Anita Roddick (British founder of Body Shop) posted her picture a good fifteen to twenty years ago in all of her stores showing her face sans make-up and sans photo-retouching. I cannot remember how old I was, but I do know that wrinkles or aging (ageing as the Brits would say) was the last thing on my mind at the time. The image of Ms. Roddick with arrows pointing at her wrinkles with explanation of how she had acquired those particular wrinkles had fascinated me (it made such a strong impression on me that I still am talking about it today). There she was naked for all to see her life drawn on her face.

What a good headline, don’t you think? If anyone could bottle that statement in a liquid form…they would literally become rich overnight. The reality is that stopping the aging process is never (EVER) going to happen. I so would love to be a Dancing Queen, young and seventeen forever (thank you ABBA for that song), but it’s just not going to happen. I’ve always found that European women and especially French women (and men) have such a different approach to aging. It’s amazing how older French stars are still viewed as sexy even as they’ve aged.