Unretouched Christy Turlington Quietly Subverts the Norm
As an impatient tween, I wanted to be all grown up, so I read Seventeen magazine at age 12.
That inverted as I got older. I’m 55 now, and I flatter/delude myself into viewing 51-year-old model Christy Turlington as my contemporary. (Gales of derisive laughter.)
This photo, seen on store displays of Maybelline’s new Dream Radiant Liquid foundation, quietly exudes the elegance that Christy can conjure on demand. It declares that, sure, she has faint lines criss-crossing her forehead and a wee pockmark on her right cheek, but she is still the queen.
Here’s proof: when Christy appeared, several years ago, on our local cable channel, TVOntario, to discuss global maternal health, she looked so lovely that she remains, to this day, the only person ever to look beautiful under vicious TVO lighting. Not only did she found the charity Every Mother Counts, that works to improve outcomes for pregnant women everywhere and make an accompanying documentary, No Woman, No Cry, but she can also bend light to her will.
And Maybelline’s Dream Radiant Liquid hydrating foundation? It’s a medium-coverage foundation with hyaluronic acid and collagen for plumping, and enough coverage to smooth out any unevenness without looking too heavy. Perfect for older skin. (I disapprove of matte foundation when you are our age. Really really disapprove.)
I’m also grateful for Maybelline’s low-key way of talking to a 50+ crowd without a lot of ‘you’re not getting older, you’re getting better’ eye-roll inducing pandering. They just put a photo of Christy and her gentle crow’s feet out there and that’s it.
I’m also thinking they must have an exasperated older women working in product development right now because Maybelline has bestowed a further gift to older women in their new Cheek Heat gel blush. (Powder blush being just as bad as matte foundation for anyone 50+.) Someone there is definitely looking out for us.