Defining Authenticity

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!! In the past couple of weeks, I have read many conversation threads, mostly with bloggers, which boil down to one word…authenticity. How do we define it? Some of the questions which have jumped out of these threads for me personally have been: Can I be an authentic person blogging about fashion and beauty…a world some view as completely FAKE? Am I a fake at 60 years of age blogging under a name, over50feeling40? Am I a fake at 60 working with many fashion and mommy bloggers much younger than I, or even working with midlife bloggers? Am I a fake coloring gray hair with brown? ...