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Sun Dec 28, 2014 3:18 am  |
As women, we are bombarded daily by adverts offering us 'miracle' creams to stay looking young forever! So, I though, I shall take a humorous approach to some of their claims 
I am all too familiar with potions and lotions marketed as preventing the inevitable downwards effects of the ageing process: ' A light oil-free formula which helps to firm up skin instantly and over time ( helping) to erase the look of lines as it tightens. This Anti-Gravity Firming Lift Lotion restores supple cushion to time-thinned skin.' Does it?? Hmmm... Things known to science to defy gravity: aeroplanes, missiles, space rockets. Things known to science to NOT, generally speaking, defy gravity: magazines, biscuits ( not even very light wafers), trousers and... Face creams.
Let's take this further...
Many beauty product manufactures want us to believe that, there's something deeply adrift with our skin. They want us to chuck all our products away and start afresh ( preferably with their own stuff!) This message is especially strong in the New Year ( we are almost there people!) A few hours after the bells have chimed, anyone remaining unaware that they are polluted rotters will soon be 'put right' by shelves crammed with books offering to ' Change your Skin in Seven Days.' Newspapers headlines urging us to 'Change Our Lives for 2015.' Followed by 'best' anti aging skin products. Of course, they get paid for advertising.
Hmmm... some say, ' Change is often as good as a rest.' I prefer a rest myself, but there you go.
Of course, in our quest for younger looking skin, stress reduction is of utmost importance! It's interesting, however, that, in this day and age, we are even obliged to try to reduce stress in an aggressive way. Bust that stress! Get it down on the floor and really stick one on it! Yeah, enough said.
How about diet?
Well, there's some useful food advice around: ' Eat you Greens Or You Will Die. Saggy skin to boot!'
The main problems with nutritional advice of 'food experts' is this:
Even supposedly sound advice reverses every two months. Don't go to work on an egg anymore; an egg per day will make your arteries swell up like a hose pipe.
Fish? Well, of course. Oh, but maybe not fish from our polluted seas; try Mars. Oh bugger, I like fish!
Don't eat spinach unaccompanied by vitamin C or your body won't absorb the goodness. Getting the body to absorb 'the goodness' is petrifyingly difficult: we are all living on a knife edge here!
The truth is, beauty may be skin-deep, but let's face it, no one is in the hurry to resemble a good-looking pancreas. In our quest to look younger, we try pretty much everything.
Face-lifts are popular way of keeping our looks for longer, although I'm yet to hear young people say to each other, ' I love your high face.'
Botox is also widely used to freeze one's face in position. I've not had it as yet, but luckily, I can get the same frozen look every time my partner shares one of his jokes!
Anyway, I hope I've made few of you smile. Please remember that this is not a serious post, but rather a humorous take on our efforts to look younger, and no offence is meant by it
I might do a follow up later... |
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Sun Dec 28, 2014 4:20 am |
Well, since it's Sunday morning, and I have nothing better to do, I though I will expand a little on the issue of age defying diet...
According to a lot of 'experts', if we want to look particularly youthful, fresh and organic food is vital! And the fresher, the better.
Ideally, we should be ripping lettuces out of their beds before dawn, and eggs shouldn't be allowed to hit the ground beneath the hen ( just remember, do not over do it on the egg front. You don't want blocked hose pipes for arteries.)
Hmmm, if it's true that we are what we eat, then some countries are raising a large population of burgers and chicken nuggets.
So, it follows...
The top government scientists advise us to eat at least five portions of fruit and veg per day. Now, to my mind, this gives the impression that, instead of going to work, I should be loitering around a greengrocer's for most of the daylight hours. But, if you look at the 'rules' carefully, you will find that one 'portion' is actually the equivalent of a slice of lemon in your gin and tonic 
For people who do not meet their quota of five + per day, there's always the option of supplements. These days, vitamins are added to everything, from lipgloss to floor polish. In fact, the only place you won't find any added supplements is in organic fruit and veg, so it's probably best to steer clear of them
Roughage is an essential part of any healthy, age fighting diet; principally because it keeps everything moving south. Interestingly, in order to, ahem, guarantee one movement per day and smooth out those wrinkles, scientists recommend a daily intake of roughage equivalent to the construction of a mid-sized Canadian beaver dam.
