Wierd mid-life indulgences

[ny biker]

The drift in this thread is amazing.

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I'm starting to eyeball crazy expensive face creams with retinol. I didn't think wrinkles would bother me when I was younger and didn't have any. But at 40 I do have them and they do bother me.

I'm also thinking of doing something nuts with my hair, but more in the form of a garish-colored streak. My hair is fairly long. I kind of like it long, even though it's starting to become increasingly gray. My grays are a really attractive platinum that ends up looking like super-blonde streaks in my very pale hair. I find it easier to deal with long hair than the more frequent maintenance that comes with keeping a shorter style looking good. I can go 2 months between trims without going bonkers. I can toss it in a ponytail when it's warm...and when it's cold it keeps my neck warm.

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Since a wide leather belt with jeans is new to me, now I realize: I'm not going to wear a belt going through airport security. Stick it in my suitcase.

This may not be a mid-life indulgence, but just change in taste: I seem to lean more on wearing lighter/brighter/jewel colours near my face. The older I get, the less desire to wear sombre colours close to my face, unless it was a rich velvety black, rich deep brown, etc.

Haircuts in last 2 yrs. have become much shorter, more sculptural.