Do You Look Your Age?

I guess others can tell me that better than I can. I am 54 - my avatar pic was taken the month of my 53rd birthday.

I have studied aging for 30 years - started when I noticed that both my father's mother and my own mother both had incredible skin and yet no common bloodlines - and some of their friends looked like shar-peis having
a bad hair day. I have an ebook on how to avoid damage - and reverse
it if you are already having problems. I just had to take it down to do some work on the site but it will be up again soon enough.

Anyhow back to the question - that's what I look like and that's my age. You can all decide for yourself. I betting everyone who looks at someone else has a different perspective of their age.
But there's not much hiding trashed.

I am the same age as Sal (except I know when I will be hitting the double nickel) and almost everyone is surprised when they find out my age.

yea, I shave my head and face.

Kelvin

People are shocked if I let my age slip out accidentally. (sometimes I do it on purpose so I can hear them say 'oh no, you don't look it at all' - lol. cheap thrills).

I am blessed by genetics on both sides and I take very good care of my skin. I have taken vitamins for years - the skin stuff is A,C, D & E to name the main ingredients but I also believe Niacin because it helps circulation)

The main thing is never to get sunburned - the worst looking older skin is due to this. I was 'blessed' that I burnt my face when I was a teenager with a sunlamp and looked like a tomato for a week or so. 1,2,3rd degree burns.

My doctor literally cried when he saw me. He warned me never to get another sunburn as long as I live and I never have.

Blessed because otherwise I would have and because although I can feel where the blisters broke, you can't see the scars even now.

Exfoliation is the main thing or lack thereof that shows the wrinkly looking, dry, dull skin in older people.

I am very diligent to hydrate and moisturize my face every day and exfoliate regularly (monthly).

I have also just bought this cool thing called a DermaWand. It is one of the few things I ever bought off TV that wasn't a scam.

It has infrared light & heat, plus little electric currents. After moisturizing you just rub it over your face for a few minutes - It is literally amazing how it gets the moisturizer way down deep and is really puffing up areas that are caving in (omigod lines not caves) .

I also do facial exercises for a few years now. Oh yeh one more TV thing that was for real (video). They help alot too.

Getting lots of exercise and fresh air also helps you to look young (oxygen).

Mainly because I refuse to grow up no one will ever guess how old I really am.

ps. want to do something nice for yourself? Start drinking **** berry and/or Goji berry juice. It is amazing how they cleanse your system of toxins (antioxidant) and leave a nice glow on your face! Blueberries and all berries really are antioxidents to some degree.

They are berry, berry good for you!

I look way older. I have thinning gray hair and a gray beard. I'm constantly asked how old my grandson is (he's my son!) and most of his friends ask him if I'm his grandpa....

Vanity indeed. Though I have been taking side glances at the just for men products in CVS - especially after a bad week of 'grandpa' questions :-)

I'll probably just shave the beard. My avatar photo is me sans beard.

I use to say Women worry more about it than men - but at my age (46), I see a lot of my male friends and acquaintances dying their hair now, they just try to hide it more than women.

Shay- I would say it's about self esteem and the media. Everywhere you go on TV, magazines, you see "perfect" looking ppl. Plus if someone passes for 10 yrs younger it makes em feel good.

Sista P and how old ARE you?

Sal I am horrible at age guessing but I wouldn't have guessed that.

I would play a game guess my age but I would have to kill everyone who guessed a number I didn't like so that's not a good idea at all. I'm not ready to spend the rest of my life in jail.

Shay you want to know why? Because women are supposed to be 'eye candy' - we have been born and bred that it is all about how we look.

We learn that it is really what you are inside, that is your true beauty, but don't bother telling that to anybody because they will never get close enough to learn about you unless you look good (or they can't get anybody that does)...

Of course the ultimate would be to be loved for WHO YOU ARE.

That's why I take 1000 IU of High potency Vitamin D-3.

I have a game idea Let's guess Sister P's age

Sal-I love sun. I didn't know about that D3 stuff but it's been my life long dream to move where it never gets cold. Where its nice and sunny and never cold.

