Fading Good Looks

Thomyokk · 15-11-2018 01:45PM

Couldn't get a look at a woman in my 20s

Literally getting propositioned every day of the week now

It's mad

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 15-11-2018 01:50PM

Bianca Fat Conductor wrote: »

The fading looks thing doesn't start until long after your ages. Thought the George Clooney years were 40s onwards.

George Clooney was best-looking in his ER years, his early to mid 30s.

Neyite · 15-11-2018 01:57PM

I'm entering the middle aged phase for women where we are invisible.

It's great. I don't get chatted up any more and therefore don't get called an unfriendly bitch or c*nt when I point out that I'm not single.

corner of hells · 15-11-2018 02:09PM

Neyite wrote: »

I'm entering the middle aged phase for women where we are invisible.

It's great. I don't get chatted up any more and therefore don't get called an unfriendly bitch or c*nt when I point out that I'm not single.

Challenge accepted .

"How you doin ?"

corner of hells · 15-11-2018 02:10PM

Thomyokk wrote: »

Couldn't get a look at a woman in my 20s

Literally getting propositioned every day of the week now

It's mad

Yeah , I hear it's rough in Mountjoy.

completedit · 15-11-2018 02:16PM

Anyone notice that 40's does seem to be new like late 20's. To think guys like Andy Samberg are 40.(Not saying he's particularly good looking but he looks mid 20's) Maybe it's style, a lot of people don't dress like old lads anymore so look younger.

I saw a picture of John Mayer and he was dressed like a hypebeast but it didn't look weird or anything. Kanye West is a style icon(somehow) and actually influencing and creating trends and is 40 plus. I'm late 20's and look pretty much the same as I did at 20, can't imagine my face changing that much without getting really fat or some ****.

sbsquarepants · 15-11-2018 02:16PM

Neyite wrote: »

I'm entering the middle aged phase for women where we are invisible.

It's great. I don't get chatted up any more and therefore don't get called an unfriendly bitch or c*nt when I point out that I'm not single.

Oooh look at me, I have a fella.......cúnt!

Sugar Free · 15-11-2018 02:19PM

I don't think I've gotten better looking in that I look older, the odd wrinkle, a fair bit of grey. I'm male in my 30's. However I do seem to be more appealing to the opposite sex now vs. my 20's. I'm not single so it's inconsequential really (in case they're reading this :pac: ).

I think it's just a case of if you're still in decent shape, still have hair on your head and make a modest effort into your appearance to the outside world then you're ahead of the pack in your 30's. Versus your 20's when that description fits the majority of guys.

wakka12 · 15-11-2018 02:23PM

completedit wrote: »

Anyone notice that 40's does seem to be new like late 20's. To think guys like Andy Samberg are 40.(Not saying he's particularly good looking but he looks mid 20's) Maybe it's style, a lot of people don't dress like old lads anymore so look younger.

I saw a picture of John Mayer and he was dressed like a hypebeast but it didn't look weird or anything. Kanye West is a style icon(somehow) and actually influencing and creating trends and is 40 plus. I'm late 20's and look pretty much the same as I did at 20, can't imagine my face changing that much without getting really fat or some ****.

Neither can anybody, but then it happens! Everyones face ages, shouldnt be that big a change between late twenties and 40 if you look after your looks

Ray Palmer · 15-11-2018 02:24PM

It has to be said I have seen good looking people get preferential treatment both in work and socially. It normally wears off if the person isn't nice.
At the same time you get people who were good looking trying to get the same preferential treatment. It usually back fires. Nothing worse than somebody you don't find attractive flirting with you actting as if you think they are gorgeous.

SEPT 23 1989 · 15-11-2018 02:29PM

LuckyLloyd · 15-11-2018 02:31PM

Wibbs wrote: »

It;s been my general observation that if a guy doesn't go to seed, or started out pretty seedy, his 30's are his "peak" of overall attractiveness to women. The point where he has the most choice and range. I couldn't get arrested in my teens and twenties, , but my thirties were a total game changer. Like a switch was flicked. Mad. Hell my forties were streets ahead of my twenties.

I'm mid thirties and this has been my experience. I'm consistently surprised tbh, as I drew little or no interest in my 20's from the opposite sex.

wakka12 · 15-11-2018 02:33PM

Thats interesting about guys getting more attention in their 30s . Its definitely the opposite way around for gay guys

Elemonator · 15-11-2018 02:35PM

northgirl wrote: »

Not sure. Alot of my hair fell out. I felt invisible. It's growing back now and I'm starting to feel better about myself and consequently putting more effort into how I look day to day.

It could be my perception that may not be reality.

I've been told I look 10 years younger than I am so that's a bonus.

