Or being so chronically ill with pain etc that I can't live. Just being stuck on pain killers, unable to exercise, unable to live with my family. I had a few years of a dimmed life due to chronic pain until I had surgery, but I had to push so hard to get it and get better. It is the worst not being able to LIVE
I’m afraid of my body slowly not being able to do “simple” thing like walking and thinking back at the moments I was able to run my heart out and just not being able to do it anymore…
7:54 I get why she chose that for herself, but as someone who’s spent the first half of my 24 years (including childhood) with chronic major depression, I absolutely refuse to deny myself the simple pleasure of a smile. I remember when that was the hardest thing for me to do.
I’ve suffered from depression and anxiety half of my life (28yo here). For a long time I had to put on a fake smile to not cause more worry to my close family and friends. I’ve been getting better tho and nowadays I’m much more in touch with myself, my feelings and the life around me than in my early twenties. Feeling true happiness and expressing it through genuine smile and laughter is everything to me, so I’d rather be wrinkly af when I’m older than not express the feelings I once lost.
When people ask me genuinely fascinated: Wow! How do you do to have zero wrinkles? I fake a smile and I lie: Well, a full life of sunscreen and genetics, I guess😊. Because it' s been a full life depressed with a thousand miles stare and zero social interaction. So glad to know that you' ve been able to get out of the hole🖤. Smile for me, please.
😂😂 As a woman over 60, i find it amusing to hear younger people talk about wrinkles. Their crazy methods are in vain because from the day you were born, you age. Surprise! Wear sunscreen, use moisturizer and live your life. Your genetics are already on the march no matter what you do. Smile. Have a lovely day! 😊
Right? We call them "the 11s" now, but for most of my life, we called those two vertical lines on the forehead above the nose "scowl lines." I have some brutal scowl lines. Whatever. That's why bangs exist.
@@AliceHunter-0827I'm 38 and have 20 &19 year old boys. I also have a 4 year old son that told me the other night "you look like an angry granny." I asked him to clarify because I forget my age. My older boys make me feel so young because I had them so young. My youngest says "those lines right there (pointing at my 11s) are like wrinkles like an angry granny" 😂😂😂. I never felt so old in my life. So I tell my ex husband ( father of my oldest 2) and he said "yeah, you sound like it too" 😂 OMG, I swear I don't feel like I look that old. I even forget I'm almost 40.
expose yourself to really awful and traumatizing things, and then the thought of reacting in confusion to comparably more trivial things will start to disgust you, so then you'll just be coldly annoyed and won't react anymore. i don't recommend this tho it feels really gross
Smiling and laughing with your whole heart is good for your soul... I feel sad for the woman who trained herself not to smile or laugh. A life full smiles and laughter is worth living - wrinkles and all.
Smiling isn’t just a cue for you but for others around you, which is why autism can be so difficult, based on the lack of facial expressions or ability to read them. Children respond to smiles and that is how they learn to read facial expressions. It also works the muscles around your face reducing fluid accumulation. I would also add that many people ignore nutrition (getting enough protein and water particularly) and sunblock in their youth, even now with everything we know, which I would argue might have a greater impact. I smile. Frequently and easily. I’ve only just started to get lines on my forehead and around my eyes at 45, which I chalk up to genetics but have found with a healthier lifestyle have not progressed.
Omg, that about autism, yes. I'm autistic and although I do smile and laugh when I'm really feeling it, I often forget to do those fake "social smiles", which gives people a very incorrect impression of me. 😐
@@Lola-AreaCode212 yeah I have a very much well defined social mask that some of my very close and trusted friends will see me take off. But they understand it's better to read my body than my face, or simply listen to WHAT I'm saying not HOW. Having that social mask on tho can be outright exhausting, face hurts and I just wanna lie face down on the ground
I lost my mother when she was 55 and I was 33. I miss her terribly. The memories I hold onto are the times we laughed until we cried. I wouldn't trade a wrinkle.
My mom has a deep frown line between her eyes. She always looks mad/worried. I noticed one forming on my own face at 18. I did all of the things I could-AHAs, frownies, and yes-trying to never ever furrow my brow. But even when I could stop myself from frowning during the day, at night I would do it in my sleep! I finally realized I was just thinking about it too much and got Botox. Now the line is gone and I don’t have to think about it more than 1-2x a year when I get a touch up. Botox helped me to feel less vain in a weird way. Also helped with headaches.
as a person with blunted affect (my face isnt very expressive), it’s kind of comforting to hear that tess’s relationship with her daughter wasn’t harmed by her not smiling 🥲
The entire “anti-aging” (no fine lines, wrinkles, sunspots, etc) fixation is manufactured by the cosmetic industry to make money. The social belief that physical appearance is linked to worthiness as a person-and therefore you need spend money to confine to beauty standards in order to have worth-is hazardous to us as individuals and how we function as a society. It is a direct part of ableism, racism, classism, and sexism. It is the largest contributing factor for eating disorders, body dysmorphia, and gender dysphoria. It kills people. The entire point of these beauty standards-including anti-aging-is to reinforce systemic discrimination and generate mass consumption. It’s to make rich people richer and keep poor people poor. People can do whatever they want with their bodies, but no one is asking themselves why they want to do it. No one wants to acknowledge how easily influenced we are, how little control we have over our own desires. Which is understandable given that’s it’s very distressing to think about. But we’re not going to be free from this without taking the first step of recognising that this what’s happening. No one is immune to propaganda.
When someone overdoes Botox, the lack of facial expression forces you to focus mainly on their eyes. And the only thing you see in their eyes is the fear of aging. I’m not against neurotoxins. I’m not against any anti aging treatments in general. Like James says “do you” My worry is just how far this is going. This post really supports what I’ve thought for a while.
I am 38 but a woman who was 33 thought I was 30. I have gray hair like everyone else, I am overweight, nothing special really but ppl say I look way younger. I am caucasian but was never part of tanning culture and wore sunscreen since birth. I also don’t smoke like at all. I laugh and smile at the drop pf a hat, so I bet wrinkles or no wrinkles is largely based in genetics. 🧬 (I think) along with lifestyle choices. Basically embrace your age, and you are a wonderful, gorgeous human. Take care of yourself and I am proud of you!
I want to gain weight so bad! It does make a person look younger. I have clients that are in their 80s that look like they're in their 60s and vice versa. And when a person has more weight in their face, it does plump the skin making wrinkles and fine lines less noticeable. I am and always have been real thin so my dream is to gain weight as I age (I'm almost forty and still waiting for my metabolism to slow down like everyone told me it would 10 years ago 😂) and I would look my actual age or younger, that'd make me happy.
@@LizzypoohxoYou also need to eat in order to gain weight. I am not writing this with malicious intent, I have just noticed that loads of people who "cannot" gain weight eat a snack's worth of food the entire day and seem to be convinced that they eat more than enough.
Whether you develop wrinkles definitely depends a lot on skin type, which is heavily impacted by genetics. My mom, my half sister on my mom's side, and I all have basically the same face and all look very young. My sister and I look basically the same as we did as teenagers. Other things also factor into how old you look, such as face shape, how you dress and carry yourself, hair style, etc. Again, my sister, mom and I all have rounder faces with big eyes, which contributes to us looking younger than we are. And my dad and I are both redheads. Redheads tend to not go gray, so though my dad looks very different than he did as a young man, he doesn't look like he's in his late 60s as he still has a full head of strawberry blonde hair.
