It’s time for me to get on my soapbox here, friends. Or my facewashbox to be more accurate. My dear readers, and lady friends, I want you to take care of your FACE! Unless you are Joan Rivers or Tori Spelling, the face God gave you is the only one you’re gonna get. So you have to take care of your skin!! Besides, even if you could, why would you want to look like this??
I mean, really? I am thinking she should’ve quite while she was ahead! Yee-ikes!
But anyhoo. No matter how fugly I get, you will never catch anyone operating on my face or injecting it with botulism (aka Botox). NOT HAPPENING. But I am doing everything I can to make sure it won’t be necessary, by taking care of my dang skin! I didn’t start until I was 30, but now I am full-on in the game. So here is my advice on how to take care of your skin so you still look like a very attractive you when you are 50!
1) CLEANSE – wash your face morning and night
2) EXFOLIATE – use a product that will slough off the dead skin a couple of times a week at least (I am addicted to Mary Kay’s microdermabrasion. It is like the BEST feeling ever! If you like liquid sandpaper to get all the dead stuff of your face, WHICH I DO!)
3) MOISTURIZE – day and night!
4) PROTECT – use a product with suncscreen to protect your skin from UV rays. Any damage you do today, you won’t see for 10 years. So in order to avoid waking up with some big-a** crows feet in 2019, start using a product with sunscreen!
5) STAY THE CRAP AWAY FROM THE TANNING BED! (this means you too, Uncle Paul!) Embrace your inner, or rather outer, whiteness, as I have, or just use a self-tanner. There are a bajillion good products out there. No need to give yourself skin cancer or wrinkles. It’s TRUE!!
Ok, so – ready, set, GO take care of your face!! And after you do that, go read how everyone else is fighting the frump at Blissfully Domestic at Fight the Frump Friday! Because, you know, I wrote that post too. 🙂
Um, cousin? I do none of those things. Well, I don’t do tanning beds, but…. other than that? It’s a bust.
Number 1 – Look at Grandma – Oil of Olay, all the way!
2 – I tan therefore I am.
3 – Joan never got the right face either time.
4 – WHEN (not if) I win the lottery, you won’t recognize me!
UP
I will be 31 in a week and I just started a face washing/cleansing/exfoliating routine about a month ago, didn’t realize I should have already been doing it. I’ve been using the Clinique 3 step program and I really like it and can really tell the difference. Moisturize, Moisturize, MOISTURIZE!!!
UP – as your niece/doctor, NO more tanning beds! We are white people (despite the population who seems to think you’re Chinese)! Don’t say to yourself, “Hmm, wouldn’t a nice tannning bed trip be good?”, instead “Hmm, wouldn’t a nice wrinkling/cancering bed trip be good?” Doesn’t sound as pleasant, now does it?