After church Sunday, a lady that new my grandmother told me I looked a lot like my grandmother. She said she had the prettiest skin she had ever seen and I looked a lot like her. To me that was a great honor, but I fear she was trying to make me feel good. When I was little, I remember hearing people talk about how beautiful my Grandmother was. Of course back then, it didn’t mean much. To me my Mother was a beautiful woman but she would tell me she wished she looked more like Grandma Charlsie. Now as I look back, I remember the things that seemed so funny at the time, like that funny old bonnet she wore outside. She wore this old straw bonnet with a wide brim, long sleeves and little gloves whenever she was in the sun. Her cleaning regiment was Vaseline and a wash cloth, and Jergens Lotion for moisturizing. Cosmetics were few, a little dab of powder, a pinch on the check and a little light pink lipstick was all. Her medicine chest had two anti aging treatments, Jergens lotion and Vaseline.
Boy how times have changed, most of us need extra space to keep all the products that we never have time to put on. We have something to clean our face, a toner, one to exfoliate, another to help the wrinkles around our eyes, one for our mouth, and another for our forehead, not to mention the moisturizers. The stress of it all. Did you know that stress and depression causes us to age faster? Well, I didn’t need an expert to tell me that, my divorce taught me, I woke up one morning, looked in the mirror and scared myself. It’s like I went to sleep and during the night someone dressed me in a halloween mask, I looked 20 years older.
That could be a mild exaggeration but it got me to thinking that I better wake up and smell the Serum. (more…)
