GGO Birthday – EVA LONGORIA

AS OF TODAY, actress Eva Longoria has both feet firmly set into her forties. The sassy brunette, who currently stars in Telenovela on NBC, turns 41 today. She has always been a ravishing beauty. Time will tell if that will still be the case in 30 years. What do you think? Are her best years behind her or are they yet to come?

GGO Birthday - KATE WINSLET

THE FABULOUSLY TALENTED Kate Winslet with whom I fell in love with 20 years ago in Heavenly Creatures turns a ripe 40 years of age today. If you ask me, she still has plenty for me to be in love with for at least the next 20 years.
     Be sure to check her out in the new Danny Boyle film, Steve Jobs.

GGO Birthday - SALMA HAYEK

I CANNOT BELIEVE that the ravishing Salma Hayek, with breasts that were meant to feed the world, is turning 48 today!
     I'll never forget the day I first laid eyes on them– um, I mean HER in 1995's Desperado. She took my breath away and she still does so today. I mean, look at her in the picture to the left. That was taken THIS YEAR at the Grown Ups 2 premiere. Hubba hubba!
     We haven't seen her breasts out in awhile. I think it's safe to assume that they are likely to be as well-preserved as the rest of her. Let's hope her girls make a return to the silver screen some time in the future. Heck, I think I'd still be interested in seeing them in 20 more years from now!
     For those of you who missed out on her handful of nude scenes, here's a screenshot of her nude scene in Frida (2002), doctored to restore Salma's beautiful eyebrows.

WTBT: Will This Become That? #4

I THOUGHT THAT it was about time for another edition of WTBT. It seems like every girl, left and right, is looking to get inked these days. Personally, I've always been a purist. Why mess with something so perfect as the female body?
     Some women seem to get addicted to getting tatts. The older they get, the more inked they get... the more those old tatts get stretched out of shape.
     Will this fine specimen of female beauty pictured here someday become as tattoed as this much older lady? If you ask me, she should stop while she's ahead but hey, to each her own.

AGING PINTERESTINGLY

PINTEREST HAS SWELLED UP with several boards that share images of women aging gracefully. They are wonderful tributes in gallery form to the beauty of women at any mature age. Here is a list of a few of them:

Women Growing Old Gracefully…
Aged to Perfection
Aged to Perfection 1
Aging with Style
E V E R B E A U T I F U L
Ageless Grace, Beauty & Style
Beauty in Gray, White or Silver
Gorgeous Grey

GENETICALLY MODIFIED PEOPLE

I LOVE TO SEE side-by-side, inter-generational comparisons of women in the same family. It's rare to find any of great quality but artist/ photographer Ulric Collette has created quite a few in a series of his called Portraits Génétiques.
     My favorite one is pictured here. It's a 61 year old grandmother and her 12 year old granddaughter. It's so effective because they share so many facial similarities, i.e. face shape, eyes, nose, etc... Because of their similarities, it looks as if it's the same woman with half her face aged or rejuvenated by almost 50 years.
     I encourage you all to take a look at the rest of his work. Surely, you will find something else that you like. He also makes side-by-side comparisons between sisters, brothers, twin siblings, parents and their offspring whether they be male or female. It's a pretty cool project. You can see the rest at http://genetic.ulriccollette.com/.
     You should also take a look at this video posted on Vimeo that features my other favorite pairings:

ART GONE OLD - THE THREE AGES OF WOMAN (1905) by GUSTAV KLIMT

I AM FOND OF ART. I am fond of women. I'm also fond of exploring the effects that time has on us as human beings. Take all three of these things that I have a fondness for and toss 'em in a blender on "HI," and I am in Heaven. That is exactly where artist Gustav Klimt places me whenever I look upon what I consider to be one of his greatest masterpieces, The Three Ages of Woman (1905).
     It depicts a female child in the embrace of a beautiful, young adult woman in her prime and beside them stands a withered,  old crone with bowed head being held in one hand (perhaps lamenting over her lost youth). A little tragic, yes, but the beauty in this image is undeniable. It is as beautiful symbolically as it is aesthetically.
    I have yet to set my eyes on another work of art that has been able satisfy my thirst for female age progression. It's completely brilliant.

JUST A NOTE: The old crone in this painting was in fact inspired by one of Auguste Rodin's famous sculptures, The Old Courtesan. More on that later.

PRETTY GIRL TO PRETTY OLD GRANNY

AGE PROGRESSED images of attractive young women are few and far between on the web. Also, there are fewer still that are well crafted. Every once in awhile, I'll stumble upon one in my daily perusal of the web. Here's one that really impressed me. I added what I estimated her age to be in each frame.

     I wish I could tell you who the artist is that created these fantastic age progressions but the website that  I sourced them from credited them to AgingWithBeauty which, unfortunately, is a dead link.

    Whoever did these, kudos!

BACK TO THE NOW: Lea Thompson Living Through Her BTTF Age

IN A RECENT INTERVIEW with HuffPost Live, actress Lea Thompson addressed the fact that she is now the same age as her role in Back to the Future 2. " By the way, she happens to be turning 53 tomorrow!

