How old do I look

[addicteetopawpatrol]

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I find this all very interesting.

I have a friend who the first time I met her assumed she was bit older than me, purely judging on appearances. My sister assumed exactly the same.
Turns out she was a few years younger.

But the interesting thing is she kept saying people got her age wrong.
She assumed (I think) that this meant people thought she was younger and repeated this several times. Personally I assume people had been too polite to say the truth!

Grannyknowsbest looks her age at 65, I would have said mid to late 60's. The daughter looks younger than op but its a better photo and the daughter also looks like she has a higher body fat % which can make you look younger. She is also wearing make up, better lighting etc.

I thought 34-37, after a tiring day.

I guessed right!

There are usually tell take signs, and those made me discount a younger age than late 30s. You do have a nice face though, OP, and I also love the freckles.

Tell tale

Grannyknowsbest The glasses, hairstyle, dress and wallpaper make you look 65, without those signifiers of age you might look younger. None the less you look lovely, but what point are you trying to make?

@WhateverMate , yes I think it’s the only explanation. The second poster has assumed everyone responding after she posted her photo is responding to her, when they are clearly responding to the op. Those who have responded to her directly have got it either right or older.

but she’s assumed folks think she’s 30/40/50 so has started saying about her skincare and genes, not realising people guessed her age right to older.

Most people irl will look about their age regardless of wrinkles etc. Even look at women with flawless skin like Jessica Chastain she still looks like a mature woman and not some 20 something.

I do have a friend who looks much younger that her age so much so that my DP couldn't really understand where I knew her from as I told him we met at uni but she couldn't see how we could have been there at the same time. Anyway she seems to think she doesn't look young and that it is just everyone else who looks older than they are, which is unfortunate really.

This thread is hilarious! All the people in the photos look their age. Moral of the story is never ask someone to guess your age! I'm forties and look it.

I agree you look your age. I'd have guessed mid 60s, though the photo is slightly blurry.

Your daughter I can't tell with that photo. A front, not so close up, view would be better. She looks similar age to OP.

@Grannyknowsbest if that is genuinely your picture and not a granny grabbed off the internet I’d say about 70. A few years younger than my mum who is 74

Mid thirties

What is "the Joan Collins skin routine"???

@Grannyknowsbest

Your daughter looks about 41 and you look about 65.

I can see you both have great skin but that doesn't mean I'd say you look any younger than 65, just that you have great skin for 65.

I thought mid-40's before I checked. You have resting lines on your forehead and between your eyebrows, mild-moderate naso-labial folds, sun damage on your forehead, crepey skin around your eyes (particularly in the inner corners), and grey hair at your roots. Why do you want people appraise your appearance? As I tell my kids, how you look on the outside of your body is the least important thing about you. If everyone had said "not a day over 21" - would that really make you feel good about yourself?

What is "the Joan Collins skin routine"???

Lots of surgery.

Is anyone getting an error message when they try to quote posts?

People who think having no lines makes them look younger are wrong 😑

I thought mid-40's before I checked. You have resting lines on your forehead and between your eyebrows, mild-moderate naso-labial folds, sun damage on your forehead, crepey skin around your eyes (particularly in the inner corners), and grey hair at your roots. Why do you want people appraise your appearance? As I tell my kids, how you look on the outside of your body is the least important thing about you. If everyone had said "not a day over 21" - would that really make you feel good about yourself?

so @Grannyknowsbest , you get this is to the op, right?

Headteacher l love it lol.
I was actually a motorcycle instructor.

It’s true, I have some lines around my eyes and I don’t drink or buy alcohol but I still get ID’d for minor things like accepting supermarket food deliveries 🚚 (this has happened multiple times by different drivers and in two different cities) and I know some people my age who don’t have lines but people tend to guess their age as far older. I think OP probably has slightly younger features but if she’s tired it shows on her skin (happens to me as well) which is what some focused on and hence the late 40s replies.

OP, from the second photo I’d have guessed you were about 33.

I too am blessed with good genes, and I follow the Les Dawson skin routine. It’s taken years off me.

I think you look younger in first pic 38 and 42 in the second.

@addicteetopawpatrol early mid 40’s.
@Grannyknowsbest early mid 70’s.

I used to live in Asia and they tended to over estimate the ages of foreign teachers especially if you were chubby .

When they found out my age they (Korean staff) were like but “ wow I thought foreigners looked older”

I did have to point out the majority of the foreigners they were referring to were of a different race to me so we can’t all be lumped together.

early 30's