He literary ruined his face with how little body fat he has and is now specifically doing stuff to increase the fat in his face to look more appealing. If anything, his experiment perfectly illustrates that health and beauty do not go hand in hand as most "gurus" are trying to convince us. I am sure he himself believed it until he started reading the comments about his outside appearance online. I would feel bad for him, if I weren't aware of the implications of his experiment being perceived as successful.
What's not mentioned in the video is that he is taking Estrogen! He's literally taking feminizing hormones, that's why his skin looks different, the estrogen softens it. It happened to me too when I transitioned MTF.
As an American of Italian decent, I emote with hands and face. At almost 55 years old, I have deep smile lines, I don't love them, however I've enjoyed my life and laughed and smiled a lot. The only lines on my face that irritate me are the WTF lines between my eyebrows, those things are deep!!!😜😜 Many blessings!!!💖💖💖
I’ve had a lot of blood transfusions due to chronic anemia and the doctors and nurses always do a check because there’s a chance that one day I develop antibodies or a reaction to them. I wonder how that family will do if they keep doing transfusions.
At a certain age you have to decide „ageing gracefully“ or the knife. Botox doesn‘t help against any laxaty of the skin, one just looks strange. Passed 60 it gets a bit harder. Believe me, I know
Botox freezes the muscles, so if you stop using it, you end up with muscles that need to start learning to work again. So bad people end up looking worse.
Tbh I think that wrinkles have been demonized by the beauty industry, so many brands mention having smooth, soft skin when that is something that is dictated by genetics. Related to the woman that wouldn’t smile, I have been told to smile by others way too often and the observation that I don’t smile enough is another way the patriarchy makes women feel like they’re not pretty if they don’t smile. I smile when I’m happy, not because someone else wants me to, but I’ve never heard of anyone deliberately not smiling to minimize wrinkles… until today, that is. And her noting that the nuns would reprimand her to stop smiling explains so much, for anyone to be happy in a religious school is perceived as disrespectful by many old-school nuns and priests. To dislike the happiness of others 😓
Yeah, self doubt and and insecurity are huge moneymakers. The beauty industry wouldn't be worth billions if we weren't chronically agonising over our appearance. =/
I'm 47, and haven't had any procedures or use retinol, and I look a lot like that woman's photo at 50. Not a flex: just saying that actually having facial expressions for the last 30 years hasn't aged me all that much more! I'm a naturally passionate, expressive person, and while I would consider filler at some point (my 11! 🤔), living my life as myself is worth a little aging.
I was thinking the same. Im 50 and I look the same age as her. When people say they don’t believe I’m 50, it’s not the compliment it sounds to be - they’re saying that at my age I should look worse than I do because ageing is a terrible thing to do. I’m delighted to be 50. I’ve outlived my father at this point. And I also look exactly the same age as every single woman on my Facebook that I went to school With. That’s what a 50 year old looks like. I think possibly the misconceptions come from women our age a couple of decades ago that had done hardcore tanning in the 70s with nothing but baby oil on their face. I bet a 50 year old in 1920 and earlier looked very much as we do now.
Dr Mike did a podcast interview with Johnson and I thought it was pretty interesting! Dr Mike did ask him many thought provoking questions that you mentioned in this video!
So, I've actually trained myself to not raise my eyebrows and not frown! 😂 I only had to consciously do it for about 12 months and now it's just natural for me to not overuse the muscles in my upper face! It has definitely made an impact and I am happy to say at 37 I have zero fine lines or wrinkles on my forehead or crows feet! Not smiling would be very hard though, I'm really surprised she has been able to do that, but meh each to their own 😁
I've spent my life worrying about my body, I am sure as hell not going to start worrying about f***ing aging on top of that! Happy and fit is all I want. Some people don't even get to have that.
I am 45 and finally ready to start considering Botox and some lasering and just general dermatological procedure is to give me more even skin and a more glowy face. It is a very difficult, especially as a woman, to find the line between trying to age gracefully in your own way and not doing what society tells us to.
What "society" are you listening to? It's not difficult at all: Eat well, take care of your skin, live fully, and stop worrying about some mythical "society" you think is dictating (absurd) norms.
I just turned 51. I regularly get carded still. Most people think I’m in my early-mid thirties. (I had a salesgirl at Sephora suggest a cream for “those few little premature wrinkles that are starting by your eyes.” I was 49 at the time.) Anyway. I look about like this woman, and I smile nd laugh all the time. Part of it is that I got very lucky genetically; my mom also looked in her 30s well into her 50s. I’ve maintained my weight pretty steadily, too (outside of pregnancy of course). But imo the biggest thing was avoiding the sun since my mid-teens, and using sunscreen when I couldn’t. I’d much rather restrict suntans than stop smiling, and I’d rather smile than maintain a tiny bit of the appearance of youth.
A family member of mine went through a LOT has hella PTSD and as a result her jaw is too strong from years of grinding/pressing down due to stress in her sleep that the dentist didn't catch for like 20+ years somehow (she got a new dentist like right before the pandemic that did) so she has to get Botox in her jaw to weaken the muscle and prevent it from going more damage to herself which was fascinating for me to learn about this application of Botox
This is similar to why I get Botox! I originally got it for cosmetic reasons -- I went in for a consult about getting a jaw reduction surgery and the guy checked out my masseter muscles and was like "you have a lot of masseter hypertrophy, let's see if Botox gets you close to the look you want without invasive surgery." I still think my jaw is too big, but it helped a lot, and in the process I discovered my constant headaches were from clenching my jaw, so it actually ended up being really therapeutic for me. I get Botox a couple times a year at my dentist now purely for the therapeutic purposes now.
And 40 is a wonderful age to appear! It is still young. What is sad is that she is pushing the idea that not smiling is beneficial to look "younger" as if it's the most important thing when research has shown that being a happy, healthy person is enveloped in socializing and loving the quality relationships in your life. Imagine a world where your inner circle sits around with straight faces all the time!!
Exactly. I was looking at her and was like damn I'm 46 and have lived my life a lil on the crazy wild side and I feel I look younger than her compared to her now pic at 40 years old... Imo
Aging is something I hope to achieve. It’s always looked at as something we try to delay as much as possible but it’s inevitable. Tess looks great for her age however she still looks her age, however you can tell she takes care of her skin. I wish society would accept aging as something beautiful because it truly is.
I feel like I'm getting old and cranky but I have the same reaction almost all the time, "it's social media". We look at ourselves on camera and in photos too often now but it's also the unmitigated access we have to influencers. We compare ourselves to others. We have powerful industries pushing messages and creating insecurities... These industries love influencers because they are the best thing that has ever happened to marketing. The rate of depression has risen and that's an indicator of the effects of watching others live their best life. Aging seems like the worst thing because unlike most everything else, we can't control it and we live in a society that worships beauty and affluence. We have been conditioned to see beauty as only synonymous with youth. The progression is easy to see and, from that perspective, I understand why people put themselves in debt to get cosmetic procedures rather than save for a retirement they can't yet imagine, but that too will happen. And when retirement age comes, those who are lucky enough to reach retirement age will show signs of aging because as far as I know there is nothing that can prevent it, not even stopping oneself from emoting. And, let's be honest, that doesn't sound remotely fun. Please give me the laugh lines if it means I loved my life. When I'm at the point where I sit back and reflect, I want to smile.