     Here's the link: "Lea Thompson: I've Finally Aged Into My 'Back to the Future' Character".

     It's pretty cool to see how her face has aged in comparison to what the makeup artists envisioned for the movie. Click on the image to get a closer look at the numerous wrinkles on her face.

     Too bad that we have to wait another 25 years to see how Grandma Lorraine compares to Grandma Lea.

GGO Birthday - ALYSON HANNIGAN

THE CAST OF BUFFY is getting up there in age... Happy birthday to Alyson Hannigan who turns a ripe 40 today. Can you believe that? I know I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around the concept that Willow is now middle-aged.
     A great big thank you to YD for doing me a solid and aging Alyson in Photoshop and giving us a preview of what she may look like in another 15 to 20 years from now.

SIDE BY SIDE - MERYL STREEP

BLESS THE PERSON who put together this side-by-side comparison of Meryl Streep on Tumblr. It serves as a great study on how a beautiful woman's face ages. The creases and folds that have developed fascinate me so much.
     The photo on the left was taken in 2013 and she is 64 years old. The one on the right was shot in 1979 when she was 30 years old, back when she had worked on Kramer vs. Kramer.

Peculiar but Intriguing

AS CERTAIN WOMEN AGE (men too) they can lose their teeth, given to poor higiene or even unfortunate genes. Well, here's a Tumblr site that visualizes big-name celebrity women without their chompers.
     A lot of these images are quite funny to look at including the one pictured here of Sofia Vergara. It kinda gives you a glimpse of what she will look like as a toothless old lady many years from now.
    So, I encourage you take a look at the rest of these toothless grins on the Actresses Without Teeth Tumblr blog.

DARN!

NEWSFLASH! The oldest pair of twin prostitutes in Amsterdam's Red Light District, Louise and Martine Fokken, have retired. What the *bleep*!?!?!?
     I had been planning to pay at least one of them a visit this summer! Where do I go and who do I see now to fulfill my aged prostitute fantasies? Aaargh!

Oh! Goddesses Can Age Too!

OKAY, MAYBE IT'S A LITTLE FAR-FETCHED FOR ME TO REFER TO KATIE HOLMES AS A GODDESS but there was a time when I thought that she was "all that." Looky here though! In a photo posted by the Huffington Post, she's sporting a few grey strands of hair!  Nice huh? Are they real? Possibly. Of course, she may be donning it for a film she's currently working on. Personally, I like to think that it's real. At 34, it's normal to have a few strands here and there. Most women dye it. I'm hoping she keeps them dye-free. She'll be looking like Grumplebits' age progressed image in no time.

GRAM PAM

EVER WONDER what Pamela Anderson would look like donning her old, red Baywatch swimsuit? Well, back in September the NY Daily News posted a photo of her doing just that for a Brazilian commercial. On its own, that photo shows her looking awesome but when you lay it out side-by-side with a photo from her Baywatch years as they did, you can really see the toll time has taken on her body. You see it in her face, arms and legs. She used to be soft and smooth and now she's toned but weathered. She's still hot and I'd still opt for a romp in the hay with her but you can't help but notice how much she has aged.

SELECTIVE SAGGING

THERE IS A TUMBLR blog out there called Young Women with Saggy Tits. The title says it all. Why God would bless these women with beautiful, youthful bodies and then top them off with saggers is beyond me. On the other hand, as I enjoy observing a woman age, this blog entertains my fantasy of running around with an aging-ray gun and zapping the breasts of unsuspecting beauties (a temporary effect, of course). Well, as that situation is currently technologically unattainable, I'll settle for this blog. I invite you to check it out.

Click here to see.

JULIANNE MOORE BEACH BOUND

I LOVE REDHEADS. One of my favorite redheads in the world happens to be actress, Julianne Moore. I'm assuming that she's in the the throes of menopause given that she is 52 years old. I don't think it has slowed her down though. She looks awesome rockin' that black bikini top in Hawaii. Too bad that she's wearing shorts instead of a bikini bottom–I would have like to have seen a little more of her.

OLD AND SEXY BEACH BABE

IF YOU SQUINT and take a long look at this older woman, no matter what your pleasure is, you would have to admit that she's got a rockin' body. Now if you're like me and appreciate the signs of age such as wrinkles and sags, unsquintify your eyes and take this lovely woman in for the beauty that she is. She is amazing. And check out her tattoo! I'm not a huge fan of tatts on older women but hers is subtle and tastefully positioned just below her delicious belly.

Hot Blonde Ages Quickly Through Digital Means

IT'S PRETTY COOL IF YOU ASK ME. Simon Modery, an editor in the film industry, put together this pretty fun age progression of a beautiful model named Nikka. She looks to be about 60 years old in the photoshopped image. Wouldn't you agree?

GGO Birthday - JANE FONDA

IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE that sexy Barbarella has turned 75 today! Jane Fonda was quite the hottie when she was 31 years old. Forty-four years later and the "queen of the galaxy" looks like she's holdin' on to that fantastic physique. Just a few minor sags, liver spots and wrinkles here and there but ultimately she looks pretty good for someone facing the big 8-0 on the horizon. Happy birthday Jane and keep doin' those workouts.