Hypocrisy! … The article speaks of women embracing their age while showing a photograph of a young attractive woman. A woman who obviously has no wrinkles.

Wow all of your beauty advertisements show Caucasian women.

Would it have been too much to show a photograph of a "Mature "African American woman or woman of color.

There are many standards of beauty and they’re not all Caucasian! … Please respect all of your readers and try something new. Try showing some diversity! 

Personally, many of the women I knowof all ethnicity’s wear very little makeup.

It appears the natural skin tone of women of color produce enough color and highlights on their own. There’s not the usual need to enhance ones complexion like the Caucasian woman. It’s the melanin in the skin. Darker skin takes longer to age. A woman with a dark complexion can be sixty yet look forty. 

I think the woman in this picture is gorgeous….40 is FAB!

First of all, I saw the picture as a caricature, nothing else.  I’m sure the author had nothing to do with what image the editor decided to place there.

 That said, I don’t understand the big problem with aging, or showing signs of aging.  If women embraced their natural beauty, men would have no choice but to do so, as well.  Personally, I don’t want to look like a 15-year-old now that I’m 41, and I definitely don’t want people treating me as such.  I earned my stripes, I won’t hide them, and I demand respect for them.  Looking like a teeny bopper won’t get me that respect.

I was the beauty + fashion director of MORE magazine for ten years.

I think women 40 to 50 are still trying too hard to be "young" vs women 50 + who find age is just a number and not the big deal it seemed at 40. They just want to look amazingly healthy

slim, energetic and stay fashionable, evolved and involved.

I will be forty in December.  After reading the article I realized that for the first time ever, I like me!  To hell with the extra few pounds, to hell with the wrinkles!  My family loves me, my dogs love me and God loves me.  I’ve been there and done that and although I have made many mistakes I regret nothing! When I find myself envying the skinny, gorgeous 20 something I try to remember that inside there is an insecure, struggling human being wishing her life was as together as mine.