# How old do you look? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 16, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-look/760070 "2016-07-16T20:03:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-look/760070/21 "2016-07-17T17:43:26Z")
> [@choie](#): > > The app says I look 28 in [this pic](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0f1NNRLZ8wZZGVlQ3M0Y3JUb28/view?usp=sharing) (admittedly, b/w is flattering). I mean, come on. In August I’ll be 50. I _wish_ I could pass for 44, much less anything younger! Black and white helps, I think. Knowing your age I can kinda see it, but just from that pic alone I’d have guessed _much_ younger. Cheer up - I’m sure you look much older in person :D! ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-look/760070/22 "2016-07-17T20:05:06Z")
OK, dozen pics, it has given me everything from 8 under to 12 over (also tested vs. pics from 2004). Still needs work, in one pic of m’self with Hillary Clinton it flipped our ages and we’re 15 years apart. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-look/760070/23 "2016-07-17T20:24:20Z")
I’m 67. I got 54 for one pic and 37 for another. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-look/760070/24 "2016-07-17T21:24:01Z")
I got 79, 31 years older than I am! Uploaded a picture of my ten year old daughter. It said 19! I’m guessing it has a hard time with non-white faces. ---
**Author:** ![minionkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-look/760070/25 "2016-07-17T22:25:24Z")
I used about 8 pictures total. It gave me a range from 21 (in two very different pics) to 45 ( a professional b/w done in the winter). A selfie I took the other night after getting caught in a downpour says I look 30. A photo from a recent wedding says 40. I am 39. It’s not very accurate, but it was kind of fun. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-look/760070/26 "2016-07-18T00:18:46Z")
I uploaded a friend’s pic and it gave me 54-- he’s 57. I uploaded my mother’s and it gave me 88-- she’s 91. Pretty darn close in both cases. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-look/760070/27 "2016-07-18T02:15:31Z")
Three people in the photo: hubby it got wrong by five years under his real age, my twenty something niece it got wrong by 5 yrs over her real age, and it got my age wrong by a full 20 yrs! UNDER my age! ( It got subsequent photos more accurate, but still, that’s pretty off the mark! Like by a mile!) ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-look/760070/28 "2016-07-18T20:04:45Z")
It said 46, I’m 53. That’s about right. If I dyed my hair and beard it would likely guess much lower. Such a baby face… ---
**Author:** ![jerseymule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jerseymule/32/3155_2.png) [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-look/760070/29 "2016-07-18T20:37:00Z")
I uploaded a not particularly flattering photo of myself, and got 85. I am 63. The first photo I tried of myself, it said it did not recognize anything in the photo as a face. I used to always be taken for younger. Am not super pleased to be taken for 22 years older. :o It did seem to recognize me as female though. ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-look/760070/30 "2016-07-19T00:56:52Z")
I’m 50. I got 41, 47, 64, and 76! The 76 one was what I consider my best recent pic, and one I thought I looked youthful in! ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-look/760070/31 "2016-07-19T01:04:21Z")
OK, I uploaded one of my daughter, my mom, and me. I got 46, which I was at the time. My daughter age 26 got 31. My mom age 70 got **27**. FML. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-look/760070/32 "2016-07-19T01:07:19Z")
Crap. I put up a photo from last year and it gave my current age. My youthfulness, it doesn’t fool the robots. I sometimes get carded at liquor stores and have had several people say I look 10 years younger. So that was surprising. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-do-you-look/760070.md?page=1)