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I look my age...I think. Well, at least I hope I look my age and not much older. I wouldn't know be because I've never had people try and guess my age. I'm always with people who are my age (late 30s/early 40s) so it's not as if we guessing each others' ages.
I just want to look good for my age, so I do Botox & fillers (I'm on the thin side and I've lost volume in my face, so I've added volume to my cheeks, lips and smile lines.) I'm into skincare, hair care and makeup and I'm known for getting dressed up...I work with I've still got.
You keep starting bizarre threads - are you doing some kind of research?
I think he/she might be retired now, so sometimes maybe the mind wanders.
To the OP, if age ever comes up in conversation, usually I am told I look a quite bit younger than my 60 years. But who knows if that is just people being nice or if it's actually truth.
To myself, in the mirror I look younger than I am, but in photos I look haggard and old to me. So who knows.
Yep, Hemingway said it best, whatever that was. I look older when I do not shave. Grey beard. Worked for Hemingway, but not so much for me. I used to be the digity! I like that.
I don't think so, BUT I can say that I distrust when people say that everyone tells them, "I can't BELIEVE you're such-and-such an age..." For one thing, why did the person mention her age in the first place? I think generally, the person s/he is mentioning his/her age to picks up on the vibe of, "Oh, s/he must want me to be surprised at his/her age so I will act that." That may sound convoluted but it's what comes to mind for me, because honestly, why the hell else would people's ages just happen to come up in casual conversation at the library, on line at the store, etc.? Only little children generally call out their ages to one another constantly (and that's to prove how "old" and mature they are)...with adults...there must be a reason...and with age being such a dirty word in western society, well, any dolt can pick up on that reason.
I get told that I look much younger, but its mostly from people who are seeing my ID (buying alcohol) or birth date (official documents). When I went back to school last Spring, the women in the admissions office asked me to verify my birth date because she thought I wrote it wrong (as if I didn't know it).
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Originally Posted by GiGi603
I will say that my Generation (born in 1957) most of us look "younger" because we are not like our Mothers at the same age.
We seem to stay more current in fashion and make-up. Most of us don't do "old lady dresses".
My mom was born in 1956, and we wear similar clothes. We even own some of the same items of clothing. And no, I don't wear "old people" clothes, and she doesn't wear anything that is inappropriate for her age.
I always think people say I look younger because Hollywood likes to have 30 year olds playing high schoolers. Unless you are around high schoolers a lot, you have a distorted view on what they look like. I feel I look my age, I look like other 30 year olds I am around all the time, but I often get told by others that I look like I'm only 19-20 years old.
I was carded at a liquor store when I was 40... but it was in the middle of summer, and I was wearing sunglasses. When I removed the sunglasses so the guy could compare my face to my driver's licence, Im sure that removed all doubt about my real age. Maybe it's the expression in my aged eyes... decrepit, haunted, and jaded?
I guess I must've hit the wall pretty hard in the few years since then. I haven't been carded since. But that did make my year, probably, when I was 40.
For years I looked way younger than my age, for reals. Now, since treatment for cancer, people think I look way older [and I do] They do not actually say that I look old. What they do is see a picture of me taken 4 years ago and say "Oh my, your daughter [ once your grand daughter] looks so much like you. I don't even bother correcting them now because they get so embarrassed.
I'm 83 and my mailman told be I don't look a day over 26. The troof.
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Well, at least I hope I look my age and not much older. I wouldn't know be because I've never had people try and guess my age. I'm always with people who are my age (late 30s/early 40s) so it's not as if we guessing each others' ages. 
The Old Man and the Sea
Must be the "Dorian Gray" phenom.
