I'm not blowing my own trumpet here but...

biglouis

I gave up caring what I looked like when I stopped working for an employer.

Why would working for an employer make any difference?
I dress for myself, do my hair for myself and choose to wear or not to wear make up for myself.
It’s called self respect.

MerylStreep - did you tell your family though?
And did they laugh!!!!???

I admit I have started checking my hair in the mirror on the way out of the house now. I find this odd as I haven't done this since my teens! 😄

NotSpaghetti
That’s coincidence. I met with friends recently and one said oh, you look nice another friend said she always looks stylish

BTW, I do know some stylish people and next to them I barely hang together.

The lady in the dry-cleaners (which I don't go to often) knows my name! I asked how she remembered (as it's really quite busy there)and she said "because you always look so stylish!"

I would never see myself that way - and when I told one of my girls later she laughed!

😳

kitty
How lovely to receive such a compliment.

I was once told I always look very 'polished' and have been mistaken for my grandchildrens mum.

I gave up caring what I looked like when I stopped working for an employer.

Not sure I know what a complexion is supposed to look like to achieve fabulous status. High gloss? Good colour? Just no idea whatsoever. Hope I have one without knowing!

I’m 72 - whether I look it or not, I don’t know. Apparently I scrub up well, according to the chap tiling my downstairs loo!
I had a man look at the exterior wood trim on the house last week and he ‘presumed’ I was early 70’s, but told me several times that I was ‘on the ball’ and ‘still had all my faculties’. He was a strange man - I’ll wait for his estimate, but not sure yet if he’ll get the job.

I was once asked by a (female, happily married) work colleague which bra I wore as she would like to buy one!

I have a friend like that kitty. 72, slim, beautiful hair etc. She knows how to wear a scarf if you know what I mean.

Mollygo

Well done kittylester Enjoy the moment and again every time you use it.
I’ve had compliments and requests for my favourite lipstick colour and source, but the most frequent ones are, “I love your necklaces. Where did you get it?”

I don't use much either - just to cover the worst bits!!!

My friend is slim, blonde and effortlessly elegant. I shouldn't really hang around in such company!!

Thinking about this I can't describe any of my friends as glamorous, most of us are just getting by (as my mum put it, "I'll pass, with a push from a strong man, behind me".
If my friends asked me anything it would probably be either "Those shoes look comfortable, where did you get them?" or "Where, around here, does the best scones?"
Which says a lot about me (and them)

Yes Foxy. I'm a bionic woman!

Well done kittylester Enjoy the moment and again every time you use it.
I’ve had compliments and requests for my favourite lipstick colour and source, but the most frequent ones are, “I love your necklaces. Where did you get it?”

It’s lovely isn’t it kitty.
Yes, my new gardener lady and I were chatting about ageing, she thought I was in my 50’s, I’m too honest and said ‘add on ten years’
Incidentally, I never wear any make up

As lemsip said, really I was asking if anyone has had any unexpected, and lovely, compliments - about anything.

I use a BB Cream which I was told about here, Colour Me Beautiful foundation, suggested by the woman who did my colours, and a Clinique blusher which I had got right all by myself.

That was a lovely compliment Jacky.

We are all agog now and really, really want to know just what do you use?

Quite a boost for a 74 year old with so many spare parts - false hair, teeth, and contact lenses
Quite.
More new parts than old? 🤣🤣!

Oo-er! I wish!
I hope you told her it was all natural and you don’t wear make-up?
(So, which foundation and blusher DO you use?)

Not since about 1970. And probably not even then.

I did, lemsip. I phrased it badly!! Thank you.

No. But well done for looking ‘fabulous’.

I always line-dried and ironed all my washing. It's a long time ago now but I remember my youngest telling me that a girl had come up to him and nuzzled her face in his tee shirt "because his clothes always smelt so lovely!" I still enjoy the memory of the lovely compliment.

I think kittylester was meaning 'has anything similar' happened to us, rather than the make-up or not question..

lucky you kitty.