"Our women are the most beautiful in the world! But they ruin their youth and beauty with such silly things, depriving themselves of self-love and human happiness," says my sixty-year-old friend. She worked for a long time as a fashion designer and lived in France, after which she returned to her homeland: "I am surprised at how naturally beautiful our women are, but what really raises questions is the inability to maintain their beauty even after fifty. Below I give the thoughts of Dina, my friend about what most spoils the image of a woman in her old age.
The smell of old age ✔️
"A childhood friend still lived in the yard where I lived when I was young - when I came home I decided to visit her, we often corresponded. She was nice and radiant - my beautiful Tanechka - the same at heart as she was thirty years ago. Only her personal life never took shape after her separation from her husband. One day I introduced her to my childhood friend. What I heard from a decent and tactful person at first shocked me: "You see, she smells like her grandmother..." - "How's that?!" - I asked with bewilderment and even irritation, he immediately replied, "It's like she carries around old rags." Such a direct answer might have stunned me as a woman, but I went ahead - determined to see if my good friend was being talked down to. We met at her house. It all became clear - the smell of grandma."
"That and the smell of the old apartment and things soaked in the spirit of time and old perfume - the quintessential "old age", she smelled not like a woman of color, but like a grandmother who had adopted the smell of old clothes - it was the absolute truth - naked and unpleasant. This was a good friend of mine, so it was up to me, not any of the men on the date, to tell her that and help her. The body needs better hygiene as it ages than it did when it was young. Things need better care, and some things are better just thrown away. But even so, you can ruin everything: just take an old perfume - voila, the image of a neat but grandmother. A good perfume is something that creates an intangible sense of a fragrant flower. Our noses create as clear a sense of a person as our eyes - that's the concern of every self-respecting woman."
Grandmother's hairstyle and hair color ✔️
"The difference between pretentiousness and fashion is very thin, sometimes it is almost non-existent. Just like the difference between young and old: a couple of bad decisions and no magician can hide a woman's grandmother. An acquaintance of mine once said: "That's why, why do they do that? It feels like the shorter the haircut, the more flamboyant it has to be!" - he was talking about women his age, in their fifties or sixties: "And these colors? I understand blond, auburn, dark and all natural colors, even if a woman went from blonde to brunette and vice versa, but why these bard, red, purple, green-what are they for?" ".
"A woman always stays true to nature, to attract attention to her person wants her nature, regardless of age. But the way she does it and distinguishes a woman from her grandmother" - Coco Chanel.
"I call it desperate decisions. Yes, the gaze of older men, grandfathers and grandmothers, it will attract, but certainly will not add to the natural beauty and attention from men her age: a classic hairstyle, even if not long, even if not with thick hair, but groomed and neat, with a good, natural hair color, always looks younger and less toxic than fancy and flashy. A woman of age doesn't need to take "brightness" like a parrot to look more advantageous than younger women - that's a mistake. Coco Chanel once said: "When something is wrong in a woman's life, her image screams it." Don't scream about age. We are all beautiful in our own way and have a charm that just won't be picked up by those we scare off in a nonsensical way."
Dry Voice ✔️
"The voice is a delight to men's ears, it is the soothing singing of the mother, calm and majestic" - Sigmund Freud. Voice is one of those things you don't pay attention to directly - it is perceived by the subconscious: you can like and dislike someone just because of how the subconscious perceived their voice. This skill helps children to orient themselves to what is going on in their environment, guided by their mother's voice: anxious or calm, caressing or tearful. We don't realize it, but the voice is a mesmerizing force. As we age, our breathing becomes shallow, not deep, and our voice becomes dry. Stand up straight, breathe deeply with your belly and chest to a comfortable level and say something nice, good. Then let all the air out of your chest say the same thing - notes of dryness will immediately show themselves."
Inna Mikhailovna Churikova
"Deep, calm breathing is the key to a beautiful voice. Adult women often have back problems, from which they slouch, constricting the chest and abdomen - breathing becomes overdone, the voice is dry - it lacks volume and softness. The same can be said about bad habits: they accelerate the degradation of the vocal cords - the voice becomes drier and coarser, it lacks softness and roundness.
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