Whats your secret if you regularly get told you look younger than your age

[AnandaKonda]

I think it is largely genetics .. do things like sun screen, water, diet, yoga etc really help?

ILikeYourHairyHands

Envy!!! Those cheekbones :) Face structure, expensive looking hair...but its the wicked smile that does it!!

Aplos for sounding weird!!!

Ha! Clarice.

It's confidence, it's always confidence that does it.

The rest is just flim-flammery

And my hair is as natural as it gets. I just use a good mask once a week.

I haven't been to a hairdresser for four years.

@ILikeyourHairyHands

I just want to say...I love your attitude you're absolutely inspirational 🙌🏻 and also look great but I don't think you'll care I think that

I've recently posted a thread as I'm turning 40 and struggling big time. Many of the replies were pretty depressing tbh as it was people feeling similar to me when I was hoping for positivity. But your posts on here have helped my mindset a bit. So thank you.

I put it down to being on HRT. I feel so much younger than my peers.

Being short and a healthy weight. People equate small with young.

Botox. I've dry skin that lines easily, this makes a huge difference.

Dressing in fashionable, flattering clothes. Dowdy clothes and hair automatically age anyone, regardless of how good their skin is.
Numerous times I've thought people were older than me because of the way they dress.

Personality. I've an outwardly relaxed and generally fun perspective on things. Inside I'm a stressed mess!

Goodness Diane, I don't know what to say.

Older women are inspirational. Physically, mentally, and emotionally.

I feel utterly wonderful at my age. Professionaly I'm peaking, physically I feel better than I ever have. Sexually and regarding relationships I feel completely in control.

Middle age is powerful as fuck.

Dont think its genetics at all (or if it is, its only a minor factor).

Thats speaking as a twin. We obviously have the same genetics but i would say she looks much older than me. It comes down to lifestyle.

The major difference is that she smoked for 25 years. Its impacted her skin when you get up close. She partied too in her 20s and 30s, stressful job. Then had children well into her 40s.

We're late 40s now and look like theres maybe 8-10years between us.

Africa there's 11 months netween me and my nearest sister, we couldn't be more different. Nowt to do with smoking.

My skin looks better.

Being short only youthful if you are thin

Jmo

Some people look good for their age and have a youthful vibe but I don’t really think that means anything.

If EVERYONE looks ten years younger then I think that just means overall we’re aging better as a society in some ways.

I was in a fitness class associated with work some years ago and a guy in it was a squaddie .

He was (allegedly) surprised at some of us in our 30’s were the age we said (me and a few others).

Tbh I think it was just that he had limited social experience and probably wasn’t used to seeing or interacting with a wide variety of women from reasonably diverse middle class backgrounds

so as we weren’t displaying “signs he associated with older women” he was guessing based on that? Or it was to do with us being in training and he didn’t really get the idea of “second careers”?

Or quite possibly he was trying to be flattering to us oldies based on the fact that he knew we were all away from home/staying in hotels and he might have been on the pull ?

Online dating is the big one where people lie - and it’s ALWAYS obvious, even if someone has a fit body or is active or looks a certain way from certain angles or in certain photos.

There’s a lot of things that aren’t communicated honestly in terms of appearance and estimated age is one of them.

The mum of an ex-colleague of mine had been dumped for a younger woman and was on a mission to prove she could “turn back the clock” and compete with younger women

(three hour sessions at the gym, lots of appearance related stuff, eating only fruit, Botox etc)

She looked good in a way but definitely looked her age. I saw some photos of her in some “classy” cocktail bar in a fitted dress and they’re nice photos but just show a woman who looks her age with quite a “done” look.

Plus the constant “trying to start conversations about her gym interest/her appearance” meant that most people would pander to her humblebragging and offer a compliment out of politeness but not really know what else to say apart from that?

So unfortunately I suspect it then became a bit of an “emperors new clothes” situation with her thinking that she really looked 30.

Well I'm sorry for her Yellow.

Genetics .
Never smoked .
A modern hairstyle
Fashionable clothing ( but not victim)
Botox on forehead
but most important is your ATTITUDE.

I do and no idea as I tan, drink wine and not much water, I'm quite thin and do gym / sauna/ yoga/ aqua aerobics.

I work in a young job maybe that's why

I adore older women.

It's amazing all the people I read about on here who are 50/60 with "no wrinkles"..I have never ever met anyone over 45 with no wrinkles!
I agree that looking "young" is not that important, but how you feel shows all over your face. At 28 and my marriage breaking up I looked 38. 2 years later I looked early 20s.
I smoked for 25 years and drank like a sailor, but when I was happy I looked great.
I'm envying your hair ILikeYourHairyHands. I saw a women in a cafe yesterday with really long, wild streaky silver hair and thought it looked amazing. Mine is still quite black but when the time comes I will embrace the wild witch look!

Cover any gray hair, avoid the sun for most of your life, no smoking or drinking, moisturise, good bone structure, stay fit, and genetics.

I have a round , chubby face.
I eat a shit ton of vegetables and fruit.
I dont wear any make up.

Cover any gray hair, avoid the sun for most of your life, no smoking or drinking, moisturise, good bone structure, stay fit, and genetics But it sounds such a dull way to live! What is life without a glass of chilled Vouvray on the grass? A sneaky fag if you fancy it? All to look younger? Hiding from the sun? I sunbathe, adore it, but not my face. I drink wine, I have the odd ciggie. I love when folk say I look younger than my years but it's only a bonus, not the point. Life is for living.

@NorthEndGal I took the face structure after my father, kinda square and chubby as a kid. It's served me well as I age as it seems it is the shape of face that holds up well against jowls and seems to have a bit extra collagen

@itwaseverthus for sure, generics can play out over time, and it's not always clear how it will go

DP looks a decade younger than his age because he is very fit due to cycling, and he has a full head of thick dark hair at 51 due to genetics. It isn’t even starting to recede. Some people refuse to believe it’s 100% natural. That’s because they haven’t met his dad or his brothers.....

Oddly, it's health fanatical joggers I know who are really starting to age badly. They seem to have so little fat on their faces that everything looks so droopy. Healthy hearts of course. But knackered knees. Swings and roundabouts.

I was stopped at the till the other buying candle lighters (you know the clicking type), and asked for ID.

I had all of my three kids with me (10,7 and 2) and I am 35 years old.

I regularly get told I look younger (my eldest has started to roll her eyes every time she hears it because she thinks I'm a total dinosaur ) . It's nice to hear it as I don't bloody feel it!

I don't drink or smoke, I cleanse my face every night. I use tretinoin. Moisturiser and lots of it. And I try not to frown too much. (Kind of hard with three kids though)