Do You Look Your Age?

And does it matter to you?

28. There were 2 bouncers and the bar-maid ready to toss me.

then... all of a sudden you hit 40, 41, 42, 43... and the next thing you know you're 44 with the hairline that lies and gray temples that lie... and BIFOCALS that lie.

Sigh... at least my skin is still firm. (Until next year, I imagine.)

It could be worse I suppose. What do I have to complain about??

-- Allen

... than any time of my life. It must be the worry and stress and anger.

-- Allen

I'm told I look younger. I'll be 41 next month and I got carded a few years ago. But to me, I look 40. (On edit: Oh, yeah: I don't care how old I look or whether I look my age.)

When people say "you don't have a single wrinkle!" I tell them, "You wanna know my secret? Stay fat. It stretches the skin."

BAH! But seriously folks, I got a million of 'em....

And if I don't, you'd better damn well tell me I do.

...the grey hairs notwithstanding. ;-)

what grey hair?

...I might have to give that a try. :-)

I reversed the trend about 4 years ago when I was between jobs. Wish I'd done it years ago. BTW it was my wife's idea.

C'mon, I look to you for creativity: For instance: Do you look younger than Keith Richards? Well, maybe we all do. Bad example, I guess. But, you get my drift.

Don't buy beer anymore. And I'm 36.

But I think that's only because I've never been a sun worshiper. My mother and grandmother (until she got ill) have always looked much younger than their age, so maybe there's some good genes in there somewhere too. I also have small facial features, which tend to make people look younger.

Now, if I could only get rid of this "baby belly". It's only been 3 months, but I'm very impatient.

is a stretch but most people think I am in my late 20's. I love looking younger! My husband and I have 4 kids and alot of people say "you have 4 kids! You don't look old enough!" I'll take it! I am at that point in life if people want to compliment me for looking younger, I will be vain and smile my ass off for the rest of the day!

Edit: good skin so far. After 4 kids I can still wear a bikini because I only got one 1/2 inch stretch mark. I hope my skin stays good!

When i was fourteen and at resturants w/adults ordering wine or beer the waitor/ess would always ask if i wanted the same.People think i am around 21-23 which is cool since i just turned 18

I don't look at day over 18.

probably because I don't act my age either :-)

I birthed my kid at 40, so naturally most people at work think I am anywhere from 27-38 (yes one woman thought I was 27!) But I let them think I am younger.

I'm often carded for liquor and 19 year-old kids have asked me out several times in the last few years.

On the other hand, friends who know me have told me that since the advent of some very difficult things in my life, something indescribable in my eyes looks a hundred years older.

...although I have only seen your eyes in picture only, I think they are very soulful eyes, or eyes that have seen a lot. So, your friends aren't completely off base.

Does that answer the question. Having two large dimples in your face doesn't help either.

The people at work think that I am between 21-23 years old (I just turned 26). I must have been pretty accomplished to only be that old, graduated from college, and have worked there for two and a half years. In a way, I want to look young. In a way, I don't want to look young because I don't think that I am taken as seriously and thought of as a kid. I figure that I'll look old soon enough. I won't look younger without some serious treatments.

but sometimes people think I'm older.

I'm still sometimes carded 10+ years after I'm legal. Frequently I get the "you look so young" comment as well. I chock it up to clean living and good genes. I think long hair has something to do with it too. So many women chop it off once they get into their late 20's or 30's.

I don't mind. I'm not ready to be old anyway.

Unfortunately.

But I figure what the hell, I'm not vain.

I'm not very objective. As a teenager, I always looked older than I was. In my 20s and 30s, I looked younger than people assumed I was, because of my kids' ages. In my 40s, I can't tell. I think people assume I'm older than I am because I don't color the gray.

:)

and I look like a 15 year old punk ass bitch.

when I rent R rated movies. :crazy:

but I got carded buying an R-rated movie at the mall.

