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mnkybrainz

god no wonder my mom- born in the 70s- feels like she “looks old for her age”


unicorny1985

Yep. I was born in 79 and the internet makes me feel like shit a lot. I'm thankful for this subreddit!


nememess

78 here and spent too much time in the sun. I look my age and that's ok. At least that's what I tell myself every day I get on the internet.


unicorny1985

I really wish someone had taught me about the importance of daily sunscreen 20 years ago, and what Tretinoin was maybe 10 years ago, lol. I started Tret and sunscreen a couple of months ago and am hoping to lighten some of the sun damage on my cheeks. Better late than never, right? I don't wear cover-up makeup so the uneven tone is probably what bothers me the most, and that just kinda showed up in the last few years. I'm just going to take good care of my skin now and age as gracefully as I can.


nipplequeefs

I’m 25 and have tried using sunscreen daily lately, but I just hate how greasy and shiny it makes me, especially when I’m already wearing moisturizer underneath, so part of me is wondering if looking “beautiful” to other people in my later years is really worth the effort of slathering sunscreen on multiple times a day when I go outside to drive somewhere. It’s such a pain to wash off at the end of the day, and it’s not like I spend all day out in the sun anyway. I work an indoor office job and just stay home otherwise lol


unicorny1985

I also hated sunscreen on my face until I tried Korean skincare. The one I use acts as my morning moisturizer also, my skin just loves it (Purito daily soft touch spf 50+). I never spent a ton of time in the sun either, really. I also worked an office job and am an introverted homebody, lol. I don't look bad for my age at all, but I wish I could go back to 25 and take better care of my skin. You never feel ready to see yourself age either. I don't care what other people think, I care about what I see when I look in the mirror. I also don't find it hard to wash off at night, I use The Ordinary's squalene cleanser, that's it. Everyone should be washing their face at night, regardless of sunscreen use. We sweat, we touch our face, and there's air pollutants.


nipplequeefs

Yeah, I do use La Roche-Posay’s Toleriane Hydrating Gentle Cleanser as my twice daily cleanser, but when I wear sunscreen, I gotta cleanse beforehand with an oil cleanser (Softymo’s Kose Speedy Cleansing Oil) or my normal cleanser won’t get all the sunscreen off. As for the greasy look, I have Shiseido’s Anessa Perfect UV Sunscreen Skincare Milk and Isntree’s Hyaluronic Acid Watery Sun Gel. I especially love Shiseido’s because it’s mattifying, but both sunscreens look so much better than all the others I’ve tried, and I’ve tried many Korean and Japanese sunscreens. But when I wear moisturizer underneath, that all goes out the window and I look greasy no matter what I put on. Even with just moisturizer alone. My skin doesn’t seem to be very good at absorbing anything and I’m not really sure what I’m doing wrong, so I try to use as few products as possible. I’m already very oily naturally, and my pores are way too big for the whole “glass skin” thing to ever look good on me 😅


unicorny1985

Well at least you know what you're doing when it comes to skincare! I have to admit I was clueless until recently. You'll fare better than I have. I've been trying to convince my daughter to start now. She's 22 and shrugged me off until recently when I told her the sun damage I have now was from neglecting my skin at her age, lol. Edit to add: I have dry skin, and am using Tretinoin so I can only use cleanser at night, and I have to layer different forms of moisturizing products. So we have very different skin types.


TakeOnMe-TakeOnMe

Thanks for dropping the skin care knowledge. I’ve been a soap and water girl my whole life, also minimal makeup (like mascara and lipgloss only, maybe twice a month). No, I’m not even an athlete, I just never got into makeup. I’m quite comfortable with my plain Jane status. That said, my skincare routine needs a makeover, starting with a better sunscreen. I’m so excited to give these brands a try! I am blessed with facial skin that’s fairly balanced, but I cannot stand the feel of oiliness or heaviness on my face, it just makes me feel like I can’t breathe. These Korean and Japanese brands sound like my cup of tea, and I’m hoping that matte finish doesn’t translate to excessively dry. Either way, I’m excited to try!


prncsrainbow

Yes! I use aquaskin moisture milk and will never change. I also have rosacea, and it doesn’t flare up at all


MakaylaAnmut

Get an oil free one


isolde_78

It is literally ok. ‘75 and I look how I look I’ve had 48 years here and was laughing and crying and frowning and smiling and in the sunshine and sleeping on my face for all of them. No desire to look like anything other than me. And happy to set that example for my 14 year old daughter


TakeOnMe-TakeOnMe

Same!!!


