Graciya Fashion Styles

Mirror mirror on the wall…the fairytale about who is the prettiest of them all is based on the very real feelings that women feel when they realise the world is getting younger, but the mirror reveals that they are not. It’s been described by Vivian Diller, co-author of Face It: What Women Really Feel As Their Looks Change, as the ‘Uh-Oh’ moment. When women catch themselves in the changing room mirror, or see their reflection in the car mirror one day and realise that the puffy, wrinkly, tired looking face in the mirror is in fact yours.

It’s not surprising so many women have a love hate relationship with their mirrors. In today’s youth-centric culture, women feel increasing pressure to look young. Vivian Diller researched the ‘uh-oh’ moment writing her book and found many women in their forties and fifties experienced the devastating revelation that they were old. Women in mid-life are almost obsessed with how they look in the mirror, with more money being spent on cosmetics, beauty treatments and even surgery than ever before. Vivian Diller puts this down in part to the media and our culture that tells older women if they lose their looks, their jobs and husbands will be snatched up by younger models. Older women are, to some extent, invisible with only one or two notable exceptions – namely actresses such as Helen Mirren. Many headlines have been generated by the fact women newsreaders are dumped at a certain age, whereas men go on and on. It’s not surprising then that women invest so much in their youthful appearance.

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