Beautiful women ageing

[PoinsettiaLives]

I watched Saltburn last night and was struck by how Rosamund Pike’s looks have changed over the years. She looks fantastic and she has done it without trying to look artificially younger than she is- she definitely looks like a 45yo woman rather than a 45yo woman trying to look like a weird 30yo. An utterly beautiful woman fully growing into herself.

What’s the secret of this? (Other than being born beautiful?)

velvetsunshine

I am puzzled how a meta-analysis can be biased.

I suppose the easiest way is by deciding what studies you choose to include in it.
They explain their inclusion criteria but not any exclusion criteria, so there may be equally valid studies that weren't included.
I'm not saying that's what happened, but it's one way a meta-analysis could be biased.

My mum looks nothing like her mum (64) so this is just made up.

There's an awful lot of confusing causation and correlation in this thread.

I think my mistake was in thinking beautiful women ageing (beautifully) included women of ages beyond 45 to maybe 55, or 60 at a pinch.

When I think of beautiful women ageing, I think of beautiful women I see in their 70s and 80s and beyond.

Not getting fat. Sorry.

Couldn’t agree more. I consistently looked 15 years younger until 49 when suddenly age caught up with me and I’m still in shock.

You scared me a little, I'm 35 and look young. But now I afraid of that age)
Honestly, when I was a teenager, looking at my cousin who was 32, I thought that this was already old age)

What the French call un coup de vieux. This is definitely a thing- it’s not a straight line.

The problem is beauty is overvalued & confers such advantage. So often I hear ‘she’s beautiful on the inside & outside’.

I think Penelope Cruz looks great. And the Amelie actress.
Bone structure, yes. I’m getting older but people (men) still look at my face, even though the rest of me isn’t what it was… My boss is 20 years older than me, but has amazing hair.

My face, though I still have the cheekbones, is sliding off. It was fine until peri-menopause age 47. State of it now… It is a shock!

I saw Annie Lennox last night on Channel 4 News, now THAT'S a beautiful woman. She's 69.

I think that women who are attractive when young age better than those who are pretty.

Theres a difference

I’m wondering how all of the young women who do facial aesthetics (it’s so popular) will age… It marvels me that if Hollywood types who have the best treatments available often look bad. Then how is everyone else going to turn out?

Does anybody else think that it's all just part of the process, all this analysis I mean? We're like teenagers going through a phase. We have a spot on our forehead. We've a wrinkle on our forehead.

In The Blue Zones, you don't see the Italian/Greek/Japanese women who enjoy each others' company still assessing each other. Damn, you look good for 92!! Thought you were about 79! ''stop it!''

In good news, weighed myself this morning and my BMI is 25.5 now, I am almost a healthy weight. ALMOST. It's been hard. I'll have a glass of water and be back up to a bmi of 26 later today.

she has explained why she's posted, because all these threads are about how awful we all look how fat / thin whatever we all are and she is saying i like myself I think I am fab. Bucking the trend as it were. Although the poster un question does look fab, I do wonder if she was very wrinkly and saggy would she still love herself, does she love herself whatever she looks like. I've a friend who says she would never have any work done , well yes but you don't look your age so that's an easier statement to make.

Sorry that was sin response to the poster asking why the woman had posted her photo, tagging seems to have broken for me.

I am Asian, and perhaps women in my community don't talk about this so much. Certainly my mum or aunts don't give a damn, and I have never once heard them refer to their skin or wrinkles or anything to do with their looks. But things are changing with the advent of social media. One of the reasons I am thinking about it is that I get photographed a lot in my job, and my mum never had to deal with that!

I do talk about it on here in S and B, but not IRL and never in front of my DD, as I don't want her to become any vainer than she is already!

Surely no one talks about this stuff IRL?

PoinsettiaLives

Surely no one talks about this stuff IRL?

Do you mean stuff like ageing skin/skincare/makeup etc?
My friends and I talk about it and so do my DDs. I thought it was quite usual to talk about such things.
Have I misunderstood the question, though?

I was a cafe yesterday & a group of seven yoga-pants-mums were discussing skin-care products & swapping tips.

group of seven yoga-pants-mums

Well, there you go!
Sounds exactly like my friends and me.
Except only some of us aren't mums.
But we definitely pant when we do yoga...

My friends and I do

You mean when you were 30 you looked 15??

Yes, and when I was 15 I looked like a newborn! Isn’t that amazing?

What about Sarah Jessica Parker as a keen example of figure v. face?