How old do you think you look?

@hmkoct5 (2065)
United States
January 21, 2011 4:11pm CST
Often I see other people my age and wonder if I look as old as they do. I am 38 years old and I don't feel like it at all. I still feel like I'm 20. But, I see everyone around me getting older and I just wonder if I am starting to look older too. How old do you think you look? Do you think you look older or younger than you are?
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20 responses
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
21 Jan 11
hi I am always told I look much younger than I really am. At age 84 to be told I look like I am 60 is great even if its just flattery. I do keep a youthful out look on life and keep my brain active and in good shape. I also empathize my best features, my blue green eyes and white wavy hair. and try to downplay my overweight. I think you are really young compared to me. and also we are as young as we really feel. You can be old at 20 if you get all stody in your thinking and never do new things nor learn new things. And look young at 38 as you keep up your looks and health and are active mentally and feel young. Keep on feeling younger and you will look younger too.
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@hmkoct5 (2065)
• United States
22 Jan 11
Great advice! You sound like you are doing wonderfully at age 84!! I will heed your advice.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
22 Jan 11
i THINK I LOOK MY AGE WHICH IS 68, LOL. I have peole tell me that i don't look that old but i think they are just being nice. Everyone starts to look older as they get there, U will to.
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@thedaddym (1731)
• United States
23 Jan 11
I think that I look my age. I am 43. I don't think I look any younger or any older then I am. I see everyone getting old around me too and I feel like we are all aging about the same. I don't like it that is for sure, but I guess it is a part of life. At least I don't look any older then I actually am, but I do wish I didn't look my age either.
@eurekafemme (5877)
• Philippines
22 Jan 11
Hello. Four years ago, people mistaken me to be in my late twenties. Which I just laughed it off and happily told them that I am older than what they think. I must admit being guessed as younger than actual age could be flattering and is an awesome compliment.:D I am 37 years old NOW and had been through a lot of emotional and physical stress that I think I look 10 years older than my actual age. By the way, here is an article to find out if you look older or younger than your real age. http://expertscolumn.com/content/do-you-look-younger-or-older
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@hmkoct5 (2065)
• United States
31 Jan 11
Thank you for the article. I have been very stressed the past few years too. I think it does take its toll on your body. I am trying to find ways to de-stress, maybe I'll lose a few years on my age :-)
• China
22 Jan 11
I think i look younger then i am. Actually the people around me they said this to me. My actual age is 22 but my friends or other people always said to me that me look like 15-17 years. I don't know why. But i also agree with them.
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@lady1993 (27225)
• Philippines
27 Jan 11
I think that's good, feeling younger than you really are. Before I look older than I really am, but now that I'm in college I look younger. But I still act like I'm in high school- I miss high school.
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@anne25penn (3305)
• Philippines
22 Jan 11
People are always shocked when I tell them of my real age. This is because I look ten years younger than my real age. I remember one co-worker who thought that I was in my mid twenties and was shocked when I told her that I was 37. Then they ask me what is my secret for looking young, and I tell them nothing. And this may be it, because I don't use make-up.
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@piya84 (2581)
• India
22 Jan 11
Yes i do look younger than my age.Its because probably my height is less and i take care of myself.
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• Philippines
22 Jan 11
Greetings! Well, some people are like that. They don't easily look old. Now I'm 19 years old and I'm confused how old do I look. Why? because some would say that I look 20-22. Others said that I look 16 only. Maybe its because of the way I dress. Whenever I'm at our house, I only look 16 because I wear a simple shirt and shorts which are color pink, lavender, sky blue, white, something like that? so they said I look like a high school student but whenever I go out, I look older than my age. They would say that I look matured because of my looks. I wear a simple make up, plain blouses, and high heels. It depends on the way I dress and look. :)
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• Philippines
22 Jan 11
Boasting aside, i really look ten years younger my real age. I watch my diet and live a healthy life.I exercise when i have the opportunity and I love to do some aerobics or just dance to fast beat RNB song. I am just bothered by my eye bags and i know that i will have an eye bag removal i would even look twenty years younger, kidding aside. But i have learned that even laser surgery is painful afterwards and still my eyes will get swollen. So i just forget about that dream
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@acey76 (1276)
• Philippines
22 Jan 11
yeah.. i agree....when i meet people or see their picture at social networking site i notice that they aged a lot compared to me...co-workers thought that im in my early 20's but im not im in my early thirties now
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@inu1711 (5285)
• Romania
22 Jan 11
Hello hmkoct, It seems that 38 is the age when we start to wonder how old do we look! Until the last year, I never worried about how old do I look. But I noticed that too many people started to call me Madam, so I realized that I started to look more close to my real age. Until the last year, all the people who didn't know me, used to call me Miss. Nobody believed me that I was 36 or 37 years old. Even now not any people believe me when I tell my real age. This morning, when I was playing with my dog, an old lady asked me "hey, girl, what breed is your dog?". Then, when I turned my face to her direction she payed excuses that she called me like that. I may feel young and my look may be deceiving from a distance, but it seems that my face shows my real age.
