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?

@Bread - I use Astral everyday

There's a lady in my mum's street - she must be in her seventies - and she honestly looks about late fifties. She's small and slim, with cropped hair and looks fantastic in jeans. No makeup. Always on the go. Unbelievable. Her 54 year old daughter hasn't aged anywhere near as well.

Here's my 75-year-old Dad. He likes a drink.

It's a mixture of attitude and genetics that keeps one alive and engaging with life. There is no secret youth formula, there just isn't.

It's just luck and attitude really.

My mother’s genetics, my short stature and my wife/round baby face.

Yes, I am still interested in the world and embrace changes just so that they're OPTIONS, I don't rule out fashions cos I'm too old, I rule them out if they don't flatter, my ear hears new terminology and I'm not afraid of new technology, but but* but I don't want to care too much if young people other me for having aged. This part is hard. So I want to be able to learn from the wisdom on older women who've aged before me. Love a good podcast as well as a fashion youtuber my age! Lourdes Viado Phd one of my favourite collections of women's wisdom. Trying to stay current but focus on health, strength, confidence. I want to look GOOD but I want to be able to let go of the need to look conventionally attractive. It's an ongoing project.

My mother talked me in to getting my hair cut off at 46 and it just stuck up on end because it's so frizzy. She was delighted with my lady's do. Finally. She'd been nagging me for 6 years. I tried to embrace it and then started growing it a while ago. It will be easier to style.

But 2 other factors are to have been good looking to start with. I think so many of these youtube gurus who gush on about ageing positively, they look good now because they were always good looking women. Harder for the rest of the population who had very ordinary faces lifted by youth.

I'm trying to shift my focus. I want to look healthy and vibrant. And good.

Smiling I think automatically makes people look younger

I really do think most people look their age, they may look 'good' or 'bad' for it, but for the huge majority of people it's very easy to guess how old they are.

I agree with this. You can look good for your age, or bad for your age. It's also very very hard to tell how old people ar due to this variation. As such I also think most people look their age, it's just hard to guess that within a few years once you hit thirties. Much easier to say thirties, forties etc,

I also don't get thr obsession with looking younger. I want to look good for my age, not younger but ageing badly.

Well do it then Slightly, I was never conventionaly attractive, I always ploughed my own furrow and I Never listened to anything anyone said about me, good or bad.

I simply didn't care, because the only person whose opinions mattered when it came to me were mine.

It sounds a bit arrogant, but I'm not. And I'm very helpful and lovely, and I understand.

But I've never ever let anyone diminish me or make me feel bad. I have very strong boundaries and have from a young age, and I allow myself to feel beautiful and comfortable with myself. I don't think many women allow themselves to feel that.

I eat a plant based diet

The past 5 years

I am nearly 40 and some times I get told I look in my 20s x

Mostly genetics. My brother looks young too so it must be mostly down to genes. I do wear sunscreen daily, use decent products, eat well, don't smoke, rarely drink and exercise daily though. Honestly, without bragging, I am early 50s but genuinely look 38/40. I do dress pretty young - think sneakers, current shaped jeans, no weird clothes that women are supposed to wear as they age (sticking to V-necks, bit of cleavage, pastels, those awful cardigans with ziggy zag hems, God knows what else). i just wear what I like.

Also it’s one’s attitude to life.
Those with a ‘young’ attitude usually look younger

I think being a shortarse helps - people assume you’re years younger than you actually are.

There also seems to be this thing that happens in people’s mid 30s where they “give up on foolish things” and start dressing sensibly/wearing “grown up” makeup, spending evenings watching TV instead of anything interesting etc. Men even more than women. If you haven’t done that, then even if you have grey hair and the most lined forehead in the world, some people will still think you look mid-20s.

You look fabulous @ILikeYourHairyHands as does your dad! Great attitude to life.

People who get told this regularly fish for compliments.

I get told it most often from sales assistants who ID me when I buy cigarettes. I don't find it a compliment at all.

I look very slightly younger than my real age. And have had children and my fair share of stress in recent years. But I know I do because people tend to think I’m younger than my younger sister. I think I smile more than her and the biggie is that I’ve protected my skin from sun damage since my twenties (I’m early fifties now). I also try hard not to have an old voice. I used to work in broadcasting and noticed then that older women sounded old. I think I deliberately ‘lift’ and lighten my voice as a result. What a weirdo eh?!

Woo ilikeyiurhands! Your dad!!!

I’m 37, and got asked for ID the other week, so even if the guy misjudged, I probably do look younger than I am. (I had ds at 19, and people frequently think we’re brother and sister.) I think it’s genes. I’ve smoked, sunbathed, and eat ok but not obsessively; I’m short and thin though. Flip side is that I have a chronic illness, so I might look young some days, but I feel about 90.

Have a baby at 44. I'm.now53 with an 8 year old and everyone assumes I'm in my early 40s because of it...defo not due to my looks 🙄

Genetics and I’ve used an SPF face cream (many different brands over the years) since I was about 12. I have also always drunk a lot of water. But I also eat crap and drink a lot of wine.
But my grandmother is almost 92 and looks about 80 and my mother is 70 and looks about 55 so I get it from them (I’m 41 and people think I’m 30).

I know The, he was climbing in the Appalachians there.

He climbs all over the world since he retired.

And cross country skies in the off-season.

l've looked after my skin since l was 13. Even though l had cystic acne in my mid teens, l've been very lucky and l don't have any obvious scars (l know there are a couple, but when l've told people about the acne they can't believe l'm not heavily scarred from it).

Only once in my life have l not taken my makeup off before bed. That was the night l was in hospital waiting for surgery on a broken ankle and l had nothing to take it off with. l was off my face on morphine the next day when my husband brought my stuff in, and l couldn't wait to clean my face and get some moisturiser on.

Otherwise, l think it's genetic. My dad never looked his age, and l'm told l don't either.
Also, l'm carrying a couple of stone and l think that helps your plump out any wrinkles. l've really only got a few laugh lines round my eyes, which isn't bad for over 60. Oh, and l drink tons of water.

I've never taken my makeup off. Ever..

i’m very short and very petite in build so that alone i think often gets me ID’d. also have colourful dyed hair and sometimes still dress a bit like a teen - don’t ‘act my age’

genetics, not smoking or really drinking and sunscreen accounts for the rest.

i’m 32 and think i could get away with saying i’m 26/27 pretty easily

Don't have kids
Don't smoke
Dress well

I have kids
I smoke.
I dress well.