And Sal I don't think you mentioned genetics. Unfortunately some ppl are born with bad genes. Some are born with good. And nothing you can do can change your genes. Just like some ppl are born to have a face full of freckles. Just like the genes that determine your hair color or eye color. You can take the best care of what you have. But ppl with the best genes can take less care and wind up just as good as someone who is so vain and obsessive over taking care of themselves.

I'm so old my social security card is made of stone

Sal is right, The sun is the only source of some types of Vitamin D.

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I missed that genetics part lol Sister P are you saying you and Sal were blessed with good genes?

Anyway nobody is playing the game, guess Sister P's age Or we will assume you are Sal's twin.

Swanson is way cheaper than anywhere else and they are cutting edge on homeopathics, herbs,etc.

They also have a few good organic foods - I get their organic walnuts, raisins, dried persian apricots - they have raw cashews.

Have you heard about Stevia? It is not recognized as a sweetner by the FDA (so what else is new) but is completely natural and been used for decades with no harm - I forget what it always was used for, but it essentially lowers your glycemic index substantially.

So it is actually more than a sugar replacement -- it is a blood sugar reducer - and it's sweet!

Guess I can finally listen to people and stop with the Splenda which is the only artificial sweetner I can stand. I feel guilty everytime I use it (not alot) and I hear Sal talking about the chlorine.

I also feel remorse when I microwave my Healthy Choice 'plates' (black) for the 120th time and I hear Sal's voice of reason. I am getting better at throwing them out when they get warped.

I have one OCD/fetish I guess and that is that I can't throw out anything plastic that can be used again.

I have hundreds of plastic containers, dishes, etc. I have cupboards full of dishes but never use them - hey cool whip bowls are totally cool.

Anybody need 1000 plastic shopping bags?

Annnoyed Girl - good genes aren't the help they used to be. With all the poisons we are all exposed to daily now even good genes are under attack and need special care. Look at the fluoride in our water - that will age you so fast that it will make your head spin - it breaks down collagen very rapidly. There are two types of collagen - fibrous, which is what skin and connective tissues need, and crystaline which helps in the construction of bone - fluoride in as little as 1 ppm (parts per million) will confuse the body and it will start crystalizing fibrous collagen. Not only that but the whole manufacturing process goes out of whack. We already get too much fluoride without the stuff they are sticking in our water - that is why it's being fought against tooth and nail now even as our leaders are trying to enforce it manditorily.

Then too - there is air pollution. Like that stuff sitting on your skin, absorbing into your pores, and into your cells? How bout toxins in your own home - most care and cleaning products off the shelf have some and they do your skin organ, nor any others, any favors.

Good genes or not - you need protection.

Shay - yes we can see by your pic that you aren't 18 anymore - but that closeup avatar of yours didn't show any wrinkling, splotches, eruptions, etc.
Either it was a good pic or you still have great skin. Keep it that way. I couldn't have told your age, just that you weren't a kid and were younger than I.

Sal- seriously where do you get water with no fluoride? Is the bottled water in stores w/o fluoride? I don't wanna drink that stuff.

Pat- I will guess you are 25

I'm 24 and I think I look a little younger than my age. But that's common for Asians.

I actually do a lot to keep myself looking healthy. Most people guess that I'm 8 years younger than what I am. I think it's just good genes. :-)

However, I'm happy with my age. When people tell me that I'm getting old, I just tell them that there are plenty of people in this world who wish they'd made it to be my age.

Here are a few of my anti-aging techniques.
1. Exercise every morning for an hour.
2. Drink plenty of water.
3. Strict diet of fruits, vegetables, and protein.
4. Cleanse, Tone, Exfoliate, and Moisturize twice a day, faithfully.
5. Floss daily.
6. Take a Multi- Mineral Multi- Vitamin daily

That's all.

I'm one of those rare breads that actually looks older than I really am.

I've even had a few people tell me how "people OUR age..." and I'm like, "dude, you're in your mid 40s, I'm in my early 30s!"

I guess I attribute it my wonderful genetic ability to start losing my hair at the ripe old age of 17. Yea, really. I guess I'm just lucky. :rolleyes:

P.S. Forget the anti-aging balony... give me something to get my Elvis-style hair back! LOL

I use an old cream that has been around for ages and its called Aqueous Cream - it is really plain and boring but moisturises really well - and its really a bargain - try it out!