@tkonlinevn (6345)
• Vietnam
22 Jan 11
I usually think that I look young as my age. But everyone usually say that I look younger than my age. Maybe because I think that with my age, I must look like now. So, when I see persons whom is the same age to me, I usually think that they're older than their age! This is only feelings!
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@Zer0Stats (1147)
• India
22 Jan 11
I'm a 21 years old 5'8" 160lb Indian guy.I still feel like a teen but whenever thing comes to how old I look,I'm pretty confused here.I think it's my dressing style.Whenever I wear my home dress like faded blue jeans,wrinkled T-shirts,etc.,people around say I look younger like around 17-19 but at the same time,they also say I look older than my age in my casual attire.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
21 Jan 11
18... In my head...
@dodo19 (47049)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
22 Jan 11
I've always been told that I looked younger. People always seem surprised when I tell them my age, as they seem to think that I am younger, because I look younger. Although I am kinda getting used to it, it does still get a little annoying from time to time, considering that I'm not that old to begin with. Well, hopefully, things will changed. There's always the hope.
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@marguicha (215345)
• Chile
22 Jan 11
I think I look younger than my age. But I wonder, now that I ponder about it, if maybe everyone thinks the same and we are all young old women. I will NOT onder how I´d look if I did not dye my hair. My hair is not a beautifult white (which I would also mind) but a salt and pepper color, more salt than pepper each day. I discover a brown that makes my face softer. Some young people want to be my friends so I imagine I´m not only an ol´witch.
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• Bangladesh
21 Jan 11
This also happens with my dad. He is 51 now but looks like 40. He is so young though in recent years I can see some white line around his head but it has made him look more stylish..lol..:P..these seem like highlights..hahaha...I'm not joking seriously...all my friends are jealous because their father looks older than mine, and among them some are my dads friends.... But my mother just look like her age. She is 43 and she is perfect for her age. And now I'm 22..but I definitely got my dads gens....all good things I got from my mother but in this case I'm just like my father and mom is so happy for that. I still look like a teen...though I personally don't like it so much except when anybody says "oh my god! you are sooo cute!" I love it ...but in front of a good looking hot guy I might prefer just like my age (:P kidding). I look younger than my age, may be because I'm slim compared to other girls around me...and compared to the normal health of women in my country.. Other reasons are (I think)..I'm kinda childish, my voice, behaviors, manners everything is childish...I hardly get makeups (except kajal), I wear dresses that suits me good and all makes me more younger than my age....most of the time I enjoy it. Boys love it too...They think I'm kind of different than others and I think that's it the reason... But whatever it is I love it ....and want to be like this always...but yeah too much younger looks odd. The perfect one is looking tender, happy, glowing, healthy, and energetic. Age makes people boring and I don't like it...I love to smile, make fun and make other people happy and laugh..... If you know how to smile then you know how to keep your age at your palm.
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@chinoxads (255)
• United States
22 Jan 11
I'm 28 and some people told me that i look like 25, other says that i'm older, some comments are that because that chinese people doesn't get old like the occidental people. do you think that is true?
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@mark98 (567)
• China
22 Jan 11
This is probably a lot of people want to pursue it, have a pure heart,good attitude and optimistic attitude towards life,full of youthful vitality of temperament,will make people look more small and cute which in real life is ideal for many people a personality. I am 31 years old.People say I look like 26.I like this.
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