How to look older?

ILoveFroggies

I'm 19, but I look a lot younger... and I've been told this a number of times.

Any tips on how to look... not exactly old... but my age?

sleepytexan

if anyone can tell me how to look 19, I'd appreciate it too.

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ubermensch13

Oh the problems of being young.....*sigh*

Molly_Maguire

Dress more conservatively, pull your hair back, wear less or lighter colored makeup. Why do you want to look older, are you trying to not get carded at the bar, or something?

ILoveFroggies

Yeah, okay, sorry, guys, I get it that when I'm old and grey, I'll appreciate looking young...

It's just I don't find it particularly cool to look 12 when I'm actually an adult.

So... Would make-up work? A more sophisticated hairstyle? Losing weight in my face?

ILoveFroggies

Dress more conservatively, pull your hair back, wear less or lighter colored makeup. Why do you want to look older, are you trying to not get carded at the bar, or something?

Aww, cheers for the tips!

I don't want to look old, haha, I just want to look 19 (my age)!! I just don't enjoy looking like a little kid, that's all!

KatieMae75

Believe me when I tell you to just enjoy looking younger while it's happening. People used to think I was much younger than I was, and it annoyed the hell out of me. But then, at some point after 30, I stopped getting carded for anything and people stopped saying "wow, I thought you were a lot younger than that!". It made me sad. If someone carded me now, I'd probably jump over the counter and kiss them.

saraann4

What? You are f'ing nuts. I'm 26 and people still think I look under 18. I always say THANK YOU. Be grateful.

Capt_Apollo

wait

hiker359

Grow a beard

PS: See if still want an answer to this question in 30 years.

Kaathmandu

Glam up - that will usually do it ... hard to advise without knowing what you look like and what you wear?!

dunlunicor

I am 23. When I was about 10 pounds lighter than I am now and had short hair last year, I walked into a liquor store, the dude behind the counter started yelling, "Hey young man, you can't be in here!" I had to explain to him that I was not in fact a 12-year-old boy. I feel your pain.

MandaJean83

I looked about 13 years old when I was 19! People always made comments about it. It's getting less and less as I get older.

Just try to enjoy it...you'll get older looking someday and WISH you looked 16 again!!!

LorinaLynn

I could pass for my early teens until my mid-twenties. I rather enjoyed it.... especially people underestimating me. Made impressing them all the easier.

PuggleLover

go to lots of tanning beds, chain smoke and don't sleep... oh yeah, and drink lots and don't eat anything so you starve. Wait... that's older "hag" - my bad.

WeekndOVOXO

Don't wear a bra.

willwillywilson

You should get a really old boyfriend. Could help LOL.

ferrytrip

my children aged me. Maybe babysit some horrible kids

ILoveFroggies

What? You are f'ing nuts. I'm 26 and people still think I look under 18. I always say THANK YOU. Be grateful.

Okay, may I reiterate... I understand that when I'm old, being told I look 12 may be a compliment. At the moment, however, I would rather look my age, which is 19... There's no need to make suggestions along the lines of smoking cigarettes, etc... I don't want to look 50, only 19.

I'm a medical student, undertaking clinical placements, which is why it's not favourable for me to resemble a young child, that's all.

Capt_Apollo

What? You are f'ing nuts. I'm 26 and people still think I look under 18. I always say THANK YOU. Be grateful.

Okay, may I reiterate... I understand that when I'm old, being told I look 12 may be a compliment. At the moment, however, I would rather look my age, which is 19... There's no need to make suggestions along the lines of smoking cigarettes, etc... I don't want to look 50, only 19.

I'm a medical student, undertaking clinical placements, which is why it's not favourable for me to resemble a young child, that's all.

you are a young child.


just dress in as a professional manner as possible when working or going on interviews.

ILoveFroggies

What? You are f'ing nuts. I'm 26 and people still think I look under 18. I always say THANK YOU. Be grateful.

Okay, may I reiterate... I understand that when I'm old, being told I look 12 may be a compliment. At the moment, however, I would rather look my age, which is 19... There's no need to make suggestions along the lines of smoking cigarettes, etc... I don't want to look 50, only 19.

I'm a medical student, undertaking clinical placements, which is why it's not favourable for me to resemble a young child, that's all.

you are a young child.


just dress in as a professional manner as possible when working or going on interviews.

