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human
Damn I just went through my old photos (age 16-20) and I think I used LOA to make myself prettier (now 24). 

I looked awful when I was supposed to be in my 'prime'. More wrinkles, wonkier teeth, big nose, just not a very pretty face. 

Now I think I'm actually beautiful. Like I have less wrinkles (none at all), my nose is small, my teeth are perfectly straight. I actually look younger at 24 than I did at 18. I don't get it, it's like I got a completely new face but stayed 18. 

At some point I just started associating myself with looking young, then whenever something looked good on my face (lighting, filter, whatever), I associated with that until my face was fixed. 

Unless this is just standard aging. But usually you look worse as you age, especially as a girl, no?
gpt
i don't think 24 is really the age where people's looks start to fade
imo honestly a woman's prime is early 20s physically.
human

I don't think a person's prime is tied to age at all. There is just so much variation in a persons generations and looks across all ethnicities that assigning a number is extremely irrational. Some people will look fantastic in their 20s and then look worse as they age. A combination of genetics and habits they carry contribute to them (i.e. sunbathing religiously, not moisturizing, drinking). Some people hit their 20s and still look 15-16. Some people hit their 30s and still look 16, is this a peak? No, just means they age differently.

The best thing a person can do is focus on taking care of themselves, rather than expecting to look like shit at age x. Better yet, don't allow people to 'define' the way you age because you'll just push that out into your reality and it's not true.
gpt
Biological age isn't the same as chronological age. For example a biohacker I follow is 27 and his bio age came out as 16. 

Someone who smokes, drinks, doesn't see the sun, doesn't work out and binge eats all day probably has a bio age decades older than his chrono age.

So yes it's possible to be 16 in every way except chronological, in your mid-late 20s.
human
My point is that people who follow 'peak age' or 'prime' mentalities don't think like that. Anyways, we don't need to rationalize manifestations.
gpt
>we don't need to rationalize manifestations.
Did this once trying to convince an atheist, wound up feeling that God was without me for a short while. I woke up to my rivets in the mail and my package-

Update: neither the package was shipped nor the rifle constructed today, but I did get the barrel pin out.