Grown so ugly.

That lady is beautiful

u + k blog:
http://advancedstyle.blogspot.com/

!!!

Deric, I'm 40 and I still get treated like I was a kid. It doesn't get any better with age.

I remember silently rolling my eyes at Amateurist during this thread's original incarnation. Sorry Amst!

this is my favorite captain beefheart song I think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2wtHYyERls

I think I have the opposite of this problem btw so I'll stop posting

are you getting hotter and hotter? that is a serious problem.

portrait of dorian gray shit

I think my body just grew into itself tbh

http://unidentifiedflyingpeaches.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/pekar-small.jpg

Oh god, where did I leave my collagen last night?

Is it possible to be ugly and not spend your every waking hour obsessing how much you hate the way you look? Would like to hear from anyone who has managed to pull this off.

This revive brought to you by contemplating the 'what celebrity do you look like' thread and not being bale to think of any plausible candidates who don't make me want to never leave the house again.

Yeah, the modicum of dignity that I'm holding onto right now is a product of a very strained imagination.

Is it possible to be ugly and not spend your every waking hour obsessing how much you hate the way you look? Would like to hear from anyone who has managed to pull this off.

― that is how ghosts laugh (bends)

well i look a lot like the guy in that cartoon (thanks for that) but i do find that being fuckin awesome in most other ways gets me through the day quite nicely tbh

The sooner I can ditch these looks, the sooner I can start developing an even remotely engaging personality.

"i do find that being fuckin awesome in most other ways gets me through the day quite nicely tbh"

yeah, I think this is where I'm going wrong.

I'm wondering if I'm ever going to have that slightly reddened, slightly grizzled facial skin some people seem to get between the soft period and the wrinkled period

ugly applies to attitudes, not looks.

it's brutal being yr own worst critic, true - i think you shd consider the real possibility that nobody else looks at your face the same way you do, or sees it that way either.

it's best not to even think about this stuff. i do though, "god i'm an ugly cunt" is usually the phrase in my mind. hopefully i don't actually believe it.

nv otm tho, best to ignore these voices.

LOL at me @ 25yo

it's only been downhill this past decade

Is it possible to be ugly and not spend your every waking hour obsessing how much you hate the way you look? Would like to hear from anyone who has managed to pull this off.

idk so long as i'm not faced with a mirror or a photograph it's pretty easy to let something else occupy the forefront of my mind, admittedly this does mean that seeing my face is always something of a shock

i've lost so much hair that my face is going bald

is there a nutritional supplement to help reduce puffy face syndrome

xxp i'm always (unpleasantly) surprised at how i look in photos in the same way one's voice seems weird when heard it on a recording.

gr8080 lay off all booze, dairy, corn, soy and drink more water. My old supervisor researched and saw "experts" and was told this. After several months on a new diet, there were noticeable improvements.

oh my god, i am struggling with my looks. lost 37 pounds over the last two years so i'm now only like ten pounds overweight, but i can't lose weight in my face and neck without quitting smoking cigarettes...the weirdest thing--i must be the only person for whom smoking makes bloat up. cannot bear to use a current picture on dating sites until i don't look like a jowly walrus above the chest. my build is actually pretty good but i've never met anyone who takes worse pictures. my face is like a big mushy pile of custard...

something about september/summer turning to autumn that sends my jowl growth in to overdrive

Did you wake up this morning,
Look at yourself in the mirror and say
Ah, gr9080, this ain't me?

I caught a reflection of the bags under my eyes in the LRT this morning that made me wonder if I'd been awake for 2 weeks solid.

FaceTime has been real bad for my facial self esteem

Is anyone else actually getting better looking as they age?

fuck yeah, it's awesome

ikr

I think I'm getting better looking as I age. Mostly by being extremely sedentary/unfit in my 20s, I set the bar really low as far as looks go. I'm certainly getting gray/wrinkles and years of sun exposure are showing up, but I think in general I'm feeling good. Confidence and being in relatively good health help that a lot.

you be the judge!

20: https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/1933762_508311389587_8732_n.jpg?oh=a2e111e40fc75fc6ab02eae08dd79c30&oe=57F372EE

30: https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13221674_10100474923907327_7428257024563892851_n.jpg?oh=d2039cf5f5468aec1cb64b99edf6dbea&oe=5806DACF

high-five!

those photos are a good basis for comparison as you are making the exact same expression in both. also, photo 1 should be made into a dealwithit.gif

It's awesome how as I get further away from the metabolic damage done by a couple years on Risperdal as a teenager- why, sure, it's FANTASTIC for social phobia!- and find better information about how to take care of myself (because I live alone and rarely hang out with anyone more than once a month) all the positive effects are essentially undone by the effects of aging so I work myself to the fucking bone but still look like an unfuckable human potato

Also I am super fucking hammered if that was not obvious.

PROTIP for hanging out with an ex and discussing how amazingly their new relationship is: DO NOT THIS

I feel like I'm at least breaking even as I age and possibly getting better looking on account of not really having has any concept of fitness until at least my early twenties and then very gradually getting better and more serious about working out. I had a few years of decline after the kids were born, but around last August I reintroduced a pretty fierce gym habit and also started seriously lifting for the first time in my life, which I feel like has made me look stronger and more manly than I used to and given me more presence.

kind of a wash for me -- I am more comfortable in my skin, but less comfortable in my clothes, perhaps because perpetual ongoing low-grade student poverty means that the only new additions to my wardrobe in the last ~5 years have been gifts from mom. I like to imagine that I will eventually look quite dashing in a suit, though!

Got into- not an argument, but a discussion w/ ex trying to explain to her I was taking a short break from OKCupid, Tinder, etc while I worked on losing weight- doing a 12-week calorie cut to try and drop 15-ish pounds, at least. How am I suppsoed to react to being told it doesn't matter, people will like you whatever, etc when seriously I have been somewhere between slight to worryingly overweight ever since I got started on antidepressants when I was about 12? It's basically impossible to explain to people who were attractive in their teens/20s/etc, but basically I hate my body as it is now and as it has ever been and I want to burn that shit to the fucking ground. Why is it vanity or cowardice to want to take some time out and work on myself so I can not have fucking tits at least once before Im' 40?

In a few years I am certain that people will be remarking at how dapper and handsome I look as I lie in my coffin.

The mourners, of course will be lying rather more pleasantly (see what I did there?).