Since I started my blog last year I’ve spent a lot of time researching the over 60 blogging space. I’ve found lots of brilliant sites out there, all written by amazing over 60 bloggers on just about any subject you can mention. As an aspiring over 60 blogger myself, I’ve tried to identify and learn from the best.
This is my list of the top 8 over 60 bloggers that I hope to be as good as someday. My criteria for choosing which ones to include is simply selecting the blogs that I enjoy most, subscribe to, and revisit time and time again. I hope that you’ll take a look at these brilliant sites and enjoy reading their posts as much as I do.
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Cyndi Hattersley Design
Tag line: Inspiring women over 50 to tell their own story in their home, garden, and wardrobe.
Cyndi is an incredibly stylish Interior designer turned blogger living in Paso Robles, California. Her blog is both a visual delight and a source of helpful content aimed at women over 50. I’m a frequent visitor to this site and have picked up lots of fashion, beauty, and motivational tips there. Here’s what Cyndi has to say: –
“What started out as an idea to share some of my must-haves in fashion, home, garden, and skincare, turned into a community of women over 50, often searching for ways to stay relevant, seen, and fashionable. As we age, it’s harder to get out of our comfort zone. With each blog published and each social media topic posted, I want to encourage my followers to feel confident – in their style, their homes, and in life.”
That’s Not My Age
Alyson has written two books: –
Tag line: the grown-up guide to great style
That’s Not My Age is a fashion blog that I’ve followed for many years. It’s edited by freelance journalist and former magazine fashion editor Alyson Walsh. Alyson’s emphasis is on the importance of finding clothes that suit your body shape and lifestyle, and which make you feel comfortable and happy. It’s not about buying loads of stuff, but on buying things that will last with an emphasis on sustainability. Beyond fashion, there’s also a great Lifestyle section aimed at the over 50 demographic.
This is from Alyson’s ‘About’ page: –
“ I strongly believe that it’s not about age, it’s about style. That’s Not My Age began in 2008, when I noticed a space online to celebrate midlife and beyond. Over a decade later, I am proud that as well as providing expert advice, style tips, interviews and podcasts, That’s Not My Age has been at the forefront of a movement empowering women and calling out ageism and sexism.”
Alyson has written two books on over 50 style. Know You Style: Mix it, Match It, Love It. and Style Forever: The Grown-Up Guide to Looking Fabulous.
Quick note – Alyson is not technically an over 60 blogger yet. (I believe she’s still in her late fifties.) She does however write for over 50s, so I hope she won’t mind me including her here.
The Senior Nomads
Tag line: Living life and loving each other, one Airbnb at a time.
Debbie and Michael Campbell are originally from Seattle, Washington. In 2013 they rented out their house, said goodbye to friends and family, and set out to explore the world! Their goal was to live their lives just as they would have done if they’d retired in Seattle, but in other people’s homes all around the globe. In Senior Nomads they document their travels and their day to day experiences.
Here’s what Debbie and Michael say: –
“Since we left we have called over 300 Airbnbs home and visited 90 countries including Turkey, Israel, Russia, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, Cuba, and every country in Europe. We’ve also traveled in South America, The Middle East, Central Asia, Africa, China, and Southeast Asia. We weren’t sure how long we’d be gone. Now, over ten years later, we still aren’t sure! But as long as we are learning every day, having fun, are close to our budget, have our health, and are still in love, we’ll keep going.”
Truly inspirational over 60 bloggers! Why not check out their book – Your Keys, Our Home.
Anna’s Island Style
Tag line: Let’s bin the beige and have fun with colour.
Anna Parkes lives on a tiny island 28 miles off the Southwest of Cornwall. From there she blogs about fashion and her island life. Anna’s style is colourful, vibrant, sequined, and full of joie de vivre! Inspired by the Fabulous Fashionistas, her mantra is, wear what you want as long as it makes you happy. You can’t help but feel uplifted after a visit to this inspirational blog. This is what Anna says about it: –
“I love clothes. I love buying them, customising them, finding prize pieces in charity shops and I love the challenge of styling them in my own particular way.
The blog is an insight into the life of a woman who loves to shop (in shops rather than online), but in order to do so I have to travel by boat, plane and train to get to my nearest retail centre. I aspire to love life every day, to find happiness in the smallest of things, to appreciate where I live, and find a good balance between work and play.”
