Embracing Age or Hiding Behind Makeup?
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- I'm all about looking and feeling your best at any age but when women over 60 are still desperately trying to look 25, it kinda makes me cringe. Let's talk about aging and what it really means to embrace aging and to love the skin you're in.
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I am 70 years old , and I rarely wear makeup. My hair is grey. It is a process embracing your age. I had to learn the hard way. Forced to retire because of back fusion. I had to learn to accept where I was. Every day is different. I had to learn how to walk again. It was a very humbling experience. I had to reorganize my priorities. Love your attitude. I hope your son is ok. Great job Mom❤
@@msv8180 thank you!
Am 67 I like a little power and blush but at this age more young women tell me that I am beautiful than men ever did when I was young??
I can relate to be invisible. I have been visible for all of my life from society due to being chubby, when I was anorexic and bulimic I was visible. Go figure after nearly being put in the hospital for that disease. I am embracing my chubbiness. I am doing my best to be and get healthy by losing weight. But losing weight for myself. Not for anyone else, not for society basically for health reasons. But other than that I'm blessed. I have a good attitude about life. I like being alive. I help others. I bless others with my creations that I make and design. I'm a crocheter and a knitter. I also make jewelry and I paint but that's just me. I do what makes me happy and that's all that really matters in this life. I try to live comfortably as best as I can. I cut corners like a lot of people do in the states to survive since rents are super high here in Southern California. Even in the ghetto rents are high. I don't understand it but it is what it is. All we can do is survive and do our best❤
You sound very crafty!! I love that you keep busy doing all the things you love!!
Hi Iva I just turned 60! I smoked cigs all my life and laid in the sun so I fully look my age and I don’t care. I’m happy I quit smoking and I don’t lay out in the sun anymore I have no regrets ! I let my hair go gray after dying it for 40 years I have beautiful white healthy hair and it’s free. Such a blessing. Take care I love your videos.
Here's to sliding into our golden chapter smoke free, happy and with white hair!!! Thanx so much for watching and sharing your thoughts. 🧡🙌
Iva, you know I 100% agree with everything you said! Being over 60, we no longer have to pretend to be young, don't want to pretend to be young, because we love ourselves as we are! We still take care of ourselves and look nice when we leave the house. My response to most things is been there, done that - including coloring my hair, only go out with make-up & heels on, go to the gym every day, etc. You know what? Listing those things just showed looking young/polished was hard work! I would rather use time living my life than getting ready for it! (Back then we didn't know what we know now!🎉) Love you, Iva, and I will catch you elsewhere since I'm on a limited budget and can't join [yet].❤
I'm still here, Darlene. Just the Lives will be in a membership area, not my regular videos
@@WomenBlazingTrails YAY🎉🎉🎉
Sometimes wearing makeup makes you look older. Makeup free all my life and I am 65 now and my skin I think looks better because I have not put chemicals on my face.
Yes it can make you look older!
Hi Iva something you might want to try. Don't use soap on your face cleanse with 100% witch hazel with rosewater. I use 100% aloe vera gel with a drop of coconut oil for my moisturizer and once a week a make a natural scrub to remove dead skin. All natural way of caring for your skin.
Thanx for those tips. I haven't used soap on my face for years. Coconut oil isn't for everyone.It's very thick so you have to test your skin to see how it reacts. I use all natural products on my face. I have for years.
@@WomenBlazingTrails Your right about the coconut oil just a dab will do .
Hello, watching this unlive and unplugged lol.
hahaha 'hi, I'm 58 and I'm better than you!' is what I'd say in the chat part while you were saying that!
In our 60's we've lived through lots of things, we don't want to be looked at and treated like we're younger, I want my age level conversations, I want company that knows our music and references I make. :)
I think some don't want to face their beautiful, rich true age. Women in their 80s and 90s, (from the one's I've known and the ones I took care of in a nursing home) keep things really simple, they answer questions with one word, one affective word. Worrying about things is just a waste of a good day dream.
