Be honest. How old are you. How old do you look?

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I am 50 and people always thought I was 40. However now, I am getting grey hair (unlike my parents who didn't go grey till 60) and that makes people think twice before saying I am 40 (as I guess most don't go grey that early). I need to color my hair as the rest of me still looks young.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m 42.5 and people think I’m 42.2.

I am 99.2 and people think I am 99.1

[Anonymous]

I’m 46 and look 46 in the face I think. In clothes and neck down, i rival with most early 30 year olds. Measurements are 34/26/36, BMI 21. In a bikini, my skin isn’t as firm and to me it’s a dead giveaway to look close to my age although I have great muscle tone. I don’t have any gray hair (father didn’t on his head at his death at 66) so that helps.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone on dcum looks more than a decade younger, duh

Yes we are all getting ID carded when buying organic wine well into our 70s….

I am in my 50s and was carded this year! I rolled my eyes and told the booze shop cashier that I was probably old enough to be his grandmother. The young man at the booze shop thought I would feel complimented. I told him, no I feel ridiculous to be carded at this age.

[Anonymous]

How does everyone know how old other people think they look? Even when I meet someone and think they look young for their age I don’t say so, it seems like a weird comment to make and I wouldn’t assume they’d feel complimented.

[Anonymous]

I’m 45 and look closer to 50. I have that fair Irish skin that is showing age spots on my face and losing tone on my body, despite wearing sunscreen, using retinoids, staying a consistent weight, etc. I also take fish oil and do all the other stuff I should. I think it’s just like that recent picture of Maria Shriver with Caroline Kennedy and her other cousin. Aging impacts some groups more visibly, despite good hair and other resources!

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Anonymous wrote:I’m 45 and look closer to 50. I have that fair Irish skin that is showing age spots on my face and losing tone on my body, despite wearing sunscreen, using retinoids, staying a consistent weight, etc. I also take fish oil and do all the other stuff I should. I think it’s just like that recent picture of Maria Shriver with Caroline Kennedy and her other cousin. Aging impacts some groups more visibly, despite good hair and other resources!

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[Anonymous]

45 and look it. Ive earned these wrinkles, bags and, gulp, gray and thinning hairs. Im proud my kids are tweens and growing and thriving. Im proud of my career, though it has been interrupted, and proud of the sacrifices I've made for my kids. My efforts for my family, not for my vanity, are what shows.

[Anonymous]

I'm 55 and my face looks 45; my body looks and feels 65.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone on dcum looks more than a decade younger, duh

Yes we are all getting ID carded when buying organic wine well into our 70s….

I am in my 50s and was carded this year! I rolled my eyes and told the booze shop cashier that I was probably old enough to be his grandmother. The young man at the booze shop thought I would feel complimented. I told him, no I feel ridiculous to be carded at this age.

you sound like a blast!

[Anonymous]

My sister is 3 1/2 years younger than me and through high school and college, people would assume she was older than me. It made me crazy. In fact, I looked so young in college, I heard someone remark to a friend I looked like I should be in middle school.

So I had this idea that I was young looking for a very long time. But now at 55 I admit I definitely look my age. And my sister does look a little younger than me!

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Anonymous wrote:46, looks 46. 5'6, 120 lbs. Daily cardio. No drinking, smoking, meat, or feeding myself the BS that I look a decade younger. I am black and people have said I could go for late 30s but I understand that they are merely being polite. What is wrong with admitting that you look the age you are?

Nothing. Rock on!

Hmm. I am white but horrible at guessing the ages of African American women. I feel like many African American women reach age thirty five...and then just stay there for like twenty five years. I think a lot of black women in their fifties can pass for thirty five. Way fewer white women can.

I am the black woman who posted the above. You're not the only one with that difficulty. Yesterday I saw a TA whom I assumed was 25-27 max with very pale skin, long red hair flowing to her waist worn over plaid blazer and jeans, a few freckles, and no wrinkles. Imagine my shock when she told the class she had been born in 1977. Not in a million years would I have been able to guess her age. We need a flow chart or something...Do fingers show creasing or age spots? If no, check ankles.

I've noticed a lot of very pale redheads seem to age super well, presumably because they figured out they should avoid the sun early on due to always burning. So they never went through a stage of laying out tanning for hours a day like most white people and they wore sunscreen and everything.

When white people take care of their skin they can age really well. They just need to use the correct sun protection to make up for the melanin

Other than Nicole Kidman, every red-haired 50-something I have seen has sun spots, more freckles and those white patch things. I have many Irish red-head relatives. The olive skin women that I know that even were out in the sun still have skin like J-Los in 40s/50s.

My best friend (half Sicilian, but blue eyed and fair during the winter) tanned like a MF in our teens/early 20s and at 52 she doesn't have a damn wrinkle or age spot (even on chest, hands) and her legs are still smooth. She also was a soccer player through college so in the sun a lot. She never burned. A tan has a natural SPF of 4. So I think that had something to do with it. Also, by late 20s she never purposely tanned again and always has a big hat during the summer.

[Anonymous]

50. I look 50.

I'm male.

[Anonymous]

I am 31 and do look younger - it's because I am fat. I do take good care of my skin but I think being fat helps, my face looks full.

[Anonymous]

45. Most days I look 45, and I'm content with that. I don't dye my hair, get Botox or filler, or wear makeup. But I eat healthy, workout, stay curious and express gratitude often. The male gaze has definitely shifted elsewhere but so be it. Self gaze is more important as we get older, and we should all be so bold as to love what we see in ourselves.