What do you do to try staying looking young?

[mumof5cn]

I'm 36 and always was blessed with looking young for my age....well until recently 😂 Over the last 6mths I am really beginning to look old!!

I've never really been one to use lotions and potions lol but maybe I need to start 🤣

It just got me thinking, what do other women do or use to help stay looking youthful?

@LunaNorth
I didn't say she looks plain! But it is a very - well, 'well-upholstered look' is the best description I can come up with. It's a lot of injectables, quite possibly surgery, a lot of hair colour and extensions, a lot of make-up, a lot of very serious underwear. In short, a lot of work. It's just not a version of 60 that I aspire to, any more than I aspire to Mary Beard's. But that's not a criticism of either woman, each of which are brilliant in their respective fields.

@ThorFull

I’m so disheartened to read that so many women are covering greys. I’m 36 and the greys are becoming very prominent on my dark hair. I’m determined to embrace them, while still exercising, eating well, cutting right back on alcohol (chocolate next). I’m considering some highlights(?) to perhaps blend them in a little, but certainly not to cover them. I’m wearing my bigger pieces of silver jewellery now I’m finally going out to work again, to complement my silver hair. I’m using oil treatments and looking at new hairbrushes to keep the greys smooth and not frizzy. I want to look my age- which is still young! But with silvery hair. I think it’s possible.

As with everything it's massively personal! I really don't want to be grey and will continue to cover them into very old age! I've always had shiny mid brown hair and so it's easy to keep the colour I have always had and loved. I personally think grey/white hair is massively ageing. A few of my friends have stopped dying their hair but I wouldn't dream of commenting anymore than they would criticise my choice!

Yes, I think grey hair is really ageing.

It can bloody fabulous when you have a full face of makeup on, and posing for a lovely photo. But day to day, all of the 'younger' women I know who have embraced the grey look much older now. And I feel like you have to make so much effort in other areas (eg. Hair always perfectly done, makeup, good clothes) all the time to counteract the ageing factor of they grey.

And yet on blokes it doesn't do this - I know it's just social conditioning but whhhyyyyyy!!!!

I agree grey hair is ageing, but even more ageing is the wrong colour. Often too dark.

Yes id rather have grey hair than look like george constanzas mother
I love that super well groomed look, when a woman has lovely makeup and beautiful earrings and contemporary clothes but... grey hair! It looks kind of incongruous and i like that.

Hmm I only know one woman who has gone grey relatively young and she looks great! She is very natural looking, does a lot of sport and doesn't seem to wear make up. She is also very cool. I think it looks great. That said, I don't even know if I have gone grey due to all the bleach in my hair 😬.

Do you think mine looks a bit too dark? It lightens each summer and I dye it once a year around November time and then do my roots every 3 to 4 weeks.

Grey hair is ageing on most people. I (have olive skin) wouldn't even wear a (light) grey top without makeup because it really makes me look sallow and old(er). Nothing wrong with wanting to colour greys. Nothing wrong with wanting to look younger provided you don't look ridiculous.

@NeedToGetOuttaHere
No, I think your hair looks great - very shiny too.

I remember standing behind a very chic woman in a Dinard Monoprix about 10 years ago, and thinking her way of going grey - dark hair very liberally sprinkled with immaculate silver streaks - was fabulous, and probably cost her 300 euros a pop. Checked it out with my (not particularly fancy) hair stylist back home, who confirmed that to achieve similar, I would need to first strip the dark pigment from my hair with bleach, then put the silver on top. And I'd probably need to do the bleaching over a period of about three months. And then maintenance.

So, I opted for the much simpler route of covering the small amount of grey to blend in with my dark hair. Now I have more grey, I'm hoping that it won't be quite such a palaver to get the dark plus silver streaks look I'm after. As the years go on and more grey comes, I'm hoping I will edge gradually towards a glorious silvery old age. Because, yes, there's going grey and there's going grey; and most people need a bit of help to have their hair look its best.

Thanks, after reading some of the posts I thought oh no perhaps I’m in denial that it looks ok!!

@NeedToGetOuttaHere

Thanks, after reading some of the posts I thought oh no perhaps I’m in denial that it looks ok!!

Yours is a similar colour to mine and lovely and shiny too! It's such rubbish that you can't have dark hair as you age, granted blue black probably wouldn't look great but all I do is dye mine the shade it was. Obviously it compliments my eyes, brows etc

As I've mentioned before, my friends who are embracing the grey now look considerably older than me and it undoubtedly is ageing.
It's a totally individual decision though and I respect their choice, as much as they respect mine!