<p>So what do you all know about veneers for your teeth? My teeth are very yellow and make me look old. I can’t use whitening stuff because a lot of my teeth are “restored” – i.e., not real. So whiteners would only whiten the real tooth and not the not-real tooth. (Can you say, splotchy?)</p>
<p>I know they’re expensive as hell. Do they last?</p>
<p>Veneers do last. I have a friend who replaced one after more than 20 years. My daughter had to have an implant, so we had her get three veneers and the implant so her four teeth across the front match. I hope hers last a very long time.</p>
<p>And about what you see in the mirror? I often see my mother looking back. Ouch. I don’t think Botox will take care of that.</p>
<p>I have those two lines between my eyes and I don’t care. My teeth are not the whitest and I don’t care. I think I look pretty darn good. Yo Yo ma said “comportment, deportment, character and spunk - that’s what makes us young and sexy.” Not sure I have the exact words but something like that. Read it in the AARP magazine today (go ahead and laugh). Who cares about stupid wrinkles??<br>
And George Clooney (I have SUCH a crush on that man) says he’s the sexiest man still living…LOL.</p>
<p>Very Happy, mine are about 17 yrs. The ones on the top wear better than the lower ones.
Once I had a cavity under one, and it was filled without damaging the veneer. The biggest problem as you get older will be your receding gum line, if the tooth that gets exposed is a much darker color. </p>
<p>Color matching is very hi tech now. The last time I went to the dentist they were matching colors by a machine, instead of a color chart and visualization.</p>
<p>Another concern is if you have it redone and the original dentist isn’t around - different labs have different color shading.</p>
<p>My frown lines made me look sad or mad. I used bottom and filler. I don’t looked mad or sad all the time now. I have wrinkles around my eyes. I don’t mind them at all. I don’t need to look 30 but in don’t want to look pizzed off al the time either.</p>
<p>I work darn hard to keepmfit, healthy, comtol my weight, and as a post menopausal 51 year old with many years ahead of me, I dont want to look cranky when I am not.</p>
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<p>Yup, there is something about the laugh lines coming down from the nose and then taking the edges of the lips on a downward angle that gives me a permanent look of disapproval. So, I fill them and…now when I look like I am disapproving…it’s because I am!</p>
<p>I admit that I did use Botox once for my squinting lines. But it seemed to permanently lessen them to the point that I don’t see the need to do anymore.
Don’t want to look like Nicole Kidman.</p>
<p>Nicole Kidman is gorgeous and very natural looking. I see her around town and in the park working out.</p>
<p>It must have worn off, the last film I saw her in, her face didn’t move.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t mind looking like Nicole Kidman, if I could be as tall as she is and have her body. :)</p>
<p>Nicole Kidman’s face goes through stages. Sometimes it doesn’t move at all and other times she’s quite expressive. </p>
<p>I find aging to be an interesting process. I’m only 42 but through most of my 30s I could still pass as being in my 20s and those days are behind me. Perhaps I’m an odd duck but I am looking forward to menopause. Maybe I"ll feel differently when I get there but I hope not.</p>
<p>I’m having a relatively easy menopause, no night sweats, no hot flashes, but find my mood kind of gets stuck in neutral. easily can become irritable, although find I less easily become sad. anyone else find that?</p>
<p>interesting reading others’ perspectives on appearance…I find those frown lines disconcerting too. My 16 yr old often looks at me a tad guilty and asks, “are you mad?” hadn’t thought of doing anything but interesting to hear options…</p>
<p>Packing for a trip and I’m struck by how much more space my bathing suits and lingerie take up compared to when I was 20 something. Even accounting for my two sizes larger, I no longer can drape myself in wisps of fabric. OTOH, even slender young things wear more substantial bras than in the 70s when most of mine were like two handkerchiefs attached to some elastic. Back in the day when men had body hair and women had nipples…
I’m old.</p>
<p>^^lol, Dragonmom. Gotta love those pads push-ups today.</p>
<p>I went shopping with a friend the other day. While she was in the dressing room at Nordstroms, I sat down on a platform surrounded by mirrors. Suddenly I was seeing myself from angles that are generally not very visible to me. Oh…dear…God. Don’t EVER do that.</p>
<p>^^If you could only see what others can see on your face, especially against some backlighting…it led to our entire book club (50+women only) purchasing facial hair removing cream.</p>
<p>yes, looked at a 3X magnifying mirror at Bed Bath and Beyond yesterday. Not only didn’t I buy it, but I walked away from it hoping noone else had been close enough to see what I saw. ;)</p>
<p>Ohhhh! Lol. We were never meant to be seen that close. Thank God our eyesight fades as we age. Nature’s mercy.</p>
<p>At my 35-year high school reunion I did a top-ten list of good things bout being over fifty. One of them was about losing our eyesight and still looking pretty good. </p>
<p>My husband and I were recently at services for my 93-year-old uncle and two people asked whether my 59-year-old husband was a brother to my uncle. My husband was a bit taken back and I told him that it was a perception of how people think they look.</p>
<p>I actually think my face is improving with some age on it. I have always had somewhat plump cheeks and as I’ve aged my face has thinned down. My DH tells me my bone structure shows more and it looks good. So far my chin and neck area are holding up. That will upset me if they start getting wrinkly and loose.</p>
<p>I think extra weight in the face can magnify the look of wrinkles. I know the common wisdom is that extra weight helps the face look younger, but I don’t think it’s true. </p>
<p>In all honesty, I think I look better now than ten or twenty years ago. More sense of my own style. Know what makeup to use. Weight has been stable. That’s the key, I think.</p>