...A "much younger child" then.

schmenge55

When I had that problem I grew a mustache, but probably not an option for you. I would think the way you dress, accessorize and how you wear your hair could help. Maybe add glasses?

Carol_123

I'm sorry you have to deal with some unhelpful information. My first thought too was to enjoy it cause you get old faster than you want but I totally appreciate your situation. Dark coloured glasses, the frame itself, helps to give a Librarian beyond your years look. Office attire like you are uptight can help.

It's a different situation and one problem I wish I still had before I got fat lol... but I was pretty girl in a very high tech career that I didn't think anyone would take me seriously as a technician so I wore glasses, a pencil skirt and a blouse up to my eyeballs, and my hair in a bun and I appeared rigid and professional to the point that the office talk was what I looked like if I wore my hair down. I married someone from the company who filled me in, unaware to it then, that my uptight look trying to appear more "nerdy and older" created quite the interest lol. It made me mysterious apparently. So what you don't have in older looks, you can get in attitude.

DrJanet98

I'm a medical student, undertaking clinical placements, which is why it's not favourable for me to resemble a young child, that's all.

Now that I can sympathize with! I did a program that put 7th and 8th grade into one year, so when I graduated vet school, I was a year younger than the typical grad. I did worry about looking too young for people to feel comfortable trusting me with their pets' health.

Lucky for me, I had started getting grey hairs in junior high, and had enough at my temples to be noticeable by the time I was a working veterinarian, so I just let it be grey and made sure it showed. I still got a few comments how young I looked, but at least I looked like I might know what I was doing.

Now, when I'm well established in the practice and still single, I've started coloring my greys so that I won't look too old prematurely. As an official Dark Auburn, I finally look my age. And I picked a color as close as possible to my real color, so roots don't show as much, and one with a Root Touch-Up Kit so I don't have to bother with the whole thing too often.

I wonder if there's some way you can give yourself grey hairs? I don't mean really, but maybe there's some sort of highlights or localized coloring that would be light enough to give that impression? Only other things I can come up with to look older are along the lines of movie make-up to give yourself crow's feet or somesuch, which might need to be redone a few times a day.

I had a friend in high school who looked twelve, and even got into movies at the child's price. We made him split the savings with us when we went together. Meanwhile I could get into the R-rated ones without being carded. When I'd go to a campus restaurant with friends who were in college, the waiter would bring a pitcher of beer and a glass for each of us, and I'd politely tell him that he could get in big trouble for doing that.... The *only* place that ever carded me was a comic book store!

DrJanet98

Had another thought....try getting your clothes tailored. I suspect that if you're in conservative clothes that are ill-fitting, you'll remind people too much of a little kid dressed up in Mom's clothes. There are a lot of places that do tailoring, and it doesn't cost as much as you'd think; in your case it would be a good investment.

gingerveg

my children aged me. Maybe babysit some horrible kids

Lol!

BinaryPulsar

I do understand how you feel. Wish I had advice, but I don't. This was how it always was for me. It still is and I still get carded (I'm 34), but I like it now. When I was 24 I was purchasing groceries in the store and the sales clerk was very concerned and he asked me how I got a bank card, turned out he thought I was 12, the bagger tried to stand up for me and said he could see that I was 16...lol. When I was pregnant at 26, people were always giving me teenage pregnancy lectures and people would shout "Babies having babies" at me...lol.

Aviva92

I need to see a picture of you to say if you really look 12. I think I had that issue when I was 19 in looking younger. It didn't bother me though. I actually liked it. Get over it. It will catch up to you eventually or you'll be 30 and look 20 and be grateful.

Bahet

We bought our first house when I was 24. One day a girl came to teh door selling magazines and asked if my mother was home. :laugh:

On my 32nd birthday I ran out to the store. Hubby had a friend over and he asked me to pick him up some cigarettes so I did. I got carded. :laugh:

I can laugh about it now but there were some times - especially from a professionl standpoint - where looking young was a hinderance. I found glasses and conservative clothes worked well. Also, speak properly. Someone saying "I be axing you to conversate" not only sound illiterate but also sounds like dumb kid instead of an educated adult. Stand tall. Confidence and poise are also not typically signs of a teenager. Look people in the eye when you speak to them.

Louisianababy93

when i was 12, people thought i was about 18.

now that im 19, people think im about 14 without makeup.