“Did you want me to look like this?” the 85-year-old actress asks in a video where she goes from glam to frumpy.

Knots Landing’s Donna Mills responds to makeup criticism: ‘Style doesn’t have an expiration date’

"Did you want me to look like this?" the 85-year-old actress asks in a video where she goes from glam to frumpy.

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April 6, 2026 11:13 a.m. ET

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Donna Mills won't let the haters get her down about her style.

The *Knots Landing* star took to her Instagram on Sunday to respond to another user's comment on her appearance: "You wear too much makeup for your age."

Mills didn't just write back to the user. She responded with a video message in her signature full glam makeup, sporting a fresh blow-out, black leather jacket, a lacy tank top, and blue jeans. "Oh, this comment? I guess I didn't get the memo," the actress quips with a laugh.

With a snap of her fingers, the clip then cuts to Mills dressed as a cartoonishly stereotypical grandmother with a gray-streaked bun, white ruffled blouse, wire-rimmed glasses, and a string of pearls. "Did you want me to look like this?" Mills questions before the video cuts to her back in her original fit.

"Sorry, not sorry. I like the way I look. This is my style, and style doesn't have an expiration date," she concludes the video, adding in the caption: "I said what I said 🤍 #style #aging #makeup #clapback #armchairwarrior."

Fans and peers of the actress celebrated her bold response in the video's comments, including fellow stars Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, and *The Young and the Restless* star Tracey Bregman.

"That's right! You look extraordinary," Bregman wrote. "But the best part is you love it and so do we 🩷🩷"

Spencer commented with several fire emojis, with Mills responding "The flames count triple coming from you 🤍 Big admirer of you and your work." The Oscar winner paid the compliment back, writing, "Right back at you. You look stunning btw!"

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Mills portrayed Abby Cunningham for nine years on *Knots Landing*, joining the Emmy-winning *Dallas *spinoff for its second season and staying on through its 10th. She returned to the show for its conclusion in 1993, and reprised her role in the 1997 reunion miniseries *Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac*.

The actress was widely known for doing her own makeup, which often featured her signature cool-toned smokey eye, a bright undereye, complementary blush, and some bright shades of pink lipstick.

Donna Mills attends 'Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion: A Legendary Evening' on May 13, 2024.

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During an appearance at the *Southfork Experience: Knots Landing Panel** *event in August, Mills said 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.

"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.'"

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."

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