Do You Look Your Age? Younger? Older?

[arwalden]

My horseshoe-shaped hairline really makes me look older than I am. The only thing left to do now is just keep it short-short high-and-tight (like Cal Ripken) and live with it.

I knew it was all downhill from here when I stopped getting carded for booze in restaurants.

-- Allen

[mopaul]

1. i think i've held up pretty good

[DarkPhenyx]

2. Much, much, younger.

I'm 30+ and I keep being told I look 18 - 21. THe fact that I still wear the same jeans and t-shirts I did when I was in highschool dosen't hurt the image. I've toyed with the idea of volunteering as some sort of police highschool plant.

It sucks when it comes time for dating though. The women I want to chase think I'm too young, and the ones hitting on me are way too young most of teh time.

[HEyHEY]

5. NAAARRRCCCC!

Hey man, 20-year-olds are hitting on you....what's the problem?

[Exultant Democracy]

30. I'm with HeyHEY

20 year old girls were invented on a good day, a very good day.

[PittPoliSci]

55. yeah really...

what are you thinking?

[HEyHEY]

3. I don't know how it happened

I'm 24 and I look 30, it sucks. I don't get it a few years ago I looked younger than my age, then WHAMMM!!! I think it was the nonstop drinking, smoking, travelling, and other such things. - I have since quit smoking, and cut down on drinking (sometimes)

[Demobrat]

4. I look at least 10 years younger than I am.

I kind of always have. When I was a teenager I hated it, but it started working for me in my thirties. Now I'm 49 and pass for mid-thirties. I love to tell people my age after they've known me for a while, just to see the looks on their faces.

[Kat45]

7. Me too. I have the same story as you.

Hated looking younger when I was a teenager, and now I'm 48 and people think I'm in my thirties. Recently hooked up with a guy 15 years younger--if he knew my actual age.....

:D

[arwalden]

8. Wha-wha WHAT???

When I first read your message I thought you hooked up with a 15 year old. OMG.

It's late... I need new glasses.

-- Allen

[dani]

20. same here

I look about 10 years younger than I am. It's usually a good thing.

[Amaya]

6. I look

like an old hag

[madrchsod]

9. younger i guess,

alot of people think i`m alot younger than 56..ok ,what ever...

[roughsatori]

10. A sure sign you are getting old

is when people tell you "you look young for your age." Some middle aged people don't get that and brag "everyone says I look younger than I am." But, I do look much younger than I am! :P

[WhyMe]

11. Younger

But, I am a woman, so I guess I am glad :)

[Rowdyboy]

12. Younger...

Lack of children will do it every time

[1monster]

13. I dunno... but

at the Independence Day Fireworks, there was a Latina girl sitting near my husband. She and some other folks there were talking about out kids. I said that I hadn't had more than the one because I was thirty-six when he was born (he's now eleven). And she said something like, "You're kidding! You don't look that old!" :eyes:

But later my husband told me she was chatting him up when I wasn't looking and even asked him to go to Disney World with him.

So, I guess she thought I was an OLD dog.

Ah hypocrisy....

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. I think I could pass for 18-honest. My daughter and her class are amazed

that I am 6 months younger than J-Lo and look, in their words,"so much older". It's a good thing I'm not vain...Does getting upset with the liquor store guy for not carding me make me vain??? :smoke:

[DoctorBombay]

15. Older- premature greying

I'm 30, but my hair is about 1/3 grey. Got my first one at age 16.

[inthecorneroverhere]

17. sympathize!

I sympathize with ya. I practically freaked at the haircutters recently when I saw a couple of little grey hairs. My first.... They are visible now above my ears because my hair is brown and the haircut place cut off the bleached blonde part that was hiding those sneaky little grey hairs.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

24. You bald faced liar you look younger than your age..BABYFACE!

YOu definitely don't look 30. You've got a babyface.

[DoctorBombay]

77. You're in the vast minority on that, NSMA!

I honestly don't get that.....more people comment on the hair!

