This, it’s some sort of roulette. She’s always been so vain and image focused, but it did at least work until now. |
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This is just sad.
In her prime, Madonna was the epitome of true, natural beauty. I remember during the mid-/late-eighties…..EVERYone & their Mother we’re trying to emulate Madonna’s beauty + style. Now she just looks like an old granny. Her looks have really gone south since she hit forty-five. 😓 Gwen Stefani was always such a beauty too. She just recently started looking like this. J Lo is a few months older than her and she looks so much better than her. Reason being is that if J Lo does get surgery, she only gets mild tweaks. Gwen looks like she got a totally different face. J Lo ages the good old-fashioned way. I.e., working out regularly, eating clean, staying out of the sun and using her own skincare product. |
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OK, I will. You develop a non-nonsense approach to life -- you get up early, you spend a chunk of the day outside, even in foul weather -- probably with dogs -- you don't mind your skin being weathered b/c it's proof you spent your life skiing, sailing and gardening. Plus your husband and all the women around you are strongly supporting this ethos. You love to walk. You even go on vacations to walk -- like rambling through the Cottwsolds for example. You believe a good brisk walk and a hot cup of tea will fix most any mood. You don't complai. You don't get waxed, blow-outs, manicures. You don't spend money on yourself as in "self-care" unless buying a new bulb-digger to plant fall bulbs is considered self-care. Maybe you slap on some lipstick for Christmas Vespers at church. You under no circumstances try to be sexy or trendy. You are practical and timeless in your fashion. You focus on family, volunteer work in your community -- esp. if it's plants/garden related!, do the NYT crossword puzzle, carry on centuries old traditions like baking weird food no one actually wants, decoating and celebrating all the holidays, and most importantly embracing this stage of life as an adult women who has earned respect and dignity and is not trying to recapture her youth. Oh and books, always be reading something that someone you respect suggested. Start your sentences with "The other day I heard on NPR . . ." You join -- church, civic groups, tennis ladders, garden clubs, book clubs etc. Of course what makes this all possible is that literally all of the people in my mom's social circle are the same! NPR-listening, no-nonsense, dog-loving, gardeners. |
This describes A LOT of older women, minus the sailing. Most older ladies in my neighborhood spend their days walking their dogs and tending to their gardens, and don’t wear a stitch of make up! |
“Right” age to stop coloring hair? I’d love to stop but I’m only 42… |
Yes. And I bet they are not tweaking their faces! The OP asked "Why do rich women pay lots of money to deform their faces to look like this?" and I responded that none of the rich women I know do anything of the sort. |
I just read that exact quote somewhere recently and it finally clicked for me, why they do it. Weird > old. |
I even see young people with the weird lip thing now. |
Like Audrey Hepburn or Baba Bush. |
She had a lot of work done in 1997? I don't think so. I don't even recognize this Gwen.
- new poster who agrees she was beautiful and insanely cool |
Huh. I grew up in New England, my parents still live there, and while I def see some of that "still shoveling the driveway at 90" sort of thing my mother and her friends are a lot artsier, and a lot more vain. My mom hasn't had surgery or fillers but she spends a good fortune on skincare products - and her skin looks great. She's always worn makeup and gotten manicures. She is partially disabled and we are Jewish, and she isn't going to church or spending all day outside. We do love gardening, though - you've got us there. But wow you sure have a limited view of what "New England" women are like. I'm guessing you're from a wealthy town in Connecticut? |
It IS a rich women thing. The commoners cannot afford this level of surgery and fillers. |
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It's also that contouring makeup and weird gigantic eyelashes. It's like they are all aliens wearing flesh masks trying to pass as human. |