I am a wimp!

First the eyebrows, I was a tad freaked out and actually took my mom with me for moral support and to take the pics! (which are coming). The idea of having a tatoo was hard on me (I hate needles!) then a tatoo on my face! Oh my! So, it was painful,but as my mom says I am a wimp- I did not look while there as I knew I would freak out.
The first night was terrible, I hurt, or thought I hurt, took some 'old' painkillers to help me sleep, instead I go nasaus and could not sleep, replayed the scene in my mind and could not do anything the next day due to no sleep, and withdrawal from my stupid and taking out of date painkillers! Dummy me!
I finally looked and was again freaked out, I have perfect glamour girl brows, Linda took the brows toward my nose a tad to offset the over tweezing I did while young. Filled in the lost hairs, now I have perfect dark brows like the Hollywood star Selma Hayak- oh my what a label to work towards.
I am not perfect, my hair is always a mess, my face breaks out, I have colour pigment, and now perfect brows the rest of my face needs to live up to!
It will take awhile for me to get used to this 'perfection' but I shall try!
The weigth thing- well I gained almost a pound- due to wine, and not working out.I do think- especially at this age we MUST work out every day, treadmill at the very least for about an hour, then the weights, yoga, or whatever else we need for core muscles, muscles, and flexiblity.
There are many women now experiencing the new rebirth of their years, and getting excited about fullfilling thier own dreams that often have been put on hold to raise husbands and children.
That is where I am and the new rebirth is time consuming and thought provoking.
AHHHH- almost forgot, my mom whose now perfect brows was the catalyist to me getting permannet brows- the look my mom has at 69 is incredible! Her face has been so opened up and lifted by simply having her brows cared for- well she now has gotten her fist facial!
My goodness, luxury with caviar, pampering, she is now embracing her own inner goddess, and that is what I wanted to accomplish with this blog for all of us over 40Shoot now it is for over 70 also!
You go girls!
www.skinenhancement.ca

oouch! permanent eyebrows

Well, after at least two years of thinking I finally took the plunge and had my face tattooed! Permanent eyebrows- which I have been promised fade with time. The lady that did this has been featured in previous posts and truly is the 'artisan' of brows in western Canada. She has waxed mine now for a few years, done my 69 year old mothers' (which looked like a facelift after she was done- girls save your money get your brows waxed by the best in your town) waxed my 21 year old son's.... and I have checked out her work for over 2 years as far as 'permanent makeup goes'.....
It hurt- but I am a wimp... and today my son laughed at me over the dark brows- I am confident though that they will look terrific- and in the next few days I will post the pics and in a week the 'final' results.'
So stay tuned
As far as the weight thing goes- today I was 129=--- but remember good diet and 2 hours on the treadmill---
Tomorrow the weight might go up-- I had some wine after the eyebrows today!
will let you know
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Sexy photos

We must all hand it to the wildly brave 'not perfect' Ivory models. They bared all- in all their glory, older, thinner, curvy and all!
Those ads got me thinking about perfect beauty and the confidence we all should have and or aquire......
Why not?
Go out and find a terrific photographer and have some great 'nudes' done of yourself. They do not have to be 'porn-like' more artistic, great lighting, poses that really do not show all our 'stuff', black and white, a touch of touch-ups and voila- you too can be a centrefold.
Age- yuk- forget about that- a few wrinkles- adds personality- and what a wonderful time for you to get intouch with your sexy, feminine and confident side!
Go girsl!

Summer Feet

As we all know as we age- so do our feet! One of my pet peeves is seeing women in sandles with the sandpaper and cracked heels! UGGH!!
Years ago my grandmother taught me this simple secret to terrific feet and the cost is almost free!
Simply keep a large size of 'Vaseline' beside your bed- (I know I have gotten some strange looks from folks as well- so now I hide it under my bed- not that many folks are in my room anymore- but that is for a different blog)at night before you get into bed slather on the vaseline on your feet then pull on a heavy pair of socks!
VOILA- IN NO TIME YOU will have smooth sexy feet, that then still do need to pedicured-- another take on this is to wrap your feet in old plastic bags before sliding on the socks. (even after many washes your 'feet' socks will no longer get the oil out and they get kinda grimmy- so the plastic bags help the vaseline work better and also save your socks and sometimes your sheets from getting oil stains!
Yes, for you married or sharing a bed ladies maybe not so sexy- but sometimes a girl needs to do what a girl needs to do.
And, while it has been awhile- I have had more compliments from men on my soft skin and smooth feet- while running them up his leg--- then anything else! (YES, that also is for another blog!)

