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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People who say you look younger are BSing you.  Period.  Sure maybe 3-5 years but no one looks 20 when they’re 40+. The one possible exception is women who are very petite, meaning 5”3 or less and very thin.  From a distance they can look younger because they have a more childlike frame but up close you can tell [/quote]

I don't think anyone is claiming they look 20 at 40+. That would indeed be laughable.

I've always looked about 5 years younger than my true age. At 18 I looked 13, at 25 I looked 20. And now at 43, I look late 30s, so the degree that anyone gives a sh!t about the difference between 38 and 43.

A PP mentioned this and it's true: around 40, for most women, there are two paths. You either start to go to hell or you maintain. Unless you a celebrity and have access to certain tricks and tools that are out of the question for even wealthy regular people, you are not going to go back in time. But with decent genetics and some good choices on your part, you can maintain. And I think that's what OP and others are mostly looking for. Not to look like a college coed but to simply not go to hell.

I have been fortunate thus far in that I have not gone to hell. I'm not trying to look young forever. But I am trying to take good enough care of myself, in a variety of ways, that I don't fall off a cliff. Sometimes you can't control it -- a health issue, the grief of losing a loved one, a personal upheaval like a divorce or job loss can all take a serious toll on your looks at this age that wouldn't necessarily have happened in your 20s and 30s. But accepting those possibilities as uncontrollable to some extent, you can stay active, take care with your skin and clothes, and pay attention to your mental health. You won't look 20, but you won't necessarily look your age, either. I'm not trying to shock anyone with my true age, but I don't want people looking at me to be able to see every day of my 43 years. That's all.[/quote]

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