Nothing wrong with wrinkles. It’s just that they clash terribly with anything that resembles a “25 and gorgeous” ensemble.
Eh, people get wrinkles. Some have older looking faces at their age than others. But when you top it with that completely wrong and awful hair, that’s what makes her scary. Without plastic surgery, there’s not a whole lot you can do about your wrinkly face, but you can choose a hairstyle that softens your look, is age-appropriate and healthy-looking. Instead, she went for Crypt Keeper With a Wig. So yeah, I do think the hair is what puts her over the top in that pic. She’s holding on to something she’d do better to let go.
I’m not wild about Michelle Obama’s hair either, but at least it doesn’t make her look like one of the undead. As the Project Rungay guys would say, Cindy needs to fire her gays, because that look is just not working.
Thanks. I never would have thought of that strategy. Off to find rubber bands for the beard to pull the bags under my eyes.Christ, this thread is depressing.
– Wendy, a blonde
Wendy, I’m a 52 year old natural blonde, and I don’t look in the least like that. Some of that is that I’m plump (NOT enormous, plump - about 20 lbs overweight), but all I’m saying is that as long as you don’t go that super platinum-blonde route, you’re probably ok. Plus, you won’t look gray for a long, long time. I still can’t tell if I have any gray in my hair at all, nor can anyone else, including hairdressers. Lines in and of themselves don’t look bad. It’s skeletal lines combined with the ultra-pale hair in a youthful hairstyle that make Cindy look kind of creepy sometimes.
You’re up in the Great White North where the sun does not shine down directly so the atmosphere filters many of the harmful rays. I know many, er, several natural blondes who, thanks to careful exposure all their lives spent up north, maintained good skin tone with few wrinkles well into their twenties. 
Ms McCain is from southern Arizona where the summer sun beats down nearly directly. It ain’t for nothin’ they call it the Tropic of Cancer.
And in fairness, I must correct an earlier misstatement and acknowledge that Ms McCain is not, it turns out, my junior but has a whole four weeks on me. A lot of bad things can happen to your skin in a month. For instance, one could heal from a second or third facelift in that time.
Well, thanks, Oy! and dropzone – my mom is aging very gracefully, so I’ve got a good role model. 
And damn it, if my name is good enough for a giant fast food chain, it’s good enough for me! Yeah!
No, Wendy is completely respectable for an older woman, I think - Cindy Lou not so much. But I do worry about women named “Tiffany.” Oh well, I suppose by the time they’re seventy, the name will be associated with seventy year olds.
I think she looks the creepiest when her batteries are dying down and her eyes glow red. But maybe that’s just me.
This reminds me of a local radio DJ who remarked about Sade (you remember Sade, don’t you? She sang that song, um, about love and. . . yeah, you remember) “One day that girl is gonna rip her face off.”
My brain remembered! It’s Sweetest Taboo.
It was the absolute correct look for Lilith on Cheers, however.
In some photos she does look a good deal older than her 54 years. And I’m not fond of long hair on women of a certain age, nor have I ever been a fan of the blonde sorority girl look (which turns into blonde country club wife). But in other photos she seems very attractive for her age (and Lord knows I don’t always photograph well). She is a 54 year old woman, and my guess is that her skin has seen its share of sun damage. But “creeped out” seems somewhat - ageist.
From a campaign perspective, I think her stylist would do better if she “aged” her physical image about fifteen years. She is a little too much Goldie Hawn and not quite enough Helen Mirren.
The Newsweek photo editor should be shot though. Or he’s a Democrat.
You think she would have opposed women’s suffrage because she is a republican? What is wrong with you? Also, what in the republican platform makes you think they are against women leaders?
Hillary Clinton?
Well, if you just keel over some time in your thirties it’ll be alright.
Is not particularly attractive either.
I’ve got nothing against Cindy McCain. But I agree with Shot Clock, her relationship with McCain leaves the two of them no room to talk about “family values” or the “sanctity of marriage.” As long as they keep quiet on that front, I’ve got no beef with the woman.