Remember the Golden Girls? We need more of that sentiment between our mature community.
I've carved my social media to my liking, I block or hide the content I don't want to look at and subscribe to the things I do.
Our age group has a great sense of humour and that has a richness that puts joy and ease to ourselves and who we're in the company of. The most beautiful thing on anyone is their smile. I have had more 'ah ha' moments since finding your channel than I've had in a long time, thank for waking me up! I'd have been filling that chat!
W☮MAN P☮WER❗💪
I love your insights! Thanx for chiming in.
#womenpower #girlgang
Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder ❤
I am happy & Blessed to still be here among the living and I do my best to live each day to the fullest.
I am chubby and happy, I don't do the comparison thingy at all because each person has a different story of confidence or not having confidence.
I have learned to just be happy with myself and to do my best to get healthy and stay healthy ❤❤
Love your channel, your talks make me think and are therapeutic for me so thank you 🌹🌹🌹❤️
Awe thanx so much! And thank you for sharing your thoughts too! I love learning more about the people who watch my videos!
thank you for encouraging us to accept ourselves and to embrace reality!! i'm 53, you're like an amazing, hip older sister that i wish i had, living life to her fullest and sharing her wisdom and strength with me-much love back to you!
Awe thank you so much 💕😊
i've seen most of your videos and forgive me if i've missed these topics you might have spoken on, but if you haven't, i would love to hear your experiences with freelance writing and how you got your start (similar to your talk on youtube-ing) and with menopause symptoms and how you deal or have dealt with them. thanks :)
Hi I have done a video on freelance writing and how I got started. Here it is ua-cam.com/video/q1lQCECDyic/v-deo.htmlsi=4vujiqcdwNhnpsBQ
As for menopause, I honestly don't even remember going through menopause. I had a full hysterectomy at 51 and then just carried on life with missing parts...haha.
Thanks so much for your reply, Iva! I am excited to watch that!
Thanx!
Hi:)
I'll be 58 this summer. About 6 mths ago, I was a bit sensitive about how I was changing, physically. I worked through it, lol! I haven't worn makeup, except for once in a blue moon in about 8 years now. I notice women that are ate referring too. I find it makes them look a bit older, and a bit foolish. Especially to the extreme of surgery, bright red hair at 65 etc.. so much easier and empowering to just accept where we are at. We were all 25 once:)
Thanks so much for asking:)
@@TheVirgoan1 I was sensitive too at the beginning! I'm good now 😌
I’m going to be 56 in a week and all I feel is sadness 😢 I keep telling myself that I wish I was younger. People discriminate so much against older people and I wish it would stop. I don’t like looking at myself in the mirror anymore especially my neck😢……also the older I get the more I think about death😢
Stay safe .. you are not alone.. many other women in similar situations…
@ thank you you’re awesome ❤️❤️
Oh Sweetheart, Big hug.
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@lucylu0615 you're not alone. I used to think like that and hated looking in the mirror. Aging was depressing for me when I hit 60. Now at 62, I'm totally embracing it! We got you! 🫶💕
Iva, you probably know about "pain points" and how they are used in marketing products, services, advertising etc.
I think women are conditioned to see themselves through the eyes of marketers targeting our vulnerabilities.
The more independent voices, like yours, appear the more the algorithm will follow and provide content that promotes our personal beauty.
Great topic
They really prey on us. It's so sad
Also I colored my hair dark brown for 45 years properly 4 weeks it was grueling. It was super long I grew out the dye for 5 months and finally got a pixie. I loved the pixie but now I’m bored with it and am growing it out it’s a beautiful white I love it. Also you will look gray with your gray hair it’s a fun journey I loved it! We look great with what god gave us!! ❤ embrace the grays lady. I was the queen of hair dye now I’m natural!
insecurities come in many forms.
@@suzannebigras7071 yup!
