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Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:52 pm  |
Welcome to my log, where I hope to track my progress to a younger looking face!
I noticed my face aging drastically & became pretty much obsessed with it in Dec 2008. I decided to give myself 6 months of DIY before resorting to fillers, botox, laser or surgery and have been taking pictures weekly. Progress has been slow as you'll see, but I think it may be turning around... I've tried a lot of things so far, probably too many at once, but frankly, I'm desperate 
I've learned so much from all of you and enjoy reading this forum regularly & find myself wanting to know *everything* some of the more active participants are doing... It's hard to figure out going back and forth between the different threads. Also, I'm losing track of what I've done and haven't done & also figured it's time to stop lurking & start sharing! I hope you'll indulge me - this is only my second post & I haven't seen anyone else here start a thread all about themselves 
Admins: please, feel free to move or delete if I'm way out of line here.
Also noticed that not many of you post your pictures - I'm not sure why that is, everyone (including me) seems to really enjoy them.
I decided to post mine, but will take them down if it turns out I've missed something & regret posting them... I hope not though... Anyways, they are all taken w/no makeup & kinda scary. It actually took me awhile not to cringe when I looked at them. I try to remind myself that I'm taking them myself & they are probably distorted & hopefully I look better than this (or at least I will someday) 
I've tried so many things I'm really not sure what's working and what isn't & didn't seem appropriate to post the pics on any specific thread.
Here's what I can remember trying so far:
Exercise:
Started out with an old book I had - face lifting by exercise by Senta Maria Runge - then found this forum and bought & started Ageless, currently doing ageless every other day (all the exercises). I'm pretty slow at learning physical stuff - but think I'm starting to get the hang of this, identifying and feeling the muscles. I also started massage which I like.
Cleaning/Exfoliation:
I started washing my face 2x day (I'd been bad, really bad) and also regularly exfoliating. Either manually or with scrubs. Think I've gotten this under control & now am just doing a light job in the shower every few days. I also resumed shaving the fine hair off my face every 3 weeks or so, which for me exfoliates.
Creams/potions:
omg... too many for sure! I'll see what I can remember. Started with some DermaE brand, peptide & hyaluronic. Also had some SkinBio cp and ordered some more of that and DMAE serum from them. Had some Aveeno eye cream and have been using that pretty regularly. Skin started feeling dry so picked up Burt's Bees Ageless serum and Yes to Tomatoes hydrating cream at the drugstore. Backed off on the CP (started to see some *uglies*) and hyaluronic (read on skinbio forum it might not be so good to keep skin wet all the time & my skin was feeling a bit *weak*) and added some skinceuticals ce ferulic. Just got the easy-eye serum and cream and have ordered retin-a & the eyelash growing magic stuff (can't remember the name) from alldaychemist. At this point, I'm using the dmae, eye cream, burts bee & ce ferulic pretty much daily & the cp (watered down) every other day. I use some of the other moisturizers when my skin feels dry and also use a titanium/zinc sunscreen if I'm going to be outside at all.
Devices:
Oh gosh, do I want these... so hard to justify the cash outlay though. I can drop money for a cream, but a machine? it's weird but just the way I am  So, I picked up the cheapest LED I could find, ~$40 from heelspurs and started using that daily. After a few weeks I thought my skin was looking tan from it - so backed way off.. lately it's been 2/3 times a week.
Dermaroller - well I got the cheapest one I could find on sale on amazon <$30 before I found the huge dermaroller thread on this forum and gave it a go a couple of times back in Dec. - it was a 2.0 and there was no way I rolled hard enough to do much good... As of now, it's sitting in a drawer. I covet the Stop, some kind of real LED and every other device out there I read about that has given someone else results 
Diet/Supplements:
About 7 years ago - I lost over 40 lbs, using atkins and exercise. I still exercise and follow a pretty low carb diet and have maintained most of the weight loss. 130 is my *happy* weight, but I hover around 135 with very little effort. I've been taking a multi-vitamin & fish oil pretty regularly for years. My diet is a work in progress, but have added more fish & fresh foods, cutting out sodium, processed meats, msg, artificaial sweetners, etc. I started tracking my weight on my weekly pics too. I have a feeling that this will be a big help over time - when I decided to lose weight, I started with exercise, which was great, but I really didn't see fabulous results until I added diet.
So, hopefully each week I'll update this thread with my current pics and what I've been up to skinwise...
Thanks for reading through all of this long, long post & I welcome your comments & suggestions. -ok333
Well darn... after spending an hour typing this, I tried to add my pictures to this post, but because I'm new, it won't let me, so maybe one of you will help me out by finding my photobucket album and posting the pics...
There are 3 pics each showing all 11 weeks on:
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photo deletethis bucket plus the normal dotcom
After that add a / and the album is ww257 / ok333
If that doesn't work maybe I could pm them to one of you? Once I have enough posts, i'll try to edit this 
Doubt you'll be able to see too much change due to the resolution of these, but I did want to show the whole story to start with... I'm thinking as time goes on, I'll post close-ups. |
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Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:59 am |
Ohhhhh...... I want one too...now I am lemming for one...
I've asked for a house elf
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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