“There is nothing wrong with a woman aging.”
Annick Robinson was travelling through the airport last weekend when she was lured to a shop by the promise of free natural soap. Robinson shared the conversation in a Facebook post.
Annick Rbsn / Via Facebook
It started with compliments:
Man: "your skin is so natural looking, you aren't wearing any make-up, right?"
Me: "Um, nooooo?"
Man: "Let me guess your age..." Proceeds to pull out a number 12 years younger than I am.
Me: "I look my age and that's ok actually."
Robinson said he then recommended a face serum to stop her wrinkles from getting deeper.
"What's wrong with a woman looking 40?" Robinson asked him.
Next he tried to sell her on under-eye cream, but she wasn't having any of that either.
"What's wrong with my eyes? I have a miracle baby at home and haven't slept in two years, so if I have bags, I am grateful to have them, and my husband and I laugh a lot. Those are his fault," she told him. "He loves how I look... I don't think I need your cream."
When he then tried to give her a good deal – cheaper than Botox! — she put the final nail in the coffin:
"I look fine now, and when I'm 45 I will look fine, and when I'm 50 I will look fine, because there is nothing wrong with a woman aging. Old age is a privilege denied to many, and I don't appreciate you marketing youth instead of your products, and denigrating aging women as a sales tactic. Thank you, but I don't want or need your cream."
YAAASS GIRL. 🙌🏽
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