{"id":377180,"date":"2026-04-06T02:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/377180\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T02:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:30:10","slug":"knots-landing-star-donna-mills-85-claps-back-with-transformation-video-after-critic-says-she-wears-too-much-makeup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/377180\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cKnots Landing\u201d Star Donna Mills, 85, Claps Back with Transformation Video After Critic Says She Wears \u2018Too Much Makeup\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n

Donna Mills responded to a critical social media user who commented\u00a0that she wears \u201ctoo much makeup for your age\u201d<\/p>\n

In an Instagram Reel, the Knots Landing alum, 85, emphasized that \u201cstyle doesn\u2019t have an expiration date\u201d<\/p>\n

Mills has long been known for her glamorous makeup looks<\/p>\n

Donna Mills<\/a> is sending a message to a rude social media commenter.<\/p>\n

The Knots Landing<\/a> alum, 85, shared an Instagram Reel on Sunday, April 5, to respond to a comment about her appearance. \u201cYou wear too much makeup for your age,\u201d an Instagram user told her.<\/p>\n

In a video response to the comment, Mills \u2014 wearing a black leather jacket, a lacy tank top, blue jeans and a full-glam makeup<\/a> and hair look \u2014 jokes that she \u201cdidn\u2019t get the memo.\u201d<\/p>\n

The clip then cuts to Mills dressed as a cartoonishly stereotypical grandmother \u2014 with a gray bun, ruffled blouse, wire-rimmed glasses and a string of pearls \u2014\u00a0as she quips, \u201cDid you want me to look like this?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201dSorry, not sorry. I like the way I look. This is my style, and style doesn\u2019t have an expiration date,\u201d she concludes the video, adding in the caption: \u201cI said what I said \ud83e\udd0d #style #aging #makeup #clapback #armchairwarrior.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mills has long been known for her glamorous makeup looks, spanning back to her time on Knots Landing, on which she starred as Abby Cunningham for nine seasons from 1980 to 1989. Her character was a divorcee living among four couples in a cul-de-sac in a coastal Los Angeles suburb.<\/p>\n

The actress was widely known to do her own makeup<\/a>, which often featured a cool-toned smokey eye that enhanced her eyelids and made her blue eyes pop, as well as a bright undereye, complimentary blush and some bright shades of pink lipstick.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the Southfork Experience: Knots Landing Panel event in August, Mills spoke about how she received so many requests from fans to share her makeup process that she created a pioneering tutorial that was eventually distributed by Universal Pictures.<\/p>\n

\"Donna<\/p>\n

Donna Mills in ‘Knots Landing’ in 1982
Credit: CBS Photo Archive\/Getty<\/p>\n

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“People kept writing to me. At that time, you couldn’t text or do any of that stuff,” Mills said at the event. “But they were writing to me and saying, ‘Tell me how you do your eye makeup. I need to know how you do your eye makeup and everything.’ “<\/p>\n

She continued, “So I said, why don’t I just do a video about it and show them? And so I did. I got a whole production crew. I shot at my house. All on my own dime. And then I thought, I can’t distribute it. I don’t have the wherewithal to do that, so I took it to Universal and they bought it and they distributed it and it went platinum.”<\/p>\n

As for her on-screen look for the hit soap, Mills shared that she often opted not to wear waterproof mascara \u2014 just so that any emotional scenes could have a stronger look.<\/p>\n

“Whenever I had to cry, I always used non-waterproof mascara because the best thing is the mascara running down your face,” she said. “You got to have that.”<\/p>\n

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