[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by shcisamax

Between this and what do you do after your colonoscopy, I have to go to sleep now.

ha ha ha........funny. Goodnight........get your zzzzzzzzzzzz's...

I'd say don't worry about your aging skin and just decide to age with grace......can't turn the hands of time back to when we were teenagers with perfectly unflawed skin.

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by Uptown Girl

(although this is a bit off the original topic,)
I absolutely do use olive oil. Have been using it alone for over 10 years- for cleansing and moisturizing my face and neck.
BUT- it is a water soluble olive oil specially formulated for this use made by DHC. In addition, their olive oil moisturizer has smaller molecules than regular olive oil. Better absorbed that way.
I order it online.

I began to use it after becoming hypersensitive to many products. It was recommended by my eye doc who was Japanese. (DHC products were developed in Japan.)
Works well for me.

But.......there's a faction out there someplace that believe olive oil is bad for you.....go figure. I'll bet my Italian grandmother used olive oil.

As I mentioned earlier, just "age with grace".....and forget about it.

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by The Flash

I just wear shorts and people will notice my varicose veins so much the don't even notice my crepe paper arms.

Very good response. I thought you were a guy.

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by Barefoot

The best solution for crepe paper arms is a good sense of humor.

As long as our eyeballs are not wrinkled, we will all be fine.........

"The eyes are the windows of the soul"..........

Who really cares about a little crepy skin?????
I'd say be glad we all still have our brains and our minds are functioning.

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by AutoBike

Just remember what Mae West said. "I used to be Snow White, but I drifted."

I remember what she looked like (from back when I was a kid).
Creepy not just crepy. Almost like she was embalmed. Too much "work" ?????

All people should just try to age gracefully........as my mom would say,
"Youth is wasted on the young"..........we all have to age and nothing stays the same. But we are more than our "exterior" unless one is with a very "shallow partner"............

[Heartnsoul]

Originally Posted by Uptown Girl

(although this is a bit off the original topic,)
I absolutely do use olive oil. Have been using it alone for over 10 years- for cleansing and moisturizing my face and neck.
BUT- it is a water soluble olive oil specially formulated for this use made by DHC. In addition, their olive oil moisturizer has smaller molecules than regular olive oil. Better absorbed that way.
I order it online.

I began to use it after becoming hypersensitive to many products. It was recommended by my eye doc who was Japanese. (DHC products were developed in Japan.)
Works well for me.

I have also used products with olive oil as I believe it's good for you also. What is the name of the product you use??

[ssmith]

....has anyone tried it? You know the one that is bought and is solid at room temp...not the sun tan kind. Dr Oz recommends it and I thought I might try it at night.

For sun screen in the water we use Bulfrog sold at many stores including Walgreens. It was recommended to us many years ago. It has a high sunblock and is water resisitant. We were told this is what the surfers use. All I know is that there has been many times when our kids would forget a small area say on their back and that small area might be beat red but the rest of their body not at all. I have found it is the only product that keeps me from burning...I am fair complected.

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by senior citizen

All people should just try to age gracefully.........we all have to age and nothing stays the same.

Some people's choice is to "go natural" into the golden years, let their hair grow gray, and enjoy life rather than worrying about their looks or a few extra pounds. But it's hard looking in the mirror and seeing your grandmother. Some people choose to color their hair, exercise two hours a day, use botox, and go the way of Lifestyle Lifts or whatever. Just look at Goldie Hawn at 68 years old!

I don't think there is a right or wrong answer. As with religion and politics, everyone makes personal choices and walks a different path.

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by Barefoot

Some people's choice is to "go natural" into the golden years, let their hair grow gray, and enjoy life rather than worrying about their looks or a few extra pounds. But it's hard looking in the mirror and seeing your grandmother. Some people choose to color their hair, exercise two hours a day, use botox, and go the way of Lifestyle Lifts or whatever. Just look at Goldie Hawn at 68 years old!

I don't think there is a right or wrong answer. As with relaigion and politics, everyone makes personal choices and walks a different path.

goldie hawn plastic surgery - Bing Images

I haven’t seen Goldie in a while but we always enjoyed her back in the 1960’s in Laugh In, followed by very very funny movies........a natural comic.
A little birdie just told me that she’s had a lot of plastic/facial surgery and Botox........so lets just say that she’s had a little help.

The circle of friends and neighbors we have..........NO ONE has had botox or plastic surgery. But then, none of us are out to snag a new husband.
Letting one’s hair go completely SILVER is actually very liberating..........I finally just did it. Even the kids like it.

My own 40 something children are starting to go grey.
Now, theirs is the “natural generation”...........but you are right, “to each his own”...........I totally agree that each one walks their own path in life. It just seems so trivial to worry about a some dry skin when there are such greater problems in the world today, or even in the lives of those around us, which we might not be aware of........

p.s. Everytime we see that "Lifestyle Lift" commercial, we both laugh. It's so phony it isn't funny.

Gracie's original post, at the beginning, was hilarious but so true.........not that anyone would want to look like that cartoon..........just a little levity.

My peers and I feel that we are right where we should be at this stage in our lives and glad to be alive, glad to have raised great adult kids and happy to now be enjoying all the new grandbabies, elementary school aged grandchildren plus older ones...........that's our reward.......

