5 Deadly Reasons that Black is Killing You – Part 1

The color black is as serious as they come. It’s the official color of death, funerals and dangerous spiders. Black is also the color of cool, sophistication and skimpy cocktail dresses.

As teens and young adults, when we wanted to be older and cooler than we really are, we wore black. It looked great. We bought more.

If you’re like me, you bought black shoes to go with black pants to go with black tops to go with black jackets. Whether it was workout time or meeting time, it was all black all the time.

And then one day I looked in the mirror and Morticia was looking back at me, well Morticia if she were blonde and had short hair. In any case, it was suddenly evident that I needed to re-evaluate my color choices. Which uncovered the following painfully obvious  truth.

Deadly Reason #1: Black hasn’t changed, but you have.
In youth black makes you look older. In middle age, black makes you look older. 

Color counts. Stay tuned for more on the color black.