Liminal Beauty

Despite a spate of recent stories about aging beauties, once women turn 55 they are off the radar of prime advertisements.  Maybe marketers are smart enough to know that aging women trust their inner voices above all else.  Whereas once we listened to what the world told us about being beautiful, now we celebrate our hard-won individuality.  We chuckle at our earlier efforts to achieve a certain look, and understand it was a necessary rite of passage.  Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, in Women Who Run with the Wolves, shares that for many women, age 55+ heralds an age of 'choosing one's world and the work yet to be done.' Now that's a thing of beauty.