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Posted on: 4/3/11 1:55 PM ET
I know. They've been using camera and studio tricks ever since photography began, but now it's ridiculous. I shudder everytime Sarah Jessica Parker comes onto my t.v. screen with the face of a fetus. She's nearly fifty. Isn't it okay to look fifty? Okay, maybe you want to look like you're forty, but do you want to look like you're four? Is anybody falling for these tricks and rushing out to buy the cosmetics that make SJP and Andie McDowell look like infants with no features? Aliens? It is okay to age gracefully isn't it? Or, at least try to look like you belong within a realistic range. Well, there's my rant mixed with a bit of query. Let me know how you feel. Bert
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Posted on: 4/3/11 4:12 PM ET
Well, I don't wear makeup except for special occasions (as you can tell if you look at my review pictures), but I don't like the 'youth worship' mentality some try to push. I don't want to look like I'm a teenager or even in my 20s. I have life experience and want that to be recognizable.

I guess if you are a star, people probably know your life story anyway so it doesn't matter if you look too young.

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Posted on: 4/3/11 4:24 PM ET
I think it's just as bad when they stretch the arms, legs or torsos in fashion pictures, or nip the waists in. Nobody looks like that. Anyone who seriously tries winds up unhealthy & looking like a famine victim.
  
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Posted on: 4/3/11 4:51 PM ET
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There's a balance -- there's nothing wrong with wanting to look fresh and pretty at any age, but when people start feeling they need ridiculous levels of intervention just to feel good about how they look (or when their public requires them to go to these lengths), there's a way deeper problem... IMO.
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Posted on: 4/3/11 5:18 PM ET
I seem to be one of the few people out there who genuinely likes the way people past 40 look. Last night I watched a couple of episodes of one of my BBC favorites, 'Waking the Dead,' and I was reminded that in a lot of UK programming, the stars are often not 'pretty' or unnaturally youthful. I like that.
I want to look like myself, and I care about my appearance. However, I don't believe that looking younger=looking better. I like my age (43) and trying to deny it seems strange. It's a good part of me. :)
  
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Posted on: 4/3/11 5:59 PM ET
I never leave the house without make up on. But then I've never had surgery to make myself more youthful either. Many women in their 40's look great. It's when you get into your 60's and 70's and still have a perfectly smooth face, things start to look a little weird, a la Joan Rivers or Dolly Parton.

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Posted on: 4/3/11 6:44 PM ET
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That's one thing I like about the British tv & movies. There are older people and the older people look more real.
  
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Posted on: 4/3/11 6:58 PM ET
Isn't it false advertising if they try to sell something when the actor/actress doesn't even look like that?
For me, I often don't wear makeup. I think I look okay without makeup but then of course my eyesight isn't what it once was!
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Posted on: 4/3/11 9:20 PM ET
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I think I look okay without makeup but then of course my eyesight isn't what it once was!

You are funny! Very cute.
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Posted on: 4/3/11 9:32 PM ET
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Honestly, I would have a tuck and a lift if I had the money, but only for "maintenance." One has to appear fresh if one wants to be hired. This is the same problem for both Dolly and Joan. It's too bad they have to do that, but if they looked old and tired - work would not come their way. Not because of any lack of talent. They are both brilliant. Our sick society demands it from them. However, I am really talking about computer enhanced photography and extremely bright lighting on such people as SJP, Andie McDowel and OMG Paula Deen. I've seen babies that look older than these people do. BTW Joan has gone just a little too far into the creepy territory. I think it's okay to try to cheat ten years off of yourself, but any more than that is really obvious. Bert
  
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