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?

There's nothing wrong with looking your age. The majority of people who have work done usually just look like they've had work done, and don't look younger (IN MY OPINION) .

Oh, my post was just general advice if you don’t do it already!

You have a choice:

Start using botox etc then commit to having to pay for regular treatments for the rest of your life. End result is that you may not have wrinkles but you start to look weirder and weirder the more treatments you have.

Or go the natural route. Avoid the expensive, invasive procedures. Yes, you will get wrinkles but you will look natural. The confidence of accepting the aging process is very attractive.

Do you want to look like an android? Or look like yourself but older?

After a recent UK trip away I think it is more prominent in some areas. The women (in my family) all had 'work' done. The lips especially are so obvious - even if they aren't huge they just don't look right.

I have one local friend who does it, she has never asked my opinion so I have never given it. But it is IMO very obvious.

We are mid 30s as well. I don't think I would fully rule it out - looking you big line between my eyebrows. But for now I am trying to squint less and moisturise more

I don’t see any judgement here people either like it or they don’t.
I personally don’t think it looks good, you do.

I’m with the don’t bother route. I’m 51 and I’ve thought about my anger lines 🤣 but it’s a waste of time. I know my age even if no-one else does!!
I know people never believe things on MN about looking younger than your age.., but very recently (I was very scared and concerned on the occasion so not bouncing around with joy or even my usual mostly happy self) a man tried to persuade me that it can’t have been that long ago since I was 27 (he’d asked me if I was still doing my PhD and I said I graduated at 27, so way back in the mists of time and he literally argued about that, fool). I don’t think I look 51 once I wake up properly and moisturise but I look 81 when I wake up 🤣. But life is for living to the max, if people think I’m scruffy (I am) or can’t be bothered with my appearance (I’m not) or something else supposedly “bad” for women - they are welcome to think that. I literally don’t care.

I have PCOS and honestly Braun IPL is the best thing my partner has ever given me.

Hi op, if it helps, i’m 38 and look like utter shit.

I’m knackered because one of my kids doesn’t sleep, i’m a bit overweight because i have no time to exercise and i have to bloody prioritise what everyone else wants to eat, and i have shit hair because it fell out twice after having kids and hasn’t fully grown back.

I am never ever getting botox. Ever.

As a treat, i’m currently whitening my teeth.

Then my priority is health, lose some weight, maybe have a better skin regime.

But no way am i touching botox.

Everyone will look their age.

It doesn't make people look younger, it makes them look like they're had botox.

No I don’t think so. Two of my colleagues have had work done and visibly look younger but they are the minority. I can think of quite a few others who just look their actual age buu that they’ve had work done (badly, in some cases, but others it has improved their overall appearance).

At some stage I’ll be getting my “number 11 lines” between my eyes done. I’ll still have my crows feet & other wrinkles so I expect I’ll still look my age but less angry 😁

I'm not judging anyone or what they have said.

However I'm wondering about the women who have said they're happy to age naturally and feel happy in themselves as they are, and whether they are in secure relationships? Because I see an awful lot of references to "my husband" or "my children" after they have said how happy and secure they are, and it's really easy to forget/ignore what security in your relationships actually means. They shouldn't underestimate the pressure women are under to "attract" someone and how hopeless it can feel if you know the only way ahead for your face and boobs after 45 is downwards!

Please don't think I'm saying that every single woman over 45 is desperate to attract a mate. I'm not.

I am 55 and think I look great, wrinkles and all. I have never smoked or drunk alcohol and have decent genes. I look my age but have no wish to look younger.

I feel sorry for any 20/30 year olds having botox etc. I would feel sad if my adult daughter ever felt the pressure to. Luckily, she doesn’t yet.

I think that most people who have Botox and fillers from a fairly young age age, like early thirties, don’t look young when they get older, they look like they’ve been having fillers and Botox for years. You’ll look like a normal person at your age and they will look “done”. Which will itself be a marker of aging, just a different one.

No one in their fifties can look like they’re in their 20s, no matter what procedures they have done. They look like they’ve had cosmetic procedures done.

I’m never getting any. I don’t like how it looks. You tweak one thing and it throws your whole face off imo.

The majority of women don't get Botox.

Im mid 30s and won't be doing botox or anything like that. Most people clock me as significantly younger anyway. I think because I have purple hair and act younger. I honestly think how you behave says more about your age than your face.

Botox isn’t a commitment, you don’t have to have it for the rest of your life. It gradually wears off after 2-3 months. I know lots of people that have a light touch very sporadically, usually over the summer months.

I’m 47 and resisting the Botox and procedures. My focus is on keeping fit, healthy and strong and wearing clothes that make me happy. I am trying to set a good example for my children.

Nearly 60, never done anything more than moisturising twice every day, apart from various hair colours over the last few decades.
Meds have made me gain a lot more weight than life alone would have.
So @Lizziewest88 I’m with you in the fat & wrinkly gang!

Botox looks stupid, it does one thing with age and that is that it makes a woman look trans.

49.nearly 50 !!
Never ever will I ever have anything done to my face !!
I'm proud to have reached this milestone and happy with how I look I am 49 not blood 29 ! I'm supposed to look like this lol 🤣
Don't worry u probs end up looking the most natural from your peers !!

I'm in my early 60s and there's no way I'll ever be having something injected into my face. I'm getting older and I'm fine with that.

But they will look their age OP, they will just look their age with Botox. All this stuff about it making you look younger is absolute nonsense. Just look at candid photos of any celebrity-they all look their age, and the ones that have had loads of surgery etc. just look scary rather than young. And if multimillionaires with the best surgeons on the planet haven’t been able to achieve everlasting youth then the average person certainly won’t.

No Botox, fillers etc for me. I do face exercise. My face is toned. Look way younger than I am. All natural.

I've been single for 7 years so nothing do with relationship status. I wouldn't want to attract a man who only liked a botoxed airbrushed version of me. Because the real me has some fine lines creeping in, and like a PP I can grow a magnificent PCOS beard. I can't be bothered to shave my legs a lot of the time, so a man needs to expect low maintenance from me.