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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s genetic. The more melanin you have, the easier time you have. I am of Mediterranean descent, and am not stick thin and I am over 50 and have no noticeable lines. My skin only went dry in the last couple of years. My mother was stick thin and she didn’t really get lines until she was in her 60s, and her face doesn’t look anywhere near the 80+ she is today. No Botox, fillers, anything. It’s why they say “black don’t crack”. So you can enhance with certain procedures, but the biggest factor is what you started with. [/quote]

It is genetic and while I'm sure melanin helps, it's not the only way. I'm of Nordic and Irish descent and my mom didn't start getting lines until her late 50s and then only very fine laugh lines. Now she's in her 70s and her face is like Helen Mirren's -- lots of fine lines but still great color and warmth, and very few deep lines.

My mom, my sister, and I have always just looked very young for our age. It's annoying right up until it's not, and then it's convenient. I hated that people thought I was so young in my 20s and early 30s as I was trying to establish my career. But around 35 that switches and it's nice to always get an age discount when people assess your looks. Now I'm mid-40s and it's great because I look early to mid-30s. I think I've avoided some of the stigma around aging at work and I've especially avoided the stigma around being an older mom (I had my first and only right at 40) because people just don't know. When my grays started showing because I wasn't coloring my hair during early Covid, my 28 year old neighbor told me, conspiratorially "Isn't it crazy when people our age start going gray? It's like, what's in the water?" I laughed so hard I cried. She has no idea.[/quote]

This is OP - I might have not posted correctly in my original post. I don't mean "what are some procedures or tricks you can use to stay looking young even when you're middle aged." I really meant to sort of celebrate and admire women who LOOK their age, and look great.

That's what really struck me about Amy Brenneman in The Leftovers. She did NOT look young. You didn't see her face and think, whoa, how is it possible she's 50. She looked 50, and she looked gorgeous as someone who looked 50. 
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