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eyeline matching
May. 9th, 2014 04:48 pmI got my hair cut on Wednesday (photos have been taken but not uploaded); it's a pretty edgy dragged-through-the mud kind of undercut with geometric art etched in the shaved parts, a mod shape on top, and supershort scrub-brush bangs, so I look like a meld of every British rocker from glam through hip hop, smashed together. It's aggressive and pathetic and androgynous and I like it a lot.
One thing about it is that it makes the crows feet by my eyes more obvious. But - here's the turn - that makes me seem like I've been up partying all night and therefore reads as younger.
This is what botox culture has done to the aesthetics of aging. Wrinkles read as comparatively young, because anyone in the media is using surgical fillers by the time they turn 40. I walked past the tv during the Beatles concert special last month, and almost everyone in the (very wealthy, very white, male and female) audience was only interdistinguishable by hair and jawline. It was like watching Eyes Without A Face through a kaleidoscope.
One thing about it is that it makes the crows feet by my eyes more obvious. But - here's the turn - that makes me seem like I've been up partying all night and therefore reads as younger.
This is what botox culture has done to the aesthetics of aging. Wrinkles read as comparatively young, because anyone in the media is using surgical fillers by the time they turn 40. I walked past the tv during the Beatles concert special last month, and almost everyone in the (very wealthy, very white, male and female) audience was only interdistinguishable by hair and jawline. It was like watching Eyes Without A Face through a kaleidoscope.
