How to be a Hottie!

I was reading an article in a magaizine on a 55 year old woman who had a brief stint as "a hottie" and finally discovered that beauty is really over rated. Her overall opinions were:

1. Try to look your best as infrequently as possible. However you look, people get used to it. If you accustom them to a very high standard-your hair and makeup are always perfect, your clothing is expensive and fetching-you are just setting them up for disappointment if you make a mistake or, God forbid, get lazy. If, however, you do as I do and wear jeans and a T-shirt most of the time and wear makeup only for special occasions, there is always the possibility of a pleasant surprise. No, they didn't know you had any taste. No, it was not clear that you were actually pretty, but your are! This is not the same as letting yourself go. It is more like being dormant, so that from time to well-chosen time you may blossom.

2. Never make shopping an event.(When you look for something, you will buy it: when you don't look for something , you will love it! ) The job of a flattering outfit is to impose itself upon you. If you need or want something for a particular event, you will certainly buy something you don't like.

3. Go Blond, when you go grey. Dark hair is for children.It goes nicely with smooth, creamy skin. Once your mane is striped and face is lined, there are too many contrasts. You look too complicated. Nice color highlights looks like an optical ilusion and are a good way to start. Think Tawny.

4. Kiss a lot.(lips of middle-aged women thin out and eventually disappear. The best antidote is kissing every day for extended periods of time . ) Your partner should really put his heart into this-the tendency of your lips to disappear needs to be aggressively counteracted.

Her conculsion is : Total hottness, as Shakspeare said, "hath all too short a date".