One-stop sustainable beauty at Farfetch
When FARFETCH asked me to feature their new beauty channel on That’s Not My Age, I was pleased to see that the luxury website is promoting smaller, sustainable brands, as well as all the usua...
Health & Beauty
Straight-talking product reviews, interviews and features on fabulous women who love their age. Expert beauty advice, hair and skincare tips for women over-50 who want to look good, not young.
That’s Not My Age Podcast: the breast surgeon with breast cancer, Dr Liz O’Riordan
My latest podcast guest is an extraordinary woman. The consultant breast surgeon, Dr Liz O’Riordan’s world turned upside-down in 2015 when, aged 40, she was diagnosed with br...
Walk this May: 31 ways to get moving for National Walking Month
Walking is absolutely the most accessible activity for most people, wherever you are, with no kit needed, and more of us did it during lockdown. During 2020 the number of miles walked pe...
Ageing and anxiety: What to know and where to find help
Do you find yourself worrying a lot? Between climate change, Brexit, Covid, and the war in Ukraine – to say nothing of more personal concerns like ageing parents, the rising cost of living, y...
How to make your make-up look more glamorous than usual
The pandemic affected all industries in different ways. Obviously at its height, having make-up done professionally for photoshoots was verboten.
When life feels like a disaster movie… (and you’re experiencing Fear Of Going Out)
Why do so many disaster movies start with or involve crowd scenes? Jaws (1975) is the obvious example but there’s also Rollercoaster (1977) Deep Impact (1998) and Earthquake (2016).
Making Up For The Lost Lipstick Years
Spring into summer always feels epic. First come modest white snowdrops followed by the more strident daffodils.
The 10 best foundations for mature skin
While I generally feel that too much makeup is ageing, since lockdown I rarely step outside the front door without some layer of foundation to make me look a teeny bit more presentable. It̵...
What to do about grey eyebrows?
While I’m more than happy to welcome the grey hairs on my head, the white interlopers popping up in my eyebrows are a different matter. These rogue hairs are wiry, resistant to taming and when I...
The life, style and skincare secrets of Linda V Wright. An extract from Face Values by Navaz Batliwalla
After the success of her first book, The New Garconne: How to be a Modern Gentlewoman, freelance fashion editor, founder of the Disneyrollergirl blog and my good friend, Navaz Batliwall...
Why we LOVE Emma Thompson more than ever
What a wonderful human being Emma Thompson is. You knew that anyway but… in the Guardian’s Living in a Woman’s Body feature, the 62-year-old actor writes about the pleasure of...
What does 50-something look like? Why we need more older women on our screens
Why are we still so confused about ageing? I’ve been writing That’s Not My Age for over 13-years and while there has been a huge amount of progress made in that time: ...