Ready, Set, Go!

     It was hard to get ready, but I think I am set, so here we go!  How Not to Look Old  by Charla Krupp will lead us to a new youthful us.  She has my kind of ideas, the products we purchase, have to deliver results, be user-friendly, and not outrageously expensive.

We first must define our Maintenance Level, which involves our "can't live withouts", our "no valuable time fors",  and "are you rich or are you poor."

For a very long time I was Low Maintenance, didn't need to invest a lot of energy and money into myself, but then again, I was in my twenties, looking young!  I moved onto Medium Maintenance, in my late thirties and forties, recognizing the need for what I felt was good skin care regiments, mornings and evenings. 

Then came the fifties, and I'm not talking baby boomers birth years, and all of a sudden I feel the overwhelming need to raid the savings account and IRA's to catch a glimpse of a face and body I once knew.

Soooo, Charla Krupp's first suggestions is Bangs.  Let's face it, the forehead and brow lines that gave us intellectual character in our thirties and early forties, now are so deep we cry every morning looking into the mirror wondering when this seniorella event too place.

I did it, I cut bangs, and guess what, it worked!  I just went into a cheap salon today to get a quick trim and my fairy godmother was the hairdresser and did her magical wonders on my hair.  "Oh, Happy Day!"

I left the salon feeling so elated at my new found youth, I went and purchased some suggested creams to diminish crow's-feet, deep wrinkles, lip lines, smile lines, and sagging skin.  Let's jump start our morning and night do overs with some of her suggested creams and also Good Housekeeping anti aging winners of 2010.

Charla Krupp's five step bathroom program is 1. Cleanse 2.Exfoliate 3.Restore 4.Moisturize and 5.Protect.


As my pocket book is slim after the holidays, I kept my old cleansers, exfoliates, Moisturizers, Protectors, but I spent my money on the Restoring!!!  I purchased Dermalogica's multivitamin power concentrate and Good Housekeeping's Boots No.7 Protect and Perfect Intense Beauty Serum and L'Oreal Revitalift Deep-Set Wrinkle Repair for Night Use.

In four to eight weeks we will re-evaluate our skins and see if we need to try other brand creams or if the magic is working and we are noticing youthful changes!

Until then, get out your scissors or make an appointment for new found bangs, it will start to change your life and with it your attitude, perhaps Cinderella is hiding under Seniorella after all.  "HB!"