15 Women Over 40 Share the Beauty Product That’s Aged With Them
glamour.comnot of but instead of an “”–era Britney Spears, you’re also old enough to have a long and storied history when it comes to .
Your childhood was probably laced with the scents of Tommy Girl or CK One, and there’s a good chance you wanted to be . Later, mall trips centered around the acquisition of Hard Candy and Urban Decay nail polishes and Lancôme Juicy Tubes.
You came up in the pre-balayage era, with its Sun-In and spiral perms and stripey salon highlights. There’s a good chance that your hair evolution also involved teased , handfuls of tiny plastic butterfly clips, and in the early aughts, a plastic hair insert known as the . (Apologies if you’d been trying to black that one out.) Women in their 40s also know what it is to mourn a ride-or-die, can’t-survive-without-it beauty product that gets inexplicably discontinued. (RIP, .)By your fourth decade of life, you’ve really lived through some moments, beauty-wise.
That means you know a thing or two about products. Not only what really works for you and what really matters (hint: sunscreen), but that often, newer—or fancier—isn’t better.
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