The real reason why some stars get older, such as fine wine, while others … not: Amanda Goff reveals the generation living that accelerates the clock – and it has everything to do with the year you were born

It is difficult to remember life before … ‘it’ arrived.

It was a simpler time, a better time. It was a time when our brains were not completely rotten and we knew what women actually looked.

We used to laugh in photos – really laugh, even if it gave our double chin. We would live in the moment, without endless interruptions to grab and pose.

And the best of all: women did not try to look exactly the same.

You know what I’m going to say if I say now …

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I’m talking about Instagram. Yes, the app that you probably have already checked a dozen times before you read this.

It may be difficult to remember now, but there was a time before facetune, filters, filling material and fox-eye-wires, and whatever the latest Buzzy Beauty Jab is. (To be honest, it is difficult to keep track of, even for someone like me, a former beauty editor).

And that was it Good. Before Instagram, and even during the relatively innocent early days before it became a cultural colossus, women enjoyed social media and they did not feel under pressure.

You didn’t have literally Twens who spread on hard retinols and place skin care videos of their pink bedrooms.

“Get ready with me while I’m stacking on my pre-adolescent skin on chemicals.” “Many of you have asked about my skin care routine …” (No, we don’t really have that, and why don’t you do your homework?)

If you are an older millennial, say 35 to 42, you would be part of the happy generation that you have reached twenty without social media every woman changing a wannabe beauty influences.

You would not have sold skin care to you before you even started your period.

Maybe you have had a few tweaks – but only after 30. A touch of Botox. A pinch of subtle filler. Certainly nothing important and certainly nothing for your early 1930s.

No operation, no cheek implants, no duck lips, and certainly not stretching your eyes to make you look shocked alien – or Bella Hadid.

I look at women in that age, like today host Sarah Abo, Pilates Queen Bernadette Fahey and PR Whiz Roxy Jacenkowho probably (especially in the case of Roxy) had a few tweaks here and there, but certainly no overly look.

They look years younger than their actual ages, while they still look like their passport photo when you see them in the meat. These women see lively, youthful and Real.

But for younger millennials and their gene Z -brothers and sisters it seems to be a different story.

Now I see a disturbing trend when I scroll through photos of celebrities and influencers in their twenties who look like they started ‘tweakings’ on the day they turned 18.

I hate to say it, but there is something … off when I look at photos of Skye Wheatley, Kylie Jenner, Tammy Hembrow and Indy Clinton – all loved by young women and girls, by the way. Perhaps it is their waxy smooth forehead, overly prominent cheeks, chubby and transmitted lips, their eyes once tilted up.

Yes, they play heads. Yes, their numbers are hot. And no, I certainly don’t look so good in ActiveWear as with their young, tight bodies.

But I can certainly say one thing: these women look older than their years – certainly older than when I was so old.

It is as if they have been skipped straight ahead beyond the decade of having a natural youthful skin (the type that you cannot buy from a bottle) and landed in that 40-I-IS zone where anti-aging becomes a necessary fixation.

Let me be clear: there is nothing wrong with 40-plus. I am in the 1950s, for God’s sake!

But 40-plus skin belongs to 40-plus women; No 21 or 30 year olds.

Younger women get older differently, and not in a good way. And it’s a very recent development. The fact that older millennials generally look better than the youngest members of their generation should be a reason for the alarm.

Yes, part of the problem is too much Botox too early. And the use of hard skin care too young. Vapen also plays a role.

But the worst perpetrator must be early exposure to the highly composite ‘perfect world’ of Instagram-the person who came to the fore when today’s 30-year-olds were teenagers.

The pressure must be ruthless. Hint of a rule? Inject. Eyes a bit winding? Scalpel. Lips ever look so thin? Jab.

There will always be a new look or procedure that is trending – but up close, in real life this means that women look more artificial and years older.

I mean, how the hell do these women go out in their forty, when they have maximized every treatment at the age of 24? Joan Rivers would crave breath.

When a woman in the twenty decides to inject every wrinkle, to switch on every eyebrows and immerse each lip, what they do not realize is that they rob themselves of the only thing they own that older women can go alone: ​​their childhood.

Women who were born a decade earlier, on the other hand, took a completely different path. I would dare to say that most of them got their 30th birthday without feeling the dick of a cosmetic needle. Now they go to 40, they opt for subtle maintenanceTreatments that alleviate their characteristics instead of saving. A little anti-aging here and there, not on full face lifts at 25.

Am I hard? Maybe. But you only wait if these young women touch 40 and look 60. It is a tragedy that treatments are once sold as ‘preventive’ now, now seem to be aging a generation.

Before I am accused of assessing other women, I want to share a personal story.

In my early 1930s – that was two decades ago – I became the beauty editor of a Glossy Magazine and suddenly PRS started throwing beauty treatments to me left, right and in the middle.

I’m talking about peeling, lasers, injectables – you name it.

I had the newest miracle treatment that had me every day, even every hour. I had my first shot of Botox at 34, practically a geriatric in the world of 21-year-olds who became frozen, embalmed, heated and needles for ‘prevention’.

And can I be brutally honest?

The more treatments I had, the more expensive the skin care that I had layered, the more make -up I wore … the worse I looked.

I started to look Haggard. I have noticed more lines. Duller, pale skin. More breakouts.

It became clear: the more I was prick, the older I got. And then I realized that more means better, younger or more beautiful.

It often means exactly the opposite.