I hypnotise myself into a good mood by giving myself a big smile in the mirror first thing in the morning Fine lines give your face a character, and shows the journey you've been on throughout your life
I can't believe we are the same age, you make me realize I'm aging like milk 😂 I'm gonna cancel my blood bath now 😂 and as a native American I'm also creeped out by nuns😂
Also you and Robert uploading videos at the same time is unfair to those of us trying to be first at the videos 😅 give us a chance to win at life 😂❤ I'm joking btw I love you both
Girl, you're crazy. If that is you in your pfp, you're not aging like milk. I'm not sure how old James is, but I would guess ur 29/30. Unless you're 20 and I put you at 29, you're aging beautifully. Please don't be 20, I would feel horrible for my guess.😆
James has previously said he uses Botox too, that adds to his "ageing" for sure. You're good girl, don't even give it another thought, comparing wont help at all ❤
aging is a gift so many don't get 🧡 we are beautiful at all ages of life, unfortunately there's a rather sinister focus on being forever young, partially in order to sell products. to me, anti-aging products is all snake oil because like, if we are lucky, we are going to age. it is inevitable, but in the hopes of even somewhat reducing the signs of aging, people will shell out thousands over the years, sometimes just within a year! save your money, enjoy your life & the process of it all🥰🥰🥰 🥳🥳🥳
I have severe depression so I've not skilled a lot in my life. I do look younger than my age. But to my honest if rather be smiley and more wrinkled than be how I am.
Oh my god I can contribute! I'm diagnosed autistic and it is extremely difficult for me to 'emote', I usually have to manually remember to show my emotions on my face. Even when I physically feel like I'm showing a lot of shock in my eyebrows/forehead or smiling big, it never fully translates to my face as a 'big' expression but instead as toned down so my muscles just don't move as much. Besides the fact I suppose I'll get less wrinkles (which I don't care about particularly), connecting with people is like.. 5x the effort 😅 so not all great
As someone with severe depression the worst thing you can do for your mental health is not smile or laugh, it's literally a bio hack in and of itself to trick your brain into thinking that you're happy when you fake smile. So smile sometimes and laugh at how awkward it looks, pet fur babies and hug bc that's gonna do more for your health than preventing wrinkles will ever do. What's the point of looking great if you feel like a massive sack of misery? Just do both.
I have congenital facial palsy so I spent a huge portion of my life training myself not to smile (even when I laughed) to avoid ridicule. It’s not super difficult and it didn’t necessarily mean that I was expressionless per se. We emote a lot more than just with our smiles.
I'm 60 and have never considered Botox, I like being able to have facial expressions. I don't have many wrinkles due to good genes and staying out of the sun
I actually have been doing almost the same thing too for almost 15 years. I don't want to create neck wrinkles so I've trained my body that when I need to look down , I just move my upper body down and if I need to look to either side, I just move my whole body to look
Aging and wrinkles have everything to do with genetics & sunscreen, not whether or not you smile. My siblings and I (gen x/elder millennials) are all pretty baby-faced and still eat dinner at night time. 🤷🏻♀️ We don’t look wildly younger, it’s usually people saying things like, “you’ll see what I mean when you hit 35/40”(I’m in my early 40’s) or assume I graduated college about 5-10 years later than I did. Although my sister was once told to come back to a store when she turned 18 to get a store credit card. She was 30. 😂
That's why I'm so surprised that removing buccal fat is a trend. I have a few friends who got carded until they were 38 because they had round cheeks. These celebrities are cray cray getting rid of something that makes them look so young naturally.
I will admit I enjoy the anti wrinkle/line benefits of not being a very expressive person, but that's just how I tend to be naturally. I do make a purposeful effort not to raise my eyebrows much or frown too deeply, but I will smile just as much as I like ^_^ I think smile lines as people age help show they've had a good time with life. Smiling is just too good to deny
I used to get Botox injections to help with my migraine. It was fantastic. And as a really nice bonus it helped with wrinkles in my forehead and my eyes and eyebrows. The doses are higher when you get Botox for medical purposes. So after 6 years. The injections had made me lose tissue around my eyebrows and hairline. So I can't get them any more. And I am sad about it. The injections helped me so much.
Tess and I are close in age, though she is older, but I chose sunscreen and retinol instead. I've smiled, laughed, cried, and expressed the entire range of emotion on my face. It's being human and interacting with life around me. Any wrinkles or lines I have were going to happen, but are lessened by my skin care choices. She chose not to move her face. To each their own. 🙂🤖
I hate how people downplay this to merely a "choice" (of sorts). Let me explain. As a child, I tried really hard to teach myself how to silent cry to avoid my dad having an outburst at me. All those hiccups and sinffles gave me away too quickly. So I repressed them A LOT. So so much so, that now in my 20s, I cannot, a single bit, genuinely AT ALL change that! I now just cry as silently as possible, to the point that my own fiancee cannot even detect I am crying RIGHT NEXT TO HIM for literally entire MINUTES! I AM NOT JOKING! I WISH I could change this about myself so that my fiancee can be there for me and allow him to help me, but I simply cannot, even tought I try to show it more, yet is still so silent. I feel like once you teach yourself something like this, it becomes so much of a reflex, is really hard to break. Sure, she does specify "vanity" as a reason, but if she grew up not having to hide her smile, I think she wouldn't have went down this road to begin with. I feel like once she started and realized this, I think she just pivoted to making this experience a positive one. She just changed how she played her cards!
I don't smile naturally due to having a turned down mouth. But that is when I have my face relaxed. I will smile, smirk, and laugh when the moods stirkes me. Otherwise I let my face stay relaxed. I can't go around all day with a smile painted across my face. It kills my facial muscles. But I am in no way depressed.
Lol I've had smile lines since I was a teen. However, I did "change" my smile consciously to make sure I do not smile too severely with my eyes hahaha. I still do a bit, but I use to squirt my eyes a lot and I was seeing fine line "crows feet" in my teens.
James, this video is so funny and entertaining and interesting. I really appreciate the research you did and how you give them kudos for trying new creative ways to age more slowly. Thank you for sharing.
I remember my mom telling me when I was probably 7 or 8 years old to stop raising my eyebrows because it would give me wrinkles. Here I am, 40 years old, without a wrinkle to be found 😂 But also, I'm 40 years old, so I've definitely aged. Skin texture changes, although mine is still *pretty* good, and things definitely start to sag. But I was also that weird teenage girl in the late 90s/early 2000s who was already taking really great care of my skin and wearing sunscreen daily. It's for sure paid off. I've had Botox in my glabella probably 6 times in the last 4 years, and I love how it makes me look. I'm happy we live in a time where we have so many options if we choose to utilize them!
