After seeing Joan Rivers in A Piece of Work and Britt Eckland on screen every night this week in I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, I turned to photographer, Jane Bown's Exposures book for some respite. That's Not My Age would rather look at gorgeous old faces with well-earned wrinkles and under-eye bags than the puffed up, scary alternative:
From the top: Lauren Bacall, Vivienne Westwood, Eve Arnold, Bridget Riley and Samuel Beckett
Hear hear. What scares me most - isn't the weird plastic faces - it's that people will come to accept that it's normal to look like that. So let's lobby for it to be banned along with those peculiar puffed up lips.
ReplyDeleteI couldn´t agree more. Who wants to look like a puffed doll????
ReplyDeleteAnd have you notice that in the end people look their true age, even without wrinkles.
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Well said! I've got lines and couldn't give a damn, I just wear more outlandish clothes so the focus is lower down. Viv looks beautiful, in fact I think she's improved with age. xxx
ReplyDeletecharacter comes upon us with wrinkles and laugh lines....it's all beautiful....
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you posted these - I have to agree with sacramento! xx
ReplyDeleteThe thing about people who have extensive cosmetic surgery is that they don't look younger - they just look like people who've had work done. How this came to be seen as attractive/desirable is beyond me ... Lovely photos.
ReplyDeletePoint well taken. I live in the middle of scareytown and I'm with you.
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I still think it is a personal choice and although these women look beautiful and natural. I still think there are some that look just as gorgeous with subtle "help".. I think you have to accept both...I am fighting all the way LOL xx
ReplyDeleteSamuel Beckett, yes. All faces with character and we've forgotten what it looks like.
ReplyDeleteLove this. Thank you! Just say no to scary plastic faces!
ReplyDeleteEllen and Tiffany - yeah extensive surgery or whatever has become acceptable but it's blindingly obvious when someone has had a lot of work done.
ReplyDeleteSacramento - people do look their true age, even with pillow cheeks!
Wilderness Chic - oh I agree it is a personal choice though I find the endless pursuit of youth and wanting to look ageless a bit sad. Britt Eckland would have aged beautifully anyway, now she looks like she's wearing a mask!
I can spot if someone's had work a mile off. I have seen people who've have very judicious bits of botox that's looks very good - Yasmin Le Bon, Cindy Crawford, Wildernesschic... but Britt? She was so beautiful she should have definitely left her face alone. I agree with you she would have aged well. Her face looks so extreme now it's such a shame.
ReplyDeleteI've had nothing done and hope I can leave it that way. Have a lovely weekend xx
There was a marvellous photograph exhibit in the National Theatre building (I think I've got that right) last June -- wonderful, wonderful photos of well-known women of (and often beyond!) a certain age. They looked so beautiful, lines and grey hair and wrinkled hands and all. I wish there had been a catalogue available (if there was, I missed it), because I would have treasured it. Don't suppose you happened to catch it?
ReplyDeleteI blieve this obsession with youth is gonna pass like any fad. Like looking prefect and being thin. Yeah it's a bummer, but strong people are always strong people.
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So agree with you TNMA. Oh, so jealous that I'm a Celebrity etc. is on in UK - love that - pretend I don't but strangely addicted!!
ReplyDeleteThe people in these photos are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThe the puffy lip thing is especially bizarre and distracting as far as I'm concerned. Why do women want to look like they have monkey lips?
I have loved Lauren Bacall for so many years, and that love only grew as she got older. Plastic surgery is "plastic" for a reason... artificial and much worse than aging gracefully!
ReplyDeleteI am with you..I see LIFE here and I love it.
ReplyDeleteI feel a sense of loss when I see people I admire
and enjoy make such drastic changes to their looks.
So sad...I admire ones that can age gracefully.
The wise ones know how to do this without completely
transforming themselves...very wise indeed.
Thanks for showing these wonderful images.
Jeanne xx
Thx for your comment too!
Materfamilias - Yes I did see that exhibition, I thought it should have been given a bigger space, it was a bit tucked away. Lots of fabulous women and some fantastic quotes, shame there wasn't a catalogue - though I did take notes!
ReplyDeleteSemi Expat - I'm addicted to I'm a Celebrity this year, and I've got a bit of a crush on Shaun Ryder, ssshh don't tell Mr TNMA!
Northmoon - I had been thinking that Britt Eckland's mouth looks strangely like monkeys.
Thank you all for your comments.
Beautiful these faces. Beautiful. It saddens me that our Ab's has already started flirting with this! Xxxx
ReplyDeleteI agree that whilst its normal to want to look your best most of the worked on faces look very scary.I think its because it becomes addictive and too much is done.Anyway if your 60 why would you want to look 30??
ReplyDeleteI love these naturally beautiful faces because they reveal the person within, not some prototype of cosmetically treated faces that are supposed to look young but rarely hide a thing. I want to find joy in aging naturally and it's easy when I see the scary faces, but when I see someone like Michelle Pfieffer, who apparently has some cosmetic enhancement extraordinaire working for her, I do feel a wee bit jealous. It's not easy to let go of our youthful faces, just when life is becoming so meaningful. But maybe the two things go hand in hand - facing entropy makes us seek and find deeper happinesses - thanks for post!
ReplyDeleteI do love this group of pictures. Part of the beauty found on the face of those of us that older is the lines that tell the stories of our lives.
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And on that note, have you seen Madonna today on the news? Opening a gym? Her cheeks are unreal.
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