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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone on dcum looks more than a decade younger, duh[/quote]

True but that's because we are mostly upper income folks who either stay at home or who have desk jobs.   Access to good health care, and not doing back breaking work for decades, make all the difference in the world. [/quote]

Unless you are brown, black or had plastic surgery you don’t look 10 years younger no matter how much money you have. You may look good and healthy but not younger.[/quote]

It's less common among white people, but not unheard-of. My dad spends exactly $0 on his beauty routine. He is a giant nerd who barely even thinks about his clothing. He uses Head & Shoulders and Old Spice and I don't even know if he uses a moisturizer, but he has always looked 20-25% younger than he is. He just has really good genes, including olive, very oily skin, hair that is still 90% brown at age 73, etc. People all thought he was in his 30s when he was in his 50s, and now think he is in his 50s. He is aging like his father, who died at 88 with a full head of barely salt-and-pepper hair and a face that looked 20 years younger. I remember being out for my grandfather's 80th birthday, and as we left the restaurant, a man in his 50s stopped him and said, "Larlo Larlostein??" The man had been a young neighbor of his and hadn't seen him in 45-50 years, but he easily recognized him.

I'm a mixed bag. I got a lot of my dad's/grandfather's "good" genes, so until I was ~40, many people really did think I was significantly younger. When I was planning my 20th HS reunion and mentioned it, more than a few people seemed genuinely shocked. They'd assumed I was talking about my 10-year reunion.

But around 35-40, my mom's family's sagging jowl genes started to kick in. So while my 43-year-old skin itself is fairly bright, not crepey or too wrinkly (and I barely have a few grey hairs at my temples), my face and neck are heading south.  :/  It's subtle, even according to my dermatologist, but I definitely notice it.

That said, my brother (who got my mom's family's fairer, dryer skin) is 10 years younger than I am and strangers now assume we are about the same age, or that he is older. I'd say the average person would guess I am MAYBE 4-5 years younger than I am, but no younger than that, at least not on average.

OTOH, I posted upthread about my darker-skinned Asian American husband. He's almost a decade older than I am, so when we got together a million years ago, it was obvious he was older, even when people didn't think he looked his age, per se. But when I was about 30 and he was about 40, I realized people we met now assumed we were around the same age. I'd say a combination of his aging more slowly as well as my aging more quickly. [/quote]

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