The double ponytail seems to have become synonymous with youth. When it comes to this hairstyle, the first thing that comes to people's minds is the image of a girl who is full of energy and vitality.
In our memory, in countless campus pictures, there are always a few delicate figures running briskly, their smart double ponytails flying in the wind. In the sun, even their laughter was so hearty and bright.
The girls frolicked in the playground, and the double ponytail became a sign of their youth.
Even in many youth campus dramas, the crew often uses the shape of the double ponytail to highlight the liveliness and cheerfulness of the heroine. The girl with a double ponytail seems to have a youthful atmosphere, which makes people's eyes shine.
The double ponytail is casually placed on the shoulder, with a pure face, which is filled with the most touching youthful charm of the girls. It has become the favorite hairstyle of many young girls who have not yet come out of the cabinet.
Therefore, the double ponytail has become a symbol of youth in our minds, closely linked to the infinite youth of young girls. When it comes to double ponytails, people naturally think of the best years of their lives.
However, when the double ponytail becomes the new "equipment" of the middle-aged actress, the sense of disobedience is unavoidable.
For example, 50-year-old Carina Lau played the heroine Gu Manlu in her early thirties in the drama "The Origin of Love", with pigtails on her head and singing jasmine on the stage, but her whole body showed traces of time.
The yellow-skinned face is covered with vicissitudes, and the singing voice is also telling the changes of the years. With her double ponytails, she is in her prime, and the audience remembers the former prime, which makes people unable to coincide.
Another example is Yang Tongshu playing a young mother in "Wishing You Ten Thousand Lights", with two hemp braids on her head, her 46-year-old face can no longer see a trace of the beauty of the year, and her smile is also dignified with time.
At just one glance, the audience understands that this is no longer the youth scene that a double ponytail should have.
In fact, when the double ponytail is detached from its youthful attributes and no longer belongs to those beautiful girls, its meaning has changed. What the audience can clearly feel is a huge visual contrast.
The contrast is even so strong that it makes it even more spicy.
Therefore, when the double ponytail no longer appears on the top of the real girl's head, but becomes the new outfit of a middle-aged actress, that sense of disobedience inevitably emerges. Facing the camera, they wanted to regain their youth, but in the end, they received the stunned gaze of the audience.
In the process of these middle-aged actresses "pretending to be tender", the "Big Three of Rural Dramas" Wang Yajie, Wang Qianhua and Yan Xuejing should be regarded as the biggest losers.
They didn't know when they got up and reached a consensus - from the age of 18, they played the role of a little girl in the TV series.
So in their next works, the audience can see that middle-aged actresses with yellow faces and thin muscles and serious distortion wear two pigtails, wearing pink skirts, and shaking their heads to play girls.
For example, Wang Qianhua has changed from a virtuous helper to a small freshness in the village overnight. Her figure had already bulged, she barely pressed into the pink skirt, put on two small hairpins, and said seriously, "I'm only 18 years old".
Another example is Yan Xuejing, who is no longer a strong woman in the foreplay, but has a sweet smile and plays a positive little girl in the village. Her face is full of laugh lines unique to aunts, and she is still working hard to play a young girl.
This kind of appearance is extremely incompatible with any real 18-year-old girl, not to mention that their real age is already the level of a mother among people.
So when they say lines like "I'm only 18 years old", they will frown with some empathy. The audience can only secretly wonder in their hearts whether these appearances are too much of a test of people's acceptance.
Even Peng Dan, who once won the Miss Asian three consecutive championships with her perfect body and beautiful face, has not been able to avoid this seemingly easy task of "pretending to be a girl" after entering middle age.
In the film and TV series "Nanniwan" directed and starred in her, she played a kind-hearted little village girl. In order to show the youthful temperament of the character, although she no longer has the charming curves of the past, she still honestly tied up a double ponytail.
When the director said "Action", she immediately changed to a sweet smile, and her squinted eyes could not see the glamorous light of the past, only the traces of the years remained.
"My name is Miao Xiaoting, I am 18 years old this year, and I am a lively and cheerful girl......" Peng Dan worked hard to perform, but unfortunately the vicissitudes on this face could not be concealed.
The former beauty queen can only face such a tender reality at the moment: the elegance is no longer there, even if she wears a double ponytail, her youth has left her.
The audience looked at this "little girl" on the screen whose face and age were seriously inconsistent with the role, and they could only sigh softly in their hearts, the years are unforgiving.
"Double ponytail", a symbol that once belonged to girls, now seems to have become an "artifact" that middle-aged actresses from all walks of life are vying to appropriate.
They may be nostalgic for their youth, or they may be trying to recreate the glory of the past, but without exception, they choose the double ponytail as a shortcut to youth.
Stylists have also tried their best to create a variety of "middle-aged" double ponytail looks, trying to harmoniously combine the face that is no longer young with this symbol of youth.
However, when the audience saw the "girls" over half a hundred years old dancing on the screen, the real feelings in their hearts were very complicated.
The external double ponytail is seriously inconsistent with the charm of the face, which can no longer evoke the audience's beautiful association of youth. On the contrary, it makes people feel the disobedience from the depths, and this disobedience is even so strong that it produces a sense of sadness.
The connection between the double ponytail and youth has been secretly cut off by time. The middle-aged actress's externally youthful outfit can't rebuild her inner attachment to youth.
So we shouldn't simply believe that the external double ponytail shape can rejuvenate and rejuvenate. On the contrary, it is more like a reminder that youth will eventually pass away, and none of us can escape the imprint left by time.
Youth is like fireworks that suddenly bloom, brilliant but fleeting. When the spark of youth gradually extinguishes, we may regret and be unwilling, but after all, we must accept the passage of time.
After all, youth is just a good time in our life's journey. Its end does not mean that we have lost the value of life.
Therefore, we should not bother to do unnecessary "pretending to be young" and try to catch the youth that has passed. Because the beauty of youth exists in the truest memory in our hearts.
Outward outward dressing cannot reproduce the inner experience.
Let's put aside the external constraints and be our true selves. Keep a heart that is always positive and continue to live with passion.
Life is a long road, and we still have infinite possibilities. Youth is short, but life is long enough. No matter what marks the years have carved on our faces, the inner flame can still burn.
Let us calmly welcome each new stage of life, believing that the meaning of life is far more than just a few years of youth. There are countless possibilities for us to explore.