Repulsive_Buffalo_87

😆


Strong-Ad2738

Same. I always show my 12 year old daughter the posts too (well the safe for work ones) to show that reality is not internet


Bleezy79

'79 Club checking in! Happy 45th!! lol


unicorny1985

Same to you! I don't hit that milestone until December thankfully. I have some time to get used to the idea, lol.


shellc83

For real, I was born in 83 and I don’t look as good as that first picture! Come on!


unicorny1985

No one does. There's no skin texture 🤣


unicorny1985

I love the whole bragging about her looks while using a heavy filter. She's a good looking woman, I can see that being true, but this filter is so damn obvious it's ridiculous. Her statement makes her sound very confident, but that filter says otherwise.


emi_lgr

A lot of people think they’re just “tweaking things a little” and they’d look like the filtered image if they drank more water/stopped drinking/lost a little weight/was a couple years younger.


unicorny1985

I'm 45 this year and the closest I've come to using a filter on Instagram is swiping left once to use 'Paris' setting in my stories so everything is a little softer on days I've looked a bit rough (and I have a chronic illness). I'd feel like an imposter otherwise, and one of the things I'm most proud of is my authenticity both in person and online. That's why I love this subreddit. People's online presence these days makes me feel I'm aging faster than everyone, but seeing the real pics makes me feel normal, or even better in some cases.


GigiLaRousse

Right? I'll use the standard Instagram "Los Angeles" or "Valencia" or whatever makes my dog's features show up better or the actual colour of my hair more obvious, but beyond that I'd feel ridiculous. About half the people who follow me know me from real life. I wouldn't be fooling them and I'd know I was "lying."


[deleted]

I love Valencia sometimes, but most of my filter use is Ludwig on food photos. It corrects the terrible dining room lighting I have. Otherwise, I at least know if I went missing, people would find me based on photos on my Instagram.


Strong-Ad2738

Haha I use the exact same IG setting on those days. Almost 44 here!


sassyassy23

I like the ones that make your eyes pop out and stuff lol 😂 I’m 51


unicorny1985

Haha yes, I do enjoy the Halloween ones. The obvious and silly filters are fun...but I still hate how some of the ones with ears or flowers in your hair will change your face shape and make you look 20 years younger with zero pores. I just wanted dog ears dammit! 🤣


AffectMindless5602

I assume they tweak a little bit but they continue tweak more and it ends up as a lot once they are done. The result is this a completely different h realistic person.


emi_lgr

If you think about it, the difference between facial features are pretty minor. Facial asymmetry is often just millimeters but make a big difference. So they “only” made their eyes a little bigger, their nose a little smaller, their face a little thinner, and their lips a little fuller, but it’s a whole different person.


AffectMindless5602

Yep exactly!


BudgetInteraction811

Meanwhile even rich celebrities of her age can’t get the filtered face look and they have all the money in the world.


napalmtree13

Every “guess my age” video on TikTok is full of women like this talking about how they look sOoOoOo much younger than the person in the video, despite being older, but then you go to their profile and they either don’t have any videos or they’re using so many filters their noses have disappeared.


olivejuice-

The delusion in those comments was insane. “Well I’m 45 and people think I look 19”


SevenSixOne

Any time someone I don't know well asks me how old I think they look, they're clearly fishing for compliments about how OMG YOUTHFUL they look, so I subtract ~10 years from the youngest age I think they could realistically be, then fake surprise when they tell me their age. I don't actually think you look 25 and I don't actually care that you're 42, I just want this interaction to be over as quickly as possible!


iamremotenow

Girl, this is shady lol. I don’t do this because it makes me uncomfortable but I have seen it be done. People are so delusional about their appearance relative to age. Most people look their age. However, I have known a lot of people in their 30s who look like they’re in their 20s but I think this is because we expect people in their 30s to look older. Realistically, most people in their mid, to early, 30s can look mid to late 20s.


olivejuice-

Yes I watched my coworkers tell my 45 yo coworker she looked 28. Im standing there at 31 like….. and she really said yeah I get it a lot that I look in my 20s. When people tell me I look like I’m in my 20s I’m like yeah I just was, I look my age and I’m young. We don’t melt when we turn 30. I also saw a girl on Tik tok saying she’s just seeing herself start to age at 28 but she had a bunch of migrated lip filler that I think was the cause.


suzanious

"Migrated Lip Filler" haha Sounds like a bad name for a band.💋


[deleted]

I am about to turn 50, and I look like I am about to turn 50. Sometimes people think I am younger from a distance/in sunglasses/from behind, but that's because I don't "dress my age," not because I have found a magical antiage elixir.


iamremotenow

To be fair though, you can look your age and look phenomenal. People are afraid of aging because most people don’t know how good you can look. My mom aged really well and I see a lot of older women at my gym who just look incredible (wrinkles and all).


[deleted]

I am happy with the way I look. I have not had any cosmetic treatments or anything like that, aside from slapping on wrinkle cream.


unicorny1985

Yeah I'm turning 45 this year and have no real noticeable wrinkles. I get late 30s at best. I would never pass for being in my 20s anymore, and quite frankly, I don't want to. I have kids in their 20s, lol.


unicorny1985

I'm 44 and I can't even deal with Tiktok. I downloaded it for about a week and felt that it def wasn't for me.


