maybe you have to grow into it. I started looking better beyond my mid-30s, and, even with required hair-thinning that goes with the territory, I think I look better and better every day. Vanity of vanities! All is Vanity! but really, I realized one day that my negative feelings about my appearance were based on some 3rd grade taunting. I realized "those kids are long gone, grown up; why should their taunts remain in my mind?" and I purged them.