[inthecorneroverhere]

16. hmmmm....

Well, I think I look my age, but I am proud to admit that, at 39 years of age, I have been carded twice this year while buying beer.

I think I look older than my age in the morning and then younger when I'm in a really good mood.

[DemoTex]

18. Well, I don't know. When my 83 year old dad was in St. Joe's in Atlanta ..

... for his esophogectomy in May, I had an Episcopal rector and a neurologist ask me if I was his brother(I'm 55)! I am solid gray with a gray Hemmingway-like beard. Dad's hair is so close-cropped that he looks younger than his 83 years. So I guess it was not totally unreasonable for them to think I might be his brother.

[MaryBear]

19. My S.O. tells me that

I look younger, but, then, he knows what is good for him!

[SOteric]

21. I'm sure he's right, GrandmaBear

Rootbeer has a rejuvenating effect on the spirit. :-)

[MaryBear]

66. Smiles,,

which you regularly provide, do the same, SOteric. :hi:

[SOteric]

22. Both.

I still get hit on by 19 and 20 year olds, and I get carded at the liquor store. One young thing behind the counter even had the grace to be utterly dumbfounded by my actual age and assure me that "You sure don't look it." And by the expression on his face, I could tell he really meant that.

On the other hand, some years back something incredibly sad and hard to deal with happened in my life. Since that time, folks who know me especially, keep telling me that something in my eyes looks incredibly old. Not that I have deep laugh-lines or some other badge of honour that comes with a life well-lived, just that something about my eyes has the look of someone who's been around for a century or two and seen enough to grow weary.

[Aristus]

23. I looked younger than my age until I was ywenty-four,

when I started to go bald. Now I look older than my age.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

25. I don't think I look like I will be 45 in a month

but I don't look like a frikkin 20 year old anymore either *sniff*

[SOteric]

27. Puh-Shaw

Our hearts will always be in soft-focus where you're concerned.

You look maaaahh-velous.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

26. Want to know your real age?

Try this: www.realage.com

You answer A LOT of questions about your various habits and histories, and it tells you whether you are older or younger than your actual age.
It's interesting. Apparently I am about 6 months younger than my actual age -- I intend to spend those extra 6 months painting on the beach in Barbados, by the way.

[SOteric]

33. I took that test.

It says I'm 6 1/2 years younger than my birth certificate would indicate. WooHoo!

[supernova]

41. I took the Real Age test and was disappointed

it made me out to be 3 1/2 years older than I am. Trouble is, even if I took every one of their recommendations, it would still calculate me 2 years older than I am, largely b/c of the breast cancer in my immediate family. Nuts to that.

[supernova]

42. I can do both

I can either look my age or look younger than I am. I'm also 5 ft tall with a softer, more rounded face. No Katherine Hepburn cheekbones on me!

A lot of it has to do with clothing and makeup. If I wear minimal makeup with jeans and t-shirts I will usually get carded.

If I'm dressed in professional attire, nobody would mistake me for a high school student.

[BritishHuman]

46. Hmmph - 2.7 years older

I need to increase significantly my cardiovascular exercise.

From, well, "virtually nothing" to "occasional" - that's significant, isn't it?

[JohnKleeb]

69. looks like I am 15.6

I didnt know a lot of the info though so.

[gyopsy]

28. People say I look younger...

and I'm only 19. This woman who was a customer at where I work thought I was like 14. :-(

[bicentennial_baby]

29. Younger

I'm 26 and I still get carded for cigarettes every other day. I'm a Capricorn though, and supposedly we look younger as we age :shrug:

[SmileyBoy]

31. I'm almost 21, and I've been mistaken for a junior high student.

I don't really look it, I do look a little bit younger, tho. However, one day this past winter, I was going to an 8th grade band concert that my younger brother was in at his school. I decided to roam the halls before the show, because that was also where I went to school. Reminiscing, ya know. So I was by this office, and I was talking with this lady about my brother being in the concert, and she asked me "Oh, do you go to this school??". And I'm like "LADY!!! I GRADUATED from high school two YEARS AGO!!!!" I felt pretty miffed after that.

