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How old do I look

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addicteetopawpatrol · 08/08/2023 07:42

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How old do I look
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TheShellBeach · 09/08/2023 15:28

champagnelaughter · 09/08/2023 15:14

Ah. Does anyone know if Bilbo Baggins changed his wallpaper regularly?
You know - just in case he was inspired to start a MN thread about how old people thought he looked?

He did. He kept up to date with the latest patterns, as a sort of foil to account for his youthful appearance as people were growing suspicious.

Grin

And yet I am certain that he had a great many filters applied to the photograph which appears on the previous page of this thread.

Cheating, I call it.
Or possibly "learning" from GrannyKnowsBest.

LaMarschallin · 09/08/2023 17:27

Very random, but just watching Pointless and there's a mother & daughter on who genuinely look like sisters.

LizzieLoO37 · 09/08/2023 17:27

Yes I have them prescribed but if you go private they are around £30-40 per injection which I have had to do sometimes if I need an extra boost! X

Maireas · 09/08/2023 17:31

LaMarschallin · 09/08/2023 17:27

Very random, but just watching Pointless and there's a mother & daughter on who genuinely look like sisters.

Are Laila and Meena mother and daughter?

Gnomegnomegnome · 09/08/2023 17:46

Did Granny come back?

LaMarschallin · 09/08/2023 18:11

Maireas · 09/08/2023 17:31

Are Laila and Meena mother and daughter?

Yes!
If anything, I thought Laila looked older than her mother. I think it was the heavy makeup and, possibly, filler.
I know it's a bit of a deviation to post here, but I just wanted to see if there were any quick opinions as to whether I was right or not and DH is no good at this sort of thing (and this is a thread about whether people look their age or not).
First time I've seen a mother and daughter actually look like sisters.
There was a pair once on Four in a Bed who said they did.
They so didn't.

Ooh! And I knew what a skep was and got pointless answers for the R&J speech.
I'll happily swap that for not looking 20 years younger than I am... <🤞behind back>

CherryMaDeara · 09/08/2023 18:18

LaMarschallin · 09/08/2023 18:11

Yes!
If anything, I thought Laila looked older than her mother. I think it was the heavy makeup and, possibly, filler.
I know it's a bit of a deviation to post here, but I just wanted to see if there were any quick opinions as to whether I was right or not and DH is no good at this sort of thing (and this is a thread about whether people look their age or not).
First time I've seen a mother and daughter actually look like sisters.
There was a pair once on Four in a Bed who said they did.
They so didn't.

Ooh! And I knew what a skep was and got pointless answers for the R&J speech.
I'll happily swap that for not looking 20 years younger than I am... <🤞behind back>

Just watching now. Wow, Laila has amazing skin! She looks 30! Shensays she’s in her 40s. Her dd is 21

Charlize43 · 09/08/2023 18:39

@SheRaaaaa

I do look younger than I actually am, most people I grew up with does, everyone I went to primary school on my facebook does, anyway. We were 80's kids and I think a lot of us 80's born look younger than our age, even the boys. In my case it's probably down to not having children.

This is all about perception and delusion. You won't look younger than your age to people from several generations after the 80s, despite the fact that you think you look youthful.

A Gen Z will think that you all look your age and old!

Maireas · 09/08/2023 18:47

Both women are very attractive, but Laila is very heavily made up, as is the fashion with a lot of young women, but it does make her age a bit ambiguous. Her mum has that nice plump faced look, that helps when you age!
I agree that it's rare mother and daughter ever look like sisters, but in this case they did!

CherryMaDeara · 09/08/2023 18:52

CherryMaDeara · 09/08/2023 18:18

Just watching now. Wow, Laila has amazing skin! She looks 30! Shensays she’s in her 40s. Her dd is 21

Oh sorry, Meena is the mum!

LaMarschallin · 09/08/2023 18:57

I agree that it's rare mother and daughter ever look like sisters, but in this case they did!

Glad it's not just me.

Oh sorry, Meena is the mum!

QED Smile

LaMarschallin · 09/08/2023 19:04

Laila is very heavily made up, as is the fashion with a lot of young women,

I know. My DDs don't go in for anything quite that thick but I do remember the elder one - who is blessed with amazingly long and thick eyelashes (honestly, it's not just mother-goggles) - complaining that she couldn't find false eyelashes that were big enough: "You can't tell I'm wearing them".
In my day, that was the whole point!

CherryMaDeara · 09/08/2023 19:04

🤣

Maireas · 09/08/2023 19:10

False eyelashes are crazy now - they're just getting thicker and longer! It must be an impediment to wearing glasses.
They seem to go for very heavy and deliberate contouring.

LylaLee · 09/08/2023 19:14

Maireas · 09/08/2023 19:10

False eyelashes are crazy now - they're just getting thicker and longer! It must be an impediment to wearing glasses.
They seem to go for very heavy and deliberate contouring.

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sunshineplayroom · 09/08/2023 19:16

Did Glamourous Granny ever come back?

Can't be arsed to read back.

LylaLee · 09/08/2023 19:17

LylaLee · 09/08/2023 19:14

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How old do I look
Maireas · 09/08/2023 19:22

@LylaLee 😂
The girls I teach aren't far off that!

Bumcake · 09/08/2023 20:10

Gnomegnomegnome · 09/08/2023 17:46

Did Granny come back?

Would you?!

Can't believe OP still has her photo up.

TheShellBeach · 09/08/2023 20:23

sunshineplayroom · 09/08/2023 19:16

Did Glamourous Granny ever come back?

Can't be arsed to read back.

Yeah, she said we were a bunch of bitches for not liking her wallpaper.

TheShellBeach · 09/08/2023 20:36

TheShellBeach · 09/08/2023 20:23

Yeah, she said we were a bunch of bitches for not liking her wallpaper.

................and dissing her glasses.

Siouxiesiouxiesioux · 09/08/2023 21:04

DrSbaitso · 09/08/2023 15:11

I will say, he does look younger than eleventy-one.

Is that David Sessex?

Siouxiesiouxiesioux · 09/08/2023 21:05

Sorry!

Siouxiesiouxiesioux · 09/08/2023 21:11

Quartz2208 · 09/08/2023 09:53

@SheRaaaaa i think people do nowadays look a lot younger than they used to.

I remember my grandparents at 50 and they looked a lot older than my friends who are 50 do now. Rather than looking old at 50 that those born in the 20/30s did it is much more 65-75 now I think.

but age does catch up with you all.

so I think if that is the comparison we have how are parents/grandparents looked at this age we do look I think comparatively younger- particularly if make up etc is worn. But if compared to a 20-30 year old we definitely look older!

the op bless her has posted a make up and filter free picture. Make up could get years off

I think they seemed younger because of the way they dressed, styled their hair and carried themselves.

Some elderly people showed me pictures of their “gang when they were in their 50s. I was so shocked by how young they looked. It made me realise for the first time in my life that 50 ain’t that old. A lot of people in their 50s look amazing.

Bbq1 · 09/08/2023 21:12

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