I LOVE TAKING CARE OF MYSELF AND LOOKING PRETTY AND I WILL NEVER STOP PUTTING MAKEUP ON PERFUME ETC THOES ARE JSUT SOME OF THE THINGS I LOVE TO DO AND IM NOT GONNA START LOOKING LIKE A BEAT UP OL DISH RAG FOR ANY BODY YOU DO YOU BUT IMA DO ME
@@coffeecup369 i never said to stop wearing makeup. I even said I was wearing light makeup for the video. And please stop yelling
@@WomenBlazingTrails YOU MUST BE HEARING THINGS HONEE CAUSE I AINT YELLING
Ok Felicia 👍
CAPITAL LETTERS= YOU YELLING GIRL 😆 @@coffeecup369
Oooph...so loud, it's hurting my eyes ...haah!!
Iva, tbh...I HATE the aging process. As the hair goes gray or white, as the face and body succumb to gravity, as we become invisible to the world, especially to men, it's very disheartening. At least, that's how I feel. SO many changes! Im 74 (!) and after menopause, it ALL went to shit. Thanks for discussing a very relevant topic with so much honesty. LOVE your down to earth approach. Rosemarie 🩷
@@roseyc.5846 thanx Rosemarie. It can be hard for some. I hope I offered a little hope and encouragement for those struggling
I love my age and every age I have been. I almost never wear make up, but I do color my hair. I simply don't like me with gray hair. I am 62 and I never want to be 25 again. LOL
@LifeinGuatemala haha! Ya I def don't want to be 25 again!
Wow! Well, if you all worked around cancer patients, you would kiss the ground that you walk on that you're not going through treatment and feeling like shit all of the time. I believe thats why I do what I do. To remind me daily of the illusions our society inundates females with, and to delve beneath skin level. I'm 71, I'm alive, I'm curious and I'm moving into my days, aging body and all. Ha! My videos are made at 4:30 a.m. right after I walk my doggies, no make up and free. Best to you!
@oldvinezen9857 thanx for your input and great insight!!
my take on the psychology of women: most women hate any other woman that they perceive to be better looking than they are. guys might feel the same way because handsome guys can get good looking women without effort. women are more forgiving about men's looks, a good looking woman will often take a guy who isn't up to her level looks wise; so women aren't as superficial in this regard. that's my 2 cents from a shallow hal.
That sounds pretty accurate!
I think ageing for women is a process, at least for me. At 62, I feel myself gradually embracing what is happening. It’s hard to accept I think, that we’re never going to be as pretty or as hot as we once were, and that era has passed. But along with that and on the other side of it, is acceptance and a kind of relief that I don’t give a shit anymore about any of that lol. I don’t wear makeup anymore and love that freedom of just being natural me. And I absolutely agree that what makes us beautiful emanates from inside, our strengths and joys and empathy and compassion, and a life full of experiences. I would not change or try to erase one wrinkle or imperfection on my natural face.
@@leslieburgess921 so much this!!!!!
SOME PEOPLE ARE NOT AGİNG QUİCKLY BECAUSE ON THE PAPER MAYBE YOURE 70 BUT YOURE BİOLOGİCAL AGE İS 30
BEAUTY İS NOT THE AGE
WHAT ABOUT TATTOOS ARE THEY COOL?! NO
Please stop yelling
WBTrails (IMO) w/all ur content being behind the wall I think you’ll loose subscribers some may not b able to pay to hear ur content but the subscribers that got u to this point I’m sure will feel like u abandoned them b/c u may hav to come bac to public content and start all over ! ( jus my opinion) Good Luck ❤
Yeah, it's a shame. I like her. But I can't afford to pay for subscriptions. 5.49 is 2 cartons of almond milk, or almost 2 containers of organic oatmeal.
Nope , just my weekly Lives, my regular content will always be available to watch!
@ Good. Times are tough in the United States for so many people including me. It's the high housing costs that are making it hard for so many of us, making it hard to even have food. Thanks!
@benton-benton I completely understand. Times are tough for everyone these days. After Google decimated my blogging business, I had to pivot to find another source of income. I'm just doing the best I can. 🫶💕
@ Very sad. I'm sorry google did that to you.