So recently my 27th birthday came and went, and I still could easily pass as an undercover cop trying to bust the druggy kids @ any local high school. I can never buy cigs/beer anywhere without getting carded every time.
So to sum up, when i turned 18, I looked around 14-15, at 27 I look like I’m around 18-21. Does this hold up into old age?
Guess I’m mainly asking older dopers about their experiences with this. I’m really hoping to look 35 when I’m 50ish, that’s be freaking awesome.
So anyone else who’s been there/done that to reply back with an answer.
I’m 41 and get carded fairly frequently. An Aunt that lived to be 100 could’ve passed for 80 (which sounds pretty funny!) and my Mom is 65 and could pass for early to mid 50s. So, I get no credit for it personally, but I’ve seen it happen!
I’ll be 38 in a couple of months, and I wouldn’t say I get carded frequently, but it happens. I’d say I look late 20s to early 30s. My mom is 56, and she’s let her hair go grey, but looking at her face alone you wouldn’t take her for much past 40.
When my (two years younger than me) sister and I used to hit the bars when we were young, she always laughed that I’d get carded and she wouldn’t. “Ha, I look older than you!” I always responded, “Yeah, ten years from now you’re still going to look older than me, and you’re not going to think it’s funny anymore.” Sure enough, fifteen years later, she is Not Amused.
My father is over 65 and, were it not for his beard turning gray, could easily pass for a man in his late 40s. My mother looks equally young.
I am in my middish 20s and I have been mistaken for 15 or younger. My senior year at uni, I was shopping for some clothing in the Macy’s boy’s department (I have a small frame and adult clothing seldom fits me well) with my mother. When the clerk saw us together, shopping in the beginning of summer, she said to me, in that talking-to-a-child-condescension-style voice: “You getting ready for summer camp?” :smack:
I had this problem until I was in my 30’s. I always had a slight build and without any facial hair hair, I looked like I was about 13. On more than one occasion, I had bouncers and liquor store clerks tell me that my drivers license was fake. Into my mid-20’s, I even got hassled trying to buy cigarettes. I basically had to always sport some kind of facial hair and I eventually gained weight when I quit smoking. Now I’m in my 40’s and look like I’m at least in my 30’s. I’m starting to get some gray in the whiskers now too, and that helps.
I looked fairly young until I was in my early 30’s but getting close to 40 and then hitting it realy aged me. Now unfortunately, I look my age.
When Mr. CAT and I got married, people accused him of being a craddle robber. He was 34. I laughed so hard, when I found out his friends thought I was just out of college, and around 23 or so. I was 32!!
Now he looks younger than me. UGH…darn men, they seem to age better for the most part.
Mr. S has always had a baby face. He’s 53 now, and only the gray in his beard (and the bags under his eyes if he’s not well rested) gives him away. I’d say he could pass for 40 or maybe a bit younger. (And I’m the only one who hears him moaning about his arthritis before he’s even gotten up in the morning, or sees his first few steps out of bed when he creaks like an 80-year-old man.)
Meanwhile, I’m 41 and getting more gray by the way. I’m going natural and hope to have my mother’s and aunts’ silvery mane, but I’ll probably look like Mr. S’s mother by then. <thinking of the old SNL sketch with Pat Stevens and Phil Hartman dressed up as Barbara Bush: “You must be so proud of your son!” “George is my HUSBAND.” “Well, she looks so much older, it’s hardly my faux pas!” >
I’m only 33, but I’ve always looked several years younger. I have a baby face. I hated it when I was in my twenties, but I like it better now. I don’t get carded all the time, but mainly because my SO looks very serious and mature and responsible. If I hang out with younger friends, I have been carded.
The silver is starting to show more and more in my hair, though, but thankfully it still can be hidden. Maybe in a few years I’ll dye. Maybe, though I like the look right now.
I’m 38, and have been carded within the last year. I got carded practically every time, well into my thirties - a lot less lately, but I think that might be partly due to a conscious attempt to dress a little more maturely - wearing a t-shirt and beat-up leather jacket with a ball cap apparently makes me plausible as an eighteen-year-old. (Makes sense, I guess - I’ve had that jacket for more than twenty years.)
I figure I’ll probably go the way of Mickey Rooney – totally baby-faced up until that magic point where it suddenly goes completely to hell.
I’m 30, but most people tend to guess I’m early/mid 20s. I got carded at the liquor store the other day, which pleased me to no end.
I’m also the spitting image of my mom, who’s just shy of 60 but still looks like she’s in her 40s. I think it runs in the family, as my maternal grandmother is in her mid-80s, but looks significantly younger.
So I’m hoping I’ll be similarly blessed. Hurray for good genes!
I’m 56, but I look at least 15 years younger, if not more. I got carded at 35 also. Still having all my hair helps a lot. I did look young even when in high school, which was a pain then but I’m happy for it now.
And no one offers me > 55 senior citizen discounts.
I have always looked much younger than my true age. I HATED this when I was in my teens and 20s, but now at 43 it’s a blessing. I still get carded and have only a few fine lines…no real wrinkles or anything. The only thing that could possibly give away my age is that I’m starting to get some grey hair. But now I dye it, so only my hairdresser knows…
I always loved the phrase “if you want to see what a woman is going to look like in 20 years, look at her mother.” My Mom has always looked great for her age, and my Grandmother as well. I turned 40 in March and since then, I have been carded for alcohol and cigarettes. The odd thing is, I could pass for older when I was a teen. I think I have one of those faces that aren’t really age determining, a muddle if you will.
The last few years have been hell on me, or as I told my husband, “a few more years of being rode hard and put away wet, I might start to look like it.” I can’t tell if it is the stress or just old age catching up, but I have to say, I still got it. I do like to tell people I’m 50, because I look fabulous for 50. Sage advice from my Gramma, “I never understood why women lie the wrong way about their age, I’d rather lie UP and look good, than lie down and look like hell.”
Psst! Watch Telemundo for a day, ever wonder what happens to the scantily clad latina lovelies? Yeah, those frumpy women on the other shows are them. Living in Florida, I’ve always been amazed at how, well, exhibitiony youngish Hispanic girls are, and how utterly matronly the older ones are. There isn’t a whole lot of middle ground.
I always looked young for my age, but this past year was extremely emotionally stressful and I have gone through menopause, which changes a lot physiologically for women. So, after a lifetime of looking younger than I am, I now think I do look about my age (50).
Of course, no one I know will say out loud that they agree with me…
I sure hope not. IMO, my mother is still a beautiful woman, but she has not aged particularly well. Her spirit is youthful; her face not so much. Smoking, dental problems and excessive suntanning/burning have all taken their toll.
None of those apply to me. I was a rather mature-looking teen, but since my late twenties, people have been telling me I look younger than my age. I’m in my late forties now, and look much younger at this age than my mother did.
More importantly, avoid tanning. Sun-worship while younger is a sure-fire route to leatherface when older.
I’m in my early 40s, and younger folks occasionally take me to be in my late 20s, which I find both flattering and annoying, but mostly amusing. More amusing when their flirting gets halted by the horrified realization that I’m twice their age. Less so when it is a professional situation and they treat me like a newbie.
Personally, I just think people are really bad at guessing others’ ages.
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