Pimples and Wrinkles

Oh my- what a sense of humour mother nature has! After struggling with pimples since my very early teenage years, now I have wrinkles and still get pimples. Being a tad out of date with the newest and best pimple solutions, and having a teenage son, I took to finding the best solutions for him- and then tried them on myself.
Here are a few of the products we discovered that work- with varying degrees of success ( some worked find for my son but were too drying for my dry, sensitive, wrinkle forming more mature face).
Proactive- we tried this product line with very good results- it worked well for me as well- but not as well as I would of liked. However the one all star product they have that works very well on my pimples and my sons' larger, deeper more serious 'spots'....Proactive Refining Mask should be one everyone's shelf for those unexpected little blemishes. They miraculously seem to disappear while you sleep!
While this line worked well I wanted to try out a new line by one of my favorite skin care companies ( we will discuss those products in a separate blog) Obagi has come out with a wonderful new line for acne called clenziderm M.D., This three step system has almost completely cleared up my son's skin (I don't use the system as I just need help for some individual spots) his skin looks great (granted I was finally able to get him to go on a oral antibiotic).This new Obagi line- in my opinion is better then Proactive, not as drying, and very easy to use- and it works.
For back problems, due to cost and ease we have found something very simple works- hand sanitizer! An idea from my mom and works very well on large areas that are not as sensitive as the face.
I absolutely love this product PeterThomasRoth- AHA/BHA Acne Clearing Gel- this is terrific, a little rub on your spot areas, is clear (unlike the proactive white mask) and voila- pimple be gone! It does not seem to extra drying and is good for my sensitive, mature skin.
That seems to be it for the control of those pesky little blemishes we still get (thanks son for letting me sample your products).... next I will chat about some of the fine skin care products for mature, sensitive, thin skin.
Have a great day, and enjoy the wonderful stage of life you are now in!
skinworks.ca
Obagi
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fabulous woman over 40

Of course, such disregard for fashion's forces of conservatism is what makes Roitfeld's work so exciting. Her arrival at French Vogue in 2001 brought a youthful energy to an ageing institution which, she readily admits, 'hadn't been so good' since the mid-Eighties. At that time, Paris was undergoing a wholehearted rejuvenation, with a generation of designers barely into their thirties being appointed as head designers of its most famous fashion houses: Nicolas Ghesquiere at Balenciaga, Hedi Slimane at Dior Homme, Phoebe Philo at Chloe. Roitfeld's appointment at Vogue seemed to anoint the arrival of this new generation. And while her youthful irreverence may have ruffled a few fusty feathers, it has revived the magazine's fortunes: in 2005, advertising revenue leapt 60 per cent, making it the best year for ad sales in two decades. 'I make big errors,' she says modestly, 'and I may be a bit punk sometimes, but I try to make it exciting for the reader. And the readership figure goes up. It will never be 'uge - because if it is 'uge it will be a different sort of magazine, too popular. So I cannot be too big. But we keep going up bit by bit ... the boss is happy.'
Another advantage was that she could focus on bringing up her children, while she watched overworked colleagues guiltily juggling motherhood and career-maintenance. 'I only start to work really hard when they grow up. Now I work every day, Saturday, Sunday - but the children are big, they study far away.'
Sunday February 25, 2007
The Observer
Yasmin Yusuf agrees that there's a dearth of ideas for women who are too old for clubbing but too young to make their own chutney: 'There isn't anything really slick and sexy for this market yet. It's such an opportunity. What is available is generally expensive - it's all about beautiful cut, something to give confidence, and that comes at a price. The middle-market retailers should be looking at this: the 35-plus group aren't going to stop loving fashion just because they've had another birthday.'
This year for the first time, women over 40 will make up more than 50 per cent of the UK female population. Many have money. Most have perfectly adequate bodies, thanks to a
Mimi Spencer is a columnist for You magazine

paris vogue is yes, rather brilliant and highly charged, but also rather arrogant.
american vogue is becoming far too unoffensive and bland.
british vogue however manages to please everone by demonstrating young london edge, whilst maintaining its english aristo classique.
not to mention articles with some real substance, which paris and american lack.
I would, however, not mind seeing someone replace alexandra shulman, she is slightly too sloaney for my liking.
(above from a blog on fashion

This is going to be such fun! I am so tired and frustrated with people- yes even fabulous women over 40 not getting it! I had a few years ago- a lovely woman in her 50's tell me- as I was struggling with early on-set menopause and the wonderful effects "Get used to it. You will gain weight, get tired it is getting old."
AUGHHH! Come on- we are more wonderful, creative, sexy and fabulous then ever before and that is the message I want to spread!
I wish for all of us over 40 to embrace this wonderful creative time of life- be sexy, fabulous, creative, interesting and to join forces share ideas, foibles, fun and energy.
Raine