Jerry Hall: plastic surgery makes perfectly intelligent women look like lunatics
Model Jerry Hall, 58, has a first person essay on The Daily Mail which is all about her beauty routines and fashion tips. We previously heard from Jerry about a month ago, when she admitted that she still has vices that are tied to premature aging including smoking, tanning and drinking wine. In her new essay, she expands on her beauty tips, and they include never wearing elastic pants (or else you can’t tell if you’ve gained weight), staying classy with fashion, and slathering olive oil on her hair and skin once a week. She also freely admits dyeing her hair, and swears off plastic surgery, saying that “I’m going to try to grow old gracefully instead.” Hall wrote the article to help promote her partnership with TK Maxx (The European branch of TJ Maxx) and their Give Up Clothes For Good campaign, which donates proceeds to Cancer Research UK. You can read the full article here, and below are some excerpts:
Why she doesn’t cut her hair
you won’t find me suggesting that a woman should cut off her hair when she reaches a certain age. My long, blonde hair has been my trademark ever since I started modelling in the Seventies, when I was scouted sunbathing in St Tropez.
She still dyes her hair
The other big decision is whether to go grey or to keep reaching for the dye bottle. I love the look of grey streaks in hair — on someone else. But I’ve been colouring my hair blonde since I was 14, and I don’t see any reason why I should stop now.
Her tip for keeping hair healthy
At work, my hair takes a lot of punishment from hot rollers and curling tongs, but the olive oil keeps it beautifully shiny.
On Sunday nights I massage it in, like my mother taught me, tuck my hair under a shower cap, tie a scarf over it and leave it as long as I can.
Never wear beige
When it comes to clothing, I’ve got one really hard and fast rule: never wear beige. That’s such an old-lady colour. Having said that, I think that the colours I choose these days are a bit softer than they used to be.
Don’t wear anything with an elastic waist
Another rule is never, ever to wear anything with an elasticated waist — jogging pants are only for jogging. That’s the beginning of the end: you won’t know when your waistline starts expanding and it’s time to cut out desserts.
Dress classy, not sexy
At my age, though, you want to look classy, rather than as if you’re trying too hard to be sexy. I was famous for my legs, but when she was a teenager my daughter Georgia, 22, told me my mini-skirts were too short, so I auctioned them off for charity at Sotheby’s.
These days, my skirts don’t go higher than a couple of inches above the knee, and that’s with opaque tights underneath.
She’s anti plastic surgery and injectables
Some women of my age swear by the odd nip and tuck, but I think it makes perfectly intelligent women look like lunatics. I’ve always said I won’t go there, and I haven’t changed my mind. I’m going to try to grow old gracefully instead.
The problem with cosmetic surgery is that people who have it can only see how they look in the mirror. They don’t realise how weird they look from other angles. I particularly hate the injections that puff out the face, which are hideous.
I’m against Botox, too. For one thing, it’s very bad for your health to put poison in your forehead, and for another, if you paralyse the expression, you don’t feel emotions properly.
It’s true that Botox blunts your emotions, studies have shown that Botox users lose empathy because they can’t move their muscles to mimic facial expression.
Hall also says she never goes without makeup, but that she’s trying to go a little lighter during the day. She also doesn’t use powder, which can emphasize fine lines. (I also heard that tip from MakeupGeek.) I’m like that, I wear makeup even to the school run. I found myself nodding to many of her tips. I especially liked what she said about not giving up on hair and beauty as you age. She said her mother is her inspiration, and up until she passed two years ago “She loved to dress up and look glamorous… Like me, she had a signature hairstyle, and every week she went to the hairdresser to have it set into beautiful, sculpted waves.” This whole article just made me want to go to the hairdresser and get a blowout.
Jerry Hall is shown with her boyfriend, scientist Armand Leroi. Credit: WENN.com
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