I kind of understand Tess. About a decade ago, I realised that my parents were aging slightly differently. They were both taking care of themselves and aging well, but my Dad looked a bit older than my Mum. I ended up concluding there were two reasons for that: 1) Mum wears sunscreen, Dad doesn't. If Dad were white, this would probably have an even greater effect on his appearance. 2) Dad frowns and moves his forehead a lot, which is why the majority of his wrinkles are on his forehead. So, nowadays I laugh and smile as much as I like, but I wear sunscreen everywhere and try to avoid moving my forehead. I have some fine lines on my forehead, and some fine laugh lines, but otherwise I don't look my age.
Everyone ages in their own way. If you want botox or injections, go for it. But do it for YOURSELF, not for someone else. In the end it doesnt matter what everyone else thinks of you if you dont think positively about yourself as a base. Give yourself love, and project that love outwards 😊💜💜
Since you mentioned other methods, I am really curious what you have to say about face yoga or face taping. I've seen so many videos lately of facial exercises or people taping their foreheads so they wouldn't move in their sleep and so I am wondering how effective these are.
One of the most important things many people fail to mention when it comes to aging is … genetics!!! It’s a roll of the dice. Some get luckier than others. How one takes care of themselves inside and out can make a difference too. I couldn’t imagine not smiling to avoid wrinkles:/ I’m 44 now, I just started using retinol 2 years ago. It helps but I don’t notice dramatic difference. Try not to stress to much that’ll age u quick and being in the sun for too long and no sunscreen.
I have taught myself not to frown and to just minimally raise my eyebrow. At 54 I've shallow frown lines and forehead lines because I've not done this all my life. I like smiling so i have smile lines. But sleep wrinkles are really annoying & despite best intentions it's hard to always sleep on my back.
I hope to age gracefully - I hope to weather the changes and transitions in my life with poise and an open mind. I hope to be someone who's ready to embrace every new decade and the offerings at every stage of life, and not become the person who's so focused on what's gone that I become bitter or so focused on trying to relive those past days I miss what's in front of me
I confidently support Johnson on his journey. i think he's doing all of us and science a favor by volunteering to be a guinea pig. I'll even give him an award! best part of him is that he's actually not really promoting his lifestyle but mostly just showing what he does as if to demonstrate for a large audience the way he's living. but half of the stuff he does is not even available to anyone less than a multi millionaire so i don't think he's "influencing" mass audiences to follow suit
100% agree, age however the fuck you want! I LOVE Botox! For me, there’s more benefits than just getting rid of wrinkles. My makeup goes on better, and it makes my skin glow. Obsessed!
Would it be possible to have a video with facial spf recommendations please? Id love to know good ones for under makeup and good ones to wesr on summer holiday that are wzterproof. Thanks!
Can you try the sonrei sunscreen and do a review on it. It's a really expensive sunscreen that I have been seeing and want to know if it's actualy worth it. Thanks!!!!
I smile whole my life and love it 🥰 I feel so sad for her friends and family! Im 45 and im always asked what i do to my face and people don’t believe that I never did Botox 😊
I love Botox….now I do get it for migraines but the great side effect is no elevenses and a smooth forehead 😂 But I also love my crinkles next to my eyes when I smile!
I have laughed and smiled my whole life and I’m happy to say I have no wrinkles maybe it’s genetics but I’ve always used something on my eyes which have no wrinkles either. But do what makes you happy.
I just did stem cell therapy from umbilical cord blood yesterday. It can only cause cancer from older blood stem cells retrieval such as from bone marrow or from fat cells etc from children or adults, however it is widely known that stem cells from cord or umbilical cord does not cause cancer or expand on cancer living already in your body, but the opposite where the cancers and tumors actually starts to dissipates. This is exactly the same topic I had yesterday, why the blueprint guy looks like he is embalmed is cause I don’t think his therapies and procedures are doing age reversal for his physical looks as we all expect it to, due to him starting his blueprint later in life rather than when he if was younger. I personally think, that as stem cell therapy becomes more affordable and the knowledge of the spectrum of just how the cells can be expanded within our bodies and the benefits along with it, people will start these stem cell therapies when they are younger as they will slow down Aging with their looks along with all the amazing regenation and anti-aging benefits within the entire body as a whole- it’s like prevention is better than a cure type of therapy. Trust me, if you actually research stem cells further and it’s amazing regenerative benefits not only on our looks but our organs, joints, etc I would suggest you research more about this topic and give a better in depth pov
My nana is beautiful and still has so much pep in her step, while my grandpa on my other side is a bit less energetic, but still loves life & reminds me of a real life Santa Claus, lol. They both look very different at similar ages & lead different lifestyles, but I love how they embrace aging & I’ll always think they look so amazing; not for their age, but for the people they are.
I'm afraid of being sick, not aging.
Exactly! People can either age or die trying
i'm afraid of dying alone
Or being so chronically ill with pain etc that I can't live. Just being stuck on pain killers, unable to exercise, unable to live with my family. I had a few years of a dimmed life due to chronic pain until I had surgery, but I had to push so hard to get it and get better. It is the worst not being able to LIVE
This!!! Im in my twenties i already feel exhausted and worn out imagine when im in my sixties id be almost ded but i wanna be a cool grannie!!!!!!
I’m afraid of my body slowly not being able to do “simple” thing like walking and thinking back at the moments I was able to run my heart out and just not being able to do it anymore…
7:54 I get why she chose that for herself, but as someone who’s spent the first half of my 24 years (including childhood) with chronic major depression, I absolutely refuse to deny myself the simple pleasure of a smile. I remember when that was the hardest thing for me to do.
Right? I'm like, well shit I got the not smiling thing down by default
I’ve suffered from depression and anxiety half of my life (28yo here). For a long time I had to put on a fake smile to not cause more worry to my close family and friends. I’ve been getting better tho and nowadays I’m much more in touch with myself, my feelings and the life around me than in my early twenties. Feeling true happiness and expressing it through genuine smile and laughter is everything to me, so I’d rather be wrinkly af when I’m older than not express the feelings I once lost.
Me too! So glad you're doing well 😊
That's right. (Also, when we smile, even if we're faking it, it causes our brains to release happy chemicals, so fake smiling has some benefits.)
I'm smiling for you right now! Go love your life
I'm rooting for you and your journey! ❤
When people ask me genuinely fascinated: Wow! How do you do to have zero wrinkles?
I fake a smile and I lie: Well, a full life of sunscreen and genetics, I guess😊. Because it' s been a full life depressed with a thousand miles stare and zero social interaction.
So glad to know that you' ve been able to get out of the hole🖤. Smile for me, please.
The worst part of not smiling would be the sheer amount of men telling you to smile 😂
I absolutely hate that
Girl…
It's ironic because they statically smile less...
live it…..daily 😂
@@AliSmith-tf4ywme too! Assholes.
😂😂 As a woman over 60, i find it amusing to hear younger people talk about wrinkles.
Their crazy methods are in vain because from the day you were born, you age. Surprise! Wear sunscreen, use moisturizer and live your life. Your genetics are already on the march no matter what you do. Smile.
Have a lovely day! 😊
Smiling isn’t aging me…it’s making confused, exasperated “what is this bullshit” expressions, how do I stop those 😂
Right? We call them "the 11s" now, but for most of my life, we called those two vertical lines on the forehead above the nose "scowl lines." I have some brutal scowl lines. Whatever. That's why bangs exist.
