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I've noticed that time has not been kind to CONway. She's aged quite a bit during this campaign. The bags under her eyes are far more pronounced, and I've also noticed she's getting harder to light. Lighting can be your friend, on camera. An actress friend taught me that. It makes a BIG difference in taking years off of your face if you're lit correctly. She wouldn't even do an interview with me if she wasn't sure the lighting wasn't going to be carefully done and strategically shrewd. It's much harder now to light her face these days, to blanche out the bags under her eyes. If she sticks around for awhile, I'd start watching for a brief absence while she gets an eye job done.
This campaign has aged her remarkably. Her looks have grown more and more hag-like. Then you add the stringy hair that looks as though she barely ran a brush through it (or maybe she didn't have time - this has to be a seriously carnivorous job, to have to keep mopping up after the Baby-Man all the time). Sometimes she comes on with no makeup and no lipstick and she looks drawn and sickly, with pasty skin and no color in her cheeks at all. And there are other times when I've noticed that she's spent a fair amount of time with makeup, or in the makeup room before an interview, when the lacquer's on REALLY thick, both at the eyes and the mouth.
Unfortunately for her, to smooth out the expanding problems with her face, the only corrective action that will make a difference at this point will have to be surgical. At least an eye lift. And you have to be careful when you start "making adjustments." You want it to look normal, like you merely got caught up on sleep or some such thing. And if you pull up the eyes and ignore the rest of the face, then it's really obvious and disproportionate - and the rest of the face is not addressed so it can look peculiar. Besides that, once you start down that road, you have to stay on top of it and keep it maintained. Gotta go back in several times a year for more Botox. Gotta go back several times a year for more fillers. Gravity will make sure that facelift or forehead lift or eye lift doesn't stay lifted for more than a year or two and then you have to do it again, but there's more to correct and it grows more drastic and harder to correct and still keep it even somewhat normal-looking. Time is NOT on her side. Fair complexions generally don't age well.
Sheesh - now this takes me back to all the AFI tributes I covered as an entertainment reporter. The annual American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award event always brought out what we called "old Hollywood." Elder statesmen and women, the youngest being in their 50s, maybe. Walter Matthau's wife, Carol, had had so much work done on her face over the years that she basically had no face left. It was a pulled "mask" that looked like someone had come along and ironed it (and ironed it badly). She had no features. No facial expressions. The skin was stretched so hard that capillaries underneath had been strained to the breaking point. The texture and tone was all wrong. And you can only spackle over that with makeup and powder and concealer for so long. She looked like a gargoyle. It wasn't even funny anymore. Seeing that walk by when we were in the press pool trying to get interviews was enough to convince me to leave it all alone and just let myself age naturally. Once you get started down that road, you CANNOT go back. And gargoyle-ism is where you WILL wind up.
BTW - as I'm writing this, Andrea Mitchell's on. She's had work done, too. You can see it in women who now look like they have the mouth of Batman's friend, The Joker. The corners of the mouth have been pulled away so drastically that they're literally starting to turn inside out. So you see the lips themselves and then a much longer smile line extending out from both corners of the mouth. Gargoyle-ism. You HAVE TO do this stuff carefully. I once covered an Angela Lansbury event. She was already a "veteran" star. She was wearing a gown with a low scooped neckline and no necklace. She'd had a neck job done and this outfit showed it off. It was a good one. She looked like a million bucks. Her neck looked like a 35-year-old's. It had been done carefully, to more-or-less match her face, which had also been tweaked carefully. And I'm sure it stayed great-looking for about a year - or maybe two, max. But after that, you have to keep it up, and soon you don't look like yourself anymore.
It's a rough go, as the years pile on, if you make your living on camera.
Another DUer recently reminded, here, that "you get the face you deserve." Certainly fits her.
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