When I was in my mid 20s I worked with an Indian lady I assumed was around my age. You could have knocked me down with a feather when her birthday came around and she announced she was 42!
Another lady, who was black, looked around 30-35 but she was 50!!
Both tines I was completely amazed.

Anonymous wrote:It's impossible... to look 10/15 years younger

really?

It's impossible... to look 10/15 years younger

Anonymous wrote:My face does. Unfortunately, my hands and décolleté give me away.

Same here. Of course I make sure no decollete shows. My daughter and her friends think I look at least ten years younger 9but consider the source). I have been asked twice in the past year if I am her sister. Again, they can't be seeing the hands.

Yes it is possible for some people. Race, genetics and lifestyle plays a huge part in looking 10/15 years younger.

No.

I wish I could- I look 10 or 15 years older!

My face does. Unfortunately, my hands and décolleté give me away.

My dd's friends think I am in my 20's, but they are 9. I do look "good" compared to the other moms at dd's school. Thanks to exercise, hair color, great clothes, and I touch of Botox.

(14:44 here) Also, my sister consistently shaves a decade off her age, and people seem to buy it. Like I said, I didn't inherit that ability.

When I started college, my dad's sister, who was in her mid-30s, came along to drop me off (it was her alma mater). There was a big luncheon for the new students and their families, and someone there asked her if she was a senior. She clearly didn't look like a freshman but looked like she could be a student.

People also regularly though my grandparents were my parents. My dad didn't inherit the family youthful looks, and neither did I.

On my mom's side, they tend to age early. My maternal grandmother went completely white in her 30s. When my parents got married and my grandmother saw the pictures of herself standing next to my dad's youthful-looking parents, she went right out and dyed her hair!

I think its obviously harder the older you get. You can have a baby face at 25 that makes you look like a high school kid still. Its harder to look 30 at 40-45!

That said. My mom is late 50s and people generally assume she is just turned 50-ish. So some aging down is possible. Its just good genetics. Luck of the draw.

I'm 33, definitely don't look 23 even though I have no greys, lines or wrinkles at all yet (thanks mom!)- there is just a different look to youth sometimes that you can't pinpoint. I think its more possible to look ambiguous and that's probably your best case scenario For example, I probably look anywhere between 27 and 33. I'll take it.

Yes, I posted in the other thread. It runs in my family. My grandmother looked very young until her 50s. My mother looked young until she was about mid 50s. When I was a kid other kids often mistook us for sisters from about the time I was 12.

A large part of it is small stature and low body weight. Mother and grandmother both tiny and weighed about 90lbs. Only over 100lbs when pregnant. I am usually 89 - 96. I'm very short and my face is round with chubby cheeks and deep dimples. Think a young Miranda Kerr if she had dark skin.

Which brings up the other obvious factor: Dark skin simply ages differently from pale skin.

Add to that very oily skin. I used to hate it but turns out oily skin stays smoother later in life. I'm mid 40s and haven't developed any wrinkles yet.

Add to that very long hair. I have always preferred waist length or longer with a center part. My hair has started to turn gray a little but I've always worn a center part and the gray ones aren't visible unless I lift my hair up to show them.

I get mistaken for a teen all the time. Which isn't really a problem except as regards DH who has repeatedly had to defend himself from been treated like a pervert by strangers who thought he was being inappropriate with me.

If I age like my mother and grandmother I will gain several decades between 55 and 60. They both looked very much their age at 60.

Absolutely. I remember when I was in college, I was mistaken for a middle schooler. For work study I worked in the cafeteria, and over the summer they could hire workers as young as 14 for certain types of work. I remember I was going to get something in the deep freeze and one of the cooks yelled "You can't go in there! 14 year olds can't do that." She was shocked to learn I was 22.

Fast forward to now . . . I'm 36 but I have ALWAYS been carded. Always, always. I can't think of a single time I've been trying to purchase alcohol and not been carded.

I think it is a combination of size, skin, clothes, etc. Also, hair. Women with longer hair look more youthful, to a degree.

Mine is a curiosity, which is the maximum number of years look younger? It's impossibile to look like you're 18/20 at age 30? (somatic traits, skin)...