Gazillions most paused movie moments10/31/2023 Well, quite frankly, all of the stories that I find myself reading on a daily basis could just as well disappear into the journalistic ether if I was being completely honest. Because of my job, I spend some time online each day perusing the news and that was one story I did not need coming across my feed. I’m sure as many of you have heard, there was a mass shooting in Munich, Germany earlier today. Who has that kind of time? Not to mention the pain threshold. Although I’ve tried to be the “modern woman” and get on this whole “turn back the clock train,” I usually just end up slathered in overpriced foul-smelling goo desperately asking no-one in particular “is it supposed to sting!? No, seriously, is it supposed feel like this!?” and then staring in the mirror for over an hour with a magnifying glass looking for minute changes. You can see the issues I’ve been having with choosing an anti-aging beauty regimen at this stage in my life. So not sure I’ll be trying that beauty regimen any time soon. Of course Cleopatra supposedly bathed in milk to stay young and supple. But the original has apparently gone by the wayside. Oh, you can buy the new generation of formulas the company has on the market. They don’t make the original version of PHisoderm any longer. I guess I wouldn’t have shared with the likes of my brother and me either. And my brother and I were not allowed to touch it. When I was growing up, my mother had PHisoderm. Was greatly, GREATLY disappointed to still be visible, I’ll have you know. Vanishing cream!? Doesn’t work the way you’d think. Oils to reduce wrinkles on acne prone skin? That one just doesn’t make sense to me. Maybe it’s my age, which would indicate I need a hell of a lot more than just these products on my shopping list, but not only are the ingredients confusing – most of which I cannot pronounce – the promised results are often contradictory. Navigating the vast reservoir of choices in a drug store or online are no different. Not exactly the look I was going for when I got there, thank you very much. I received a makeover once at an upscale cosmetics counter and the neck cream the woman liberally applied (couldn’t complain about them being stingy with products!) was lovely and had a strong perfume-y odor which I suppose is better than an elephant house at the zoo theme, but it was so pungent that within seconds of it being applied, I had an allergic reaction to the smell and my throat closed up. Several of the products I’ve seen and have sampled at various counters smell divine while others reek more of the wildlife exhibits at a less than fully janitorial-staffed zoo. Oh hey, didn’t Dairy Queen have a two for one cone special today…!? But I digress. It seems a shame to ruin that flawless, minuscule Dairy Queen twist by actually using it. Some of these products are so perfectly ensconced in their pretty little jars that I simply love to stare at their glistening, velvety texture. There are anti-wrinkle creams, under eye creams, over eye creams, creams that will magically destroy the jowls you’ve been working on since you took the leap into your 40’s. But the genius behind the marketing has even the youngest, most beautiful women with nary a wrinkle anywhere on their body, let alone on their face, feeling they need, no, absolutely must have that fine-line diminishing cream. I mean, I can’t decide what I want for dinner most evenings for goodness’ sake - and here I’m supposed to choose from among a gazillion different beauty products destined to make me look like the 25-year-old model poised tantalizingly in their ad? Speaking of which, really!? Since when do 25-year-olds need anti-aging creams? Yeah, yeah, sunscreen, moisturizer, you’re done. The sheer number of products available to curb Father Time is overwhelming and quite intimidating if you ask me. And while I haven’t succumbed to the siren’s call of anti-aging products thus far, I may still yet. I want to look the best I can when I do decide to wear make-up. The cosmetics industry, including anti-aging products, are a booming business and the money these companies make off vanity and insecurity (women’s and men’s) is astronomical. No one wants to grow old and most of all no one wants to look old.
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