I would say I look my age. I have been using a face lotion probably since I was 13 or 14 years old! My mom always stress that it was so important and I have eczema so the moisture has always made it so my face doesn't feel dry and tight.

I am "getting on a bit" but don't look my age. Luckily I tan easily and so have avoided the prune look.

My wife swears I went a nice brown colour watching Lawrence of Arabia on the television.

I have a young attitude and sometimes feel I'm still "looking for my inner adult".

Having said all that, I still jump when I see my face in the mirror and think it's an intruder!

Ray

I've got to say I've noticed a lot more of my male friends being into anti aging stuff lately. One has a bathroom cupboard full of stuff!

All I use is some dove soap (I know I'm bad) but most shop stuff gives me a rash and some nivea moisturiser. I do drink loads of water (balanced equally with loads of coffee ) and eat healthy foods. I exercise regularly by moving the mouse around on its mat The avatar is me but I have make up on and rarely look like that!

My one regret is the teen fad of smothering yourself in coconut oil and lying on tin foil to get a tan. The tan has long gone but the age spots are starting to come

Leanne

I agree with a lot of what HeySal said and I know I'm not the only one that wants to know what she knows so maybe when her site is back we'll all get PMs cause I don't know which web site of hers that is.

Okay, my long answer with my thoughts.

As for me I don't think that for the most part there is such a thing as "looking your age" unless you are a baby, child or young teenager or considerably chronologically old - and even in those later years you could look 10 to 20 years younger, some people even more. It's all relative.

Whoever said they look 40 because they are 40 doesn't get it (by the way, I don't think 40 is old - it's not even though people act that way). You are gauging the way you look by what most 40 year olds look like and so actually you don't look 40 but perhaps rather what it truthfuly is is that you think you look typical for your age.

I think it's important to make that distinction because although we are all programmed to die we waren't programmed to degrade to so quickly. It's caused by outside factors. I believe that in the ideal environment there is no reason why most 40 year olds can't look like most people 20 years younger.

The problem is bad habits, polluted and toxic environment and crap in the food and water that causes people to degrade much faster. You can be chronologically "old" (which is relative to the average life expectancy) and not be aged.

When I was 24 I was mistaken often for about 16 or 17. I generally looked younger than what people would expect me to look like at my age - but I started smoking at about 20 and it caught up to me visibly at about 25 and at around 28 people now thought I was anywhere from 35 to 45, not that this is old, it isn't but I didn't want to hear that. It wasn't just the smoking it was also mega stress and malnutrition but I think the smoking was mostly the culprit.

That doesn't stop 19 year old chicks from giving me 'attention' (that's reassuring) but it was no fun to be hearing from people who are in their early to late 40s telling me stuff like "Remember when we had bla bla bla"... and I'm all like "Um, NO I DON'T" and I'd be pissed. Not cause I think that's old but it didn't help with my premature aging complex.

What I thought odd was that even though I got that from people sometimes there were always some who would underguess my age. So I think a lot of "what does X age look like" is individual perception. Even though I would get pissed when people over guessed my age it told me something was not right and I started thinking what I could do about it - because the way I looked was not the only thing : I felt horrible.

As far as sun I think there has to be more to it. I'm no expert, but when I lived in Portugal I saw many people and particularly older people who were darker from working out in fields and being in the blazing sun every day. In their 60s most did not have that prune, sagging, wrinkled bulldog look and they didn't ever use sunscreen. I don't know if the diet helped protect them from the sun and I'm not saying that if you looked at their skin under a microscope you wouldn't see damage but visibly they looked healthy, their skin was smooth and they weren't covered in wrinkles. So, go figure. My own aunts, the ones that are in their late 50s and 60s, while they don't look like teenagers have fairly smooth skin and don't look like bulldogs. Maybe it's all the olive oil.

I'm still trying to figure all this out and find the right protocol for me, including what I eat (I've already determined through trial and error that a vegan or vegetarian diet does not work for me and that the one size fits all nutrition protocol is a lot of baloney. As soon as I made at least half of my diet animal protein and plenty of good fats I lost weight and felt way better). I'm no expert and there's lots I don't know but I feel determined to get this figured out. I still have bad habits and a lot of what I can do is limited by my budget.

But now sometimes people think I'm in my early 20's or even in my late teens, which is about 10 years or so younger than I am, so at least now I may be on to something and when I figure it out maybe people will think that every day.

