I used to wear a lot of makeup - full face. We’re talking two kinds of undereye concealer, foundation, blush, powder, eye liner, three shadows, mascara, lip liner and lipstick. I even had a little chart from the Chanel counter that showed me how/where to apply different products. Very glad I don’t feel like I need to do that any longer.
Anyone who caught Paul Simon and Paul McCartney on the SNL special has seen the crazy paces that male vanity can take a person’s face. They have both gone way beyond looking just a little bit fresher and better rested.
I guess what I wonder more than anything is why anyone thinks it’s necessary to measure. Aging happens. We all know this (okay, maybe Madonna doesn’t).
Beauty isn’t an absolute globally. What Brazilians find attractive might not be the same as what Americans find attractive (speaking in gross generalizations here). We’ve become conditioned to expect perfection in a magazine. I think recently unretouched photos of Justin Bieber were leaked from a Calvin Klein photo shoot - somehow it wasn’t as big of a deal as this.
My guess is that this particular snap of Cindy was taken while she was moving…it was probably one of many frames, and happened to look particularly bad because her flesh was moving a bit at that instant and the camera captured a bit of jiggle…combined with poor lighting and what appears to be ugly bronzer, it’s not flattering. Imagine, everyone fixates on one bad photo of Cindy, after the thousands that show her to be quite beautiful.
I haven’t read - what is Cindy saying about all this???
sabaray,
My cabinet is loaded with skin care products… which I rarely remember to use. My massage therapist calls me “a collector”.
Break them out, jym! Free them from the cabinet. Your skin will thank you!
I am going to a dermatologist today. Will probably come home with more for the collection. I took a photo of the current collection!
@Sally305 I"ve been thinking the same thing. Isn’t it the french actress Catherine Deneurve (spelling?) that said at a certain age women had to decided between their face or their ass? LOL! I didn’t understand that then, but I sure do now. I am above the weight I feel the most comfortable at by about 5-7 lbs…not horrible, and nobody but me would know. However, I did lose that weight around Xmas time to fit into a tight dress for DH’s Xmas party. I did it, but fat also came off of my face and I thought it was a bit aging. So now…I’m trying to find that line.
BTW, I love women’s fashion and beauty magazines and sometimes I even get a book from the library. My 2 favorites are “How Not to Look Old”, and “The One-Hundred” (Nina Garcia). I hate cooking, LOL!
I do agree we are picking the picture apart because it’s just something to talk about here. Not noteworthy enough to even talk about IRL.
@Abasket I don’t think Cindy has commented, just her DH putting that picture up of her on their vacation on 2/14.
Harper’s Bazaar and Marie Claire - Wow! I don’t think I’ve even read either or those once! I’m sure we all pay attention to how people look, but I think it’s more of a passing glance, not a pass/fail judgement. I remember once I went to work with a brand new shirt on that I had not washed first. About an hour into the day, after I had interacted with the public, I went to the bathroom and saw in the mirror that I had left the size sticker on it. All the way down one side of my shirt you could read the size in fairly bold letters. When I pointed it out to my co-workers they had not even noticed! We all laughed about it and I chastised them for not paying attention.
What do you read, walkinghome? Just curious.
Why, she reads cc of course 
Cooks Illustrated, The Christian Science Monitor, local newspaper and lots and lots of books! oh, and a couple of professional interest magazines.
Too much time on CC and FB.
Our standards are really low if we think that a middle aged woman (or a fat woman or a woman who has survived breast cancer or…) posing in lingerie is worthy of applause. Show me a real heroine and then I’ll applaud. Saying “Hey, look, I’m a normal person with flaws” just gets an eye roll from me.
Well, if she didn’t expect the photo to be released I do feel badly for her and don’t think for a second her public image is intended to be normal since she is a supermodel. Mostly, we’re looking at unflattering angles, terrible lighting, a woman closing in on age 50, and the lack of photo-shopping which is used on every lingerie shot on every model of every age. Also, the feathers, hat, and heavy make-up don’t help at all.
I’ve worn makeup probably a dozen times in my life–to be in wedding parties, for a few proms, for a few photos. That’s it. Mostly, I don’t see the need or the benefit and I don’t like to risk skin irritation. I also dislike how lotion feels on my face and skin. My mom uses lipstick and eyebrow pencil exclusively, except for weddings and when she or dad is guest of honor, then she will allow her Ds to put makeup on her.
Here’s the photo of the Valentine’s vacation–that looks MUCH better and more natural.
The one with the orange bating suit top. Impressive.
I think that the picture probably doesn’t the reflect the way she looks in real life, the way she is posed, the lighting, the way it was shot I suspect makes it look worse than it looks in reality, over-emphasizes the stretch marks and so forth. Still, it would be nice to see real pictures, I read fitness magazines (not that you would know it to look at me these days), and many of them do the same crap with their models, they touch them up in photoshop and such, and these are people in great shape. Few people have perfect bodies (okay, someone explain to me Giselle Bundchen, who has had several kids and still rocks a bikini from some of the ‘real life’ pics of her with her family), and all this retouching simply sets an ideal that doesn’t exist; might make plastic surgeons happy, but other than that, all it does is make people think their body is ‘weird’ when it is probably more normal than not.
All I have to say is everything I have heard about Cindy Crawford is besides being a gorgeous woman, she apparently is a very intelligent person, sounds like she has raised some decent kids and seems to have a good life with her husband, and I think whatever shape her body is in, perfect or not, sounds like her husband is one lucky guy;)
“I don’t know any woman over the age 50 that buys magazines that feature beauty tips or focuses at all on the body. At our local library the most circulated magazines are consistently cooking ones.”
I’m 50 and I read most of the fashion magazines - not to slavishly follow or anything, but they’re fun to read. I particularly like Allure, Marie Claire and MORE - MORE is targeted to women 40+ and is stylish and fashionable, but in a way that’s more suited to our age group versus a 21 yo.
And I read health and fitness oriented magazines, and try to maintain my physical fitness in a good range. I’m not bikini-ready, but I sure wouldn’t mind being so. I don’t know why one would stop caring about looking attractive and staying fit. Indeed, it seems that it’s my age group who - now that we are not taking care of small children - are the ones who are now doing pilates, yoga, barre class, running, etc.
I don’t cook and don’t have much intention of ever starting