Also, I was at the Minnesota State Fair on my 18th birthday, and while my mother was at the "Guess your age" booth, I got into a conversation with a lady (middle aged or so), and I asked her what she thought my age was, and she said "13???". And I was just DUSGUSTED after that, and explained to her that today was my 18th birthday, etc. etc., and she said that I didn't look 18.

AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!

[Master Gracey]

32. An enigma

When I was younger, I looked older. I had no problems getting into R rated movies when I was 12, and that was at a theatre that carded religiously. I once couldn't see a movie with my girlfriend when I was 15 because they carded her... after I had bought my ticket, of course.

But now I look alot younger than my age. I'm almost 26, and when I was working with my dad last week, he was telling the person at this house that I hadn't been able to find a job since I graduated. The person asked what high school I graduated from. :D I'm constantly told I look maybe 17 or 18. Some friends of mine took me out gambling about a year ago, and I had to wear a big orange wristband so I wouldn't get followed around by security all night. It was a torture that my friends didn't have to endure (I say "friends," but when I got into a political conversation with my liberal friend right before Christmas, her RW, alcoholic, ex-army boyfriend grabbed a knife and chased me out of their house... I haven't talked to them since).

[SheIsNotMyFirstLady]

34. According to EVERYONE -- younger.

I'm in my early 20s, and I can't go a day without people telling me I look about 15. My sister says it annoys me now, but I'll be missing that observation when I start showing my age, LOL.

[Dover]

35. Mirror mirror on the wall....who's the most botoxed of all?

I hear everyone looks "young" in California. I think youth is more about the spirit than appearance. At least that's what the mirror keeps telling ME.....;-)

[angee_is_mad]

36. well,,,,

I look good, damn good!!! I think, I hope, maybe, well I hope I do.

Well I feel good! Does that count?.

[dawg]

43. Whatcha' so mad for, angee?

And welcome to DU.

[angee_is_mad]

70. thx

the prez, congress, the senate just to name a few!!!!

[ibegurpard]

37. People tell me they're surprised when they find out how old I am

I don't know whether it's the truth or they are lying to be polite

[Dulcinea]

38. Younger

I'm 37 & could pass for 30, I'm told.

[Iverson]

39. then/now

I used to look much younger. Now I only look slightly younger. Fortunately, the older I get, the less I care. Being trumps looking.

[salmonhorse]

40. According to the bartender last night on my B-Day: 36 ~

I told Large Marge that I'd run with that and he/she belly laughed filling up the room. She's quite The Diva here @ Faces in Sac. Still @ 53 I haven't been 'carded' in eight years but that only pisses me off because I have to dig my freaking CDL out of my wallet so Big Time whatever ~

[slackmaster]

44. Much younger

I'm 45 and still get "carded" for alcohol purchases occasionally.

The funniest thing that happens is when I meet a much younger woman (e.g. coworker, someone in a bar, etc.). When I tell them my age and they realize I'm about as old as or older than their father sometimes the look on their faces is priceless.

[Paranoid_Portlander]

45. When I am with my 90-yr old aunt...

... people usually assume that I am her husband. My actual age is 59. When I visited her recently in the nursing home, one of the attendants thought that I was a patient who had wandered into the wrong room. It seems to be a genetic problem. My father always looked 20 years older than his actual age. His high school grad photo looked like about age 38 and half-bald already. I have been completely bald since 24.

[ronnykmarshall]

47. Younger

My hairline in front is ok ...... but the back is another story.

[sangha]

48. Much younger

I still get carded at bars.

[CO Liberal]

49. I've Been Told I Don't Look 50

People keep telling me I don't look old enough to have a 28-year-old son and a 26-year-old daughter.

[CO Liberal]

50. Night-Time Kick

:kick:

[PittPoliSci]

53. my mother's 50, and has a 19 year old son.

you look great for 50! you wouldn't believe some of the people i've seen that are MUCH younger than you and look like they're in their 60s.

