Grown so ugly.

Is 80:

http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/cd62_org21-e1308072587156.jpeg

idk - I think being an old woman can be pretty awesome for some people.

well beautiful people can wear anything

― brazenly alive (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, June 23, 2011 9:48 PM (27 minutes ago)

yeah i guess that is the lesson

― horseshoe, Thursday, June 23, 2011 9:49 PM (27 minutes ago)

Law 1: Genetics.

http://i43.tower.com/images/mm117186788/10-laws-enduring-success-maria-bartiromo-paperback-cover-art.jpg

This thread is not about Beautiful People, no one is surprised when they are still in the 90th percentile of good looks at any age. This is about embracing the power that comes from surface ugliness, partic that which is brought on by aging past the point when society grants you the privilege of believing in your own allure.

actually i think it was about amateurist having a quarter-life crisis

well there's that

We've moved on. Also I seem to have misplaced my sympathy for 25-yr-olds mourning their lost youth. I can't think where I put it.

well to be fair he's 33 now.

you kids quiet down

i was 25 when i first posted to this thread too, but i had already achieved a zen-like acceptance of my advanced decrepitude

Laurel idk if you were talking about the pics I posted but yeah the 2nd one is clearly a beautiful woman but none of the women in the first are particularly so. What are are those in a bunch of clearly awesome older women who seem to be embracing and rocking their maturity which is why I posted it.

nice thing about mid/late 40s is tossing the illusions overboard and waving as they go down

What are are those in a bunch of clearly awesome older women

I have no idea what happened between my brain and fingers there. Should have read "What they are though is a bunch of clearly awesome older women" . . .

Pretty sure my face is going to get less and less feminine as I age: nose will spread even more, color will slowly drain out of my cheeks and lips (high contrast faces are considered more feminine apparently! true according to science), chin has gotten less chinny (and wasn't a paragon of its kind to begin with), skin doesn't have that glow. I'm going to have to settle for being a person instead of being a feminine person. I know I might not seem like the likeliest candidate to be bothered by that, but I am. When I see my face without make-up now, I feel like it belongs to someone plain and sexless.

xp :) I don't know if my illusions are waving or drowning, but they're definitely getting farther away.

it's funny, though, to my twenty-something self, "becoming a person" instead of a woman seemed like one of the alluring things about being an old lady. but i know what you mean, Laurel.

I know! I'm not sorry about the destination, I'm just not feeling ready for the sacrifices of the trip just yet.

E, I thought the group photo was cool! Those wimmenz are STYLISH as HELL and at least some of them seem to have re-defined their guiding principle from "attractive by a strict measure" to "awesome by any measure that counts." That's the general idea, I think?!

Yeah, exactly.

I want to see Laurel's withering gaze.

x-post - Front right is my fav btw. I don't know who she is but I freaking love everything about her look from the hair to the glasses and necklaces. She's gonna be my old woman style icon.

i wouldn't mind turning out like

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/090824/rosemarys-baby-gordon_l.jpg

but obvs there's gonna be some steps involved

E, I don't know what year that pic was taken, but I saw someone's personal wardrobe put on exhibit at the Met's Costume Institute after she died, and based on the pic it could have been that lady's. Obviously she was someone of enough privilege to travel the world collecting jewelry, silks, and weird tribal artifacts from flea markets and nomadic bazaars, but still...a lifetime of following one's muse, on phenomenal display.

Yeah idk Laurel - I just found it online a while ago and had saved it cause I thought they were sort of inspirational. That exhibit sounds amazing.

Oh dear lord, it was Iris Apfel's collection. GIS her and you'll see what I mean.

I know this is the kind of complaint that gets people slapped, buuuut...although I'm obvs glad that genetics have been kind to me in allowing me to retain a somewhat youthful visage, I'm getting to an age where I think it's almost more of a hindrance in a lot of ways. Like, people don't generally assume that I'm in my mid-30s (the fact that I'm a pretty little dude also plays a role there, I'm sure), so I tend to get treated as if I were a kid a lot of the time. Not that my general demeanor does much to disabuse them of that notion. But still. I wouldn't mind some outward sign of my years of hardship already. I'm legit about to start buying rumpled old suits and dressing like Burroughs until the rest of me catches up.

Um... Oh, I'm also bald! Totally rockin' the toilet seat hair. That's pretty gross, right? Eww! I can own that.

Also apparently she wasn't dead at the time! Boy did I misunderstand that. She just allowed her stuff to be shown.

Oh man - I LOVE HER.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NftlVPmu2gw/S7CQZwpPrVI/AAAAAAAAOZ8/61DObcgVnKk/s1600/Iris+Apfel+in+a+recent+issue+of+O+magazine.pngp

That lady is beautiful

u + k blog:
http://advancedstyle.blogspot.com/

!!!

Deric, I'm 40 and I still get treated like I was a kid. It doesn't get any better with age.

I remember silently rolling my eyes at Amateurist during this thread's original incarnation. Sorry Amst!

this is my favorite captain beefheart song I think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2wtHYyERls

I think I have the opposite of this problem btw so I'll stop posting

are you getting hotter and hotter? that is a serious problem.

portrait of dorian gray shit

I think my body just grew into itself tbh

http://unidentifiedflyingpeaches.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/pekar-small.jpg

Oh god, where did I leave my collagen last night?

Is it possible to be ugly and not spend your every waking hour obsessing how much you hate the way you look? Would like to hear from anyone who has managed to pull this off.

This revive brought to you by contemplating the 'what celebrity do you look like' thread and not being bale to think of any plausible candidates who don't make me want to never leave the house again.

Yeah, the modicum of dignity that I'm holding onto right now is a product of a very strained imagination.

Is it possible to be ugly and not spend your every waking hour obsessing how much you hate the way you look? Would like to hear from anyone who has managed to pull this off.

― that is how ghosts laugh (bends)

well i look a lot like the guy in that cartoon (thanks for that) but i do find that being fuckin awesome in most other ways gets me through the day quite nicely tbh

The sooner I can ditch these looks, the sooner I can start developing an even remotely engaging personality.

"i do find that being fuckin awesome in most other ways gets me through the day quite nicely tbh"

yeah, I think this is where I'm going wrong.

I'm wondering if I'm ever going to have that slightly reddened, slightly grizzled facial skin some people seem to get between the soft period and the wrinkled period

ugly applies to attitudes, not looks.

it's brutal being yr own worst critic, true - i think you shd consider the real possibility that nobody else looks at your face the same way you do, or sees it that way either.

it's best not to even think about this stuff. i do though, "god i'm an ugly cunt" is usually the phrase in my mind. hopefully i don't actually believe it.

nv otm tho, best to ignore these voices.