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Our unforgiving, superficial society is a lover of beauty, quick to criticise whoever does not fit their stereotypes of grace and elegance. Does it matter that she works 16-hour days? Or, she has just given birth, or gone through surgery? Do the silent and the not-so-silent beauty police care if she’s going through hormonal changes or that she — dare we say it — is not going
I hear so many times I’m too old to wear this or I can’t wear that colour because of my age! The times people have told me that they can only wear a short hair cut as it will make them look younger. Other people can get stuck in a time warp from their youth and are too scared to try a new style or colour of lipstick. Just because you are used to seeing the colour you wore in your heyday, does not mean that it suits or flatters you now, in fact it can make you look quite dated and age you more.