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I think I look good. I look my age. My mom has a baby face and has smoked her entire life so I think I’ll be okay. I don’t smoke or drink anymore and haven’t in a long time. I wear sunscreen, not baby oil. I do a version of the skincare routine Kate mentions above and feel pretty good about taking care of most of my concerns at home. One of my friends is a few years younger but her forehead is lined with creases, and it’s just the way her face is. We all ate differently.
I am squeamish of procedures and needles. It’s weird but I just can’t look anymore when they draw blood. I can’t watch surgery tv shows. I can’t imagine ever doing an optional procedure. But I feel confident in my looks, so I don’t know what it’s like to have that concern or desire.
Side note, I love the latest hydrocolloid patches coming out. I feel like they draw out gunk and help my burgeoning 11s temporarily. I’m a convert.
Right before the pandemic, one of my many, many SILs got a huge bonus and booked all the ladies in the family a day long spa visit and we had a dinner planned.
And then the pandemic hit. I might treat myself one of these days. It’s been so long since I got a pedicure or a massage or anything other than a haircut. Thanks for the idea.
I used to for like, oxygen facials or gentle peels when I was dually-incomed without kids but I do at home stuff now. I have a friend who’s an esthetician and I feel pretty comfortable with my skin to know what products I need to use.
I was just going through some of my skincare stash and found my cicaplast Baume by la roche posay that Copa mentioned above. I forgot that I use it so much, because I use it most in summer. Not only does it protect and heal your skin from the brutal winter wind and cold but also it has always done absolute wonders on any sunburn I have and I burn easily and painfully. It magically heals my sunburns overnight. No joke. It’s been a miracle product for me.
I think it’s been stated many times, crystal clear, respectfully and without any confusion. No one ever said men weren’t allowed. It remains surprising to me that this is the takeaway to comment on.
Hi Barley! I remember you. Welcome back.
I think I was wrong about the milk part. Mine is in a bottle like this, not sure the spf. And I might have the version that has the chemical sunscreens.
This influencer I follow (I know, I know I’m eye rolling, too) has before and after with the grandelash and they are pretty epic results. It’s @graceatwood (the stripe.)
I could talk skincare and books all day.
Hair- recently I’ve been trying to baby mine and encourage growth and length so I’ve been using masks and oils and stuff. My sister has really long hair (I can never seem to make it much past my shoulders before I cut it) and she’s been giving me all her secrets. She is using the supplement for hair growth that I think Kate has mentioned? Nutrafoil? IDK. Anyways, all my oiling has been paying off. I was ready to cut it all because I thought I was going bald or something with shedding but it’s now it appears more full and longer.
I have brain fuzz lately, too @ktfran and I hear it from others also. I’m not sure if it’s Covid, the endless pandemic, age or what. I walk into rooms forgetting what I went in looking for.
I love some of their products Copa, and use the hydrating cleanser, and I think their sunscreen “milk” doesn’t have the white cast and might still have the zinc, although I might be making that up.
I’ve been slathering my face in oil on top of cream before bed and have humidifiers everywhere. I have asthma and the dry air is making my Xmas Covid cough linger way too long.
Happy early birthday, @Ktfran! Glad you’re feeling better.
Right now, to cope, I’m staying in, staying warm and being very good to myself and my family. That’s all I can do.
My husband bought a bike trainer (you put your own bike on it, indoors) it’s app driven and he’s been riding nearly every day for stress relief and exercise. When it warms up, I plan to start walking first and then hope to start jogging as it gets warmer and I feel like doing it, which I absolutely do not right now. I like some aspects of winter but I love to hibernate inside.
Happy New Year!
Thanks Wendy, Kate and Lucidity.
I never and Wendy certainly never said this was a site ONLY for women. I made the point that most people seeking advice on this site are women, as are most giving it. That’s true. A lot of us were introduced to Wendy through a site that was marketed towards women. Is that offensive in some way? That women have some places on the web that are not that scary and not that abusive to hang out?
I do have huge regrets about the dividing of belongings when both my grandmother’s passed. My aunt swooped in and took all of my grandmothers paintings (20 years ago) and still sometimes invites me to pick some but then can’t find them when I drive two hours to her house.
My grandmother I grew up next door to (and who was like a mother to me) I did manage to get some of her things that I hold dear from her house- her sewing kit, some framed photos, knickknacks from her world travels that remind me of her. She had this awesome silver manicure set that was made in US occupied Germany after WWII that I now have. I really wish I’d gone back to the house or taken photos of it, the way she had it. I went up in 2019 I think, and the house was sold a few months ago. I’m so sad I can’t go there anymore.
I am now suddenly feeling not very unsentimental.
