Showing posts with label aging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aging. Show all posts

Friday, April 26, 2013

You know how they say "age creeps up on you"?  Well...I'm approaching my 75th birthday and, although I've been through hell physically from two near-fatal auto accidents, until the last two years I have felt that I was holding on fairly well.  This past winter some days I felt as if I were in a death tunnel with no way out and no light at the end that I could see.

As spring comes along some of that is improving but there is a little thing (some might say) that is really getting to me.  It is about hairdressers - good ones and very bad ones.  I got tied up with a bad one and then found one who was worse and then one who might have been a bit better but couldn't get my message.  I've wondered if a woman my age is too much of a challenge or if they see the challenge and think I'm not worth it because of my age.  They're wrong on that score.   All things considered it might seem like a little thing but most women I know would agree with me that a year of bad hair days is disheartening. 

Earlier today I visited my sweet Pinterest page.  I love my Pinterest page and when I go there I am always renewed by what I have saved to savor.  When I do go there, I wonder why I haven't checked in more often. 

I had clicked through several levels of pages when I saw this:


                                                            Carmen Dell Orefice. 
 
She is in her eighties and still working as a model.  She began working for VOGUE at age 15 and at age 77 she lost her fortune to Bernie Madoff.  She doesn't diet, freely admits to being friendly with a surgeon and uses Bag Balm as a skin cream.

I wondered if there were others. 


 
Daphne Selfe
 
Selfe still commands top dollar as a model and poses for leading fashion houses like Moschino and Dolce & Gabbana.  
 
 
 
She is 83, lets her hair grow because "it's cheaper" and is proud of the gray stating that it is her "fortune" because it makes her more striking.  No facelifts.  No botox.  She refers to botox as poison.  Not fond of skin creams but "might use a bit of Boots". 
 
 
Boots is a British lifting and firming cream.   
 
For the comfort of all, I just couldn't bring myself to add a photo of Bag Balm but I'm pretty sure it is available in farm stores. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 





 
 
 
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