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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.

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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. 
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PP you replied to. Yes, the first thing I mentioned was genetics. But I have no interest in doing any smoking or drinking, so no, I did not miss out :-)

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