Is the prettiest woman you personally knew at age 30 still the prettiest at 40? 50?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, there's a correlation from 30-50. By 30, you're already aging. Wealthier women with good taste and work ethic age better. Definitely not true of the prettiest people I knew as a teen, though.

Huh?

I don't think she means born wealthy. I think she means ambitious successful career women who generally are type A and can afford things like good haircuts, and also have pressure to get dressed nicely every day for work.

This is very specific. Some of you think very highly of yourselves.

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Anonymous wrote:The key is genetics and skincare/sun avoidance.

I come from western Europe and I'm in my 40s. Most of the girls who were stunning in high school smoked and drank, and likely did not age well. The very few that had a healthy lifestyle and healthy parents to teach them how to care for themselves probably fared a lot better. I recall in particular a pretty friend's very handsome mother, with beautiful skin, and the most stunning white-grey hair down to her waist. I've lost touch since, but it wouldn't surprise me that my pretty friend aged just as well as her mother. She clearly knew how to take care of herself!

When I settled here in my 20s, I made friends with Americans who had mostly middle class childhoods and while they did not smoke and drank in moderation, they were not taught to avoid the sun. So even though some of them looked great in their 20s and 30s, now in middle age and beyond, none of them look good now.

I used to be a baby-faced cute-ish girl, never beautiful or stunning. I wasn't particularly popular as a younger woman. But since I've never smoked or drank, and apart from an insolation accident at 19, tried to put on sunscreen... it turns out I look far younger than anyone in my social circle right now. And looking youthful and fresh is now very attractive to men in my circle. I get a lot more compliments now than I used to, just because they're comparing me with women of my own age who look older.

Oh hunny. The smoking, drinking and sunscreen thing is just silly. Sorry you missed out so much. I smoked, dran, didn't use sunscreen, lived in the tropics and look better than most my age. It's just genetics. And staying hydrated.

In my circle smoking, drugs and drinking was considered trashy so I never felt the need nor do I feel like I missed out. I'm thankful for good health outcomes due to that.

I don't think this is specific to a certain circle. It's more changing times. Not many smokers age 40 or younger compared to older generations. And definitely seems to be fewer heavy drinkers, too.

True. Dinking and smoking are considered uncool now. Drugs were never considered cool to begin with.

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What a thread. Other than weight fluctuations and illness, IMO there's not much difference b/w 30's and 50's. It's the mid 60's that start to show the ravages of time.

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Anonymous wrote:What a thread. Other than weight fluctuations and illness, IMO there's not much difference b/w 30's and 50's. It's the mid 60's that start to show the ravages of time.

Time ravages started for me in my 50s.

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Anonymous wrote:I have one friend whose mother was a beauty queen and she takes after her mother. She still looks great at 60+. She's definitely used GLP1s recently but who hasn't.

Nobody in my circle is taking any GLP1s. Who are you hanging out with?

NP-A lot of people do and don't talk about it. I am a very natural, low maintenance person and am on one but never talk about it.

People don’t have to talk about it. Everyone knows once you lose 10-15 vanity pounds out of nowhere.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone on dcum says they look 15 years younger than their actual age.

Where are they? This doesn’t translate to what I see in my neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:I have one friend whose mother was a beauty queen and she takes after her mother. She still looks great at 60+. She's definitely used GLP1s recently but who hasn't.

Nobody in my circle is taking any GLP1s. Who are you hanging out with?

NP-A lot of people do and don't talk about it. I am a very natural, low maintenance person and am on one but never talk about it.

People don’t have to talk about it. Everyone knows once you lose 10-15 vanity pounds out of nowhere.

+ 1 You don’t have to talk about it, we know you are using GLP1.

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The most radiant women I know- 60 year old Black woman senior manager at my org. She has the best skin, fashion, and close cropped hair. Knows which colors suit her, and looks natural. Very fit and just glows. The other is a white, European woman who is 80 and a former model. She is impeccably chic, wears her wrinkles well, still swears and drives in DC like a champ. She’s in assisted living because her husband is older and needs it, but she’s as active as ever.

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Anonymous wrote:What a thread. Other than weight fluctuations and illness, IMO there's not much difference b/w 30's and 50's. It's the mid 60's that start to show the ravages of time.

Yeah, no. The face starts melting off by 50.