Liking ourselves at any age comes down to not believing the lies about our worth.
About how inferior we are and that if we only buy a product / do what other people tell us to do / conform to how everyone else acts and lives we’ll be accepted and adored.
Our need to feel like we belong is likely hard-wired in our human nature.
Through a series of interactions with other women I’ve come to learn life lessons about letting go of the need for other people’s approval.
One time was when I went to a funeral and was talking with a female mourner in the viewing room. I could see the makeup coming through on her face.
You saw the makeup as it was obvious she had makeup on.
Right then I chose to have a fresh face in a room full of women spackled with makeup.
In the photo taken above this weekend the sole makeup I have on is Sephora Collection matte black waterproof eyeliner and the Valentino Rosso purple lipstick Unconventional Babe.
Like Alicia Keys initiated in her #NoMakeup hashtag I’ve come to be okay with my natural face. The tube of MAC foundation lies unopened in the train case.
I think that what a person eats and drinks and the moderate exercise they do can do more for their beauty than a miracle cream.
Turning 58 I saw that wanting to have a flawless face or body forever is a fool’s errand..
You really don’t know how you look in other people’s eyes.
The people who care about you won’t care that you don’t look like a famous actress.
I’ve stopped caring what people think of me. That is their issue not ours when they judge people.
Find your merry band of friends to hang out with instead. They’ll cherish you when nobody else does.
The new cat’s eye frames I’m wearing are Kate Spade eyeglasses. I wear them all the time.
The men haven’t come knocking. So I’m not trying to impress them or anyone else.
I no longer look at my face in the bathroom mirror like I’m staring in a microscope.
What do you say?
Isn’t it time to like ourselves and be our own best friends?
I recommend you do what I did and pre-order the Lyn Slater (Accidental Icon) book How to Be Old. It comes out in March and is destined to give more insight than I could here.
She’s 70 years old. Proof that age is just a number.
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