I just saw a picture from a Xmas party and it's basically irrelevant if I look a few years younger. I still look like a genX and there were some millennials and baby boomers. They all fell right into their respective groups.

I'm 47 and look 47 if not older.

Age catches up to most women after about age 45. I think my face aged 10 years from ages 44-46. I noticed it in my friends as well. Before that most of us looked very similar to how we did at 35. The wham. I look old. I was always called "miss" in stores. Never heard "Mam" once. almost overnight (or within one year) it changed. Aging is weird.

53, my 11 year old tells me pretty specifically, "you look 45 mom!". I actually think maybe 48? Light botox, usually wore sunscreen earlier in life, retin A, moisturizer, more salads and fruit, lighter more natural makeup, lighter hair as I aged, and genetics, my 87 year old mother looks about 75. Also my eyes are large and i have a heart shaped face and i think those features read a bit younger possibly. Perimenopause still sucks even if you look a little younger though! Equal opportunity misery.

I am guilty of telling women how young they look, particularly when they tell me how old their children are.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone on dcum looks more than a decade younger, duh

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.

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.

Agree. Sad but true. Even great-looking older women don't look younger, they just look like a hot old. And everyone knows that the way to get what you want from middle aged women is to tell them how young they look. I'm a middle aged woman and I absolutely tell other women how young they look then act super jealous. The rule is:

how old do they actually look - 10 = how old you guess they are