I miss my lips.  Like all  pre-teen girls I spent a lot of time looking at myself in the mirror.  All the things that were wrong with me came to the forefront.  My eyes were no really any color, neither green or blue, sort of both but not really.  My ears stuck out and my hair was not blond.  Everyone wanted blond hair in the 60's.  My nose was strong and my eyebrows were unruly.  There were two things I liked about myself.  My long neck and my lips. 

My neck is good; I can still wear a necklace -- even a choker. I found out years later that my father used to worry my neck was too long.  What did he think they might do about my long neck?

Back to my lips. My lips were nice heart shaped lips.  Now they are gone.  I'm told it is my age and the loss of estrogene.

It isn't that I wasn't aware that older women lost their lips.  It is just that I never anticipated it happening to me.   Now I understand why all those women used to put lipstick larger than their lips.  They also missed their lips. The problem is that the application of lipstick doesn't really help that much.  It just makes you look silly and somehow older. 

This is the sign of aging I am most conscious about.  Don't get me wrong. I'm not the kind of person who will put silicone in my lips.   That seems to end in disaster - the lips are way too big.  I just miss my lips.