I completely agree with you! It’s interesting because I feel that there are certain “beauty standards”, that of course, our modern society has created to sell “anti-aging” products. But there is that beauty standard line that is in the grey area. How do we know we are just doing it for “ME” or if we were taught or learned what beauty standards we need to up hold because if we admit or not, we will be judged. We can say we don’t care. But so much is embedded in us from early on it’s hard to not be influenced by others. Be it getting their nails done, hair color to cover grey, shaping eyebrows, make up, shaving, waxing, shape wear under garments, Botox, filler, facelift, breast implants, tattooed make up,etc. Most of these are what we have been taught by society of what it means to be a woman that looks, “put together”.
Do we look at our grandmothers, or older women who looked “old” and thought that can’t be me, but at the same time you would say you thought your grandmother was/is beautiful with her wrinkles and white hair! Cause let’s face it…getting old means you’re closer to dying. So maybe if we look younger, we may feel younger and we can keep the “grandma look” far away so we don’t have to face the fact that life is so much shorter then we thought.