It's a very common thing with men but it's rarer and probably more devastating for a woman but also more common than people realise. Don't feel too bad though, I've found as men move into their later 20's their priorities change. They want someone who actually makes them happy. I've seen plenty a beautiful girl without hair inside and out.

valoren · 15-11-2018 02:41PM

I'm 38 and sometimes get lazy and let the back and side hairs from my male pattern baldness grow out. My hair is greying rapidly and when it grows out I look much older.

Then I get it shaved to the bone and with 3 day grey tinged stubble, I look 10 years younger and transform into a very sexy bastard*. Think a stubbly Jason Statham with glasses.

* according to my OH....and me.

Gimme A Pound · 15-11-2018 02:42PM

Fair play to the lady on this thread who lost a lot of her hair but soldiered on and got her groove back. THAT'S a tough one.

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

This is the best thing I have ever read on Boads. I wish I could thank this twice.

What's so brilliant about it?

Cleopatra_ · 15-11-2018 02:44PM

I was one ugly teenager and then I was alright looking at 16, until I put on 5 stone. I lost a lot of weight at 25/26 so I think 27 was my peak attractiveness but I was still no stunner. Now I'm 30 and have put all of the weight back on. Back to the minger pile I go.

Ray Palmer · 15-11-2018 02:46PM

wakka12 wrote: »

Thats interesting about guys getting more attention in their 30s . Its definitely the opposite way around for gay guys

Yeah my brother discovered that a bit late. Had people really interested in him and then he got older. It all dried up and he lives a very solitary life.

Lillybloom · 15-11-2018 02:53PM

rusty cole wrote: »

I don't get the thread really. do you notice people treat you differently because you used to be attractive? how would this play out? is it to imply that you are now taken seriously being less attractive? or are you now passed over in a bar, were once this was not the case? or do friends smile to your face but laugh behind your back because you no longer make them feel bad about themselves?

In what context OP??

I don't see what's confusing about the thread. It's about people's accounts of how others treat them differently as they lose their good looks. All contexts are open for discussion, this isn't an exam question.

Day Lewin · 15-11-2018 02:56PM

jimgoose wrote: »

I'm 46 and like fine whiskey, the older I get the more attractive I am. I'm your tall, well-built, ruggedly handsome type. Somewhat but not entirely tangentially, I think a lot of women benefit greatly from a few laps on the clock and a little lining and wrinkling, gives 'em lovely, attractive character.

Half my kingdom is yours!

Also, undying gratitude and appreciation: what a fine taste and discriminating palate we see here!

>grins<

Day Lewin · 15-11-2018 02:58PM

From the neck down, I look better than I did at 30. From the neck up, not so much...

15-11-2018 03:01PM

Lillybloom wrote: »

I don't see what's confusing about the thread. It's about people's accounts of how others treat them differently as they lose their good looks. All contexts are open for discussion, this isn't an exam question.

I know things about people lilly, (famous movie quote from someone who aged like wine) and someone you certainly would not treat differently

Neyite · 15-11-2018 03:03PM

corner of hells wrote: »

Challenge accepted .

"How you doin ?"

Gimme A Pound · 15-11-2018 03:13PM

Really good-looking people's looks don't fade until they're actually old (actually old, not 35) unless they do a Brigitte Bardot and cook themselves.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 15-11-2018 03:14PM

wakka12 wrote: »

Depends on the person. I know 25 year olds how look absolutely haggard, male and female

Speaking of ageing well des bishop looked so good on rte last night. I never thought he was attractive before and he looks so different now but way better with a bit of ageing, definitely suits some people and others not so much

Noticed that too about Des Bishop.

I would have never considered him as handsome before.

The greying hair really suits him.

jimgoose · 15-11-2018 03:17PM

Bianca Fat Conductor wrote: »

...unless they do a Brigitte Bardot and cook themselves.

Amazing. For one of the most beautiful creatures in the World at one point, she appears to have managed to turn into a somewhat less attractive version of Donald Trump:

Diemos · 15-11-2018 03:23PM

The wall is real

jimgoose · 15-11-2018 03:30PM

Day Lewin wrote: »

From the neck down, I look better than I did at 30. From the neck up, not so much...

I wouldn't necessarily be too sure. For an example of a woman who remained white-hot, bow-chicka-wow-wow attractive into her 80s and crow's feet be buggered, check out one Betty Joan Perske, better known as Lauren Bacall.

CrankyHaus · 15-11-2018 03:31PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Noticed that too about Des Bishop.

I would have never considered him as handsome before.

The greying hair really suits him.

Giving up the drink was probably a big part of it. If you live healthy then aging gracefully is on the cards, less so if you don't. At the other end of the spectrum look at all the mad session merchants looking like obese stroke victims once they pass 35/40.

completedit · 15-11-2018 04:09PM

Des Bishop was a model when he was younger. He just didn't come across as handsome, if you look back though he actually was.

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