Same! I raise my eyebrows in disbelief a LOT. And my mid forehead is the only line I have on my face. 😂
@@AliceHunter-0827I'm 38 and have 20 &19 year old boys. I also have a 4 year old son that told me the other night "you look like an angry granny." I asked him to clarify because I forget my age. My older boys make me feel so young because I had them so young. My youngest says "those lines right there (pointing at my 11s) are like wrinkles like an angry granny" 😂😂😂. I never felt so old in my life. So I tell my ex husband ( father of my oldest 2) and he said "yeah, you sound like it too" 😂 OMG, I swear I don't feel like I look that old. I even forget I'm almost 40.
expose yourself to really awful and traumatizing things, and then the thought of reacting in confusion to comparably more trivial things will start to disgust you, so then you'll just be coldly annoyed and won't react anymore. i don't recommend this tho it feels really gross
Daily Mail is such trash. 😅
Smiling and laughing with your whole heart is good for your soul... I feel sad for the woman who trained herself not to smile or laugh. A life full smiles and laughter is worth living - wrinkles and all.
Smiling isn’t just a cue for you but for others around you, which is why autism can be so difficult, based on the lack of facial expressions or ability to read them. Children respond to smiles and that is how they learn to read facial expressions. It also works the muscles around your face reducing fluid accumulation. I would also add that many people ignore nutrition (getting enough protein and water particularly) and sunblock in their youth, even now with everything we know, which I would argue might have a greater impact. I smile. Frequently and easily. I’ve only just started to get lines on my forehead and around my eyes at 45, which I chalk up to genetics but have found with a healthier lifestyle have not progressed.
Omg, that about autism, yes. I'm autistic and although I do smile and laugh when I'm really feeling it, I often forget to do those fake "social smiles", which gives people a very incorrect impression of me.
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@@Lola-AreaCode212 yeah I have a very much well defined social mask that some of my very close and trusted friends will see me take off. But they understand it's better to read my body than my face, or simply listen to WHAT I'm saying not HOW. Having that social mask on tho can be outright exhausting, face hurts and I just wanna lie face down on the ground
I’d been thinking of Tess this week as I’ve discovered fresh forehead wrinkles at age 59.
I can’t imagine not smiling for 40 years.
I lost my mother when she was 55 and I was 33. I miss her terribly. The memories I hold onto are the times we laughed until we cried. I wouldn't trade a wrinkle.
You'll probably be happier if you stop noticing "nee" wrinkles.
@@jacobus57nee?
Me too but I am so cursed to rest of my life. Feeling happy just isn't in the cords for me just yet. I do have moments though.
@@jacobus57 what are nee wrinkles?
My mom has a deep frown line between her eyes. She always looks mad/worried. I noticed one forming on my own face at 18. I did all of the things I could-AHAs, frownies, and yes-trying to never ever furrow my brow. But even when I could stop myself from frowning during the day, at night I would do it in my sleep!
I finally realized I was just thinking about it too much and got Botox. Now the line is gone and I don’t have to think about it more than 1-2x a year when I get a touch up. Botox helped me to feel less vain in a weird way. Also helped with headaches.
as a person with blunted affect (my face isnt very expressive), it’s kind of comforting to hear that tess’s relationship with her daughter wasn’t harmed by her not smiling 🥲
The entire “anti-aging” (no fine lines, wrinkles, sunspots, etc) fixation is manufactured by the cosmetic industry to make money. The social belief that physical appearance is linked to worthiness as a person-and therefore you need spend money to confine to beauty standards in order to have worth-is hazardous to us as individuals and how we function as a society. It is a direct part of ableism, racism, classism, and sexism. It is the largest contributing factor for eating disorders, body dysmorphia, and gender dysphoria. It kills people.
The entire point of these beauty standards-including anti-aging-is to reinforce systemic discrimination and generate mass consumption. It’s to make rich people richer and keep poor people poor.
People can do whatever they want with their bodies, but no one is asking themselves why they want to do it. No one wants to acknowledge how easily influenced we are, how little control we have over our own desires. Which is understandable given that’s it’s very distressing to think about. But we’re not going to be free from this without taking the first step of recognising that this what’s happening. No one is immune to propaganda.
Hold on that first woman OBVIOUSLY never worked in customer service and that could actually be why she looks so good!
When someone overdoes Botox, the lack of facial expression forces you to focus mainly on their eyes. And the only thing you see in their eyes is the fear of aging. I’m not against neurotoxins. I’m not against any anti aging treatments in general. Like James says “do you” My worry is just how far this is going. This post really supports what I’ve thought for a while.
I am 38 but a woman who was 33 thought I was 30. I have gray hair like everyone else, I am overweight, nothing special really but ppl say I look way younger. I am caucasian but was never part of tanning culture and wore sunscreen since birth. I also don’t smoke like at all. I laugh and smile at the drop pf a hat, so I bet wrinkles or no wrinkles is largely based in genetics. 🧬 (I think) along with lifestyle choices. Basically embrace your age, and you are a wonderful, gorgeous human. Take care of yourself and I am proud of you!
I want to gain weight so bad! It does make a person look younger. I have clients that are in their 80s that look like they're in their 60s and vice versa. And when a person has more weight in their face, it does plump the skin making wrinkles and fine lines less noticeable. I am and always have been real thin so my dream is to gain weight as I age (I'm almost forty and still waiting for my metabolism to slow down like everyone told me it would 10 years ago 😂) and I would look my actual age or younger, that'd make me happy.
@@LizzypoohxoYou also need to eat in order to gain weight. I am not writing this with malicious intent, I have just noticed that loads of people who "cannot" gain weight eat a snack's worth of food the entire day and seem to be convinced that they eat more than enough.
Whether you develop wrinkles definitely depends a lot on skin type, which is heavily impacted by genetics. My mom, my half sister on my mom's side, and I all have basically the same face and all look very young. My sister and I look basically the same as we did as teenagers.
Other things also factor into how old you look, such as face shape, how you dress and carry yourself, hair style, etc. Again, my sister, mom and I all have rounder faces with big eyes, which contributes to us looking younger than we are. And my dad and I are both redheads. Redheads tend to not go gray, so though my dad looks very different than he did as a young man, he doesn't look like he's in his late 60s as he still has a full head of strawberry blonde hair.
I think about Brian Johnson often ever since I learned about him and fell down a rabbit hole. There’s so much more to it, it’s crazy.
James nailed it; he just looks different, but in a very creepy way.
He literary ruined his face with how little body fat he has and is now specifically doing stuff to increase the fat in his face to look more appealing. If anything, his experiment perfectly illustrates that health and beauty do not go hand in hand as most "gurus" are trying to convince us. I am sure he himself believed it until he started reading the comments about his outside appearance online. I would feel bad for him, if I weren't aware of the implications of his experiment being perceived as successful.
What's not mentioned in the video is that he is taking Estrogen! He's literally taking feminizing hormones, that's why his skin looks different, the estrogen softens it. It happened to me too when I transitioned MTF.
As an American of Italian decent, I emote with hands and face. At almost 55 years old, I have deep smile lines, I don't love them, however I've enjoyed my life and laughed and smiled a lot.
The only lines on my face that irritate me are the WTF lines between my eyebrows, those things are deep!!!😜😜
Many blessings!!!💖💖💖
To me, there is nothing more beautiful than a genuine smile, regardless of age or looks. And a smile is an instant face lifter anyway!