Muesli is a good option, but even here there are grades of healthiness. If you are eating it from a box, you're still only flirting with fibre. You really need to be eating it from a large sack or, better still, make your own from household and garden waste ( just make sure it's organic. Or else.)
Strangely, as we get older, and more aware of our ageing body, we eat more and more unpleasant things that are supposedly good for us. However, when your diet is 90 per cent dried fruit and prunes you know it's time to either die or to switch to chicken nuggets and live a little |
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Sun Dec 28, 2014 5:36 pm |
| LOL, for a brief time before I wised up, I used to enjoy the New York Times' Sunday edition that was just full of the most age-defying miracles from the department store makeup counters - you know, the usual culprits. They probably weren't bad (way over-priced) moisturizers, but the copy accompanying the ads had to be written by geniuses. And all the fantastic new ingredients! I felt like, problem solved. Uh, no. |
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Sun Dec 28, 2014 9:55 pm |
A *good laugh* thread 
Thx, Trishiapp!
Just recently celebrated a birthday and one of my sisters had a sage one-line bit of advice re avoiding any obsession about aging – “”Keep smiling and keep breathing.”
Gotta laugh about that.
My added thoughts re posts above, IMHO, it seems that there are so many *experts* that are just simply good scoundrels.
Kinda reminds me of this thread here entitled - Good Documentary for Perspective >
http://www.essentialdayspa.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=49332 |
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Mon Dec 29, 2014 9:29 am |
Glad I've put a smile on your faces
Much like many on this forum, I use various things to beautify myself; vitamin c in the morning; sunscreen; retin a in the evening and so... But, there are other things that I must do every day to look half decent when I'm out in general public! So, please allow me to expand on my daily routine...
Let's begin with washing
Like many women, I favour baths over showers. I seem to have all sorts of washing aids including big scrubbing brushes to reach parts of my back that nothing else can reach. However, consider this for a moment: if nothing can reach my back, how dirty is it likely to be?
I tend to use luxurious bath oils, but I'm still undecided what they are actually for?
Those lovely oils make me smell like a fruit salad, which is great. But, if I was to say that I was going into my bathroom to make myself smell like a fruit salad, my long suffering family would, understably, think that I'm very strange ( pity the fruits that go into my oils. The poor things get plucked from a balmy grove to end up in my armpit. That's not much of a life.)
Talking of armpits... I live my life by one rule: if I only wash one part of my body, I always do armpits! It's amazing how many life situations require people to get close to my armpits.
Everyone is better off if I get there first.
Apart from the aforementioned oils, I also use a lot of 'specialist' products for washing my face such as scrubs, exfoliatiors etc...
Please note: manufactures of beauty products attempt to make us believe that, if we don't scrub and rub ourselves with, preferably their own products, huge fungi and edible mushrooms will grow on our skin overnight
Right, back to scrubs... I'm very careful when using anything abrasive on my face since, once I over-exfoliated and ended up with a plate-like surface effect ( not a good look.)
It's curious really that we scrub our faces. I mean, we spend half of our income on creams and potions to improve the very same skin which we then sandpaper off!
So, the only question remaining is this: why do I enjoy baths so much?
Well, for starters, there are many walk in baths on offer, but no lie-down showers ( what's that about?) Also, an alarming number of people do things other than washing in the shower; There's a good chance that, if I was to burst on my partner whilst he's in the shower cubicle, I would find him shaving, washing his smalls or peeling potatoes for supper. Now, who wants to witness that? Definitely not me!
I think I will stick with baths |
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