I've paid regular attention to my brows since my early 20's. Never one to be able to put up with the stinging of the pluck, I've been a waxer - once a month, at least. My well-groomed brows gave me confidence - always natural looking, but accentuating my eyes.
However, since 40, I see my (usually Russian) waxer much less often than I used to, because I don't need to. How is that possible? Three weeks of neglect usually sent me running to the salon to shape the hedges! Here's how - I'm aging. My eyebrows are thinning (I recently bought my first eyebrow pencil ever to help fill them in ) and that's just the beginning. My hair is graying, my skin is sagging, my wrinkles are deepening - it's just getting harder to avoid these obvious signs.
And since I consider myself a woman of substance whose brain and soul have been given at least as much attention as my eyebrows, I am surprised at how much it hurts. I wouldn't be 20 again if you paid me, but I'd really like that 20 year old's body back. I never appreciated it while I had it (you know the adage: "Youth is wasted on the young."), but I know it'd be different now. I'd stop picking it apart and complaining about being fat and how my breasts are too small and my legs too short. I looked hot back then (pictures bear this out), but I didn't know it or I chose to not see it.
This makes me wonder if I can really see myself now. Do I look okay (for 40-ish) and will I someday look back on pictures of now and think, "why didn't I appreciate that when I had it?". Hmmm... probably. Hindsight (even with nicely accentuated eyes) is 20/20.
You were hot at 20, and you're hotter now. A little bit of maturity becomes you. I'm sure you'll look even better as time goes by. Not that you'll ever believe it when we tell you -- but it's the truth.
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