A Current between Shores: On Aging
by Rose-Anne Clermont
- Germany -
• Dermitáge's ads promise anti-aging with airbrushed before and after images. •
Now, nearing forty—and completely uninterested in make-up—I’m the target age for the exorbitantly priced cosmetics that promise to work against the effects of time. Although politically correct advertisers today claim to embrace the beauty in aging women, the forty-something models look like they’re twenty-five. The fifty-somethings barely have grey hair and look like me on a good day. The sixty-somethings are ridiculously airbrushed and women in their seventies are noticeably absent.