...people think we are husband and wife. She could easily pass for 70, and so can I. My actual age is 60.

it seems that a majority of people believe they look younger than their age so, then their age actually looks more like that than some idea about what their age is "supposed" to look like... what is the deal? so then most people actually look their age as opposed to the idea of the age... just wondering...

... and their general health will contribute greatly to their own perception of whether or not they look younger or older. Their outlook and perception of themselves may also have an effect on the *reality* of how others perceive them as well.

One's perception of what a certain age looks like would also be a reflection of their cultural, regional, and socioeconomic background as well. It's very likely that trendy, hip, urban people would be more self conscious of the normal signs of age than, say, a rural farm worker would be.

You made some interesting observations about the poll results. Could it be that everyone who feels they look younger than their actual age is in denial? Or is it just wishful thinking? Are they believing the 'white lies' that courteous friends flatter them with?

This started out as a light-hearted "throwaway" poll that I expected to quickly die. --- It's interesting to see the results.

-- Allen

Sometimes I feel like I must be at least 60...but that's 15 years down the road.

I'm 47...and I will be 48 on April 10th.

I look my age. But I don't care. I look good...I could stand to lose a few pounds, but overall I look good. I don't care if I look my age.

Terry

Nice dimples, BTW. :-)

Terry

-- Allen

My grandpa died at 92. My dad just turned ninety. He looks no more than 65, and if a piano doesn't fall on his head there's no reason why he shouldn't reach 100 with a leg tied behind his back.

that keeps you so healthy and youthful. :-)

-- Allen

Sounds like you've got some great genes and heredity going for you.

Terry

I'm 18 and I'm pretty much told all the time that I could pass for 21 or older. (Not that I see that as a problem) :toast:

:toast:

Now, no one is surprised by my age any longer. :-( Must be the sagging jowls; I won't let the hair go silver. I don't have a lot of facial wrinkling (never been a sun worshiper), but there's nothing you can do about jowls. They suck. I hate them.

I look exactly like my age which is 15.

And I still get fucking carded.

Handy to get into R-rated movies :evilgrin:

I hated it when I was in high school and college; I looked like a younger kid. Now that I'm in my forties, I love it. I'm 48, and a lot of people who meet me think I'm in my thirties. (I've recently been doing a 33-year-old guy, and that's even better proof for me that I don't look my age.)

Because I'm single and looking, I like looking younger because I feel that if I looked my age or older, fewer guys would be attracted to me. I'm fortunate to have good genes for this on both sides of my family. Both of parents are in their early eighties, and neither of them look nearly that old.

People are constantly amazed to learn I have a 28-year-old son and a 27-year-old daughter.

Celebs I've been told I look like are Elizabeth McGovern and Stockard Channing.

I'm looking more my age. Gee, wonder why I've aged these last 3 years....

...and I'm 18 days away from being 14. I probably look 16. Which sucks.

23. I don't carry myself as a twenty-three year old either. No one can ever believe how young I am when I tell them.

But who knows? I think I look younger, but all is vanity, after all. If I am 38 years old, then this is what 38 years old looks like, nez pas?

I'm 28 and I still get carded just about every time I order a drink or try to buy alchol at the store. Not that I necessarily look younger than 21, but clearly young enough to make the servers and cashiers cautious! I also regularly get accosted by the recruiters of various stripes in the student union ("Need money for college? Join ROTC!" "Have you thought about graduate school? Start preparing early!") and enjoy the surprised looks on their faces when I tell them they're too late, I'm in year 7 of grad school.

I keep telling myself that I'll be glad of it when I'm 40, but it is something of a liability now. When I'm teaching, it always takes a few class meetings before all the students clearly trust that I know what I'm supposed to know to be teaching them, and when I first started teaching (at age 23, and the students -- mostly traditional college students -- were very close to my age)it was very difficult to get their respect. I still remember the shock on the faces of that first class; they had assumed I was one of them, and some of them never did treat me with the respect that was shown to instructors who looked older (and were male, but that's another issue entirely).