Accidental Icon
Lyn’s attitude to age: ‘It’s just a number’
Lyn Slater is a university lecturer turned fashion influencer with over three quarters of a million Instagram followers. She’s drawn this huge following because of her uniquely individual style, which is brilliantly photographed by her partner Calvin Lom, and her positive attitude towards ageing. Nowadays she doesn’t put much on the blog, but posts frequently on her Instagram page iconaccidental. Her style and the photos are amazing so do check it out. Here’s what Lyn says: –
“I started accidental icon because I was having trouble finding a fashion blog or magazine that offered an urban, modern, intellectual aesthetic but also spoke to women who live what I call “interesting but ordinary lives” in cities. Women (like me) who are not famous or celebrities but are smart, creative, fashion forward, fit, thoughtful, engaged, related and most importantly clear and comfortable with who they are.”
Lyn has a new book coming out on the 12th of March 2024 which you can access via the link here.
50 Shades of Age
Tag line: A light-hearted blog for the fifty somethings
Kathy Marris is an Australian blogger who wants to inspire and motivate women over 50 to feel empowered and worthy. Her real passion is travel and photography, and her blog is full of great travel posts on both her native Australia and the wider world. Kathy also blogs on family life and health. What I like best about her blog is the way she writes honestly, openly and authentically. Here’s how Kathy describes her blog:-
After reaching that milestone age of 50, with kids leaving the nest and feeling unemployable, I felt a big void in my life. It was with this in mind that I decided to start up 50 Shades Of Age – a website where I could reach out to my sisters and tell them that their lives could be so much more. I wanted to be the voice for the new-age over 50 year olds to empower and motivate them to feel worthy again! We have so much to offer.
Chic At Any Age
Tag Line: Fashion, Style and beauty advice for women over 50
Josephine Lalwan is a stylish over 60 blogger who spends her time between London and St Tropez. Following a career in fashion, Josephine started Chic at any Age over ten years ago at the age of 60. Her fashion posts focus on building a sustainable and practical wardrobe and encouraging her readers to buy less and to buy better. In addition to fashion, Josephine also blogs about her life in France, often taking the reader on colourful and beautifully photographed trips to her local market at St Tropez.
If you want to look good, have fun with fashion and soak up some gallic vibes, this calm, relaxed and welcoming website is for you.
WOW: Women’s older wisdom
Tag line: Ageing Positively
WOW (Women’s Older Wisdom) is a bit different from the other fashion, lifestyle and travel over 60 bloggers I’ve listed. Its creator, family therapist, writer, activist and life-long feminist Pat Taub, explains that the blog was born out of her frustration locating online resources to help manage her life as an older woman.
WOW isn’t a blog filled with pretty pictures, but it is filled with real issues, opinion and yes, it gets political at times. Here’s what Pat says on her about page: –
When older women do blog it’s typically on the theme of “age is only a number, or you’re only as old as you feel.” I don’t find this philosophy either realistic or helpful. I know I’m getting old because my body is slowing down, my face is accumulating wrinkles, and my memory isn’t as sharp, while dear friends and relatives are dying on me.
I’m confident that there are lots of women, like me, who long to have old age accepted and honored, rather than engaging in an uphill battle to stay young: women who want to talk about the realities of growing old.”
So there they are, my favourite over 60 bloggers. And just before I finish I’m going to sneak in an honourable mention for my own blog: –
Shaping Sixty
Tag line: Thinking, exploring and growing in your 60s and beyond.
Yes, this is me and this is my blog. My aim is to write great posts for women like you, who want to keep growing, learning and looking good in their 60s and beyond.
At the moment I can only aspire to be as good as the brilliant over 60 bloggers I’ve listed above, but we all have to start somewhere. As they say, the secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Thank you for reading my post. I hope that you’ll take at look at the eight wonderful over 60 bloggers I’ve listed above and find something that fits for you. Ultimately, we are all working to help and empower older women to be their best selves, and to live positive, engaged and relevant lives.
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Sian. X
Thank you so much for the mention. I am completely honored to be amongst all of these talented women you have mentioned.
Hi Cindy
It’s my honour to get a comment from you.
I love your blog,
Sian. x