Oct 9, 2012

The painfully realistic guide to looking FIVE* years younger - instantly!

Tried, tested and proven - enjoy!
*Results may vary.

Step 1: Don't wear makeup.


Step 2: Don't do anything with your hair.


Step 3: Squash a brightly-coloured bicycle helmet onto your frizzy head and pedal to the nearest public library.


Step 4: Sweatily attempt to renew your library card:









In other news, I turned 20 last week! YAY!


Do you look your age? Am I the only University student out there who gets mistaken for a pre-teen? (Please tell me I'm not.)

25 comments:

  1. Haha, I think most people would be jealous of that! :P x

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    1. Exactly! I'm sure I'll be laughing when I'm in my 40's! :D

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  2. Ha, you're not! A friend of mine was 27 when we went up to a club where the age limit was 18. She got carded.

    When she went "Are you serious?" the guy just nodded...then he looked at her ID and started laughing, even showed it to the other bouncer.

    But hey, looking young's a good thing - don't knock it ;)

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    1. Yup! The librarian was really apologetic, I think she was pretty embarrassed by her gaffe. I told her not to worry about it. :)

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  3. Ha! I get the opposite of that, I'm 20 but people seem to think I'm in at least my late 20s!

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    1. Wow! I guess that could have its upsides too - do you think people tend to take you more seriously?

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  4. ah Ellen, used to happen to me all the time. hard to know if it's genetics or just the fact that I used to follow the same rules as you have stated. lol At any rate, people still seem to mistake me for 8-10 years younger than I am. I still follow the same rules. By the time you turn 30, people will have you pegged at at least 20! Hopefully you don't need to renew your library card between now and then. ( ;

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    1. Ohhhh woah, do you mean to say that this method wasn't a new discovery?

      Dang. There goes my retirement plan!

      Ahh *sighs* it's not just librarians, unfortunately. Waitreses too, for one. Also people at school frequently assume that I must be a first-year.

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  5. Hahahah that's a little awkward! But one day I'm sure you'll be happy you look younger..

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    1. I like to think that it makes people who don't know me more impressed when I show maturity or say something intelligent. =P

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  6. So funny. I got carded for an R rated movie -- when I was 26. Okay, so maybe my hair was braided into two pigtail braids. So what.

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    1. That's another age-reducing hairstyle for sure! I went to a posh restaurant a couple weeks ago with my hair in pigtails just for fun; I was told I looked maybe 16 or 17.

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  7. Most women would really want to look younger! This is so funny.

    www.modernworld4.blogspot.com

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  8. I'm almost 30, and last time I went to the liquor store, the girl called over her manager to look at my ID because she thought it was a fake. What a problem to have, right?

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    1. Oh wow. So even after being presented with proof she still wasn't buying it? Jeez...

      And just out of curiousity, am I speaking to Bryan or Brandon here? =P

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    2. Yeah, my ID doesn't have an organ donor stamp, which is a little cartoon heart (they never asked if I wanted to or not when I got it) so the lady thought it was somehow fake. I joked, "Yeah, I guess I don't have a heart" and she just gave me a stone faced glare.

      Also, you're speaking to the handsome one.

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    3. That's neat that they have it right on your ID - up here in Canada you have to fill out an entirely separate donor card.

      And gee, aren't you helpful... Brydon. =P

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    1. Hah, thank you? Or is this just an ulterior way of saying that I actually look 5 years old? *suspicious glare* LOL.

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  10. I don't usually get my age mistaken, but last year, for some reason, it happened particularly often. Once, after school, some ninth grader asked me if I was in Algebra 2/ Trig (a class I took as a sophomore)...but I was a high school senior...
    Also, apparently, for half the year, the Sunday school teacher I was the TA for thought I was a high school freshman. -_-

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    1. I don't think it happened so much to me when I was younger either. It's like I only got a half-spoonful of the "age factor" they were handing out at puberty or something...

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  11. I'm 43 and the way I behave, I get mistaken for a pre-teen all the time.

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    1. Haha, behaviour is a whole 'nother matter! Problem is though, I can behave like a 30-year-old, but it only makes me look like a very precocious teen.

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  12. Hahaha,

    Nope you're not, it's even happened to 6"4' me...

    -N

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