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Happy birthday to all who,s celebrating this week it's mine on Saturday . I know I'm overweight but my bingo wings look horrid on photo,s if I was a bird they would flap like mad ? I would be like pigeon that just trots about

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISSPRINT

Your face tells your story , I've got lines and wrinkles and they are from laughing and pulling silly faces to entertain my family friends and now my grandson. Rather have a friendly face than a smooth shiny permanent surprised expressionless one. Embrace it and insist on filters for selfies

God is merciful. As our looks fade so does our eyesight, so provided we don't wear our glasses we can convince ourselves we don't look too bad. ?

To tie up two threads.....My children and grandchildren live thousands of miles away. One group comes to visit me every year or so, so I have not really seen much of these grandchildren, although skype has been very useful.
Last summer, the eldest granddaughter ( 5) just seemed to stare at me a lot. Eventually she said shyly. ' Grandma, please may I touch your jelly chin' Not having been a great one for mirrors, I took a good look through her eyes and saw that the great dewlap almost touched my chest. She touched and wobbled it and we both had a great laugh

Well Mawbroon , that could be a description of me! Too depressing to think about. Though I have to say when I see photos or videos of me animated and smiling I do look a lot better that any 'selfie' I take, and presumably that's what they see. My daughter says Ive got a lovely face. I think she's lying but it's very kind! I hate the way I look these days.

my grandaughter told me the other night that she hates her other granny because she's so wrinkly and she insists that grandaughter kiss her when she goes.
i hate my double chin and fattish face (i'm overweight) but at least i don't have wrinkles! so i have got the grandaughter's seal of approval at least ...... i think i'd rather have my large face with its smooth skin than other grannies wrinkles!
perhaps i should add that other granny isn't much older than me but appears to be ageing more quickly - perhaps i should only lose a little more weight rather than a lot so i don't get those wrinkles.
HATE my bingo wings though.

Happy birthday ladies!! I see my wrinkles coming but just accept them. I am lucky enough to still be here with my family when lots of other people didn't get that chance. We have all earned them so be proud. Have a great week ladies x

When I remember I put on thick-rimmed glasses which seem to make my face look younger and more pleasant.
I don't normally wear glasses.

I'm not technologically advanced enough to use Skype/Facebook and I find the magnifying mirror quite scary enough. Those open pores and crow's feet don't look too good close up do they? But put it this way - we are alive and reasonably well. Those lines on our faces tell of experience and maybe - wisdom!

Thought it was just me I nearly dropped my ipad on the floor in shock the first time I opened facetime on it !! The person looking back at me frightened me to death.

Don't worry about wrinkles, double chins etc. It is what is inside that counts.

My ancient aunt used to say the same "who's that wrinkly old lady I can see in my mirror?' My aunt is long-gone, but whoever the wrinkly old lady was, she's moved in with me, when I look in the mirror there she is.

When Skyping our family I've realised that how I sit seems to be a key issue related to how I look on the screen. Using the tablet (when snuggled up on the sofa), I think that I look crumpled, old, and more than my 66 years. (Not helped by us almost always Skyping in the UK evening because they live overseas and are eight hours behind UK time. Thus I'm into "evening" mode, on the sofa.) I think I appear notably better if I Skype whilst sitting upright on an "office" chair, with the desktop camera slightly higher than my face, so that I look up to it slightly. Also I recommend scarves, jewellery, and keeping your chin up a bit!

The trick is a quick glance that way things don't look so bad, or in my case leave your glasses off when you look in the mirror, good tip.
Also don't have your photo taken it's as simple as that. I don't even have a photo of me on FB, just my cat Oscar.
I always wear a scarf round the neck bumblebee.

Ah the joys of getting older.....

Glad it is not just me then that sees a unironed old overweight woman in a photograph, or even passing a large reflective shop window, when in my head I am 29......
The camera never lies they say, well maybe it is about time it learnt a bit of diplomacy.

To add insult to injury back views in "candid" family pics seem to be photobombed by a dumpy little Russian baboushka.
I have no idea how she came to be there.
Gatecrasher??

Happy birthday all those with birthdays today ! I know what you mean ....sadly I am always being shawdowed by an old white haired wrinkled woman ...in changing rooms, even at home ! I would report her for stalking if I knew who she was ! She is even at the hairdressers with me !

Such a comfort to find that I am far from the only one to see the decrepit old woman on Skype! Oh the neck! No wonder I get Day creams and Night creams as presents, and (lovely) scarves!!

My son posted a photo on facebook of me and my grandson laughing into each others faces. My grandson looked gorgeous. I looked about 80! I'm twenty years younger. Lets just say, I wouldn't have shared the photo on facebook!

Too true Ninathenana. I learnt early on to hold it up.

Turtle neck sweater,fringe,style hair forward at the sides,long earrings and spot of blue eye make up on outer eye lids and a BIG smile ,done.When I had my passport photo done due to time restraints I went to a more expensive local place,brilliant and in 10 years I'm going to be unrecognizable by Customs !!

Your post made me giggle. I to was FaceTime with my daughter last night. As she is in Australia she always calls me after doing the school run, so I'm always in my dressing gown looking tired and haggered and she's all bright and breezy with sun beating down on her. I position the iPad up abit so I look up rather than down, it makes a slight difference but I soon forget when busy chatting away.

It is a bit of a shock to see yourself. I used to be tall, slim, had reasonable hair and flawless skin, no saggy or jowly bits. I'm still tall........