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Acceptance – Aging and Myself

June 11, 2014

A few posts back I mentioned that I’ve been reading more books and blogs written by women of a certain age – MY age. It seems I’ve been floating around in a bubble about that for awhile and not really accepting what’s going on with me. However, my face started breaking out a few months ago, but it’s also dry now so I decided to find a book that might help address both issues for a women in my age bracket. I found one – Toss The Gloss – by Andrea Q. Robinson. Lots of great advice and product recommendations for skin care, cosmetics, and beyond. However, the best part was the insider information she had on the cosmetics industry. So, that’s the book that got me started.

I had also been looking up wardrobe information next – namely capsule wardrobes – and found The 10 Item Wardrobe from The Daily Connoisseur blog by Jennifer Scott. That led me to her book “Lessons From Madame Chic” which I beat around the bush buying, but I finally did. The author is a young mother with young children, which really doesn’t fit me, but because I had been to Paris twice in my past life, the book intrigued me. I have to say, it’s given me a lot of food for thought on how to nourish my spirit and revive the self I used to be. Well, okay, I’ll never be that self again, but maybe I can emerge as a new me (the real me?) and finally indulge in those things that really make me happy. Like ballet and classical music concerts. So, we’ll see how I can incorporate those ideas.

So, that still brings me back to the wardrobe stuff. I was browsing online and found some information on capsule wardrobes (Wardrobe Oxygen being one of them), and I decided to Google wardrobe for women over 50. That led me to this book, Forever Chic, and her blog A Femme d’Un Certain Age. There is a lot of good information here and when I went to look at it again the next day, I accidentally stumbled on this one: une femme d’un certain age. Yeah, those titles are really close and that’s how I stumbled on the second one. :-) I really like the tone of this blog and she has a lot of wardrobe ideas as well as living life in general. Definitely not in the same income bracket ($165 for a shirt), but I can take the ideas and find similar styles in MY income bracket.

So, I’ve been going around lately calling myself a “woman of a certain age” istead of “51” or “old” and I find that it helps maintain perspective on the aging thing. The other thing is accepting and wanting to be ME instead of wishing I could be someone else, look like someone else, or have someone else’s life. Case in point. I was walking out of the library a couple of weeks ago and there was a beautiful woman on her way in. A little taller than me, dark brown hair, beautifully bronzed skin, wearing a flowy white tank top, bermuda shorts, and sandals. And she was my age! In that moment I wanted to BE her so badly! Me with my blotchy skin, bushy eyebrows, funky gray/blonde hair, and overweight body wanted to be HER. Later I realized I could never be her or even like her because I’m ME and not HER. SO, I decided to go on a campaign of accepting who I am and trying to make the best I could of it. I have to say I do feel a little better. I found some skin care and makeup I can live with for the summer (thank you Toss the Gloss) and I decided to make my own Ten Item Wardrobe for the summer as well. It’s taken some of the sting out and is pushing me towards living my own life. Time will tell how it all works out.

Now, I best be off – it’s school this morning and then doing some Father’s Day shopping this afternoon. So enjoy your day and enjoy who you are too. I’ll leave you with this quote attributed to Oscar Wilde –

“Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.”

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June 11, 2014

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