Evening star. [volume], February 04, 1962, Page 14, Image 134

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Anita Colby tells you how to
Be Your Age and
Look Great
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BEAUTY
Here’s advice on beauty after 40 from a woman whose
looks prove she knows what she’s talking about
By ANITA COLBY
I’m over 40, and I don’t care who knows
it. Most of my friends are too. Some
admit it freely, even are proud of it. But
others feel their age is something to be
ashamed of, like some relative in jail.
My feeling is that there’s nothing at
all wrong with growing up and growing
older. Everybody does it why not you
and me? I think the best approach is to
accept it and enjoy it. Be 42 or 48 or 63 or
whatever but be it with pleasure.
Tvefound there are three types of women.
- One type accepts growing older as inevitable
and feels there's nothing she can do about
it. She then proceeds to fall apart. Another
variety refuses to make the trip. She acts
and dresses like a young girl all her life, and
usually is the first to start growing old. The
third type, the really intelligent woman, pre
pares for this stage in her life, accepts it,
and makes sure she is just as aUradive as
she was in her younger days though Per
haps in a different way.
Now this may be a cliche but it’s true
your age is not merely a biological
affair. Your attitude is a large part of it.
The fear of growing old can strike you at
almost any time. You’ve seen old women
at 20. Some women worry about approach
ing age in their 30’s and try to head off
the unavoidable, while others pass grace
fully out of one decade into another. Movie
producer, David O. Selznick, says, "Every
one in the world wants to be young except
the young. My idea of middle age is any
body who is ten years older than I am.”
The first thing to realize when you get
older is that all the tricks in the world
AUTHOR anita coiRT, America's foremost authority on beauty after 40, has been a model,
consultant to film companies, newspaper woman and TV personality. Her best-selling
"Anita Colby's Beauty Book" has been translated into 10 languages.
won’t fool anybody but yourself for long.
Time marches on anyway. I say let it march.
I like myself much more now than I did
when I was 20 or even 30. I feel wiser, hap
pier and, believe it or not, better looking.
I believe with the Europeans that
a woman isn’t truly attractive until she
reaches maturity. A teen-ager can be pretty,
a 25-year-old, glamorous, but it takes a
mature woman to have the depth, percep
tion and know-how to be really beautiful.
Mr. Kenneth, the famous hairdresser,
says, "No one looks like anything until 40.
Beauty is age. Beauty is knowledge. The
best-looking women in the world like
Eve Curie, Babe Paley, Joan Fontaine
are no longer youngsters. They’re the
women who have taste which has developed
and crystalized into assurance and poise.”
Play up the bright aide
The beauty one develops after 40
doesn’t happen all by itself —of course,
the older woman has to take good care of
herself to have that beauty. She has to
know all the ways to ward off the unattrac
tive signs of age and play up the attractive
ones. She has to work harder than she
ever did at 30 —at her make-up, her hairdo,
her clothes, her attitudes. A young girl
might have a disheveled look and still be
charming. The older woman can’t. A young
‘ girl can often wear her hair in any style.
The older woman must find the right one
for her. A young girl needn’t wear make
up at breakfast and will still look fresh.
The older woman won’t get away with it.
But that’s part continued on page M
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