Rejuvenation Backlash: Aging Gracefully

At 62, actress Raquel Welch became the face of MAC Cosmetics, with the message of turning down plastic surgery procedures to achieve younger look. Instead, women ought to make the most of their natural beauty.

Few years ago, surgery was considered to be the best in providing long-lasting improvements in the battle against aging. Today, however, the rejuvenation backlash have been felt as there are more and more beautiful celebrities and fashion personalities who are against plastic surgery, especially in Britain.

Christopher Hopkins, the author of Staging Your Comeback: A Complete Beauty Revival for Women Over 45, has expressed that many of the women who have gone through plastic surgeries to enhance their look are actually unable to undergo cosmetic surgery operation like botox. Nevertheless, pressured women ended up with their newly-”done” face because they are afraid to look physically old. This is for the fact that women are programmed to believe that only surgery or injections can change the impact of aging.

Another author, Oz Garcia, said that beauty is not just about being natural, but also by being intelligent and mature. This was stressed in her book, Redesigning 50: The No-Plastic-Surgery Guide to 21st-Century Age Defiance.

In another book of Valerie Ramsey, Gracefully Looking and Being Your Best at Any Age, she suggested that skin care, make-up, exercise and nutrition are better than surgery and injections. The 68-year old author said that "Although our perception of the over-40 club of women has finally started to change, we still live in a youth-obsessed culture. But the key to aging gracefully is to be proud of your age without being confined to looking it."

The author suggested four (4) ways to graceful aging:

1. acceptance of the aging as a natural process

2. focus on the positive – the best thing about aging is that we have grown

3. find an age-appropriate role model and then just get on with life.

"While it's fine to like the latest teen queen and even be inspired by them, an older model will display courage, strength, and wisdom.”

4. Carrying oneself with grace.
"Beauty is the way a woman carries herself, her energy and presence."