Transformation - change is beauty

Darin Wright
Sep 6, 2024
2 min read

“Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” – Betty Friedan

Photo by: Doug Wright iphone

Perspective is everything. aging is life and we may not have the stamina we once had, or feel well due to this or that, yet we can focus on what we can do and how great that is.

I love my job. I love helping people find their best colors and teaching them how and when to use them. Within the top five concerns I hear from my clients is aging. Specifically how to use products to enhance their beauty at their age. Working with color is my medium. I use it a number of ways. Color is always first and then the medium second. For instance, knowing your best orange, every humans skin color, is number one and then finding the perfect fit concealer, foundation color and type, would be the next step for cosmetics. Of course depending on the concern we go about things very differently. Not everyone wants to wear cosmetics. For those clients getting in touch with their best colors is very rewarding because your best colors alone will enhance the skin and make you feel and look so much better, even with out adding cosmetics to the mix.

photo by: Elea Wright

When it comes to aging some people are denied that opportunity. My philosophy has been to embrace it with all its challenges and changes. When I have a moment of the aging blues I have to remind myself that we, the aging, are the role models for the younger generation.

Being aware of your body changing can be a good thing. With every change we must remind ourselves that we are still growing and morphing like that of the chrysalis. Each day we have an opportunity to embrace beauty. Be that in our minds, bodies, or souls. We have the ability to change at any age. Experience new things. Even try on a new look, why not? Acceptance of our body where it is, is absolutely gorgeous as well as emotionally healthy. It is never too late to change, to learn, to explore different perspectives of all things. To see different sides of the stories we tell ourselves and others. To be open minded, to explore.

Photo by: Krzysztof Niewolny

The butterfly is a symbol of change. A symbol of the beauty of change. Changing is not something lost. It is a new stage of opportunity and strength.