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Lo he dicho muchas veces antes y seguiré repitiéndolo; la piel suave como la de un bebé no es un objetivo a alcanzar a medida que envejeces. Nos han enseñado de la manera dolorosa cómo nosotras, como mujeres, miramos (nuestra) piel.

Beauty campaigns blatantly depict anti-aging with models way too young for older skin. Hollywood stars who have been wholly retouched have led us to believe that our skin has to look a certain way. And it’s not just your skin that changes as you get older; the whole body changes. That, too, is eagerly retouched by the industry to sell products to women who believe they must continue to live up to certain beauty ideals.

I have personally experienced the impossible aspiration myself by now. At 46, I start to see the traces of years working too hard and sleeping too little. I smoked too much and partied way too hard, and didn’t eat healthily enough. Was it worth it? Uhhh yeah duh… I’ve lived, and even better, I’m still alive with great memories and new adventures to come.

Nowadays I take good care of my skin every day. Extensive routines to honor my aging skin, cleanse, moisturize well, especially drink a lot of water, and laugh a lot. I remember somewhere in my early 30s, I got persuaded to botox the smile wrinkles around my eyes… I can only describe what that looked like; there are no pictures of it because all evidence is banned. My husband is a living witness to the strange situation that unfolded on my face whenever I tried to smile. I learned a lot from those 3 months that laughing was an impossible task. Never again.

peer pressure

noun

noun: peer pressure; noun: peer group pressure

influence from members of one’s peer group

When I was a young girl, my mother used to say: If everyone jumps off an apartment, will you jump too? My lanky answer was, of course, no. But in reality, as people, we want to be accepted by our fellow human beings, and peer pressure is an issue not only among young people. If you hear, see, read every day that you should “anti-age”, then you may start to think you shouldn’t age.

Cuando miro a Rosalie, veo a una guerrera, una potencia, una mujer hermosa, una historia, una deslumbrante y una dulce. No veo nada más que eso. Cuando vino al estudio para una sesión de moda, este catsuit colgaba en el perchero. Lo había dispuesto con la esperanza de que ella se lo probara, pero cuando Rosalie lo vio, incluyendo la capucha, no dudó ni un segundo en ponérselo. Me encanta eso porque ella es quien quiero ser cuando tenga 67 años. Formada por la vida y llena de confianza y libertad.

Mujeres como Rosalie son los ejemplos que quiero ver durante mis desplazamientos en las redes sociales o mientras hojeo una revista. Hay mucha más verdad en ello, mucha más autoestima que en la piel suave como de bebé de las damas retocadas que supuestamente son “mayores.” De todos modos, creo que esto es lo que significa envejecer.

Puedes encontrar a Rosalie en Instagram .

Ella lleva un mono de Zara y fue estilizada por Dayenne Bekker.

Maquillaje por Maaike Beijer.