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Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:10 pm  |
No matter how petite this person is, I would not consider her a young person by any standards when I see her with lots of lines/wrinkles... It is more than just being "tiny or small" to be "youthful"....
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| hotdocgirl made some good points. A quite gorgeous woman I work with is tiny, well below average height. She has mentioned that people often treat her like a child, due to her height. |
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Thu Nov 01, 2012 9:02 am |
Shimada, I'm sorry you are feeling upset about this. ((((Hugs)) Sometimes it takes something like this to motivate us into action.
I agree that your friend may not have shared with you everything that she has done to look fabulous. Some women won't share because they do not want to seem braggy. Others won't share because they want to one-up others. Since your friend underplayed the waitresses reaction, it seems like she is laid back enough to share with you everything she has done. Ask her if shes had laser treatments. Ask her if she is wearing that illuminating makeup that gives the skin a youthful glow. Ask her specific questions so that maybe you can try out whatever she is doing.
The mid-thirties is an excellent time to amp up healthy living and beauty techniques. You are still young enough to benefit from that skin turnover and losing weight or getting fit isn't as much of a challenge as it will be later on down the road.
Also remember that when a woman is over 40, it's all an even playing field as far as beauty is concerned. It doesn't matter if you were plain or a beauty in your youth. If you take good care of yourself, you can blossom into a mature woman that looks beautiful. Doesn't matter if your features are perfect. You can look gorgeous and chic whatever your looks or size if you take care of yourself. So the fact that you are starting right now will give you a good foundation for your forties.
When I was in my mid thirties, I started working out to Joyce Vedral. One thing she said stuck with me for years. She said that when you start working out and take care of yourself, you don't care about looking like a model in a magazine or a celebrity. We women have our own unique look. What we can aspire to is to be the best versions of ourselves that is possible.
You've gotten some great advice here. I encourage you to look through the forums and devise a plan that is doable for you. |
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Newbiegirl
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Mon Dec 31, 2012 12:23 am |
I joined this forum very recently, so only now have I seen this thread. I feel for Shimada. I looked good when I was young too, and the pain of loosing the youthfull look and being overlooked was immense Then eight weeks ago I discovered facial exercise and have been doing that since. I started drybrushing my face too and massaging my skin by pinching it, and I do tanaka massage twice daily. I also started using argan oil on my skin for the vitamin E plus a tretinoin cream.
And the results have been so good already. My skin is much firmer and thicker with a healthy glow and my whole face has lifted - I look at least 5 years younger. And I know I will continue to look a little bit better for every day. But the best part is that I am happy to look in the mirror now. I feel great and I think I look great too, and that has changed my whole attitude immensely -I can feel it in the way people react to me.
The excellent advice in the replies here will of course help you more - I can only tell what I have experienced in only 8 weeks and hope that it encourages you. Because I am older than you. So if I can get to feel good again in only 8 weeks, so can you! Just give it a try. |
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Sun Apr 20, 2014 3:55 am |
changing your diet can have a huge impact on skin. becoming vegan was all about the animals for me - i didn't want to eat them. but the side effect i didn't expect was younger skin. it was a total surprise.
i take vitamins too, because the more vit c you get and the more vit b complex, the more collagen in your skin, and it really does work.
you might want to try a diet overhaul. it only takes about a month or two to start noticing changes. and they last, those changes.
also, a new study came out that said exercise in people over thirty can actually keep the skin thick, or makes it thicker, like a younger person's. it won't take wrinkles away, but it stops the future damage that comes from thinning skin. her weight loss could be due to a lot of exercise and good diet, and that really shows.
good luck to you - i am pretty much in the same boat, but more because of ill health due to a disease and medication than partying. it's hard to take the negative impact things like that can have, but i keep at it. every little change helps. |
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