37, so I guess the answer’s, “no,” then! 
Every time I see a picture of myself, I always wonder why I look so bald. It’s like the camera was aimed at just the right spot to highlight how much my hairline has receded. No one else seems to notice this, so I can only assume there’s something wrong with their eyes.
Most of my friends look more or less the same as me, so I think I look my age, albeit a well-preserved version of my age. My daughter and I are often mistaken for sisters, but since I actually *have *a sister the same age as my daughter, that’s not quite the glowy moment that it might be for someone who’d waited until after they were 20 to reproduce. 
I’d also agree with posters upthread who said that demeanor makes a huge difference in how old you appear, along with clothing choices. Mom jeans and a harried expression say “old” much more loudly than a few gray hairs or crinkles around the eyes do.
I’m nearing thirty and don’t think of myself as young, certainly not in personality. Yet others constantly treat me oddly and then I find out it is my apparent age, I had a guy hitting on me who honestly thought I was sixteen!
If I shave I could easily pass as a high school student.
I started car pooling with someone a couple of weeks back and he was shocked that I was the same age as him. He’s a month older than me and looks 10 years older.
I’ll be 50 this year. The thing is, I have all my hair and there’s not a lot of gray up there. Plus I’m well within a healthy BMI range. These three factors: hair, not much gray, and healthy weight really will take a few years off.
My self-image is locked somewhere in my mid-20s. I’m older than that.
My wife is younger than I am and is pretty. I have all my (dirty blonde) hair and I never smoked. So, yeah, I get underguessed (by about a decade) a lot. With some people, tho, I figure they’re just not paying attention.
I’ve got away with passing for much younger for a long time. I could go to events specifically for undergrads when I was 30 and no-one would blink.
But now, at 33, I’m starting to get asked my age a lot in social situations (I don’t go to student things any more btw). I think I have a boyish face but the cracks are showing, so I’m perceived now as “undetermined” rather than “young”.
People usually guess me a few years younger than I am. I’m 32, but often get taken for mid twenties. A lot depends on my current facial hair style though. Without any, I look very, very young and found the confusion and condescending attitudes annoying. Granted, it seems I do have good clear skin, without wrinkles blotches or rough patches. I stay in shape which helps, and try to minimize stress. I don’t have children either which really does seem to age some of my peers overnight.
I don’t think I look younger than I am, but quite a few others do.
Japanese tend to look younger than Westerners, so they usually guess high for ages. Even here, though, I get people guessing 5+ years younger than I am. I’ve never had someone guess high. I think, “What, you can’t see the wrinkles and the gray hair and the dark circles under my eyes?” Guessing on the high end usually is early 30s, when I’m closer to 40.
My guess is that my attitude and being in good shape makes me look younger. I act like I’m still in my 20s, because acting like an old fart is for people who are actually old and who don’t have a choice about it. I’m actually in better shape than I was when I was in my mid-20s, so from the neck down there’s not much to show that I’m older than that. To me, some changes in skin tone and texture are obvious, but either people are politely BSing me, or they don’t see those things.
My wife looks ridiculously young for her age. She’s actually 3 years older than me, but everyone usually guesses way lower. In the US, they peg her in her mid- to late-20s. Here in Japan, just a bit low, usually in the early 30s. Her whole family is young looking even by Japanese standards. Her older sister could pass for a college student still, even after having a kid. There’s certainly nothing to show that she’s in her mid-40s. Her mother is nearly 70, looks about 45–50, and has a boyfriend my age. Her father is over 70 and looks a decade younger than my dad, who is only 65.
I figure my son is going to get carded until he’s 50.
I work at a university library and can take undergraduate classes for free, so I took two semesters of a language class this year. I’m 33 and some of the students in my classes expressed surprise when I told them my age (“how old are you?”/“I am years old” was the topic of the day – it also comes up in “I will graduate in [year]” / “Uh…how do you say, ‘I graduated 12 years ago’?”). I’ve also been mistaken for a student worker when I fill in for a staff member in public services.
