#11 
I read this insightful blogpost about how looking your age can be a cognizable offense. If you look your age you get tones of free advice on all kinds of beauty products and regimen to be followed to look maybe your daughters age.
Our visits to the saloon are so tragic as the beautician won’t fail to mention your crows feet, pigmentation, dry and aging skin , bad hair and the list is endless. Not only do we end up spending a fortune on beauty products but also are left feeling inadequate .
Instead of allowing anyone milk our udders of gullibility let’s stop getting affected by comments related to our appearance or digs at the aging process. We are socially conditioned to equating beauty with youth and youth as an accomplishment.
I remember reading Sonam Kapoor’s blog where she has addressed the aspiring to be size zero young women who endlessly fast and go through all kinds of shortcuts to look “thin and pretty ” , that for her that is Sonam to look the way she does on posters and commercials a lot of effort , money and expertise of a dozen hair dressers, makeup, artists, stylists and designers is involved.
The subliminal message of the TV commercials and our favorite women’s magazines who are constantly giving us ideas of puncturing holes in our body and squeeze out the icky fat is , if you are fat and wrinkly or unfortunately both , you are a badass who doesn’t take care of herself.
Let’s kick these outdated ideas of beauty firmly in the ass and let’s flaunt our grey hair, the fine lines around our eyes and mouth, the flabby areas that refuse to go away despite our active and health conscious lifestyle , skin which used to be tight and glistening now a little soft and dry and let’s focus on our enriched lives, our achievements and be defined by our charisma , awareness and be noticed for who we are not the way we look.
Let’s focus on how we see ourselves not how we look in the mirror and work on understanding our unique body and how to look after it accordingly.
My saree is a maroon crepe with interesting thread work in grey on the Pallu and silver accessories by Nnazaquat.