How much do looks define your self-image?

[shootingstar]

When I was a small child, for a while I was a prodigy at guessing ages. My mother would bring me into a party, or introduce me to guests and tell me to guess their ages. I could see the lines and signs of age. I used to upset some women because my guesses were very good.

I can imagine, Mimi. Methinks there maybe alot of TE members, including myself, hope that we look abit younger or at least MOVE, younger than our age.

In response to Crankin, I don't diss makeup. It is useful for certain times. I'm just glad to be with grown sisters, nieces and my partner's daughter who don't feel any need to look better with makeup when we visit one another even if we haven't see each other for awhile.

I haven't worn mascara in past quarter century. My eyes feel exhausted after 1-2 hrs. And you can't really notice the mascara on me anyway. Useless.

Alot of Asian eyes, the way how the eyes are set into the face, require a ton of mascara, or curling the eyelashes plus eyeliner to make it noticeable /worthwhile. However some of my sisters nominally use the stuff.

But for myself, I am with a guy ..who doesn't even want to kiss me when I wear lipstick. Lipstick has fragrance. If I wear foundation, he turns his face away..he can smell the fragrance which he is allergic. There are people like him, who if they sat beside a woman wearing make-up, they start getting a headache /allergic reaction which makes it difficult to concentrate at a meeting. It happened to him at a biz meeting in a small board rm. He really wanted to leave the rm.

As for ever looking like a hottie at any point in life, LOL, I think I missed that stage. I must have been sitting by the roadside of life, when it all happened.