BEST AGEING QUOTES

l ‘Wrinkles will only go where smiles have been’ - Jimmy Buffet l ‘We are always the same age inside’Gertrude Stein l ‘Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!’ - Ingrid Bergman l Some guy said to me: ‘Don’t you think you’re too old to sing rock n’ roll?’ I said: ‘You’d better check with Mick Jagger’ - Cher l ‘The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles’ - Ralph Waldo Emerson l ‘Age is simply the number of years the world has been enjoying you!’ - Unknown women out there choosing to embrace their age. Lots of celebrities have spoken out about their opinion on the subject of getting older and had some interesting things to say, especially about being role models for the younger generation. Drew Barrymore has expressed, “I’m now determined more than ever to show my daughters that ageing is a luxury’. Similarly, Reese Witherspoon said, ‘I just feel like I earned that grey hair and my fine lines. I like ‘em’. The common theme with all the women who have spoken about how they are embracing their age is perspective. They know that they’re not going to look like they did when they were 25 at 55, and they also know that that’s okay. The fear of aging disproportionately affects women, but sadly it’s not just women, young girls are affected too. While doing research for this article I saw that a question commonly being searched online was ‘How can we prevent ageing at a young

POSTING A ‘NO MAKE-UP SELFIE’ IS CONSIDERED A REVOLUTIONARY ACT

In an attempt to expose this growing trend, the British fashion photographer John Rankin Waddell, launched a social experiment which he aptly named “Selfie Harm”. In this series, Rankin asked 15 teenagers to edit and retouch portraits of themselves until they considered the photos to be “social media ready”. The results were truly shocking. Displayed next to each other, Rankin’s untouched portraits show naturally beautiful women against cartoonish and doll-like caricatures. Bulging eyes and pouty lips, feature in these retouched photographs, highlighting the sad reality of beauty standards in a social media obsessed world. These portraits are of course a byproduct of wider mental health issues relating to social media, such as body dysmorphia and social anxiety. We are trained by these standards of beauty to not only hide our flaws, but to blur them out completely. age?’. Although this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it also proposes the question, why are young girls worried about ageing? There is enough to worry about when you’re a teenager, and now the fear of ageing is added to that. The answer to that question online offered some great advice like, protect your skin from the sun, moisturise, don’t smoke and stay out of tanning beds. However, it also said ‘Avoid repetitive facial movements, like squinting, frowning…’. This applies not only to young girls, but to any person out there, why would you want to avoid showing your emotions on your face out of fear of aging? If you want to cry, cry. If you want to smile, smile. You only get one life, so enjoy today for what it is. Here are what two teenage girls had to say on this issue: How does seeing edited pictures on social media affect how you see yourself?

Rankin has said that this cult of the selfie is “just another reason why we are living in a world of FOMO, sadness, increased anxiety, and Snapchat dysmorphia”.

Emma, 15: ‘It doesn’t really phase me to be honest, I usually just swipe or click away’.

Katie, 18: ‘It makes me feel as if there are unrealistic expectations on what I’m supposed to look like, and it makes me feel bad about myself being compared to the edited photos’. How do you view plastic surgery and Botox?

Shana, 13: ‘I don’t agree with it, but if one of my friends were to want it, I would support them’. Katie went on to say: ‘I think that those things are unnecessary as everyone should feel comfortable in their own skin, however, the influence of social media has caused people to believe that the only way to look good is if they stay young and fill yourself with these toxic chemicals – I think that being beautiful is about owning who you are and loving yourself for that exact reason’.

The Answer

If you really care about how you look stay out of the sun!

According to scientists at EPA in the US 90% of visible skin changes commonly attributed to ageing are caused by the sun. With proper protection from UV radiation, most premature aging of the skin can be avoided guys and girls! Don’t smoke, eat healthily and exercise. Researchers at the University of Birmingham and King’s College London have found that staying active keeps the body young and healthy. The Brigham Young University study also found that people who ran 30 to 40 minutes at high intensity five days a week were consistently biologically younger than those who followed more moderate exercise programs, or who led sedentary lifestyles. Oh and don’t take too much notice of unattainable social media – no one looks like that anyway!

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