:02

women* I do that every bloody time.

KatharineClifton · 26/05/2015 22:04

but noone but you cares or minds about you looking older

The BBC seemed to care a lot. Ask Miriam O'Reilly. And she's obviously not the only one.

AnyFucker · 26/05/2015 22:11

Are you saying then that Ms O'Reilly should have had plastic surgery to keep her job ?

That's a very slippery slope

suzannecanthecan · 26/05/2015 22:16

I dont think men look better with age, in my view the years are just as kind or unkind to men as they are to women ?
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KatharineClifton · 26/05/2015 22:17

Absolutely not AF! Just pointing out that people do care. Wrongly obviously.

Sallystyle · 26/05/2015 22:19

Unless the OP is famous I very much doubt anyone is going to be looking at her enough to really care if she has some wrinkles.

I don't go around looking at other women thinking less of them because they are ageing and unless you are famous I doubt very much if other people are taking all that much notice of you.

But it isn't about that is it? it is about how you feel inside but I do think it is such a shame that so many women have huge issues with ageing to the extent that they will go to great lengths to try to prevent the unpreventable.

I think botox on 11's etc can look good when done well, but when things get as drastic as face lifts and untested products I do think that is really bloody sad and probably points to deeper issues that will not be solved by these procedures.

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niminypiminy · 26/05/2015 22:47

As I age the things that really worry me about ageing are: arthritis, brittle bones, cancer, Parkinson's, dementia, people I love dying and getting ill. Wrinkles just don't seem such a big issue.

noddyholder · 26/05/2015 22:53

Get one of these have lost a few pounds in 5 days trying to catch him

suzannecanthecan · 26/05/2015 22:53

I'm concerned about major health issues too, I have always taken exceedingly good care of my overall health...dont drink, dont smoke, eat very healthily, always exercised and remained lean.

noddyholder · 26/05/2015 22:59

I have had major health issues all my life 2 transplants have heart failure (congenital) cancer in 2001 A medical student once said on reading my notes you know what it's like to be old. I battle these things every day and I see beauty etc as a fun distraction at times. Being ill doesn't change the desire to look your best it just puts it in perspective

Floisme · 26/05/2015 23:01

He's gorgeous Noddy. And you look pretty good yourself. And I don't mean 'for your age'

And thank to you, niminy I like your thoughts too.

noddyholder · 26/05/2015 23:04

He is so full of beans it's rubbing off :) thanks

Greengardenpixie · 26/05/2015 23:05

I suppose people who have botox annoy others because they most often conceal that they have had it done. They present this image that everyone can look this good naturally at a particular age when clearly it is a lie and not the case. By that token when women age naturally eventually it could be a case that its then almost a shock to see wrinkles, that it will be not accepted by society to look right. I think thats a concern. Will we all have to get botox to be accepted in society in the future?

AnyFucker · 26/05/2015 23:25

It is entirely possible to age well without resorting to injecting poison into your face and spending a fortune on surgery that only puts off the inevitable (and makes natural aging look worse...a sagging face lift anyone ?)

I am often told I don't look my age but I really don't care. I am fit, healthy and for me that is all I need. I dread infirmity, not wrinkles.

BualadhBos · 26/05/2015 23:25

I am hoping that it will go the opposite way and people will look back like we do at the Elizabethians putting lead on their faces!

CrystalMcPistol · 26/05/2015 23:27

And plucking our hairlines till they've receded three inches back.

Floisme · 26/05/2015 23:53

This is one of my style heroines. 74 and she owns every day of it. Compare Jane Fonda who's of a similar age - I know who I'd rather look like.

And when I look around (in real life, not the media) I see loads of women who look their age and - in my opinion - look bloody fantastic. You can please yourselves but that's the way I want to look too.

AnyFucker · 26/05/2015 23:59

There is a lot of character in that face.

CrystalMcPistol · 27/05/2015 00:06

Irish Apfel for me. She's 93.

Floisme · 27/05/2015 00:06

Exactly. She's not afraid of frown lines or 'looking angry' but she still likes her lipstick. That's my kind of style.

AnyFucker · 27/05/2015 00:08

that jacket looks a bit itchy though < nods to the S+B title at the top of the thread >

AbsoluteGonk · 27/05/2015 03:59

I posted these in AIBU but will re-post here cos I'm so impressed with myself being able to post photos

Cate Blanchett, Naomi Watts and Mariella Frostrup with wrinkles and lines

ItsRainingInBaltimore · 27/05/2015 04:30

Yes. Me.

I am feeling positively murderous towards anyone young, peachy fresh and slim at the moment. I get insane urges to push them under cars, the smug gorgeous leggy young COWBAGS.

What is a dermastamp? I might need one. Hell, I'll try anything. I am going to get cheek fillers this summer hopefully as I have the most awful pronounced droop/sag thing going on on that boney spot directly under my eyes.

I am fifty soon. I'm thinking a facelift might be just the ticket for a special birthday present but I am so scared of getting it wrong.

I do keep seeing photos of American women who just didn't know when to stop with the work, and they look like completely hideous freaks, and all exactly the same in their freakish way. I really don't want that.

I have spent a fortune on good skincare over the last year (and by good I don't just mean fancy/expensive label, I mean putting in the research on what is actually good and effective in terms of ingredients.)

It's made fuck all difference so far to be honest. I don't look any better for it as far as I can tell. And my botox has all worn off again. I am terrible about keeping it up regularly - I keep thinking I won't have any more and then one day I look in the mirror and think 'who are you kidding? Botox isn't perfect but it's better than the alternative.' and back I go.

ItsRainingInBaltimore · 27/05/2015 04:36

Absolute I agree it's not about being spookily taut and smooth all over - I hate that very obviously botoxed up to the eyeballs. But you don't have to go completely OTT with it. And I bet all of those ladies you've shown there have either some botox or some fillers, or they've had the lightest of lifts, perhaps to the eyelids alone. I'd bet my last penny that they are not completely as nature intended.

Mariella definitely has botox there - look at her forehead, and total lack of number 11's. Plus she's got the telltale bunny crease across the top of bridge of her nose.

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