I look in the mirror and think I'm gorgeous

I loved your description of yourself tow but was disappointed when I clicked on your 'blue' GN name hoping to see a photo and you hadn't put one on there. (Mind you neither have I!)

I don't think I look much worse than I did when I was 15.
I thought I looked bloody awful then, and I still do!

Piggypoo, love your post and your look ( as I imagine it ) Like you I'm still happy in a time warp , home cut Farrah Fawcet hair , Molly Parkin eyes and Mama Cass figure !
I'm a history lesson .

Over-dyed red hair, caked-on make up, still 1980's style as that's what I know how to do, crow's feet, and and baggy eyes. I have grown more comfortable with my ageing self as I've grown older, and I'm happy with the way I am, I've left all the anxiety behind of when I was young and I am now content with just being me. When my GS asks to borrow my make-up bag, I feel flattered!

Keffie, irrespective of body state, I'm so glad you found you at last. Such a sad glad story. Thank you for sharing.

I look in the mirror and like what I see today: that is cos I know who I am. Long story however a traumatic life (that Hollywood would love the rights too, however aren't getting, cos it's my copyright) led to years of various therapies in my 40's. I know who I am when I look in the mirror now. That is worth more than gold.

Probably sounds odd to those whose life has been ''normal'' However having been bought up in secrets, lies, violence and much more, I never knew me, until I found me.

Basically I got my head together and now my body is falling apart

I wish starlily ! my dad and I look about the same age. When I take him out ( often) I'm sure everyone thinks we're a couple! He is a very good for his age, 80 and I'm an ugly old hag 55 .

This morning I was lying down on my side and reading my Kindle app on my phone. Somehow I must have hit the camera button on selfie mode. Aggghh.... was that really me...first thing in the morning. Specs were sitting crooked, hair all over the place .. definitely not pretty.
Somehow dh seems to deal with it.

I don't think I'm turning into my mother. No, I think I'm turning into my dad!

Someone who is going to give the ageing process a run for its money! Bring on the face creams and body butter! Exercise and diet? Of course I shall. Tomorrow!

Short sight certainly has its advantages. I have to look in the mirror to do my hair but at least I can't see all the wrinkles and saggy bits and the remaining brown seems to spread to cover up the grey.

Never pretty at the best of times but on a really bad day I go out wearing my sunglasses... then nobody knows it's me!!!

I think I look reasonable for my age, all right in the mirror but when I take a selfie with my phone I transform into something else, more jowly and frownie.
I'm not too vain but I don't want to look like a bulldog.

I always look grumpier than I feel due to the operation of gravity on my face over the years. I practice smiling, the poor woman's facelift!

I'm always shocked when I see myself on Skype/FaceTime. Surely I don't really look that old!

I"m never sure which is the 'real version' - the wrinkles you see with glasses on, or the ones that look finer with glasses off. They are magnified by glasses, so this might mean they are not as bad as they look, but, of course, without glasses we see them as finer/smaller, so is it half way between? I have a slim, well proportioned figure, so look younger from the back, but unfortunately, I have to turn round!

Downtoearth - I proper lol'd at your comment - thank you (feeling miserable today)

Beauty comes from within

Liz and downtoearth, the same happens if you look down into your iPad-
Where does all that extra skin come from?

If I overdo my make up now I look like the madam in a whorehouse. So I try to convince myself less is more with slap.
The other upsetting scenario is in those changing rooms with mirrors at all angles where one catches sight of extra layers of fat that usually remain unseen.

As I'm now older than my dear departed mother, I wouldn't mind looking like her.

Our eye sight obviously diminishes for a reason.

Oh KatyK I met my husband in 1967 too!

Oh in my head I am still pretty and desirable. Photos tell another story though and I avoid full length mirrors.

Me: OK from the neck up and best viewed in candlelight.

Like annsixty I have an old woman living in my house who always gets in the way when I try to look in a mirror. She has even taken to following me around and standing in front of me if I look in a shop window!

Yesterday I went on that Glasses Direct website and you can get it to take a picture of yourself so you can 'virtually' try on the glasses. Well, I am still in shock from the old hag that appeared on my screen. The jowls and Turkey neck (i'm inconsolable!) and by heck i would sour the milk! Been googling neck exercises this morning! Sob!

When I look in the mirror in the downstairs toilet I look quite good, then go out to the hall mirror and I look about 20 years older.
It depends where the light is coming from, I think.