At what age do peoples' looks deteriorate?
While people are beautiful at all ages I'd say the average person's looks go downhill around 35.
shareWomen: 25
Men: 35
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My answer is from the moment we are born...... heck! from the moment we are conceived! After that, life takes over and we age.
shareDid Paul Newman ever look bad? Did Sophia Loren ever look bad? Does Diane Lane look bad? Aging gracefully, while fighting it every inch of the way, is one of the qualities that I respect the most in a person.
shareAll depends on how healthy they are. Do they eat healthy foods? Do they exercise every day? It may also be in their genes to age quickly or stay looking younger.
shareI'm with slimone on this one. How you treat your body majorly affects how attractive you remain as the years go on. Don't smoke, don't do drugs, eat well, excercise. Genes have something to do with it, but your experience has a greater impact. I think the ages listed so far are pretty harsh, actually. In my opinion, most people stay pretty attractive well into their 50s and 60s. It's just that actors have a tendency to do all those destructive things I mentioned. I am 30 and people regularly confuse me for 20. I didn't do everything right, but I'm tryin' Ringo.
shareAgreed. I'd like to add mental health as well. Being happy is as important as physical health imo.
shareFinding something that really interests a person also helps a great deal, also.
shareYes. Health is global: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social. Having a genetic advantage is, obviously, useful, but can be easily squandered. I’ve been seriously involved with athletic training for a very long time, and I can tell you for a fact that there are ways to address and work around what might be perceived as congenital or disabled deficiencies. How we feel about ourselves, how much we respect ourselves and how much we love ourselves are important factors in how we present ourselves to the world, meaning, in how the world sees us. I have known many people with beautiful wardrobes, hiding ugly bodies. I have known even more people, with bodies to kill for, hiding freighted souls. I have never known anyone who had a beautiful soul whom the world did not see as being beautiful, at any age. True beauty comes from the inside our, cf, Audrey Hepburn.
shareYes, indeed. I play the piano and have since I was four years old. I keep playing piano because it's brain food.
shareIt varies tremendously. Some people keep their looks into their forties or fifties, Paul Newman was gorgeous until he hit seventy or so. And other people lose it by 25.
Quite frankly, the biggest predictor of keeping your looks for a long time is wealth.
Rich people can not only spend money on getting dermatologists and plastic surgeons to fight visible aging, they can also spend money on healthy food and personal trainers and good preventative medical care. Of course not taking care of yourself is a good way to lose your looks early, but not as good as serious substance abuse! But just being poor is incredibly hard on the body and spirit, stress and fear and lack of access to medical care can make a person old before their time.
You’re right on the money, Otter.
shareGood point, Otter. Well said.
shareFrom what I've observed; marriage, domesticity, and increasing work and pressures that go with all that today seems to age a person rapidly after 30 - more so with males. Also in my experience, those who appeared older got married sooner, while those who still haven't appear younger and more vibrant. Sorry married people ;)
shareusually around 35 years of age for women and 40 for men.
shareAt whatever age they are when they stop caring and “let themselves go.” For too many, that coincides with the day they get married, but the reality is that should be the day when they double their efforts to look good, as part of nurturing their bond. Looking good takes constant effort, all throughout life.
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I have never thought that Madeleine Stowe is anything less than beautiful. I know this topic as about “looks,” but I’m interpreting that to go beyond “appearance” and, instead, to mean “beauty;” so I don’t think that we disagree.
sharePerhaps I should have kept my yapper shut on this subject. It seems shallow of me to speak of women in this manner. I resisted entering this thread because I feared being perceived as ignorant and worse. I believe I will delete my post there, R_K. It is you who are right, not me. Ashamed I am.
shareNo, please don’t be ashamed. You expressed an actual idea. Message boards depend on conversations! Sometimes we need to define our terms. That is part of being a civilized adult. People can have catastrophic medical issues that can effect our appearance, but that doesn’t mean we have let ourselves go. I think, and feel, that Stowe has a beautiful spirit, and that she will remain beautiful till the end of her days. I also think, as a fitness professional, that too many folks, sadly, just give up on themselves and atrophy as a result. That is not a medical condition. That is an emotional condition. We have no control over congenital (inherited or acquired) medical conditions. I have one myself. They are hard to overcome; sometimes, they are impossible. Those who who are otherwise healthy but who still
stop trying to take care of themselves trouble me. I find it hard to understand. Women know that men care FAR MORE about appearance in their mates than do women, who care more about substance than appearance in their mates. I therefore agree with your point that the degradation of looks in a woman worries her. That kind of woman deserves a man who deserves her, a man who loves who SHE IS, and not a woman who is like she appears, through no fault of her own.
Please don’t delete your post.