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From headlines about 56-year-old Pamela Anderson’s makeup-free face at Paris Fashion Week this season, to 71-year-old Isabella Rossellini’s unretouched cover for Vogue In the October issue of Italia, the question of how women should age is still a hot topic of debate. In beauty, this manifests as a backlash against products that claim to be “anti-aging” – something critics point out is an impossible promise.