Ageless Face as a Curse? The Vampire Struggle of 'Aging Makeup' to Blend In

Morning routines for modern vampires look nothing like humans. Instead of brightening skin, they paint wrinkles, eye bags, grey hair, neck stiffness — a performance of time that they never truly experience.

Being praised as youthful is pleasant at first — but ten years later, when coworkers age and you don’t, admiration turns into suspicion. In the past, vampires could avoid attention by moving every decade. But with biometric systems, digital ID tracing, CCTV, disappearing is no longer easy. So blending in now requires acting old.

This demand birthed a booming aging makeup industry. Silicone wrinkle patches, instant grey-hair mascara, vocal-tone–aging throat patches — once Hollywood SFX technology, now daily office essentials. Consulting agencies even sell aging lifestyle guides, recommending posture slump, intentional forgetfulness, fashion regression every 5 years.

Yet mishaps are common. A convincingly frail vampire accidentally lifts a refrigerator with one hand. Another slips into 1920s slang in a meeting. As one 300-year-old employee said, “Humans spend fortunes to avoid aging. We spend ours to fake it.”

To live among humans, vampires must perform mortality itself — aging not as decay, but as camouflage.