Anyone who expends that much energy not smiling has their priorities seriously skewed.
I gotta say, a smile is priceless
I'm 55 and I have been continuously growing up 😊 surprisingly good. Taking good care of your skin is key.
P.S
I would want to smile
I’ve had a lot of blood transfusions due to chronic anemia and the doctors and nurses always do a check because there’s a chance that one day I develop antibodies or a reaction to them. I wonder how that family will do if they keep doing transfusions.
At a certain age you have to decide „ageing gracefully“ or the knife. Botox doesn‘t help against any laxaty of the skin, one just looks strange. Passed 60 it gets a bit harder. Believe me, I know
Botox freezes the muscles, so if you stop using it, you end up with muscles that need to start learning to work again. So bad people end up looking worse.
I've always wondered if early use of Botox contributes to early loss of volume, which arguably is the greatest contributor to "aging", not wrinkles.
Tbh I think that wrinkles have been demonized by the beauty industry, so many brands mention having smooth, soft skin when that is something that is dictated by genetics. Related to the woman that wouldn’t smile, I have been told to smile by others way too often and the observation that I don’t smile enough is another way the patriarchy makes women feel like they’re not pretty if they don’t smile. I smile when I’m happy, not because someone else wants me to, but I’ve never heard of anyone deliberately not smiling to minimize wrinkles… until today, that is. And her noting that the nuns would reprimand her to stop smiling explains so much, for anyone to be happy in a religious school is perceived as disrespectful by many old-school nuns and priests. To dislike the happiness of others 😓
Yeah, self doubt and and insecurity are huge moneymakers. The beauty industry wouldn't be worth billions if we weren't chronically agonising over our appearance. =/
Given her age, that dour nun story strains credulity.
Yeah, smiling should never be gatekept by anyone.
A tiny part of me wonders if she's a bit traumatised around the edges somehow? It's great to hear that her daughter was happy and completely fine.
"In Catholic school..." hooboy
I'm 47, and haven't had any procedures or use retinol, and I look a lot like that woman's photo at 50. Not a flex: just saying that actually having facial expressions for the last 30 years hasn't aged me all that much more! I'm a naturally passionate, expressive person, and while I would consider filler at some point (my 11! 🤔), living my life as myself is worth a little aging.
I was thinking the same. Im 50 and I look the same age as her. When people say they don’t believe I’m 50, it’s not the compliment it sounds to be - they’re saying that at my age
I should look worse than I do because ageing is a terrible thing to do. I’m delighted to be 50. I’ve outlived my father at this point. And I also look exactly the same age as every single woman on my Facebook that I went to school
With. That’s what a 50 year old looks like. I think possibly the misconceptions come from women our age a couple of decades ago that had done hardcore tanning in the 70s with nothing but baby oil on their face. I bet a 50 year old in 1920 and earlier looked very much as we do now.
Dr Mike did a podcast interview with Johnson and I thought it was pretty interesting! Dr Mike did ask him many thought provoking questions that you mentioned in this video!
Not smiling in 40 years probably does something to your brain.
Also that adorable squeak at the beginning is to die for! So so cute!
So, I've actually trained myself to not raise my eyebrows and not frown! 😂 I only had to consciously do it for about 12 months and now it's just natural for me to not overuse the muscles in my upper face! It has definitely made an impact and I am happy to say at 37 I have zero fine lines or wrinkles on my forehead or crows feet!
Not smiling would be very hard though, I'm really surprised she has been able to do that, but meh each to their own 😁
I've spent my life worrying about my body, I am sure as hell not going to start worrying about f***ing aging on top of that! Happy and fit is all I want. Some people don't even get to have that.
You look so handsome in this video!! So glowy
"he looks like Queen Elizabeth the 1st"... I'm gagging.... Soo true 😂
I am 45 and finally ready to start considering Botox and some lasering and just general dermatological procedure is to give me more even skin and a more glowy face. It is a very difficult, especially as a woman, to find the line between trying to age gracefully in your own way and not doing what society tells us to.
Try the alternative to Botox. Might cost you more though.
@@gennaCarr10 What's the alternative?
What "society" are you listening to? It's not difficult at all: Eat well, take care of your skin, live fully, and stop worrying about some mythical "society" you think is dictating (absurd) norms.
@@jacobus57Are you a hermit?? Wdym what society?
I just turned 51. I regularly get carded still. Most people think I’m in my early-mid thirties. (I had a salesgirl at Sephora suggest a cream for “those few little premature wrinkles that are starting by your eyes.” I was 49 at the time.)
Anyway. I look about like this woman, and I smile nd laugh all the time. Part of it is that I got very lucky genetically; my mom also looked in her 30s well into her 50s. I’ve maintained my weight pretty steadily, too (outside of pregnancy of course). But imo the biggest thing was avoiding the sun since my mid-teens, and using sunscreen when I couldn’t.
I’d much rather restrict suntans than stop smiling, and I’d rather smile than maintain a tiny bit of the appearance of youth.
My husband just said that Johnson dude looks like Bishop from Alien, when he's dying...🤣🤣🤣 💀💀
LMAO I agree!! Now that’s what I’ll think whenever I see that Bryan guy! Hilarious!!!
OMG YES!!!😂😂😂
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oh god! I knew he looked familiar!!! Thank your husband for me lol
OMG! That visual will never, ever leave me now!... 🤣😂🤣
A family member of mine went through a LOT has hella PTSD and as a result her jaw is too strong from years of grinding/pressing down due to stress in her sleep that the dentist didn't catch for like 20+ years somehow (she got a new dentist like right before the pandemic that did)
so she has to get Botox in her jaw to weaken the muscle and prevent it from going more damage to herself which was fascinating for me to learn about this application of Botox
Botox can also be a very effective treatment for chronic migraines!
This is similar to why I get Botox! I originally got it for cosmetic reasons -- I went in for a consult about getting a jaw reduction surgery and the guy checked out my masseter muscles and was like "you have a lot of masseter hypertrophy, let's see if Botox gets you close to the look you want without invasive surgery." I still think my jaw is too big, but it helped a lot, and in the process I discovered my constant headaches were from clenching my jaw, so it actually ended up being really therapeutic for me. I get Botox a couple times a year at my dentist now purely for the therapeutic purposes now.
Your honesty is refreshing!
To be honest, Tess looks every bit her actual age so not smiling for 40 years had absolutely no anti-aging benefit.
RIGHT??
she's nicely made up for the newspaper but candid pics...
plus editing
And 40 is a wonderful age to appear! It is still young. What is sad is that she is pushing the idea that not smiling is beneficial to look "younger" as if it's the most important thing when research has shown that being a happy, healthy person is enveloped in socializing and loving the quality relationships in your life. Imagine a world where your inner circle sits around with straight faces all the time!!
Exactly. I was looking at her and was like damn I'm 46 and have lived my life a lil on the crazy wild side and I feel I look younger than her compared to her now pic at 40 years old... Imo
omg your skin looks phenomenal
Your skin is glowing! Curious what products you used here 🙈
Aging is something I hope to achieve. It’s always looked at as something we try to delay as much as possible but it’s inevitable. Tess looks great for her age however she still looks her age, however you can tell she takes care of her skin. I wish society would accept aging as something beautiful because it truly is.