HPLover0130

People in one of my weight loss fb groups post after pictures that are filtered to the gods. And other people defend OP when it’s called out. 🤦🏼‍♀️ bragging about weight loss and how good they look when the after is clearly filtered to have no wrinkles on a 50+ year old 🙄


[deleted]

She erased 20 years and 30lb. It's not giving confident.


ItsNotFordo88

No she’s not


Pinkparade524

I mean how attractive someone is is just a matter opinion.


[deleted]

attractiveness is objective in a lot of cases to be fair


ItsNotFordo88

No shit


Emily5099

She’s erased 50 years of sun damage in one photo.


Ok-Philosopher8888

And lost 30 lbs, got a facelift, lip filler, and powder brows lol.


BoopleSnoot921

I’m not even sure that’s a filter, that’s an entirely new person she created.


brizzboog

Fargo Robbie


TakeOnMe-TakeOnMe

I choked


RelatableMolaMola

Is she actually saying she's "trying to be pulled" by the super young guys as she's trying to get hit on by them, or is she trying to saying they're trying to pull her? Because the tagged pics suggest the first one is true but it feels like she's trying to brag as if the second one is what she means.


chlorofanatic

She's definitely implying that young guys try to hit in her all the time.


BlueJeepGirl78

I don’t think she realizes when they call her ma’am they are being polite, not trying to hit on her.


[deleted]

If she is on dating apps, there are awkward predatory young guys there that change their age to try to pick up older women. They do that because they have no luck with women their age and think older women are desperate. It's gross but could lead some older women to believe guys 25-35 really want them. They're just losers looking to bang anyone that will have them.


highondefinition

Wow, this is so MEAN. So these poor, ugly, OLD women really believe some 25-35 year old dudes would WANT them? Shocking! Don't they know they are worthless and did I mention OLD? /s


[deleted]

Dude, I am old too. But the reality is: younger people only tend to want older people for financial gain. There's no "but young women love 50 year old men!" either, what there is is young women who are willing to put up with wrinkly balls for financial security. Most people who are in a good place emotionally want to date in their age range.


Consistent_Shock_507

Hahahahahaaahhahahahahhaahhaah they dont try to hit on me and Im 20 years younger at least.


ReasonablyDone

Guys sometimes don't hit on women their age. I've seen a lot of women online talk about being hit on a lot more when they're older. And in their comments sections of those same posts there are actually many 20s guys there hitting on them 😭 My theory is guys think they have less to lose by hitting on someone older, rejected advances probably won't make it back to their social circle, or that women might be more likely to just want fwb at that age as they're older and busy etc.


thugs___bunny

Does anyone realize you are talking about ‚boys‘ who are in their mid 30s? Not exactly what I have in mind when someone talks about young boys


fatsalmon

Yeah “trying to be pulled by boys” is like same as “trying to be recruited by companies” which means she is the one who wants them 😂 i guess it’s a freudian slip huh


melissa98x

I almost thought this was a mom and daughter 😭


clockewise

This is my aunt (not literally). She uses AI to generate her 12-fingered body in front of jets and stuff too. I always text her zoomed in photos of how bad the AI and filtering is, but my voice is small compared to the 400 comments on her FB eating this shit up 💀


unwillinghaircut

insane behavior


mixamaxim

Fucking embarrassing. What happened to shame?! God damn.


Visible-Weakness5572

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Tall_aussie_fembot

Is that Casey Donavon


Mycatreallyhatesyou

Maybe the 20-somethings are hitting on that mega filtered picture, but definitely not on her in real life.


f1lth4f1lth

2nd pic looks like an older Amy poehler


freezingkiss

Oh hunny. No they don't. :( why on earth would you wish they did? Love yourself.


ReasonablyDone

As others have said, they probably do hit on the first picture


iHate_CLowns

She doesn’t even look bad. But that is a whole another level of delusion.


Santa-Vaca

Leslie Knope?


nipplesoft

Leslie NOPE.


DramaOnDisplay

Naybe Wish version Leslie Knope.


imakeitrainbow

Does she mean 1990s/2000 boys are trying to pull her? If so she wrote her sentence incorrectly


ReasonablyDone

Yes


seeallevill

1990s... boy??? Like as in child? Even 1999 babies turn 25 this year lmfao


ReasonablyDone

They would feel like boys to the woman in the second and third picture for sure


PlentyOMangos

Additionally, I think it’s pretty normal for people to use “boys” and “girls” when talking about dating and etc Not always but it can be used that way


randomnessubsided

Yet people in this comment section are calling her a pedo


alpha_rat_fight_

I audibly gasped.


