Am I the only one here who could wear an ill fitting bra & no one would ever know?!
I wear shorts, but I have stopped wearing them “out.” If I’m going somewhere in public that’s planned (other than running errands), I wear nice jeans or nicer pants. I’m in my 60’s, and it just feels better to me to have long pants.
Perhaps you were wearing the wrong watches. 
I feel like the biggest ager is hair color. I have a friend who is my age who stopped dying her hair and I think it makes her look much older. Also, if you dye your hair very dark it looks unnatural and makes you look old. The third bad color is dying your hair too red. This was something people my parent’s age did. It was such an unnatural color that it made them look old.
LOL. Am I the only one here who wears a bra just to go out?
Grey hair is the worst unless you’re one of the lucky few who go “silver” or a hybrid thereof.
Some get away with a blond of some sort.
Back in my twenties I was in a personnel line getting photos taken for work. The lady in front of me was obviously young but had worked at the place for years. She showed me her current picture–she looked to be 60 at least–full head of grey hair. So she wanted a new pix with her new brown hair. I vowed that very second that I’d be dying my hair til the day I couldn’t.
I have gray hair. I love it. I don’t think I look any older than women who dye their hair. It’s just a color. Society has conditioned us to associate gray hair with being old.
Wow, haven’t seen something like that since the 1980’s. LOL
Darn! I would wear one of those! (Okay I’d think about it but maybe not).
BUT I like some sparkle too! Flip flops with rhinestones. Sunglasses that dazzle the beholder. I’m not turning those down. Anything that makes me smile everytime I look at it or wear it.
Cause the best fashion statement is a smile.
Thanks! I love the Ted Baker bag and the Longchamp backpack!
I’m in my early 50s and for my age group I do think letting hair go grey is very aging. Worse though is weird colored hair, unnatural shades of red, black, etc… Here in Los Angeles, overdone eyelashes, face fillers, Botox, duck lips are rampant. It just never looks good. I do dye my hair, but a very natural color. I don’t put junk in my face, I’m cool with the lines I’ve earned and will take them any day over looking looking like some alien. A proper fitting bra is essential, as are clothes that fit well. Clothes that are too revealing don’t look right on women over 40 or 50. I’m all for sexy, but there’s nothing wrong with a dignified type of sexy.
I’ve seen several posts about “too dark dyed hair” being aging. Does that apply when you’ve already got dark brown hair and the dyed shade is a just a hair (no pun intended) darker than natural. I’ve been going just a smidge darker for awhile - just to cover the grays - but I’m now wondering if I’m going in the wrong direction. I’m sure it’s subjective, but wondering if I should try instead to go just a touch lighter than my natural shade. I’m assuming that to go lighter, it would by necessity involve bleaching? I’m fairly naive about hair coloring (never had highlights, and have only ever colored my hair to get rid of gray), so I just don’t know what other options would entail.
I’m a shade lighter than my natural hair color and didn’t need to bleach it.
I think for people who have naturally dark hair, it just seems normal to me for them to maintain it.
Perhaps it means others can tell that it is dyed to cover up the white hairs?
Most people where I live have naturally dark colored hair (until it turns white or falls out), so dark coloration of hair by itself is not associated with older age.
All permanent hair color involves bleach. I’m a brunette. My previous hair dresser always wanted to take me darker, redder, something. I had darker than my natural shade brown for a while, and I do think it was aging on me. Now I’m the color I was when I was a kid or teen, just a touch lighter than my roots would grown in and I think it’s softer on me. Good hair color is important, imo. I started using Madison reed during the pandemic. It’s so much cheaper to do at home and my hair dresser says it’s pro quality just like she would use on me.
Honest? Stick to your natural color or just a tad lighter maybe. Don’t go darker. The home color dyes cover greys really well and going darker just gives a really 'fake" look. No need to bleach.
I started going gray in my late teens and was very gray by my mid twenties. I wasn’t a fan so started coloring it. I’ve never associated it with being old obviously amd have no plans to stop coloring.
That’s what I’m using - Madison Reed, I mean. I first got it done at a salon, and the colorist recommended going just a bit darker. I started using Madison Reed both to save money and time (I hate spending hours in the salon), and just kept on with the same color that the colorist had recommended. But, this was years ago now, and maybe I should do some updating? I do kind of like the idea of going a little bit lighter if only because the grays won’t be quite a contrasted against somewhat lighter hair.
I used this also during Covid. Now go to their salon. It’s great.
I’m thinking I will go a bit lighter as I get older so that the grey blends better. For my age now, a touch lighter than my natural roots looks soft and just a little sun kissed. If I look at my baby hair I have saved, the color is pretty close.
Honest is good. Going to go back to the salon next time and get some input on a slightly lighter color. Thanks!