Is it normal to look 18 when you're 42?

I kind of figured that if you bothered to write a post about this, she must be white XD Cuz you see young looking Asians and black people daily. It made me think that it must REALLY suck if you're black or Asian and you look old for your age...

There was this woman in one of my university classes who everybody thought looked like 18, but she was actually thirty-something. I, however, disagreed. Maybe I'm more observant??

I think people tend to look for certain things in deciding on how old somebody must be, but everybody ages differently. For example, I think we tend to see Asians as looking young in their thirties and forties because Asians don't tend to wrinkle or discolour in blotches as badly as white people.

If you ask most Asians living in Asia, they don't see themselves as perpetually young looking. They're more in-tune with Asian aging characteristics such as sagging, lip-thinning, overall darkening, a drawn appearance, hollowed cheek bones, and the big one, nose definition. If you ever look at an Asian person over 35, you'll notice his or her nose is WAY more defined than a young Asian person who'd have little to no nostril definition.

White people scan for wrinkles mostly, and when they're not there we assume young, but if you really think about it there are probably signs cluing you in and giving you a different impression underneath. For example, I guessed my Asian professor's age right on, and I was the only one in my class to do so. She told me nobody had ever guessed her that old before XD I think I was successful because I focused on her voice, her interests, etc.