Anonymous wrote:It’s genetic. The more melanin you have, the easier time you have. I am of Mediterranean descent, and am not stick thin and I am over 50 and have no noticeable lines. My skin only went dry in the last couple of years. My mother was stick thin and she didn’t really get lines until she was in her 60s, and her face doesn’t look anywhere near the 80+ she is today. No Botox, fillers, anything. It’s why they say “black don’t crack”. So you can enhance with certain procedures, but the biggest factor is what you started with.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s her name... the ginger with really long hair? In her 50s, I think?

Nicole Kidman? She’s so plastic, if you put her next to a radiator, she’d melt.

Julianne Moore? She is gorgeous.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s genetic. The more melanin you have, the easier time you have. I am of Mediterranean descent, and am not stick thin and I am over 50 and have no noticeable lines. My skin only went dry in the last couple of years. My mother was stick thin and she didn’t really get lines until she was in her 60s, and her face doesn’t look anywhere near the 80+ she is today. No Botox, fillers, anything. It’s why they say “black don’t crack”. So you can enhance with certain procedures, but the biggest factor is what you started with.

It is genetic and while I'm sure melanin helps, it's not the only way. I'm of Nordic and Irish descent and my mom didn't start getting lines until her late 50s and then only very fine laugh lines. Now she's in her 70s and her face is like Helen Mirren's -- lots of fine lines but still great color and warmth, and very few deep lines.

My mom, my sister, and I have always just looked very young for our age. It's annoying right up until it's not, and then it's convenient. I hated that people thought I was so young in my 20s and early 30s as I was trying to establish my career. But around 35 that switches and it's nice to always get an age discount when people assess your looks. Now I'm mid-40s and it's great because I look early to mid-30s. I think I've avoided some of the stigma around aging at work and I've especially avoided the stigma around being an older mom (I had my first and only right at 40) because people just don't know. When my grays started showing because I wasn't coloring my hair during early Covid, my 28 year old neighbor told me, conspiratorially "Isn't it crazy when people our age start going gray? It's like, what's in the water?" I laughed so hard I cried. She has no idea.

Anonymous wrote:It’s genetic. The more melanin you have, the easier time you have. I am of Mediterranean descent, and am not stick thin and I am over 50 and have no noticeable lines. My skin only went dry in the last couple of years. My mother was stick thin and she didn’t really get lines until she was in her 60s, and her face doesn’t look anywhere near the 80+ she is today. No Botox, fillers, anything. It’s why they say “black don’t crack”. So you can enhance with certain procedures, but the biggest factor is what you started with.

Anonymous wrote:Setting aside celebrities who have access to a lot of resources, in real life, one of the big factors I notice is women who had kids vs women who are didn't. Not always of course - there are plenty of amazingly put together moms in their 40s. But line up 5 of my coworkers without kids and 5 with... it is noticeable.

More time and money to put into taking care of themselves, their fashion, not having to prioritize kids needs, etc.

Now that I write that, not that different than celebs - more access to resources (celebs with kids just have more nannies, stylists, etc that childless women can do on their own).

Anonymous wrote:Speaking of gingers, you know who is kind of a bummer? Amy Adams. The first pic below is the 2016 Golden Globes, when she was 41. And the second photo is last year (age 45). Maybe it's a temporary issue but she looked amazing in 2016 and just looks so puffy and more middle-aged in the second one. Not bad (she's obviously a beautiful woman) but the difference is really striking. I notice it because I have her coloring and similar bone structure and I'm 41 and like how I look, but when I saw her recently I was like "whaaaaat is happening?" If a rich celebrity can take that middle-aged turn so quick, I don't stand a chance!

Anonymous wrote:Not quite on topic but I used to watch Gray’s Anatomy way back in the beginning. There was an ad on my screen that came up advertising season end and I nearly didn’t recognize Ellen Pompeo. She was in her early 30s when it started now is early 50s and we’ll, it shows- aging sucks

Anonymous wrote:Congrats on winning the genetic lottery, I guess?

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Anonymous wrote:Speaking of gingers, you know who is kind of a bummer? Amy Adams. The first pic below is the 2016 Golden Globes, when she was 41. And the second photo is last year (age 45). Maybe it's a temporary issue but she looked amazing in 2016 and just looks so puffy and more middle-aged in the second one. Not bad (she's obviously a beautiful woman) but the difference is really striking. I notice it because I have her coloring and similar bone structure and I'm 41 and like how I look, but when I saw her recently I was like "whaaaaat is happening?" If a rich celebrity can take that middle-aged turn so quick, I don't stand a chance!

Didn't she have a kid in between these pics?

Anonymous wrote:Speaking of gingers, you know who is kind of a bummer? Amy Adams. The first pic below is the 2016 Golden Globes, when she was 41. And the second photo is last year (age 45). Maybe it's a temporary issue but she looked amazing in 2016 and just looks so puffy and more middle-aged in the second one. Not bad (she's obviously a beautiful woman) but the difference is really striking. I notice it because I have her coloring and similar bone structure and I'm 41 and like how I look, but when I saw her recently I was like "whaaaaat is happening?" If a rich celebrity can take that middle-aged turn so quick, I don't stand a chance!

Anonymous wrote:People who look amazing over 40 also looked amazing when they were younger. It’s not surprising that beautiful people remain beautiful.