Who's still Good Looking with Age

My good friend in her mid 60s looks no more than 50...

But what does aging well really mean?

I have aged reasonably well as I still have my faculties - and so does my 99 year old mother-in-law.

Notspaghetti I've been lucky to get to 71 and no wrinkles but I must take after my mum as she was the same. She worked till she was 80.
I often wonder what these botoxed young women will look like when they get older.

George Clooney’s not doing so bad either! Men who are fortunate enough to retain a full head of hair often look younger. But hey, lumps bumps, wrinkles - they all tell a story, they’re real, genuine.

Sean Connery has aged well too.
Seeing as Sean Connery died three years ago I m not sure he’s looking so good
David Essex looks great
The Botox belles and Turkey teeth folk I m afraid look scary as they age they look pretty scary already (see Pricilla Presley)

Brad Pitt has aged remarkably well, mind you I've always had a soft spot for his boyish charms.
I think Jeremy Irons and Bill Nighy still have the 'it' factor, and I'm a big fan of Helen Mirren depending on what she's wearing lol!

I think Larry Lamb has, the ones I like have an interest in people and life, generally looked after themselves but naturally, can't understand howTom Jones and Priscilla Presley have spent so much money to look as they do, awful, it's sad that they haven't really seen what's in the mirror.. Never a fan of Germaine Greer but in old age she mellowed beautifully, remains interested and interesting, her hair and face just aged naturally and she looks great.

I don’t think Tom Jones looks so artificial BUT the poor old boy can hardly walk he holds onto things and walks very slowly and you can tell he is gritting his teeth to get from a to b
instead of pretending he’s still 18 why not use a stick, he still thinks he’s a sex bomb
Is he still with Pricilla P or did that fizzle out ?

I loved Smokie in the 70s - especially lead singer Chris Norman. He's 72 now, still going strong and looking really good. We saw him live just prior to covid and I felt like a teenager again....

I think having a positive and warm personality really comes across, I don't really notice wrinkles etc.

I have been pointed out to people who express amazement when told my age as they consider I look much younger. I consider that rude and ill-mannered

That is not a boast, but a statement of fact and their reactions were based on their narrow minded stereotypes of what people at any given age should look like.

At the same age people can look immensely different depending on their genetic inheritance, life experience and health. Just accept people as they are and just stop feeling that you have to pin an age on everyone you see.

The Turkey teeth and Botox craze look absolutely ridiculous.
The bright white teeth look so unnatural , that’s not how nature intended teeth to look like , they can be so dazzling one need sunglasses to look at them . As for Botox , well , the pumped up lips look so unnatural and out of place on one’s face . I wish these people would take a good look in the mirror so they can see how ugly they really look . Oh…and don’t get me started on the ridiculously ever so long false nails ….ouch ….! …

Judy Dench is amazing- no attempt at hiding her age but still mesmerising.
Re the shiny white teeth, they make me smile because in my youth many old people had shiny white teeth as they were false. Glossy white teeth after a certain age means dentures to me, not youthful beauty.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.😉

Having just looked in the bathroom mirror wearing my glasses…definitely not me !

It's filler that causes the trout lips, not Botox. I think that some of the examples given e.g. Kirk Douglas, Priscilla Presley and Tom Jones are as the result of too many face lifts ,which can make people look quite grotesque. I think Donna Versace is the worst looking of the lot, I'm sure she's sorry that she ever started down that road.
The ones that look good for their age in my opinion are the ones who do have wrinkles e.g. Helen Mirren, Judi Dench, Sophia Loren.

Good bones and a serene nature. And I don't mean me!

My super power these days is knowing how well people will age ( wish I’d known that when I was young though). I have a young relative who was very geeky when young ( looked a bit like a very skinny Hank Marvin) but aged into a classic silver fox. I guess it’s all down to retaining hair and good bone structure. I keep expecting Joanna Lumley to look old but she never does. Helen Mirren looks amazing. I never thought of her as a great beauty when she was young; I also didn’t realise what a great actress she was, either, till I saw her in a Shakespearean play on tv recently. Mind you, a lot of men look great without hair as long as they shave it. Terence Stamp has aged beautifully…

I've always thought that Kristen Scott Thomas is stunningly attractive likewise Helen Mirren and Monica Bellucci.
Brad Pitt has aged remarkably well... likewise Rick Astley!

Terence Stamp

Jeremy Irons

I saw William Roache (Ken Barlow) on TV recently and he’s still a good looking man. Can’t believe he’s 91. 😱

I have just had a phone call from someone doing a survey about heating and grants. At the end of the survey she was doing the usual demographics, including age, and when I said my age, her immediate response was 'You do not sound that old'. I put the phone down fast before I said something I regretted.

About the only time people look and sound the same for their age is immediately after birth. By three months some children are bigger and look more advanced than others and the divergence in looks, size maturity etc grows wider year by year.

Why cant we just accept people: how they look, how they sound without constantly measuring them up against some totally mythical stereotype of what they ought to look like at their age?

Why are we meant to look surprised and pleased when we are told we look well for our age or, worst still, young for our age, or that someone cannot believe the age we are. Would the same people make the same type of comment, but in reverse, to someone they met who looked older than their stereotype.

I know lots of people my age, some are in care homes bent by osteoporosis and/or with dementia, others are fit and well and still working. Some have white hair, some have not yet gone fully grey. But we are all the same age.

What annoys me most is that the stereotypes are always at the extreme end of looks. At my age I am expected to be white haired, helpless, with a quavery voice. I have twice had to deal with doctors, one last year, who seemed to take it as a personal insult that I did not conform to their stereotype of what they thought I should be, but that I was cognitive sound and able to discuss my condition with them and ask questions instead of just being mindlessly pathetically grateful.

Rant over, I will go and make myself a nice soothing cup of tea. with a biscuit and do whatever little old ladies of 80 are meant to do when they get a bit upset.

I’ve developed the old lady quavery voice and it’s really upsetting me. I now notice it in women my age or older. It only happened recently. I think I sound really old on the telephone and phones were always my favourite way of communicating.

MayBee70 I understand that the best way to do counter this is to sing a lot or read out loud.

Our lungs and vocal cords need exercise as much as any other part of us, so regular practice is needed, either singalong to music at home or join a choir. there are lots of leisure choirs now who do not require auditions to join. Or read a chapter of a book out loud each day, together with dramatic effcts.

Martin Kemp (ex Spandau Ballet) has aged gorgeously and I think he's even dishier now than when he was a young man in the 80s.
When you see him on tv (big brother, Gogglebox, interviews and with his wife & kids), he comes across as being a genuinely nice, normal, down to earth guy who loves his wife and family and has managed to avoid any nasty scandals, drug rehab or trashy involvements.