Sometimes people tell me why I bother doing stuff and being all into finding out about stuff like colloidal silver, blood electrification, colon cleansing, food grade H2O2, supplements and stuff because I'm still young and the answer is "Because prevention is the best medicine" so it's never too early to start doing these things. Some people in this topic don't seem to care and that's okay but you could probably reverse that graying, balding head and make yourselves feel heaps better and then your improved appearance would just be a nice side effect. Maybe you could look at it as looking/feeling better and not so much as looking younger. Besides, even though people usually call it looking younger I think what they usually really mean is looking better. Looking younger isn't necessarily better. A lot of young people look like crap. In my case most of what I am doing is just to reverse the damage from smoking.

It's not all about wrinkles either. I've seen teenagres with wrinkles. Fine lines and some wrinkles isn't even the worst. There's more to it like losing the sub cutaneous fat under your skin and other things. Topical treatments can do a lot of harm if you use the wrong stuff and most stuff is probably the wrong stuff. Some topical products may even give short term positive results but may make you look older in the long run. Be careful what you choose if you want to reverse certain signs and remember that most of what you do to improve comes from inside out and not from what you do on the outside.

I don't think it's wrong to be into this stuff (I wouldn't call it vanity necessarily - that depends on what a person's intention is and besides everything is vanity anyway) because really how healthy you are inside will reflect outwardly. If your insides are well oiled and your brain is healthy that by itself is going to make you look younger outwardly. Your body needs to be able to carry out the trash and it can't when it's breaking down like an old car no matter how much gunk you put on your face.

I also think there is a disgusting disease that runs rampant in the world, which I call "youth worship" - youth being applauded for their youth, told they are children which just keeps them immature and childish for as long as possible when there is no reason they couldn't be men and women at least by the time they are 18, they mention their youth often in pride and arrogance, wear it like a badge and use it as an excuse while at the same time the world calls other people after X arbitrary age "old" well before their time.

People have these paradigms where they section off people by age groups and dare make people who are not even old feel as if they are and like they are undesirable in most capacities and good for almost nothing according to their baseless way of thinking. People need to break out of that and, even though it's hard to hold a "young" self view when the world won't leave you alone and there are reminders everywhere reminding you how "old" you are, you have to keep a different outlook and not let that get to you cause that by itself will make you get older quicker.

It breaks my heart when I see a 45 year old or whatever broken and given up saying things like "Oh, I'm just old now" and with a body language that screams "I'm beaten". That person is brainwashed. IF I can get along with the person and be their friend I treat them like a peer to help them feel better about themselves in case it helps to make them feel less old and maybe in conversations I try to undo the brainwashing. Heck, when I was 18 most of my friends were over 40. I just don't see what difference it makes and now about 10 years later I'll be friends with anyone if I like them and I don't treat them any differently unless I sense a boundary.

This is why I HATE it when I see sales letters that say "17 year old kid makes $5000 a day" or "63 year old man makes $10,000 a week". I'm all like "Yea, so? Thanks for the information and how is that relevant to anything?" They always use extremes. That's just saying the 17 year old is a stupid child so isn't it interesting that EVEN THEY can make $5000 a day and the 63 year old is so old and slow but EVEN THEY can make $10,000 a week.

I RESENT that VERY MUCH.

Anyway, good luck to everyone and just "be your age" if you that's what you want whatever that means, but you might find that if you truly did just "act your age" you would probably act younger than you do.

Stream of conscious rant over.

Yes, I look my age, but don't act it.

(12-16-2008, 05:01 PM)
:rolleyes: :p

i just lie a lot

I probably look my age.

But my wife will be 50 this year. She can easily pass for thirty. She just uses over the counter cream - not sure which ones. Might be Oil of Old Lady or Olay or whatever it is.

When we were around thirty we were expecting a prescription to come to the door. Wife answered and he told her to give the prescription to her Dad (me).

Most people are obsessed with their age - both men and women. I think it can be over the top. It would be more important to know to look after you body and remain fit and healthy. Diet and exercise are the main factors that will keep you looking younger.

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I don't use any special creams, but I like to think I look much younger than my age. Whether that is true or not, who knows, but I feel much younger than I am :-)