Also, any of the Italians out there know that with our traditional oily skin, we rarely, if ever wrinkle up..........so maybe it's just not a concern that seems overwhelming............oily skin may be a problem in our teens.........but in the long run, our skin does stay younger looking longer..............

[Uptown Girl]

Senior,

I don't think it is trivial to want to have a measure of self esteem in your appearance, whether it be toning arms or covering a radical mastectomy with a fantasy tattoo, or something else. It is, or should be for your comfort alone. ( I am talking about mentally healthy people, not those with obsessive fixation disorders)

One can indulge in that kind (or any kind) of 'trivial behavior', in addition to thinking of loftier ideals or tragic world events.

It bothers me to think someone should be made to feel guilty for wanting to feel better about themselves.

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by Uptown Girl

Senior,

I don't think it is trivial to want to have a measure of self esteem in your appearance, whether it be toning arms or covering a radical mastectomy with a fantasy tattoo, or something else. It is, or should be for your comfort alone. ( I am talking about mentally healthy people, not those with obsessive fixation disorders)

One can indulge in that kind (or any kind) of 'trivial behavior', in addition to thinking of loftier ideals or tragic world events.

It bothers me to think someone should be made to feel guilty for wanting to feel better about themselves.

As Barefoot said: "There is no right or wrong answer"....

I do not remember saying it was trivial behaviour?

I plead "no contest".

All I know is that there's been a big sea change since we were all in our teens and twenties. The younger generation have taught all of us not to be so vain. We were the generation who couldn't go out without the eye makeup and all the goop. They went out bright eyed and fresh faced to face the world and conquered it.

No one is forbidding people to use their lotions or potions.

But, in my humble opinion, a kind heart will always make a wrinkled person radiant. I've visited and loved enough of those wrinkled countenances in nursing homes over my lifetime....to form this opinion.

True beauty and radiance comes from within...........not from outside.

Maybe I've lived in Vermont too long. A rural area is NOT like the city or the suburbs. You can get away with no makeup and less glitz.....
actually, no glitz at all. No one has to "put on their face" before stepping out the door......and God only knows how many have crepy wrinkled skin up here.

To a lot of folks , the old adage "Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder" and "Beauty is as Beauty Does" remain true today...........we are not Hollywood Starlets........especially at our age.

Here is something a young 35 year old niece sent to me, which just happened to appeal to her deepest senses...........and she is still young and naturally beautiful.........with a young toddler and a kindergartener.

BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER:

"Everyday in this world I happen to come across another sad, and lonely face...eyes weary from tears running like faucets , mind defeated from years of mental anguish and torment by society's standard of what is beautiful."

"My Lady, beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched, but are felt in the heart.
As long as your heart stays pure, than you are beautiful.
Don't let the world get you down."

"My Lady, you are as beautiful as God is...
We are made in his image, and since God is beautiful, you are beautiful too, because we shared the same face molded from clay, we are just a shell, a small portion of his greatness."

"So why stress yourself over striving to be beautiful?
That kind of beauty is unbearable,
and drives us to despair,
offering us for a minute, the glimpse of an eternity that we should stretch out over time."

"True beauty comes with time.
So take heed my beautiful sister.....
Future Mothers
My future daughters
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror............
So don't be in a rush to change your looks.
You've got an eternity to be beautiful..............
and beauty changes with "time" and with "age"........"

[The Flash]

Originally Posted by senior citizen

Very good response. I thought you were a guy.

Depends on what the topic is.

[Uptown Girl]

[QUOTE=senior citizen; It just seems so trivial to worry about a some dry skin when there are such greater problems in the world today, or even in the lives of those around us, which we might not be aware of........
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Sorry, I should have included your quote in my previous post.

Just sounded a little soap-boxy. Perhaps you didn't mean it that way.

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by Uptown Girl

Sorry, I should have included your quote in my previous post.

Just sounded a little soap-boxy. Perhaps you didn't mean it that way.

No, I did not mean it that way.....but yes, there is the word trivial.
Read my post right before yours above. I think that says how I feel in a nutshell. Wrinkled people are still beautiful, in my eyes anyway.
In the larger scheme of things, with all the worries people have in our world today.....wrinkled skin is the least of "my worries"....so put in context, to me, myself and I, personally....it might be a trivial concern or non issue.

But to others, granted, it is a problem. i get it. Just not something I feel is important enough to worry about.

Again, I direct you to my earlier post, especially the long ditty that my naturally beautiful 35 year old neice sent to me.....and to all the women in her circle of friends.

She was raised in Bergen County New Jersey and her mom took her to salons since she was a little girl.

She finally liberated herself a few years back when she was pregnant and let her "treated", "frosted", "highlighted" blonde hair grow out to its natural dark brown which is now glossy and naturally beautiful.........and she's glad she kept it that way. Less maintenance with two little ones to tend to from morning till night............yes, she's an "old fashioned stay at home mom"...........actually, all of my daughter's peers, my son's peers, my daughter in law.........all highly college educated.........go bare faced.

Naturally, they are all younger than a senior citizen would be. But, it's refreshing........compared to our teens and young adulthood when we felt compelled to "put our face on" before we left the house.

Just my own observation. Not marketing it to anyone.

Peace.

[courtyard]

I bought a "Shake Weight" piece of exercise equipment at Walmart for $20. You can see a demonstration of it on You Tube. Works miracles in just a few days :-)