Some women are born to shop and are content to stroll around the mall for hours, check out the latest fashion trends, testing perfume, looking at handbags and trying on countless pairs of shoes with Eiffel towers for heels. I do not fit into that category, and would prefer to sit at home and shop for everything I need online. At my age, I know what colour and make of lipstick suit me, and sadly there is only one brand I really like that fits that bill. Even though it is often way above my budget I adore Clarins lipstick!
So I was thrilled to discover that there is indeed such an online shop which offers me everything I need in the way of make-up and beauty products as well as office furniture and pets!
When you get to my age you wish someone would invent something like Polyfilla cement which you could use to fill in all the cracks on your face. So far, no-one has done this successfully, but some companies have come pretty close.
The ageing woman has certain realities to face. First off, she is largely invisible in a crowd. Bright red lipstick
does not look good on her anymore, so she can’t attract attention to the thin, puckered zipper-like thing that seems to have taken the place of lips. One thing I have learnt is that it is very important to match your skin-tone or you may end up looking like something out of the “Mummy” or a side-kick to the “Grateful Dead”.
As a life-long user of skin-care products I can only vouch for the particular brand I use which has served me well over the years. However I have recently become interested in organic products.
The older I get, the more interested I am in a more permanent solution to disguising the inevitable facts of ageing. As a 40-something woman I remember swearing to a friend that I would NEVER have any kind of face-lift or de-creasing treatments done. I would have rather put a hot iron to my face and tried to iron out all the problems rather than succumb to that vainer-than-vain idea! However a decade later I find myself more and more attracted to the idea of looking younger, especially as the world seems to regard women of my age invisible! I am seriously contemplating doing a chemical peel, to undo all those years of tanning by the pool with baby oil! When I look at before -and- after pictures of women who have taken this step I am pretty sure it hurts, but then as they say, no pain, no gain. But come hell or high water I want to look younger before its too late!
