Women in Hollywood aren’t encouraged to reflect life experience in their faces… Which is rather ironic considering their faces become “faces” because they’re expected to do just that; inhabit a role, transform, emote, reflect, take us on life’s journey… You get the picture. Here’s “the journey” depicted in the work of John Singer Sargent. I see beauty in every phase. There is a lushness to youth; big features, skin plump, life pliable and ready to be written in the eyes… […]

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