One way for people to save money is to stop coloring their hair; wearing hairpieces; getting Botox injections; getting hair weaves. Can you imagine how much money everyone would save? Even more important, we would begin to see each other as we really are.
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Middle Age, Before It Came Out of a Bottle
By PATRICIA COHEN
Published: March 7, 2009
excerpts:
..There is perhaps nothing that has altered the look of middle-aged women more than hair color.
When Clairol came out with its new 20-minute coloring treatment without peroxide in 1956, it was the first time that women had an inexpensive, fast and easy way of coloring their hair at home. Previously, only about 7 percent of women dyed their hair. Now nearly 60 percent do...
...The growing infiltration of television into every household helped spread Clairol’s and other advertisers’ messages more frequently and more effectively than anyone could have dreamed.
Men’s hair dye — not to mention weaves and hairpieces — has not quite reached the same level of everyday acceptance. But take a look at the torrent of images from movies, television, magazines and advertisements that help to shape or create our expectations and views about how people should look. Aside from the Botox, Restylane, nips, tucks and suctioning that Hollywood stars and extras regularly endure, the absence of gray in nearly everyone under 65 reinforces the impression that midlife is supposed to be free of gray.
A handful of Hollywood idols like Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery and George Clooney have maintained their magnetism without melanin. But for most everyone else, agelessness has become the ideal ...complete article
see also: "Who says the rugs don't work," London Observer, March 8, 2009
Sean Connerylink to photo
Helen Mirren
MTH
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