do most women think they look younger ...

[Dancing Fire]

than their age?

 

[elrohwen]

I don't know. Personally I think I look just like my age.

 

[dragonfly411]

I feel like I look older sometimes. I think stress and having a lot on my shoulders has aged me a bit.

That being said, everyone else thinks I look 12. I'm not 12. I'm definitely 24.

 

[iheartscience]

No idea. Great question though-one of your best yet!

 

[Jennifer W]

You tell me, DF. Do I?

To answer the question, no. I don't think I look older or younger than I am, nor do I wish to. I'm the age I am, that's all.

 

[tyty333]

I think I look younger than my age (makes me feel better)...not a great deal though...maybe 5 years or so.

 

[mousey]

I don t think I do. In fact, after the last year trying to complete this PhD and get a job, I reckon I look 50 (I am 30). Nevertheless I often get carded when I try to buy alcohol. The age requirement here is 18. And the last time it happened, the guy would not believe me. It was mortifying. I kept on saying 'look at my gray roots', but he was having none of it. That makes me think I must look younger sometimes...

 

[Natylad]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for starting this thread

The answer to your question is yes. Many, and i mean MANY, women think that they look younger than their age, especially those who take care of themselves, put on make up, make their hair religiously, work out, dress in modern clothes, etc. For some reason they think that all those things make them look younger. Well...nope... Unfortunately they don't. Doing all of the above rarely makes you look younger. BUT it does make you look very good for your age.
I'm 37 years old and i have so many friends who are the same age as me and they seriously think that they look...28
I don't know how to make them understand that they're just fooling themselves without sounding rude!!!
On the other hand, i know much older women (same age group as my mom) who have had tones of plastic surgery and they also think that they look young I'm sorry to say that most of them look either their age or even older after all those procedures...

Personally, i totally despise my age but i have a lot of self respect and i don't like fooling myself about how old i look. I'm doing everything i can to protect whatever youth is left in me, but i don't live with the illusion that i look like a 25 year old

 

[qtiekiki]

I don't know, but I think I look older than my age. I never get carded. So sad. LOL.

 

[soocool]

My sister looks just like my mom did when she was in her 30s. My sister is 56. So I guess my sister looks younger than her age. And though I am 2 years younger than my sister I look a lot younger than her (she even admits to this) Therefore, I guess I look younger than my age.

Now ask me if I feel my age!

 

[TravelingGal]

I think I look my age, especially when I do see twenty somethings. They look young. I do not.

BUT...

I do think many asians are somewhat blessed in the skin department. My friends and I are approaching 40, and we do seem to have less wrinkles than the average woman approaching 40. My cousin is 40 and can pass for early 30's easily. My mom is 70 and if her hair were dyed (it's silver), she could look a decade younger.

Here's a close up pic of her so you can see for yourself. I know 40 year olds with more wrinkles than her. This was for her 70th bday trip to Hawaii. I sometimes stare at my mom because I'm so impressed by her skin. My skin won't look like that in 30 years, just because I don't take care of it.

ETA, For the record, this pic is not touched up in any way!
ETA 2, she wears no powder/foundation. Just moisturizer here.
ETA 3 , edited for spelling.

 

[Haven]

TGal--You have some amazing genes, lady. I love this picture of your mom, she is so beautiful.

Sometimes I think I look younger than I really am based on the way people react to me. Other times, I think I look older than I really am based on the way people react to me. In general, it's really hard to gauge if *I* think I look older or younger than my age, because I see myself every single day and I just look like me, ya know?

I do think my husband looks younger than his age. He'll be 41 this month, and people are always shocked to learn that. Or, it could just be that I'm keeping him young, the spring chicken that I am.

 

[yssie]

TGal - seriously, you got lucky in the genetics department alright



I've been told I could pass for a teenager (am 24) - a couple of times I've answered the door and be asked if my parents are home.. I don't think I look all that young though. My grandmother has gorgeous, dark, *thick* hair - sadly she didn't pass that on to me!

 

[that_someone_special]

I hope I don't look 27. I will take 22.
or even 26

sigh

 

[that_someone_special]

70?????????? Um yeah, I don't think she looks NEAR 70! Maybe 50? 48? Wow. Good genes.

 

[tyty333]

TGal - your Mom looks amazing for 70...I'll keep my fingers crossed that she passed on her good genes!

 

[Haven]

TGal - seriously, you got lucky in the genetics department alright

I've been told I could pass for a teenager (am 24) - a couple of times I've answered the door and be asked if my parents are home.. I don't think I look all that young though. My grandmother has gorgeous, dark, *thick* hair - sadly she didn't pass that on to me!

I'm jealous, although I can imagine this would be very annoying at times, too.
My best friend looks very young for her age. She was carded once at the movie theatre. We were 25 at the time, and I couldn't help myself--I started laughing and blurted out "How old do you have to be to see this movie?!" The poor employee thought my friend was no older than 16.

 

[qtiekiki]

Tgal - your mom looks fabulous.

