{"id":18462,"date":"2013-01-04T01:06:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T06:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=18462"},"modified":"2013-01-04T23:58:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T04:58:16","slug":"flaunt-your-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/flaunt-your-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Flaunt Your Age"},"content":{"rendered":"

The late, great Nora Ephron<\/a> wrote a book called I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman<\/em><\/a>. In the title essay, she called the neck “a dead giveaway” when it comes to age:<\/p>\n

“Our faces are lies and our necks are the truth. You have to cut open a redwood tree to see how old it is, but you wouldn’t have to do that if it had a neck.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You know the saying, “If you can’t beat them, join them”? Sometimes I find myself thinking, “If you can’t hide it, flaunt it.” As I’ve written before<\/a>, I became attracted to big rings and nail art in part because of my perpetually stubby, easily broken nails.\u00a0At some point, I thought, “Fuck it. Nothing is going to make these fingers look better, so I might as well have fun.”<\/p>\n

Gorgeous makeup artist Tennille Nielsen<\/a> apparently agrees. She asked me to make one of my sterling-silver number necklaces<\/a> with her birth year on it.<\/p>\n

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Like Shakira’s hips, Tennille’s neck don’t lie.<\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s a closer look.<\/p>\n

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What I really enjoyed about this was that Tennille is obviously many years away from having a Nora Ephron-esque bad-neck moment. But she’s gone out of her way to have her neck tell her story. She’s getting a jump start on the neck truth-telling process! That’s an IDGAF<\/a> attitude that I admire.<\/p>\n

If you’d like a birth-year necklace of your own — or any other custom number\/letter necklace — holla at me at wbjewelry at hotmail dot com. The sterling-silver birth-year necklace is $275; 18K gold is $900. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The late, great Nora Ephron wrote a book called I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman. In the title essay, she called the neck “a dead giveaway” when it comes to age: “Our faces are lies and our necks are the truth. You have to cut open a redwood…<\/p>\n

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