Holy shit you are GLOWING!
I feel like I'm getting old and cranky but I have the same reaction almost all the time, "it's social media". We look at ourselves on camera and in photos too often now but it's also the unmitigated access we have to influencers. We compare ourselves to others. We have powerful industries pushing messages and creating insecurities... These industries love influencers because they are the best thing that has ever happened to marketing. The rate of depression has risen and that's an indicator of the effects of watching others live their best life. Aging seems like the worst thing because unlike most everything else, we can't control it and we live in a society that worships beauty and affluence. We have been conditioned to see beauty as only synonymous with youth. The progression is easy to see and, from that perspective, I understand why people put themselves in debt to get cosmetic procedures rather than save for a retirement they can't yet imagine, but that too will happen. And when retirement age comes, those who are lucky enough to reach retirement age will show signs of aging because as far as I know there is nothing that can prevent it, not even stopping oneself from emoting. And, let's be honest, that doesn't sound remotely fun. Please give me the laugh lines if it means I loved my life. When I'm at the point where I sit back and reflect, I want to smile.
James please tell me what products you are using on ur skin. U look glowing x
I hypnotise myself into a good mood by giving myself a big smile in the mirror first thing in the morning
Fine lines give your face a character, and shows the journey you've been on throughout your life
I can't believe we are the same age, you make me realize I'm aging like milk 😂 I'm gonna cancel my blood bath now 😂 and as a native American I'm also creeped out by nuns😂
Also you and Robert uploading videos at the same time is unfair to those of us trying to be first at the videos 😅 give us a chance to win at life 😂❤ I'm joking btw I love you both
Girl, you're crazy. If that is you in your pfp, you're not aging like milk. I'm not sure how old James is, but I would guess ur 29/30. Unless you're 20 and I put you at 29, you're aging beautifully. Please don't be 20, I would feel horrible for my guess.😆
@Kc-dq7zj lol I'm 35 if I'm not mistaken they said they were born in 89 just like meeeeee 🤗🤗🤗🤗
James has previously said he uses Botox too, that adds to his "ageing" for sure. You're good girl, don't even give it another thought, comparing wont help at all ❤
aging is a gift so many don't get 🧡 we are beautiful at all ages of life, unfortunately there's a rather sinister focus on being forever young, partially in order to sell products. to me, anti-aging products is all snake oil because like, if we are lucky, we are going to age. it is inevitable, but in the hopes of even somewhat reducing the signs of aging, people will shell out thousands over the years, sometimes just within a year! save your money, enjoy your life & the process of it all🥰🥰🥰 🥳🥳🥳
i’m not into skincare at all (have been using the same clean & clear moisturizer since i was 15) but i subscribed to u just because of this series
You look amazing in that color❤
Smile lines are beautiful!
I have severe depression so I've not skilled a lot in my life. I do look younger than my age. But to my honest if rather be smiley and more wrinkled than be how I am.
Smiling doesn't cause wrinkles, but so what if it did?
@@jacobus57it definitely causes laugh lines and crows feet
Oh my god I can contribute! I'm diagnosed autistic and it is extremely difficult for me to 'emote', I usually have to manually remember to show my emotions on my face. Even when I physically feel like I'm showing a lot of shock in my eyebrows/forehead or smiling big, it never fully translates to my face as a 'big' expression but instead as toned down so my muscles just don't move as much. Besides the fact I suppose I'll get less wrinkles (which I don't care about particularly), connecting with people is like.. 5x the effort 😅 so not all great
omggg i love you in that color!
As someone with severe depression the worst thing you can do for your mental health is not smile or laugh, it's literally a bio hack in and of itself to trick your brain into thinking that you're happy when you fake smile. So smile sometimes and laugh at how awkward it looks, pet fur babies and hug bc that's gonna do more for your health than preventing wrinkles will ever do. What's the point of looking great if you feel like a massive sack of misery? Just do both.
I have congenital facial palsy so I spent a huge portion of my life training myself not to smile (even when I laughed) to avoid ridicule. It’s not super difficult and it didn’t necessarily mean that I was expressionless per se. We emote a lot more than just with our smiles.
What would my lovely grandchildren think if I stopped smiling and laughing when I am playing with them🥴
Greetings from Brigitte
Don't forget to smile to remind your body that you're happy 😊
Don’t usually comment but your skin in this video is amazing 😻
I'm 60 and have never considered Botox, I like being able to have facial expressions. I don't have many wrinkles due to good genes and staying out of the sun
I actually have been doing almost the same thing too for almost 15 years. I don't want to create neck wrinkles so I've trained my body that when I need to look down , I just move my upper body down and if I need to look to either side, I just move my whole body to look
Your voice is so soothing
Aging and wrinkles have everything to do with genetics & sunscreen, not whether or not you smile. My siblings and I (gen x/elder millennials) are all pretty baby-faced and still eat dinner at night time. 🤷🏻♀️ We don’t look wildly younger, it’s usually people saying things like, “you’ll see what I mean when you hit 35/40”(I’m in my early 40’s) or assume I graduated college about 5-10 years later than I did. Although my sister was once told to come back to a store when she turned 18 to get a store credit card. She was 30. 😂
And stress too!!! When my relationship became abusive I aged 10 years in a year
So sorry to hear that. Glad that it sounds like you got out @@EmL-kg5gn
That's why I'm so surprised that removing buccal fat is a trend. I have a few friends who got carded until they were 38 because they had round cheeks. These celebrities are cray cray getting rid of something that makes them look so young naturally.
I love you using the example of popping in an elaphant so funny! Your unique expresions alsways makes me smile
I have tried not to smile or laugh while you were talking about Tess. Couldn't, though 😂😂😂😂
I will admit I enjoy the anti wrinkle/line benefits of not being a very expressive person, but that's just how I tend to be naturally. I do make a purposeful effort not to raise my eyebrows much or frown too deeply, but I will smile just as much as I like ^_^ I think smile lines as people age help show they've had a good time with life. Smiling is just too good to deny
I used to get Botox injections to help with my migraine. It was fantastic. And as a really nice bonus it helped with wrinkles in my forehead and my eyes and eyebrows. The doses are higher when you get Botox for medical purposes. So after 6 years. The injections had made me lose tissue around my eyebrows and hairline. So I can't get them any more. And I am sad about it. The injections helped me so much.
Tess and I are close in age, though she is older, but I chose sunscreen and retinol instead. I've smiled, laughed, cried, and expressed the entire range of emotion on my face. It's being human and interacting with life around me. Any wrinkles or lines I have were going to happen, but are lessened by my skin care choices. She chose not to move her face. To each their own. 🙂🤖
I hate how people downplay this to merely a "choice" (of sorts). Let me explain.
As a child, I tried really hard to teach myself how to silent cry to avoid my dad having an outburst at me. All those hiccups and sinffles gave me away too quickly. So I repressed them A LOT. So so much so, that now in my 20s, I cannot, a single bit, genuinely AT ALL change that! I now just cry as silently as possible, to the point that my own fiancee cannot even detect I am crying RIGHT NEXT TO HIM for literally entire MINUTES! I AM NOT JOKING!
