Do you look your age ?

ottolwinner

I was at an appointment earlier and was almost overlooked as the doc didn’t think I was myself from having pre read my notes before looking for me in the waiting area. Pleasantly surprised to be considered 10 years younger.
do you think you look your age or do others think you look older/younger?

RMAOK

People often mistake me for mid 50s. The only problem with that is that I'm just after turning 40.....

Glaceon

I’m often told that I look younger than my years. Just yesterday I had an appointment with an orthopaedic consultant. He asked me my age and when I said 40, he replied “you don’t look 40, more like 30!”

Hontou

I look older, unfortunately, but I have had fabulous experiences and scars that justify it. Wouldn't change a thing.

pgj2015

People often say I look at least 10 years younger, I think its lack of kids and drink that is the reason for that.

20/20

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058384944/do-you-look-your-age

Its nice to be given a compliment before your presented with the big bill.

Even by a Doc or consultant as always seems to be the case with me also. Never the plumber or painter.

freshpopcorn

I'm 32, when I was younger the bouncers in the clubs nearly didn't bother IDing me because I looked so young and they remembered me.

I think I still look young but it's starting to catch up on me a little now.

Allinall

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122971666#Comment_122971666

Is it lack of kids and lack of drink, or lack of kids and drink?

My friend wants clarification.

TinyMuffin

I don’t look it. Or act it.

Greyfox

I definitely look younger but that just makes me hate telling people my age that bit more

watchclocker

Yes

I'm middle aged now

A few years ago people would be shocked at my age but I don't think they would now

I think it all hits you at once

Be warned

I think it's important to say though and not to be all serious and all, there's nothing wrong with looking our age, we're lucky we get to get older (Only people who look their age will say this)

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

No. In my 20s I was according to door staff under 18, now 42, mistook for someone in their late 20s last week.

I'm old and decrepit. Also people are blind. I've been mistaken for an age younger than my boards reg date (2001)

Strumms

Objectively i think I probably just look maybe two to three years under my age, certainly no older. A few years ago I started noticing the odd gray fleck in my hair, weirdly though it hasn’t got worse, I said to myself I’ll be gray by 50 but certainly not looking like that now…or close…

Weight tends to age you too and as a positive I am about 12 kilograms lighter then I was 10 years ago which includes putting on more muscle mass…. So I’m content about how I look fûck it.

Quantum Erasure

Do I look my age?

I think there's an idea of what 30s/40s looks like (middle aged/quite old) which hasn't been moved on from. I'd say nearly everyone in the western world looks younger than that now. Clothes, hair, easier life... lifestyle I dunno, as there's so much sugar and junk food, but a fit and healthy person in their 30s/40s looks a lot younger now than their counterparts 30/40 years ago (e.g. my parents - not that they had a particularly hard life, but how they dressed was old, and my mother had the mammy haircut, which is very ageing ).

BorneTobyWilde

I was born at a very young age .

@MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

@MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Seems like you look much younger from other people's perspective though. And you're 42, not 82 - not a youngling, but you've some bit to go before old decrepitude!

watchclocker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122972822#Comment_122972822

Theres a middle ground though because too thin and you look auld because there's nothing to fill out all the wrinkles

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122972845#Comment_122972845

agreed, as the old saying goes, better to have it then want it.

watchclocker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122972851#Comment_122972851

I say it like I would have a clue about what too thin looks like

My mirrors are all in widescreen 🤣

deisemum

Most people think I'm younger than I am. I was 60 earlier this year and when I'd mention anything to do with planning my 60th party I got plenty of "no way you're 60 or look 60" most think I'm early to mid-50's.

I've got a plump face and the only positive thing about that is that it's like a natural botox, it keeps things smooth, I don't have many lines especially deep lines. To quote Garron Noone "obese don't crease".

Children definitely age you, mine have long left home so maybe not running about or worrying over them helps.

mikeybhoy

I have the face of a 5 year old and the body of 55 year old. Not revealing my actual age here are you mad.

JupiterKid

I've been told that I look a few years younger than my age, which as a recovering alcoholic and a smoker (planning to quit very soon) is a nice compliment. Salt & pepper greying brown hair and the crows feet around my eyes now.

I will turn 50 next year. Do I look it?

...photo was taken yesterday!

kowloon

Don't mind me…

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122972906#Comment_122972906

You look 40s imo. Lovely photo. I don't know why but I've always pictured you as shaven-headed/bald with glasses and no facial hair. 😊

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122972906#Comment_122972906

That’s not grey, it’s silver. That’s what I tell myself.

HalloweenJack

I don't know.

I'm 36 and I'd say it's only in the last year or two that I've noticed my body turning into middle age.

Keeping my head closely shaved goes a long to maintaining an air of youth. Once it grows for a few weeks, my receding hairline and the thin part on top become quite noticeable. I haven't gone a month without cutting my hair since I was about 24. There's a patch just behind my temple on each side that has a softer colour than the rest. Apart from that, I don't have many grey hairs.

I lost quite a bit of weight a few years back and go for a decent run pretty much every day, though I notice its easier to gain weight these days and harder to get rid of it so I'm struggling with that at the moment.

Creases have come in really hard the last few years, especially around my eyes and the tops of my cheeks, though I like to think it's from all the laughing.

Hooked

I'm 46 and act about 26… I'd prob pass for very late thirties if the greying sides didn't give me away. Still have a full head of hair thank god! I do think lads in their 40's nowadays look, dress and act younger than our parent's generation.

My wife is 40 next year - and looks WAAAY younger. Really takes care of her skin. Lots of routines with expensive serums. She got ID'd here few years back for alcohol - and the girl who ID'd her nearly died when she realised she was in her late thirties.

I recently came across a pic of my dad with me and one of my brothers - at a particular function - which we were able to work out made him 44 in the photo. My head was a little melted to realise that I (and my brother in the pic) am now older than my dad was in the photo…

To me - he looks like an old man. And I don't "see myself" as that old… Which I obviously am. 😕

felonious_Gru

Constantly told I look ten years younger

felonious_Gru

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122972906#Comment_122972906

Yes you look your age,not older ,not younger

MarkR

I'm bald and my beard has gray in it. So i'd say I look older than I am. But, I do act very immature, so it cancels out.