What changes made the biggest difference to your overall appearance?

[AtLeastInHeavenICanSkate]

Inspired by some other threads (NC alert) I’ve decided the time is ripe for an overhaul/glow up. My plan is to make significant changes over a period of time and do a new one each month whilst keeping the old changes- nothing revolutionary but needed and I hope to get long term benefits/results.

at the moment my diet is pretty crap-which will be my next focus - the first was a new hairdo (which is a change and growing on me!), then multi vitamins, then 2L of water each day then a form of exercise each week.

In the short term before as I’m making bigger adjustments I’m hoping to get some advice on what are the likely to be the most significant gains to look like me but better.
I don’t like the feel of acrylics and currently don’t wear any make up.

If the skin is good and firm, the jawline is likely to be taut!

Photo?

I must be having a senior moment-What is that?

@LittleEsmewhich eyeliner for the tight lining is it that you use please? I’ve yet to master anew the art of eyeliner on my older eyes. It’s like I woke up one day and went “crimes! These eyes don’t work now!”

I have to say this is one of the best, most useful and constructive to all posts ever seen on Mumsnet. If you disregard the comments about jawlines etc the advice on here has been outstanding and so helpful. Please keep this thread going with helpful tips that can make us all look at ourselves and make simple life long changes for a better life. Hurray OP

Which post are you referring to?

Oh dear

You mean thread , not posts, surely!

It won't be any consolation I know but my teeth were a mess due to overkeen parents combined with corrupt (imo) 1970s dentistry.
I was taken to the dentist regularly every 6 months from the appearance of my first tooth; my parents paid privately for fluoride treatment; I was so obsessed with my teeth (because my parents were) that I bought myself a timer from my pocket money (I was about 8) to check I was brushing my teeth long enough...

Every one of my baby premolars and molars were filled.
All my secondary molars and 2 premolars were filled...

Then I moved dentists due to going to university.
Never had any problems since apart from fillings needing replacing and 2 crowns being so bad I now need dentures or implants.
I was lucky and got a lump sum with my pension that I wasn't expecting so am having a lot of dental work done including 2 implants and whitening.

Maybe I needed all those fillings; maybe I didn't.
Nobody can say that teeth drilled away didn't have cavities.
But I believe that if I hadn't been taken to that particular dentist so much, my teeth would have been better.

As I said before, I realise that's no consolation to you.
And I've made sure my DC's teeth are well looked after.

And back to the thread: the whitening is making a huge difference to my appearance. My teeth have always been yellowish and I can't blame my old dentist for that.

Goodness me, no. Can you imagine what that would invite?

This thread shows (alongside some genuinely helpful and heartfelt advice) that some posters are desperate to tear others down for having the gall to be a) old b) have lost weight and c) worst of all, both 😂

Yes, of course it's not just about looking good, but I was answering g5000's point.

I decided on a whim to have a pixie cut as it really suited me in my 20’s. Big mistake I forgot that I am 2 stone heavier with jowls so now I am growing my hair back. And I am saying this as someone who has accepted that in their 50’s they are now ageing and that it’s ok. But how slow does my hair grow 🤣.

Can I ask which eyeliner you are using? I’ve tried a few and found they either pull at the skin or are fairly smudgy

Isn’t “posts” the same as thread?

I've had a chubby round face all my life (even when severely underweight) so no cheekbones or jawline for me. But what you've never had you never miss and I've been a plain girl all my life. So I am concentrating on health and fitness rather than trying to keep looks I never had, and that's why I have found, at 65, anything that helps with fitness, stamina, flexibility and strength has been best for my appearance.

Getting professional blow dries

Yes my teeth are now a disaster area, with a crown, a Maryland bridge (for appearance not function as per my dentist) and some missing ones. Dentists in the 60s and 70s just put fillings everywhere probably for higher payments. And fillings don’t last forever and just need replacing with bigger ones. My grown up sons (36 and 39) have no fillings at all.

I would do this all the time if I were rich

Absolutely.
And yes, my DDs in their early 30s have never had a filling.
When I went to that particular dentist I never once came away without something needing to be done.
Rereading my post, I was unkind to my parents. They definitely thought they were doing the right thing by me but, ironically, if they'd neglected my teeth a bit more I'd have better ones now.
I am quite thrilled by the effect of the bleaching though 😁<--- <gleam>

I'm another one suffering the legacy of 60s and 70s dentistry. I've only just put it together reading other's posts as I knew my mum suffered a lot during her pregnancy with me and assumed it was that. But I don't have an unfilled tooth in my head and have a dental phobia that is quite crippling. None of my kids suffer with their teeth and I think the profiteering of the last century could well be to blame.

Braces and jaw surgery in my early 20s. I felt so much better about myself after that.

• a skincare routine
• Japanese manicure (I also don't like acrylics, and my nails look amazing, so polished)
• teeth whitening

I go to the local college salon £6

Divorce. Better sleep, less stress, more time/ energy to invest into myself.

No a thread is the whole thing, made up of different posts.