"Mirror, Mirror on the Wall....Am I Younger, it's your Call?"

     It has been two weeks now and I have been burying my face in anti-aging everythings.  I hope you have been doing the same.  Do you find in the mornings, when waking, you consciously find yourself trying not to move any of the muscles in your face, as not to change the depth of the wrinkles, as you race to the bathroom mirror for (we hope) a younger you.

Out comes the magnifying mirror to take a closer look to the possibility that someone has created the facial time machine and we are seeing ourselves at least 10 years younger than when we went to bed. 

I recently read an article in More magazine*, where the journalist suggested that in those waiting weeks of rejuvenation, we have forgotten exactly what our wrinkles really looked like before we began. 

I don't know about you, but I remember each and every appearance of new found wrinkles within the last few years.

We try and convince ourselves that it was the way we slept that caused the morning lines on the sides of our eyes, until we recognize that within the following weeks, they never go away, but are there to stay....for good!   "OMG!"

So, if I become one of those women who run off and purchase a new product that declares amazing results in a short time, to any of the facial aging problems that appear over the years, so be it!  If we can invent phones and laptops that reach other continents in seconds, I'm quite sure there is someone out there, able to bring back our younger selves in our skin.

More magazine, also suggested that L'Oreal's Paris based research and development team is working on a project to eliminate gray hair strands forever.  This would be taken orally.

I'm in! 

That would really be worth every penny I would spend, as gray hair is just not allowable on my head.  The problem is it is showing up faster than I can eliminate it, so a friend turned me onto a product called Kiss TRUCOLOR*.  It looks like a large lipstick that you moisten and apply to those gray areas that return after coloring almost immediately.  It comes in 6 natural shades and works great!

I did so enjoy the Bangs suggestion in Charla Krupp's Book How Not to Look Old*, that today I am reaching out to you with another suggestion that is easy to accomplish and cost effective.  Chapter 9 tells us nothing ages you like dark lipstick that bleeds into those aging lip lines we are trying desperately to abolish.

Charla's suggestion is lighter lipstick, preferrably pink.  Although pink has never been my color, I went with one that had a light coral edge and I must say it worked perfectly.  Between the covering bangs and the lighter lipstick at a party I just attended, I received several compliments on looking great.  I was elated!!!!!

Perhaps those anti-aging creams are kicking in to help with the overall new me, as well as a few other of Charla's effortless ways to look younger, which I will introduce in later posts.

So, the mirror called it in a good way, perhaps not the full ten years I look forward to, but even 10 months is an amazing improvement!

Become a Blossoming Baby Boomer with me and join in the fun, life can get better with age, and you're as young as you feel works, especially when you look younger!    "HB!" 


*More Magazine  http://www.more.com/
 Kiss Trucolor  Kiss products, Inc. Pt. Washington, NY 11050
 How Not To Look Old by Charla Krupp