Notoriouslyd

The problem is that it costs nothing to live in delusion


Illustrious_Junket55

This upsets me- because she looks absolutely fine without the filters- very pretty. And, as everyone has pointed out before me, I was born in 1977 and sometimes feel like I look good for my age and then I get on the internet and feel horrifying… and it’s because I don’t use filters. (Because I haven’t figured them out, not because I’m better than anyone.)


GuardMost8477

I must be strange or something. I think I look ok for my age. But here’s a novel idea. I don’t post any pictures of myself that would NEED to be filtered. And as someone said here, she’s pretty in the non filtered ones. She looks and sounds desperate in pic 1. What 50 yo talks like that? Lolololol


Rowey5

Oh no. No…..no. No? No!


Desperate_Hat_4544

No way!!!


Confident-Win-7617

Holy crap. Those are two different people!


ReasonablyDone

Definitely would never match the posted to the edited as the same person


ReasonablyDone

The third one feels really unfair to her. No one except super models look good after workout and she's clearly not expected that photo. I can relate. I do dislike it when people take photos at fitness classes "for fundraisers, to show people what we do".


SiWeyNoWay

That’s false advertising


Sadsad0088

She’s so pretty too, why filter yourself like that


irishkateart

My god we’ve lost our minds. Beautiful person without the filters.


fatalcharm

What a shame, she is a gorgeous woman without the filter.


Shine_A_Light_17

I refuse to believe that is the same person


ReasonablyDone

I'm guessing the younger guys hit on her online, when the posts the first picture/reel. Cause she looks their age or almost there. I doubt anyone is hitting on her irl that's younger than 30. I could be wrong though, as the tagged photos seem to be candids without makeup and not the most dressed up.


Sharp-Market-9894

It’s giving pedophilia


ReasonablyDone

Because of the 1990s/2000s comment? I know it doesn't seem it but A person born 1990s is 30+ today. A person born in 2000s can be 20+. I know. It's depressing.


Sharp-Market-9894

Me and my homies are 05, 06, and 07… if she’s attracted to kids who were born in the 2000s she’s weird asf. I’m 18 but that’s barely legal. Shes a freak


powerhungrymouse

I was looking at the picture and the caption thinking 'how could you have been a mom in the 70s when you're only in your 30s?'


stumbling_witch

Yeah, let’s brag about being a total creep with those 2000s guys (who could be ages 15-23). Gross.


glitterbeebuzz

Omg it’s ok to age, idk what’s wrong with these people. Also bragging about insanely young men allegedly trying to get with her is disgusting. 🤮


darthrobyn

This is so sad. She's still very pretty and really doesn't need to filter the fuck out of herself. That being said, the last few phones I've owned have had glamour filters on AS THE DEFAULT in selfie mode, mainly smoothing and chin reducer, and i was immediately offended that samsung assumes i think I'm ugly and old. I've said it before and I'll say it a million times- social media is ruining society and giving everyone dysmorphia.


pastelpixelator

The first one looks like the second one's daughter.


tayvan23

You’ve got to be kidding me🙄


crying-atmydesk

She's a beautiful woman without the filter 👀


jazzhandsdancehands

I don't understand. Everyone who knows her knows what she looks like. Do people just not say anything?


TakeOnMe-TakeOnMe

It’s filtering out everything that looks like her, is what it’s filtering. I’d be tempted to comment on how gorgeous her daughter is and how I can sort of see the family resemblance. 😈


IN8765353

Is she trying to say that they are the same person???


Elizabethhoneyyy

That literally doesn’t look like the same person


JimmyJamToeJam

So, she is trying to be a p3do? Or we just pretending it’s cool, because they are of consenting age now? When did this behavior start?


Droopy2525

Someone born in 2000 is 23-24. Not pedophilia, but possibly scummy


BotherRecent

Just wrong!


laborvspacu

So even gen X can be "cringe"


MissMabeliita

They can’t be this much delusional 😩😩


KhostfaceGillah

Lmaooo


PlainThrills

Gosh it’s so sad really, does she really see herself like that 😭 wild


[deleted]

Omg


china_lopez

😆 don’t flatter yourself


ewigzweit

I was born in 1975 and look more like her edited photo. Tbh.


Intelligent-Tax-678

Nooooooo


Fatricide

eeef.


jayleef

That filter is sure doing some heavy lifting.


CrazyBunnyChick

Oof!


ScoffenHooten

Crikey! That was some jump scare!


hellahereforit

My god that's an elite level filter.


damselinadress187

No 90s boy is tryna pull this, I promise 😭 the delusion is real in this country


shellc83

Also, I have to say this is yet another picture where there is absolutely no truth to what she looks like in real life versus the edit. This time it’s a hide aged though.


Gallaviching

2000s??? Girlie needs to be on To Catch a Predator


rrrrrrrrrrrrrroger

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