Looking YOUNG!

[Melody_lane]

I went to get my haircut...the stylist thought I was 16.
I went to buy a new bike...the guy who assisted me thought I was 16.
Met a guy at a club...you guessed it-16!

WTF. Tell me, is it the cheeks?

I know this will be a good thing as I get older, but right now, it's hard enough getting people to take me seriously, being identified as a 16 year old can't help.

Anyway, this has just been occuring too frequently over the past couple of weeks...so, I have the case of the 'tell me I look 16 one more time, I'll kill ya' blues. <sighs>

 

[Wizard]

Not sweet 16?.........

 

[Naked Hunny]

I know where you are coming from!!

Look at my webpage youll see that i definitely dont look my age!!

 

[teresafannin]

You do look very young, but that is not necessarily bad. I also look young for my age, love it now, but hated it when I was young & wanted to be a taken seriously grownup. I took a look at your site, your little girl is so adorable.

 

[Skibum]

Don't feel too blue, Melody. Millions of women the world over are trying to appear younger than they are. You just do it naturally. What a gift!

 

[Naked Hunny]

Yes but i barely look old enough to have that child and i know it i get scowled at by grandmothers at the park!!

 

[Bonnie Wee Lassie]

Melody I could only wish someone would think I was 16 again! I know it is probably a pain right now to you but as you get older you will love it.

Bonnie

 

[teresafannin]

Hunny, I used to get that scowl all the time when I would take my son out to the park, grocery store, etc. As he got older, he used to tell people I was his sister & that his grandmother was really his mom, he loved to see the look on their faces. Don't worry about what others think, I was a single mom for most of my son's 17 years & he was growing into a fine young man.

 

[Weird Harold]

I went to get my haircut...the stylist thought I was 16.
I went to buy a new bike...the guy who assisted me thought I was 16.
Met a guy at a club...you guessed it-16!

WTF. Tell me, is it the cheeks

I don't think it's the cheeks. I don't have anything other than the two pictures on your member's profile to judge by, so I can't really do more than guess.

My guess that it's as much attitude and body language as it is anything physical.

In your pictures, you don't look 19. I don't know the time frame between the two pictures, but they look to be about a year apart. Your posture and expression in the left hand picture make you look about a year younger to me than you are in the right hand picture. Both pictures make you look less than 19 though.

My oldest daughter has the opposite problem. She has always appeared more mature than her years. Part of her problem was early and frequent visits from the breast fairy, but her attitude, posture, and speech patterns made her seem fully adult from about age 15 on.

NH,
In your case, it is the cheeks. <G> That and the resemblance of your smile to that of a young Shirley Temple.

 

[Dreamer1]

Melody, you are a bright and beautiful young woman. I don't think you look 16 but you do have a young looking face. Like the others said, you will appreciate that fact when you are older.

You are a doll, don't change one bit!

 

[Rand al'Thor]

I get the same problem sometimes, even though I'm male.

I was rushed out of my house to go buy something at the store, so I didn't have time to dress properly, and the salesman thought I was 13... And I was 18 at the time! That actually kind of pissed me off...

Rand al'Thor
The Dragon Reborn

 

[Never]

Ah. I have the same problem at times, though I've gotten everything from fifteen to twenty-five. A great deal of it hinges on your demeanor and situation at the time. When I loaf around the house or I'm in public with my mother I wear T-Shirts and rough cotton khakis, I slouch or lean, rarely flash the cash and when I speak I sorta say whateva' I'm thinkin' an' give lazy 'yeah', 'nope', 'okay', 'sure', 'hmm' an' stuff like that, yah know?
At work, however, I wear my uniform and have an attentive, if somewhat formal, attitude. In comparison to the sixteen year olds throwing grapes, the seventeen year old bouncing the new Pokemon balls and my superior, who's two months younger than me, talking on the telephone to her boyfriend, I look like one of the few adults in the place.

People guess your age by the lines in you face and your demeanor. Take up smoking and frown continuously and they'll think you're thirty, I promise. Of course, if you make a habit of that you'll look fifty when you're thirty so you lose either way.
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[Melody_lane]

My guess that it's as much attitude and body language as it is anything physical.

In your pictures, you don't look 19. I don't know the time frame between the two pictures, but they look to be about a year apart. Your posture and expression in the left hand picture make you look about a year younger to me than you are in the right hand picture. Both pictures make you look less than 19 though.

My attitude is certainly not reflective of that of a 16 year old. I wasn't even acting like a 16 year old, when I was one. And this is not just egotistic bravado, I assure you.
The pictures were taken only a couple months apart, actually. So, hum...I look older as a blonde. Time for a dye job?

[Edited by Melody_lane on 08-17-2000 at 08:12 AM]

 

[Jeff726]

Melody,

I wouldn't worry so much. Hell I have girls who I talk to online and am friends with who wish I was 17 again. I would say you are quite the lucky lady. You are such an attractive woman and seemingly you have plenty going for you. This is just one of them things that happens with us late teens/early 20s people. (((((Melody))))) Stay sweet and cute and enjoy all this.


Jeff

 

[Expertise]

Take Nevers advice....it worked for me.

Except in New Hampshire I got "carded" there 3 freakin times in the space of a week. It was kinda' flattering actually but each time I showed it, it was prefaced by "boy are you gonna' feel stupid"

 

[Skitten]

Better to look to young than to old. Now that is when it sucks when someone thinks your 50 and you are only 30. Not that it has happened to me but that would be worse. So don't worry about.

 

[Weird Harold]

My attitude is certainly not reflective of that of a 16 year old. I wasn't even acting like a 16 year old, when I was one. And this is not just egotistic bravado, I assure you.

It's hard to tell what your body language is telling others. It isn't all attitude that affects others' perceptions. If you were worrying about something and your body language said "unsure" to those you meant, they'd see you as younger than you are.

The pictures were taken only a couple months apart, actually. So, hum...I look older as a blonde. Time for a dye job?

I don't think it's the blondeness that makes you look older in that picture to me. It's more the posture and expression than the hair color. Of course, subliminal cues that people base their estimate of age on aren't always obvious. If they were, they wouldn't be subliminal. <G>