Nothing like the right props. Recently I told my co-moms the quickest way to look ten, no make that twenty, years younger in pictures was to grab a toddler or baby-in-a-stroller and pose with it like you were once again starry eyed and twenty five at the brink of total womanhood - after having given birth to junior and looking forward to number two. It works sometimes, but not if you're particularly stressed and with no makeup on, in which case you'd come out looking like the proud grandma. It has happened to me. AND the quickest way to look old (or your actual age) is to wear leggings and a long shirt, and pose with your real life 21-year old daughter and 18-year old son, thus giving away your forty or fifty something years of age even if you declare to the whole world that you gave birth at the age of ten. Recently I found out in one of those never ending cocktail parties where the SFDVs* are herded like cows from one venue to the next (honestly! I saw the very same faces last Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday!) - that if you wedge yourself in between two elderly looking been-to-a-million-cocktail parties type of people, your face actually brightens and you look young, fresh, and nubile again. Like this:
No, I will not identify these poor victims of mine. They are actually famous and very very nice. So, enough.
* same faces different venue
On a different note, I always thought I had this addiction
to LBDs (little black dresses). My wardrobe is filled with LBDs like they were some sort of uniform. It's the most practical thing! So WHY did I end up wearing a BBD? (big black dress, what else) It's the most hideous thing and I actually look .... fat! Steph was also wearing one, but in her case she looks smart.
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