Will I be the only one who looks my age?

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Everyone around me seems to be getting Botox, or other beauty procedures. I’m mid 30s and not keen to go down that route due to the ongoing cost. It’s not cheap! But then I wonder if I’ll end up looking miles older than my peers because of this?

Any other 30-somethings who are not planning to get Botox?

I think the issue I have is that there's so much pressure on women to look a certain way. Particularly women in the public eye. No more than that. The friend I had who had Botox was earning around 80k a year maybe 25 years ago. I don't even think I was earning 20k at that point. Even if I had wanted Botox which I didn't I wouldn't have been able to afford it

She had money to tweak herself - and I honestly don't think she needed it. She looked great as she was.

I actually don't know anyone who has work done. I live in the West of Scotland and there are probably clinics where you can get work done not far from me - but not in my rush town I don't think.

If it makes people feel good - fair enough.

I think botox seems to 'thin' the skin in some Amanda holden type way so it looks very aging just with whole different and unintentional result

The thing is that there is so much you can do yourself and I genuinely think it's those thing that makes the biggest difference e.g. eat well, keep yourself fit (whatever that might look like for you), maybe home hair colour, clipped and filed nails, do best you can teeth wise, and most importantly, high SPF suncream every day of the year. To my eye tweakments can look obvious and fake and may make you look different or even good for your age, but rarely younger.

Most people I know do not have botox etc. But my friend who has a high powered job in London says she's practically the only woman in the office who's not getting botox, on WLI or both. So I suppose how you look compared to others depends on the circles you move in.

But I agree with pp, that people with work done don't look younger. I think they just look their age but with work done. I know two people who were so beautiful, in their 30s and now look very weird. It makes me sad that they felt the need to do it.

I’m 40s and not planning too!

My general observation on the aesthetics industry is that everyone, from drag queens to thirty year olds to sixty year olds, are starting to morph into one. You don't look younger after a while, you look carbon copied. It's harder and harder to guess ages but that doesn't mean people are actually looking younger.

I was watching Sheridan Smith in the new BBC drama tonight and she's been at her face, wasn't sure exactly what, but again I don't think she looks particularly younger because of it. It's a sort of homogeneous, no age kind of look.

I’m 62 and I’ve never had any Botox or tweakments. I don’t dye my hair either. Completely grey and rarely wear makeup except lipstick. I recently discovered this amazing Australian woman on YouTube who does Facerobics. Look her up. I wish I’d discovered her years ago but even now the exercises are lifting my face.

I'm 33. Never doing anything, not having botox or surgery is going to be the new flex I reckon. I feel no pressure whatsoever to get anything done