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Happy Twelfth Night!
I hope everyone has a nice new broom to use this year! I love that "hay" smell of a new, real broom.
For a beautiful new year, I'm sharing my three best beauty secrets. Not to brag, but I don't look my age. Even with the gray hair. It's kind of embarrassing to still be getting male attention at this stage of the game!
My Best Beauty Secrets:
One
For extremely shiny hair, that is as supple as an eel, RINSE YOUR HAIR IN THE COLDEST WATER YOU CAN STAND. Yes, this hint is much more popular in summer and in hot climes. But honestly, rinsing in cold water will make your hair extremely shiny. So shiny, in fact, that it will look like you've put some kind of shine serum on it, only it is totally natural and has no greasy feeling to it whatsoever, and the hair moves naturally. Make sure to rinse the HAIR, not the SCALP. It's the hair that needs it.
Pouring cups of cold water over the actual hair part is the best way to go.
Two
Pond's Cold Cream. Unbelievably, this stuff will keep your face very young-appearing. Every night, wash your face lightly, then dry COMPLETELY, then smear on the Ponds. Rub it around lightly, all over, as if it's a soap. Then towel it off carefully (I keep a dry washcloth just for this), and wash your face LIGHTLY again. I finally wipe it with a scented baby wipe, very carefully.
Three
Eucerin, original cream. This item is well-known among dermatologists. Use the original cream, in the tub, and apply it anywhere you are dry. Most especially, put it on your lips, rub it in, and leave it on there. Go outside your lipline and let it just soak in. If you don't wear lipstick, apply it like a gloss when you go out and about. Put it around the eyes at night.
When skin ages, the backs of the heels, elbows, and knees often get scaly and dry. It's noticeable -- even if YOU don't notice it. No, it's not IMPORTANT to look YOUNG, but I do think it's important to keep these areas hydrated with Eucerin and looking cared-for.
And my last beauty secret, that is so secret I don't even assign it a number: FINISHED LOOK.
A finished look makes you look so much better than maybe the sum of your features can acheive.
When your look is finished, you project that this is so. It is an aura you give off, and it's really effective.
It's having a very tidy appearance.
Hair needs to be "fixed" - in any manner - as long as it appears FIXED -- either pulled back in a ponytail, caught up with combs, pinned on one side with a decorative bobbypin, off the face with a headband, etc. It just must appear DONE, even if you aren't sure it's the very most flattering style. As long as it is a definitive style, that is fine.
Face must be Pond's Treated and something done to FINISH it -- either lipstick, or eyes smokily rimmed with a darker color, or eyebrows powdered and pencilled, face powdered, or all of the above. But even just ONE thing done gives it a finished look.
There you have it, dearies. I have the most gorgeous blog readers of any blog!
