oops..... left out hair dye
I read something awhile back about hair dye and about how profoundly it has changed western society.
We don’t “see” that many “old” people in our day to day lives. Why? A lot of women (and some men) color away the telltale “old age look” of gray. So unless you seriously “study” someone’s wrinkles/gait etc you cannot discern “old.”
When I was a kid, ALL the grandmas sported either super short permed hair OR (the ethnic ones) a gray bun. Today, I can count on one hand the number of natural hair (gray or otherwise) women that I know.
As someone who admits to coloring her hair since HS “better living thru chemistry.”