 

[TravelingGal]

Thanks all, I'll let my mom know you all think she looks great. I do too, obviously, and she's the most beautiful person I know, inside and out.

Her secrets are moisturize and stay out of the sun. I have her genes, but already I can see the quality of my skin is much worse than hers. My wrinkles will follow her pattern, I think, but just a bit more and deeper.

Haven, I forgot how old you are, but you DO look very young and fresh!

 

[TravelingGal]

You tell me, DF. Do I?

To answer the question, no. I don't think I look older or younger than I am, nor do I wish to. I'm the age I am, that's all.

Girl, if you have wrinkles, you might want to go and find them...they seem to have run away.

 

[suchende]

Before law school, I looked a little older than my age. Now, I could easily pass for 35 (I'm 26) To be fair though, I've always seemed older than I am. Once in 6th grade someone asked me if I was in grad school! I think a lot of it is how you carry yourself, both for people who seem older and younger.

 

[bee*]

I think I look my age (29), however I'm always told I look about 21. It doesn't bother me too much though.

TGal-your mam looks amazing! You'd never think she was 70!

 

[kenny]

I think (men and women) wanting to look younger stems from fear of death.
I think people who need to keep looking young as they age are in denial about our own mortality.

Looking old reminds us we are closer to death.

IMHO, accepting that we only get 80 or so years on the planet is good, not bad.
It motivates me to make improvement to my life.

I suspect if we were fully conscious and at peace with only getting a 80-year ticket here we'd be happy to look our age, whatever it is.

 

[TooPatient]

I do NOT think I look younger than my age..... I'd be thrilled to even think that I "look my age".


I just turned 26. People think I'm in my 30s.
Even a nurse friend described me as "mid-30s" . I haven't been carded for alcohol since I was 22.

I guess that's always been the case -- back in middle school some kid asked me if I was a new teacher at the school

 

[suchende]

I do NOT think I look younger than my age..... I'd be thrilled to even think that I "look my age".


I just turned 26. People think I'm in my 30s.
Even a nurse friend described me as "mid-30s" . I haven't been carded for alcohol since I was 22.

I guess that's always been the case -- back in middle school some kid asked me if I was a new teacher at the school

Ditto to all of this! Damn!

 

[Brown.Eyed.Girl]

I'm 25. I'm a substitute teacher. I've been told about a dozen times in two days by my students that thought I was a student. I've had them tell me I look anywhere from 16 to 22. So yep, I do think I look younger than I actually am.

 

[shihtzulover]

I think that I look younger than I really am, but it's always been like this for me. Even as a kid, I was always the shortest in my grade. Now, I'm still really short (5'0"), and I have been told that I have somewhat of a baby face. I am 24, but most people guess 18 or 19. Sometimes I'm even asked if I'm still in high school.

 

[Jennifer W]

You tell me, DF. Do I?

To answer the question, no. I don't think I look older or younger than I am, nor do I wish to. I'm the age I am, that's all.

Girl, if you have wrinkles, you might want to go and find them...they seem to have run away.

I don't have wrinkles, but I do have the double whammy of the occasional outbreak of teenage acne, alongside the odd grey hair. It seems...unfair.

BTW, when I saw your post, I was scrolling too quickly and missed that it was a photo of your mother, and not of you. I was thinking, yeah, you have great skin, but there's no way you're only my age... She is beautiful, I hope you get her skin genes. It's more than just good skin though, she does have an elegance and a look of inner beauty that most of us only aspire to.

 

[Black Jade]

I look about my age to me and to others of my ethnicity. However, the people I live among are mostly all Caucasian and I have got used to them saying I look much younger because I don't have wrinkles. I am not going to get wrinkles very soon, not because I have a more olive complexion, but because I don't do sun. the same ladies who go on and on about how unfair it is that my skin looks good, as soon as the sun comes out properly in spring, go run and sunbathe, saying how they don't look right with white skin. To me, they look fine with white skin, much better than they look with all the lines that start coming in their thirties, which shouldn't be there for another twenty years or so, if they take some protective care. I notice that the natural blondes and redheads who never do sun age a lot slower than the ones who do, and that everyone's great-grandmothers photographs in a sun bonett show skin that looks great at older ages, even with no makeup on and ugly 19th century hairstyles.

I think a lot of the timetoo when people say, you don't look your age, what they mean is, you're X age but you're still attractive. They equate younger with attractive, which is not necessarily true. I have seen some women who are up in age that can knock the socks off young things in terms of being pretty, shapely and stylish--but they usually are the ones who are not hiding their age, they have embraced it, if you know what I mean, learned what they have to do to look good over the years and just keep doing it.

 

[Haven]

Thanks all, I'll let my mom know you all think she looks great. I do too, obviously, and she's the most beautiful person I know, inside and out.

Her secrets are moisturize and stay out of the sun. I have her genes, but already I can see the quality of my skin is much worse than hers. My wrinkles will follow her pattern, I think, but just a bit more and deeper.

Haven, I forgot how old you are, but you DO look very young and fresh!

I'm 30, thankyouverymuch.
You've only seen pictures taken of me after I've had my morning coffee.