I can remember getting ready to go out on my 18th birthday. It was 1985 and I thought I looked HOT. 27 years on, I am sporting a similar look for an 80′s party. I am REE DICULOUS.
I am amazed by how easily the application of my blue eye liner comes back to me, and ever-so-slightly perturbed when my 5 year old tells me “You look pretty Mummy”.
It got me thinking about how the birth of each new decade seems to hammer a nail in to the coffin of the previous one. Goodbye shoulder pads, farewell white ‘shag me’ shoes, nighty night wet-look hair. What was once beautiful (or was it?) has become an overnight shambles.
I started SaveEveryStep because I didn’t want my Mum’s memory to be lost. I didn’t want the beauty and warmth of her 1950s youth to be just a face in a black and white photo, wearing curious white gloves and a funny little hat. Time is an absolute sod. It takes away from us our beauty and ultimately separates us from those we love.
So, to my mind we should be celebrating the passing of each era. Treasure the ridiculousness of that tartan pinafore or those skinny jeans (who knew they’d make a come back?) and find a way to keep the beauty of the times you’ve experienced intact in your memories as part of your legacy.
Oh, and remember – you are beautiful now, just as you were beautiful then but didn’t think so at the time.
More Posts on the ‘Beauty’ theme over at Tara’s ever-popular Gallery.
Or think so now quite a lot of the time. Sad how self doubt plagues. I very thought provoking post.
Thanks. Time is the enemy but also a friend!
Pardon the pun but that was a beautiful post – I was particularly taken by the photos of your mum. Ps. I remember wet look hair – and that awful gel!
LOL. Thanks for the comment about my Mum. She was a stunner in her day. Wet look gel, urggghh!!!!!
Indeed…. youth does not have the monopoly on beauty in my opinion.
Mollyxxx
Sad, but true.
I definitely agree that time takes away beauty. I’m already stressing about greys at 27! A thought provoking post
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Don’t stress it Emma, just embrace it!
Great post. Maybe it’s the changing of the seasons that makes us think about the passage of time too. My mood can darken as we approach autumn.
Good point. Melancholy with the dark nights?
I am thinking about getting some make up soon..feel old
LOL. As Christina would say “You are beautiful….”
Really thought-provoking post. And I couldn’t agree more. I look at my grandma now, at 87 years old, and I see a beautiful woman. The lines in her face make her the woman she is now. My stunning grandma.
That’s so nice to hear. Life leaves its marks – they’re a sign of experiences and wisdom which are beautiful in their own right
Your posts always make me smile.
) I think we should be proud of all our looks throught the years, then we will NEVER feel ridiculous!
Not proud of that hair!!!!!
Excellent big hair (mine is thin and fine so I never conquered the look) and I think your current blue eye liner looks great. It must be my age. Your Mum is Proper Glamorous. Relative youth is always beautiful for those of us that are a few years further on
Love that you love the blue eye liner!!! Mum used to say if you keep things long enough they’ll “come back in again”!!!
And mine kept all of them just in case
You are so right, I have some very crazy pictures of me too, and cannot wait to show them to my girls one day…. once the time is right
So we all have a good laugh
Good for you. Save them for a treat when they’re old enough for a glass of wine!