[arwalden]

57. Wow... you look just like RFK!!!

No wait... I see... the OTHER picture is you.

You're right... you don't look old enough to have a 28 and 26 year old. (Unless you're 40 and you started at 12---and that's not completely unheard of. Must be the elevation and the good clean air that keeps you so fit.)

-- Allen

[CO Liberal]

61. I Spent My First 42 Years Living In New Jersey

So it may have something to do with the exhaust fumes on the Garden State Parkway.

Or salt water taffy from Atlantic City.

:-)

[Township75]

58. Finally, a face to attach to the screen name of one of my J/PS antagonists

you and 1a2b3c (where ever he is) are the only ones to post of photo.

[CO Liberal]

62. Maybe We Should Put 1a2b3c's Picture on Milk Cartons

He has been missing for a while.......

[Township75]

63. Good One!

That was pretty funny.

If I recall correctly, he had some issues with the law over some pot. I can't remember all of the circumstance. I can't imagine he has been taking away because of it.

[CO Liberal]

64. If I Remember Correctly......

...he was able to enter a plea to a lesser charge and avoid jail time.

I just sent him a private message. Hopefully, we'll hear from him soon.

[PittPoliSci]

51. MUCH Older.

Its amazing, I like 27, i'm 19. One time, I was at a science fair and someone thought I was a teacher.

[Angel]

52. Told I look younger...

but I'm not so sure :shrug:

[Chicagonian]

54. I used to look older than I was, now I'm looking younger-

Basically, my looks haven't changed much in the last 25 years...when I was 16, I could pass for 21, without an ID in liquor stores and bars.

[leftist_rebel1569]

56. I look a year or 2 older

I'm 15, and everyone's first guess is that i'm 17 or 16. It's kinda nice...

[LincolnMcGrath]

59. I look younger

Still get carded every other time I buy booze.

[Hep]

60. I'm 29, and people think I'm 25.

I don't know why.

[Ellen Forradalom]

65. I look my age

by definition.

[mvd]

67. Younger

About 20 or 21.

[JohnKleeb]

68. IM me(so I can show you me), laugh, then tell

I dont know really I bet at the most I could pass for 18.

[Character Assassin]

71. Well, damn. I've been growing all this white fur, see.....

Nah. Rabbit suit aside, my family greys early, although we keep our hair.

I'm 36, but my hair looks like the dude in the Grecian Forumla commercials, as in, "Wife likes tough of grey left around the edges...."

[jonnyblitz]

72. younger for sure. n/t

[LadeJarl]

73. How can I know??????

The questions is impossible really.

How do I know what I'm supposed to look like at any given age?

Most people say I look a lot younger than my age, but how should I look for my age? (This is really independent from you age, since the questions is valid for any age)

[otohara]

74. Recently Someone From Grade School Recognized Me

I'm 50 now!

[youngred]

75. Younger

usually, though i get eeryhing from 4 years younger to 5 years older depending on clothes, look and event

[Breezy du Nord]

76. I'm only a freshman and I almost got mistaken for 18

In Mexico, I almost could've gone to a nightclub with the guy who lived in the house I was staying in... sigh. oh well, I suppose the rents wouldn't be too happy if they knew I had gone to a Mexican club... :-)

[Shakeydave]

78. Unfortunately, much older!

Unhealthy lifestyle and what not!

[Armstead]

79. Younger -- But I'm probably also immature

My family tends to have slow-aging genes. My parents both looked younger than their years. So do I. Was a pain in the butt when I was young, but as time progresses I'm glad. I got carded a couple of times when I was in my 40's. Doesn't happen anymore, but at 50 people say I look like I could be in my 30's.

At some point I'll probably age ten years overnight, but hopefully that won't happen until I'm advanced enough in years that it won't matter.

[ChemEng]

80. Absolutely Younger!! Except for the ...

receding hairline, turkey neck, beer belly, and a few other issues, I look just like I did in high school!