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Schroeswald wrote: There is a difference from looking young and not aging, looking young is basically glamour, something that isn’t too hard.

Physically stopping yourself from aging is much harder as we’ve only seen a few special cases, and whatever happened to Nook also fits somewhere in this equation, he youngified himself but that probably would have worked if he used Emma’s bloood. Nook used Hook's blood, not Emma's.

Glamour is only an allusion, which does not affect the caster at all, only the world. Biologically, when you age, some of your organs begin to get out of order. Regina is more or less 50 years old by now. If she only glamoured herself, Regina wouldn't even run from a stree to another like she does xD

Playing with aging (accelerating or reversing) may be difficult, but I don't think it's very hard to stop at your current age. I also do not see a difference between those I mentioned.