Look your age!
What’s with this craving to remain suspended at a nubile, young age? Why do celebs take extreme measures to defy the passage of time, and portray themselves as forever youthful? What happened to aging gracefully, naturally?
How often do you thumb through Instagram, catch forwards, spot on and off-screen antics of middleaged celebrities pouting and pirouetting to look half their age? Filters, apps, pancake make-up, photoshop, latex huggers, micro bikinis — the mad scramble to net ‘likes’ and ‘followers’ has had its spin offs in an entire tribe of celebmomagers, who think they are still young and nubile, but are cloaking jowls and wrinkles while squeezing into tiny clothes — see-through wispy panels and sheers... or in twosizes-toosmall body shapers and hot shorts. It is a classic case of trying too hard – making 46 look 14!
It isn’t bold. It’s crass. Madonna can’t rock it either, in barely-there shorts hanging over her bum cheeks or her moles on display for front row seats. Feeds are abuzz with pictures of Malaika Arora, who doesn’t seem to have (remarkably!) aged a single day, in boob-enhancing and toting cuts, plunging cleavage on display... Amrita Arora too appeared a la fuzzy pink chicken in a mini at a private party, while Kareena Kapoor sucked in her cheeks yet again for that perfectcheekbones look on camera.
PeeCee took the cake, baker, bakery et al, in a flop version of the chestslash dress with sky high slits, eye candy Jonas in tow, and the New York twang in her vocal chords.
There are selfdeclared fitness experts and yoginis who think they
are aging backwards and hence carrying the license to wear out fits that go completely off the mark, in nip slips both on and of the ramp.
Age, dearies, is a stealthy thief creeping up on all of us; despite the facial distortions we migh carry out in the name of face yoga or the unbelievable weigh loss programmes we pursue, the veins are bound to surface.
No one wants to look their age in a poignant lack of grace and taste. Everyone just wants to form the paparazzi focus. So when you screw up your eyes to look, everyone looks the same – with ironed tresses, sucked in tummies, accentuated jawlines and fillers on point. It’s as i everyone is consulting the same quick-fix derm! Both men and women.
Men in their 50s have unforgiv able goatees, ripped pants, groin hugging inners and cringe worthy ripped jeans, and go topless at the drop of a hat.
No one is perfect, or is expect ed to look perfect — but at leas wear what flatters you. There is a time and a place for everything. Grow grace fully into your own unique niche and embrace your age grace
fully.
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