Part of the assumption of being younger is probably because I don’t have many lines on my face because I’m fanatical about using sunscreen and I don’t smoke. The other part of it is that I tend to dress the same way I did in college since my job doesn’t have a dress code (so it’s jeans and casual clothing most of the time). Part of it is that I tend not to talk about my advanced age and life experience with them but stick to age-neutral topics (current events, etc.).
Except when we received the Kids in the Hall movie (Brain Candy) in our library DVD department and the young’un working next to me didn’t know who the Kids in the Hall were. 
I had to school that boy in comedy history (feeling ancient while doing so).
I think that facially, I look like I’m in my mid-20s (I will be 27 soon). Especially if I compare pictures now to when I was in my late teens etc - I have much more pronounced bone structure now, more veins visible in my face, more freckles etc. I do have somewhat youthful features (large forehead and eyes, soft nose), and don’t have any creases/lines in my face, which will probably keep me 'looking young’er than some, for longer. I also live a healthy lifestyle, don’t smoke etc.
I’m very thin and have the body type typical of some younger teenage girls, and I think that’s the main reason most people assume I am 17-22 (most assume I am not yet old enough to drink/in my first two years at college). I also don’t wear makeup, and I don’t have a ‘real job’ so I don’t wear business/business casual clothing - both make women come off as more ‘mature’ IMO.
I live only a few miles from where I went to high school and run into old classmates who easily look 5 or more years older than I do… however… it’s not that I don’t look my age; it’s that they look like they’ve been through the wringer. Also many of the women wear awful makeup which really emphasizes every wrinkle.
Some people just plain suck at guessing ages. A couple of years ago, a friend of mine was carded buying a dvd, age rating 12. She was 24. Shortly after, we were both chatting to a guy who was gobsmacked to find out that we weren’t the same age. I’m ten years older.
How often does anyone ever say “Wow, you look a lot older than you are!”, or try to guess someone’s age without subtracting a few years from their real guess? Comments about your age are likely to be compliments, genuine or not, which we then take as affirmations of our slightly deluded self images.
I, too, often hear that I look younger than my age, get mistaken for a student, whatever. A lot of it is situational. Realistically, I don’t look any younger than my peers. I do have high hopes for the future, though. My mother is ageing incredibly well. crosses fingers
I dont think I do, but people usually guess me at abotu 10 years younger then my age.
I’ve been told I look like I’m in my thirties. I’m 42. But of course I’m fat so the wrinkles don’t show, plus I don’t wear make-up and try to keep the gray away. Maybe that’s what’s working for me. I look like crap either way so ya know, it’s all good.
My wife is 40 and still regularly gets carded. I, on the other hand, get offered the AARP discount.
I have dark skin, I live in a part of the world known for not having sun, and I never smoked. I’m also overweight (which, according to some studies, makes you look younger after a certain age, and I’m over that age). People do tell me I look young for my age when I get carded.
But to me, I look older than I did last year and that looks older than I did the year before & so on. And while I didn’t go to my reunion, I did see pictures from it, and the people in the pictures looked really old. And I must have also aged the same way that my ex-classmates have. So, I’m guessing my image of myself is not quite in line with reality.
I work with a guy who is fairly ageless. He could be anywhere from 22 to 40 and I wouldn’t be surprised.
All you jerks in your 50s or 60s who haven’t gone gray yet get my eternal enmity! :mad: My dad’s hair was full *white *in his 40s. He was gray years before that. It looks like I’m headed down the same path
I know from your posting history that you had to be either late 30s or early 40s, but just seeing that picture without context I would have guessed mid-late 20s.
I think I look a little younger than my age (31) but early 30s is one of those ages where people tend to be kind of hard to pinpoint. I do think having kids (which I don’t) tends to age people–my sister, who is 2 years younger than me, looks older now that she has a toddler. I have had strangers be surprised recently that I was old enough to be married or have owned houses, so I suspect that I am aging well so far.
I just think some people are clueless when guessing ages. I’m 54… and I look like I’m in my mid-fifties. I do have all my hair though.