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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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?[/quote]

Nothing.  Rock on![/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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 [/quote]

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.

[b]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.[/quote][/b]

Maybe stopping tanning helped? My friend from HS is very similar (half sicilian, blue eyes) and she's had crows feet that basically stretch from her chin to her forehead and a chest that looks like Magda's chicken skin from Something About Mary since her late 20s/early 30s. She never burns and is still a sun goddess but at nearly 40 she doesn't look anything like J. Lo, she looks extremely weathered and way older, so not sure the olive skin always helps if you abuse it. [/quote]

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