wy? because you stop lookeing like you and start looking like something else. I'd rather look like Michael Jackson than look like an awful saggy faced middle aged male. Its not the wrinkles, your whole appearence, face shape changes. It's just grotesque, and embarassing.

Why is it that asians don't age, 30 year old asian guys look like they're 18. I suppose it's their big faces , high heckbones ans small features. Lucky for them, The middle aged caucasion male on the othe hand is the most ugly creature known to exist.

...imagine looking like that in front of your parents. what a mind bender.

When asians do go old looking it happens fast and they do go very wrinkly, particularly huge epicanthal folds(sp?). I reckon folk of African origins age best, I was watching something on tv the other day with a 60something Chuck Berry, Dude was looking good for his age.
Try anti wrinkle creams and botox, eat lots of fruit and vegetables, drink a lot of water and avoid stress.

I'm not talking about wrinkles and jowls. By that stage it's way too late. No I mean the changes in your skin that begin around 25. The difference between a 20 year olds face and a 30 year olds. That sagging around the eyes, the heavyness around the mouth, fleshy sunken down cheeks and smile lines. The way the skin becomes all soft and yucky feeling. There's got to be a way to stop it

got any spare stem cells?

//There's got to be a way to stop it

Foetal stem cells. Just because there is no research to support it doesn't mean it won't work!

//Not sure about stopping it, but copious amounts of cosmetic surgery would make it seem like it hasn't happened./

your on to something there. I mean all I ahve to do is push the skin up about 1/2 cm around the edges of the eyes/temples and I look exactly like I did at 18. It's tempting to get a stapler and.........

...no, there's got to be something else, and I hear that they wont perform cosmeteiv surgery like that until you're in your 40's.

right...so do you mean that you're already exercising and eating healthy and you're still getting saggy - or that you're not going to bother since "they don't make any difference"?
From previous comments you've made I got the impression that aging is the least of your aesthetic concerns.

I find it eminently perplexing that you're scared of looking like a healthy 27 year old. Seriously man, if you can't get over time then go find that psychologist, it's the best facelift you'll get.

//ofcourse I'm scared that I'm looking older, you know what I mean, and so does anyone, even if you pretend to be all postive , I know you know....

Sure, I'm afraid of looking older. In fact, if I was to draw up a big list of all the things I'm afraid of, looking older is probably right up there in between being hugged by Richard Simmons and being eaten by a giant squid.

If you're worried about how the skin on your face is just grow a beard and never shave it off. A timeless classic.
Another alternative worth considering is to wear extremely tight fluorescent trousers. That way, people won't be too worried about your skin.
Full facial tats also can facilitate people staring at the sidewalk in your company...

Bahahaha! The Mighty H! I'm like totally a superhero!

Cheers, Jackie, you made my day.

(Runs to The Warehouse to buy a cape)

(Leaps tall buildings all the way home, resplendent in an unzipped plaid sleeping-bag)

..ah you'll feel it soon enough Joanna (or not if you're lucky), Those small creases around your mouth you noticed at 24, that were no big deal cause you still looked the same, one day you'll wake and see the sides of your face sagging down a bit over them, changing the proportions of your features, so that you look ..different. You'll know then, muahaha etc..

I couldn't give a rat's arse about my wrinkles, I'm just still glad that my roof is solidly thatched!
And if the ol' hairline is going back, NOW is the time for the clippers. Bzzzzzzzt.

// It means you aren't going ot ever get that 21 year old honey

bahahaha. As if. I have a far better chance now than when I was 21!

Man, your parental issues would give freud wet dreams. 95% of my male friends over about 27 - and for that matter quite a few that are under 27 aren't remotely interested in 21-year-old girls. My 40-year-old friend that's actually involved with a 21-year-old (they've been together for just under a year) struggled for about three months to get over the age difference before he even agreed to go out with her. It appears there comes a point that most guys want something more than a girl with a baby's-bottom complexion, even in the most casual romantic flirtation. Mind you, since it's the "maturing" you're rebelling against, I expect that the whole idea of being attracted to hot older women would be yet another bad sign in your peter pan endeavours.

Heh, I bet he strenuously avoids the smart ones. I suspect a bunch of boys have gone off the hot librarian thing, ever since they found out just how hairy bizgirl was.

hahaha rdor, just wait until everyone in your group of friends starts getting married & having kids, those nights that would have usually been drinking game all nighters are turned into a few quiets then up early the next morning to take the kids to the beach . . . talk about feeling old hahahaha

//( . . . weirdest new years eve ever)

My friend and I cleaned a fridge in Buckland's Beach on the Milleniumn night.

//It appears there comes a point that most guys want something more than a girl with a baby's-bottom complexion, even in the most casual romantic flirtation.//

it isn't an abstract thing like a ' flawless complexion' or a 'nice body'. You girls have it easy for ageing, a womens appearence is fundamentally more youthfull looking than a mans, even as they age. beacause they have smaller features and comparitvely larger faces.... the definition of feminine looking is more youthfull and cute. Yeah I've seen plenty of cute looking women in their 30's.

Men, at least us caucasions, age like cheese on toast in the oven. An already somewhat spud-like, characterless face, loses all definition it had as the skin drops towards earth. At least in youth you had that boyish appearence to limit being fugly. What do you base your ego on when your old?, I just don't know how older men continue...

//sometimes I see younger women with older men, and that THE reason they are with them, you can just tell. Safe bet.

Yeah. That extra time to climax really counts to the younger girls.

// nah it's cuase he's got money and a good job.

nah it's cause he's not insecure and neurotic about his looks.

There's an old theory of self-identity (which I think they still teach to marketing students) which conceives of your self identity as a series of inter-related nodes (e.g., looks, career, hobbies, domestic situation). The fewer nodes you have, and the more importance you put on them, the more vulnerable your self-esteem becomes, because if you have a failure on one node, it compromises a very large part of your self-identity. Thus, I'd suggest diversifying some. I'm not sure what else is good for you in life, but concentrate and expand on that stuff. It may be that I have worse skin than I did when I was 21, but I certainly have better style now than I did then, and just about every other aspect of life has improved since then... including some things that I didn't think would be part of who I am, but have become. So pssh to looks. Go take some initiative on another front.

//don't you feel the weight of all those years of adulthood behind you?
I don't think adolescence ends these days until the mid 20s anyway. You seem like you're having your quarter-life crisis a couple of years late...

//It fucks with your head, that amount of time at uni...
I like what my 7 and a bit years of study did to my head ; )
There's a quote that I rather like which goes something like "A University education is not about preparing you for a job, but furnishing your mind so that you have somewhere to live in 20 years".

//older peoples lives seem so nasty. get up, go to work, get home, eat dinner, dishes then bed.
Your life is what you choose to make it...

//Your life is what you choose to make it...//

that's what you HAVE to do wif you want a steady job. Like the one I started recently, they just expect you to sit there in silence and click on the same icons allllll day, repeating the same steps allllll day. What are you supposed to think while doing this stuff.