I WISH I could change this about myself so that my fiancee can be there for me and allow him to help me, but I simply cannot, even tought I try to show it more, yet is still so silent.
I feel like once you teach yourself something like this, it becomes so much of a reflex, is really hard to break. Sure, she does specify "vanity" as a reason, but if she grew up not having to hide her smile, I think she wouldn't have went down this road to begin with. I feel like once she started and realized this, I think she just pivoted to making this experience a positive one. She just changed how she played her cards!
Such an entertaining video, I couldn’t help but smile and chuckle - you’re directly responsible for my new fine lines, lol.
I don't smile naturally due to having a turned down mouth. But that is when I have my face relaxed. I will smile, smirk, and laugh when the moods stirkes me. Otherwise I let my face stay relaxed. I can't go around all day with a smile painted across my face. It kills my facial muscles. But I am in no way depressed.
Lol I've had smile lines since I was a teen. However, I did "change" my smile consciously to make sure I do not smile too severely with my eyes hahaha. I still do a bit, but I use to squirt my eyes a lot and I was seeing fine line "crows feet" in my teens.
James, this video is so funny and entertaining and interesting. I really appreciate the research you did and how you give them kudos for trying new creative ways to age more slowly. Thank you for sharing.
I love your shirt!
I remember my mom telling me when I was probably 7 or 8 years old to stop raising my eyebrows because it would give me wrinkles. Here I am, 40 years old, without a wrinkle to be found 😂 But also, I'm 40 years old, so I've definitely aged. Skin texture changes, although mine is still *pretty* good, and things definitely start to sag. But I was also that weird teenage girl in the late 90s/early 2000s who was already taking really great care of my skin and wearing sunscreen daily. It's for sure paid off.
I've had Botox in my glabella probably 6 times in the last 4 years, and I love how it makes me look. I'm happy we live in a time where we have so many options if we choose to utilize them!
Off topic, but your skin looks amazing, James! ❤
I kind of understand Tess. About a decade ago, I realised that my parents were aging slightly differently. They were both taking care of themselves and aging well, but my Dad looked a bit older than my Mum. I ended up concluding there were two reasons for that:
1) Mum wears sunscreen, Dad doesn't. If Dad were white, this would probably have an even greater effect on his appearance.
2) Dad frowns and moves his forehead a lot, which is why the majority of his wrinkles are on his forehead.
So, nowadays I laugh and smile as much as I like, but I wear sunscreen everywhere and try to avoid moving my forehead. I have some fine lines on my forehead, and some fine laugh lines, but otherwise I don't look my age.
oh jfc move your forehead 🙄
No need to look this beautiful James, leave something for us 😭😭😭
Everyone ages in their own way. If you want botox or injections, go for it. But do it for YOURSELF, not for someone else. In the end it doesnt matter what everyone else thinks of you if you dont think positively about yourself as a base. Give yourself love, and project that love outwards 😊💜💜
Since you mentioned other methods, I am really curious what you have to say about face yoga or face taping. I've seen so many videos lately of facial exercises or people taping their foreheads so they wouldn't move in their sleep and so I am wondering how effective these are.
Queen Elizabeth the first 😂😂
One of the most important things many people fail to mention when it comes to aging is … genetics!!! It’s a roll of the dice. Some get luckier than others. How one takes care of themselves inside and out can make a difference too. I couldn’t imagine not smiling to avoid wrinkles:/ I’m 44 now, I just started using retinol 2 years ago. It helps but I don’t notice dramatic difference. Try not to stress to much that’ll age u quick and being in the sun for too long and no sunscreen.
From one human to another, smiling is much better
I have taught myself not to frown and to just minimally raise my eyebrow. At 54 I've shallow frown lines and forehead lines because I've not done this all my life. I like smiling so i have smile lines. But sleep wrinkles are really annoying & despite best intentions it's hard to always sleep on my back.
I hope to age gracefully - I hope to weather the changes and transitions in my life with poise and an open mind. I hope to be someone who's ready to embrace every new decade and the offerings at every stage of life, and not become the person who's so focused on what's gone that I become bitter or so focused on trying to relive those past days I miss what's in front of me
If only I could have skin like you 😮. Perfect 👌
I confidently support Johnson on his journey. i think he's doing all of us and science a favor by volunteering to be a guinea pig. I'll even give him an award! best part of him is that he's actually not really promoting his lifestyle but mostly just showing what he does as if to demonstrate for a large audience the way he's living. but half of the stuff he does is not even available to anyone less than a multi millionaire so i don't think he's "influencing" mass audiences to follow suit
Yes, I'm truly against aging
Great content James. Thank you ♥️☮️🖤
100% agree, age however the fuck you want! I LOVE Botox! For me, there’s more benefits than just getting rid of wrinkles. My makeup goes on better, and it makes my skin glow. Obsessed!
Gawd damn you....I smiled and laughed so much during this!!! 😂 you're the best ❤
Would it be possible to have a video with facial spf recommendations please? Id love to know good ones for under makeup and good ones to wesr on summer holiday that are wzterproof. Thanks!
Can you try the sonrei sunscreen and do a review on it. It's a really expensive sunscreen that I have been seeing and want to know if it's actualy worth it. Thanks!!!!
YOUR skin is glowing though
I smile whole my life and love it 🥰 I feel so sad for her friends and family! Im 45 and im always asked what i do to my face and people don’t believe that I never did Botox 😊
I love Botox….now I do get it for migraines but the great side effect is no elevenses and a smooth forehead 😂 But I also love my crinkles next to my eyes when I smile!
I believe I read something similar where Victoria Beckham did this to not get premature wrinkles
I have laughed and smiled my whole life and I’m happy to say I have no wrinkles maybe it’s genetics but I’ve always used something on my eyes which have no wrinkles either. But do what makes you happy.
I just did stem cell therapy from umbilical cord blood yesterday. It can only cause cancer from older blood stem cells retrieval such as from bone marrow or from fat cells etc from children or adults, however it is widely known that stem cells from cord or umbilical cord does not cause cancer or expand on cancer living already in your body, but the opposite where the cancers and tumors actually starts to dissipates. This is exactly the same topic I had yesterday, why the blueprint guy looks like he is embalmed is cause I don’t think his therapies and procedures are doing age reversal for his physical looks as we all expect it to, due to him starting his blueprint later in life rather than when he if was younger. I personally think, that as stem cell therapy becomes more affordable and the knowledge of the spectrum of just how the cells can be expanded within our bodies and the benefits along with it, people will start these stem cell therapies when they are younger as they will slow down Aging with their looks along with all the amazing regenation and anti-aging benefits within the entire body as a whole- it’s like prevention is better than a cure type of therapy. Trust me, if you actually research stem cells further and it’s amazing regenerative benefits not only on our looks but our organs, joints, etc I would suggest you research more about this topic and give a better in depth pov
My nana is beautiful and still has so much pep in her step, while my grandpa on my other side is a bit less energetic, but still loves life & reminds me of a real life Santa Claus, lol.
They both look very different at similar ages & lead different lifestyles, but I love how they embrace aging & I’ll always think they look so amazing; not for their age, but for the people they are.
I laughed out loud as soon as James said 'I ate my mum in a lasagna' - worth the lines
Did someone really murder their mother and bake her remains in a lasagna?