While lying on the floor in agony with a sore thigh muscle my daughter lay next to me, reached out, traced her fingers along my forehead and said, ‘Your wrinkles are pretty, mum’.
Of course, I furrowed my brows in confusion.
Most of the time we women fear children and their crass honesty however my daughter’s surprising words are still ringing in my ear, happily.
Wrinkles are pretty. It’s not something we women hear, is it?
Soon I will be turning 45, and like any middle-aged woman, I’ve had to come to terms with the fact that I’m just not looking that youthful anymore. In fact, my forehead looks like the top of my head got squashed thanks to the years I’ve spent furrowing my brows at pretty much everything. Now my most prominent forehead line above my brows has formed itself into a mono-brow itself. Not kidding.
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I’m aware my face will never restore itself naturally to its 20-year-old flawless state either. And honestly, I wouldn’t think anything of it if it wasn’t for some people’s horrified reaction to wrinkles.
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Foxtel has a great series I've been watching, Portrait Artist of the Year. Basically a portrait painting competition show where the artists paint well known people. By far the most interesting portraits are of the less perfect faces, the ones with wrinkly bits and wonky noses. Gave me a whole new perspective, I think I'd much rather have an expressive face, wrinkles and all, than some frozen, 'perfect' mask.