Per this story what causes this leathery skin?
Sun damage.
Totally preventable with the daily use of sunscreen.
Wow.
Assuming that’s her correct age (and it might not be) no, being fifty does not make you look like that.
But then, I’m seeing a certain amount of sun damage and a lot of Plastic Surgery Disasters. Which is not good for your skin either.
Too much sun, for too long - and a really bad plastic surgeon. Her lips look plastic.
She looks like she’d been embalmed… two years ago.
Sun damage, for sure. At age 50, Donatella came of age during the sun-worshipper decades of the 60’s and 70’s, and probably kept it up ever since.
But then there’s the undeniable indications of plastic surgery. It looks like she’s had the nose done (either by an incompetent surgeon or perhaps a few rounds in the ring with Mike Tyson), the fishing line strung under her jaw (you can see a straight taut line there, hmm), and cheekbone implants (that’s why the cheeks are the only youthful-looking, non-sagging bits on her face). And those are just the procedures I feel sure about.
If she deteriorates any further, she’s going to be mistaken for one of the deathless beauties from “Death Becomes Her”.
Also, her upper lip has that awful “bee-stung” look, only her lip is suspiciously thin (more surgery?), so the collagen injection has clearly drifted beyond the lipline to constitute an anatomically incorrect ridge above the lip. Memo to the face quacks: “philtrum” does not mean “fill this area in with collagen”.
And her eye shadow is really heavy. Could that be covering up scars in the eye/eyebrow area?
My sister has the same facial skin. For years she has been a slave to tanning beds and has paid a heavy toll. She has already fought a couple bouts with melanoma and the skin on her face and arms looks more like leather than skin. The past year she has realized her mistake but I think it is too late.
As featured on AwfulPlasticSurgery.com!
Could be worse, see for example Jocelyn Wildenstein.
WARNING: You may want to claw your eyes out if you scroll down to see the final results of Jocelyn’s surgeries.
Sun damage, for sure. Just look at your forearms and then at your butt (assuming you haven’t spent years with your butt in the sun). BIG difference.
The contrast in beauty in that picture is just stunning. It’s almost artistic.
Oh good god. Why would she want to do that to herself? She looked much better before all that “work”. Now she looks like a drag queen who’s been beat up a lot.
Euuuuugh! I just saw something worse. If you go about halfway down the main page you’ll see pics of this “guy” named Steve Earnhardt. That is some scary shit.
Helpmehelpmehelpme!!! flees
Terrifying! Why would he go to all that trouble just to make that bizarre, androgynous almost-a-face? His face looks so weird - I can’t say exactly what it is, but it’s so ugly and fake-looking.
I think it’s all part of her cunning plan to end up looking like Janice from The Muppet Show.
Is this what Paris Hilton is going to look like in 30 years?
Donatella looks like Jake LaMotta in drag.
Enough of this grotesquerie. Jocelyn Wildenstein should have her face peeled off and donate it to the Smithsonian as a public service gesture. In its place she can wear a tasteful black satin mask.
As Exhibit A for the natural look, I give you Carol McKinley, Fox News correspondent and former athlete/sportscaster. Carol admits to being in her mid 40s and has obviously been the recipient of some rays, but something about her is just awfully sexy to me (then again, I dig older gals). In her 20s, she must have been a knockout.
Janice the Muppet is who I thought of right away as well!
God, it’s awful, no? My neighbor, who is about 7 years older than I am, is out in the sun, laying out in March (we live near Chicago) thru October.
Her skin…I cannot tell you how nasty it is. She has crowsfeet so deep–and the bottom of those wrinkles does not tan, so she gets this pleated fan kind of look when using certain facial muscles. For some reason, these women think that deeper is better/better looking, not realizing that the darkness doesn’t camoflauge the damage, it highlights it.
I loathe my vitiligo and think it has destroyed my looks, but I gotta tell you–it makes me wear sun screen religiously. I have no wrinkles on my face or neck (and I am 43).
As for the OP, another vote for sun damage.
Now to a mini-rant: Why, oh why do some women get their lips puffed up? It never looks good.
Could this also be partially due to getting a few too many chemical peels?
In the next century or so, people are going to look back at today’s vanity plastic surgery with the same ghoulish fascination we currently reserve for things like Inca human sacrifice, or mediaeval witch hunts. Barbaric and bizarre behaviour.
I just hope there’s a clued-up historian around to explain that, no, these freaks weren’t the poor, victimised or criminal classes. They were the rich and famous, and they did it voluntarily to themselves! I wonder if anyone will believe them.