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ngdawg · 03-29-2007, 06:49 AM

This had been brought up many months back and linked to a Dove forum, which I then went into. What a bunch of condescending crap in there!! 20-somethings cheering us older ones on as if we were handicapped marathoners...
I have always had appearance issues-never remember not having any, so I can't say it's all media-based, but it seems as if it's more 'in-your-face' the last 10 years. Lip plumpers(which I figured I'd give a whirl-it's glorified moisturizer), jeans designed to push up the butt and push in the stomach(uh, just buy tight ones for half the price)....
Little 'inside' story: Those women you see in ads touting some moisturizer as making them 'look years younger' are years younger. Family members own a large modelling agency and some of their women have appeared in those ads-they're in their 20's, but used as being 'older'. Kohl's currently has a beauty campaign that borders on the ridiculous. It starts with the announcement, "Want to know Ashley Judd's secret to looking young?" Uh, she's not even 40, that's her secret. That and good filters. Even her cleavage in the posters is added in.
Frankly, getting older and seeing the tightness get not so tight is disconcerting, but it beats not being around to see it at all. There are now nonsurgical FDA-approved procedures that will fix all that and I'm considering it. I'm lucky that I appear to others as 10 years younger than I am , but that doesn't mean I can't change a few things I don't like. Does it mean I'm being taken in by all this? Maybe...it does answer the 'other women' question to an extent, though. I want to continue being the best I can be-mentally, I can do that myself; physically, I am not adversed to seeking options.
How many of us see someone who turns out to be the same age and our first reaction is 'Damn! Does she look that bad or do I look that good??' Anyone who claims to really not give a shit about how they look is lying. We choose clothes, hairstyles, even lack of either, based on aesthetics. Were that not the case, we'd still be in animal skins and combs would never have been invented.

03-29-2007, 06:49 AM	#3 (permalink)
ngdawg peekaboo Location: on the back, bitch	This had been brought up many months back and linked to a Dove forum, which I then went into. What a bunch of condescending crap in there!! 20-somethings cheering us older ones on as if we were handicapped marathoners... I have always had appearance issues-never remember not having any, so I can't say it's all media-based, but it seems as if it's more 'in-your-face' the last 10 years. Lip plumpers(which I figured I'd give a whirl-it's glorified moisturizer), jeans designed to push up the butt and push in the stomach(uh, just buy tight ones for half the price).... Little 'inside' story: Those women you see in ads touting some moisturizer as making them 'look years younger' are years younger. Family members own a large modelling agency and some of their women have appeared in those ads-they're in their 20's, but used as being 'older'. Kohl's currently has a beauty campaign that borders on the ridiculous. It starts with the announcement, "Want to know Ashley Judd's secret to looking young?" Uh, she's not even 40, that's her secret. That and good filters. Even her cleavage in the posters is added in. Frankly, getting older and seeing the tightness get not so tight is disconcerting, but it beats not being around to see it at all. There are now nonsurgical FDA-approved procedures that will fix all that and I'm considering it. I'm lucky that I appear to others as 10 years younger than I am , but that doesn't mean I can't change a few things I don't like. Does it mean I'm being taken in by all this? Maybe...it does answer the 'other women' question to an extent, though. I want to continue being the best I can be-mentally, I can do that myself; physically, I am not adversed to seeking options. How many of us see someone who turns out to be the same age and our first reaction is 'Damn! Does she look that bad or do I look that good??' Anyone who claims to really not give a shit about how they look is lying. We choose clothes, hairstyles, even lack of either, based on aesthetics. Were that not the case, we'd still be in animal skins and combs would never have been invented. __________________ Don't blame me. I didn't vote for either of'em.