I'm looking yuck

sallybucket5

karcher wrote: »

Apparently she squeezes out all the juice from a cucumber daily

Blimey, that sounds exhausting and I'm not even reading it as a euphemism! :rotfl:

ladymarmalade

suki1964 wrote: »

Lol ladies

Thankyou, you have made me smile

I usually avoid mirrors but the old top lip needed attention and the sky was really bright so I got a full on shock

I went shopping and got huge bottles of sparkling water. I never drink water, ever. Actually I only drink Diet Coke and the occasional black coffee

I've also hunted through the cupboards and I've found a clay mask I shall put on and I've a jar of coconut oil so will slather that everywhere

Funny, I always have good nails. This past week I've lost the lot on my left and the ones I do have left on my right hand, are flakey and all the nails are ridged and feel dry

I think this spell of extremely cold weather, on top of the lurgy, and going into warm stuffy atmospheres has taken its toll this winter

I do eat a pretty well balanced diet, perhaps not enough Vit C as I avoid fruit and veg really Perhaps I need to look at a supliment. I am after all midway through the menopause, I'm probably needing extra help


Oh, and I have bloody wrinkles, I mean defined ones, which I never had before !!! Lol

I swear by sparkling water, I love the stuff! I always stock up when I am in costco.
However, I like you often fall into the trap of coffee and diet coke and it's amazing how quickly it makes me feel awful. I find that by 'detoxing' (hate that phrase) with some hot water with slices of lemon or lime or orange soon has me feeling better! Also does wonders for my skin!

notthegiraffe

Cucumber juice sounds too watery to mix with anything. And sticky. Some people just have good genes, I think.

trailingspouse

Totally agree about the looking in the mirror and seeing your mother looking straight back at ya!! Luckily my mother has never looked her age (86 now and looks all of 65), so I tell myself it's OK really...

I don't agree that you can't fix what's on the outside. I'm a firm believer in fixing everything that can be fixed - diet and exercise to point everything in the right direction, grey hair can be dyed, bad teeth can be fixed, eye brows (and chins...) can be plucked, clothes can make you look and feel younger than your years, moisturiser, make-up. It all helps. But I also agree that you need to fix the inside too - sensible quantities of good food, water to drink, and everything else in moderation.

melanzana

I too was feeling yuck. I started Vitamin D, calcium, and magnesium. OMG the 250m magnesium just at bedtime is so sleep inducing!

Anyway, a nice haircut, a bit of slap and some eye drops to whiten the eyes is a godsend.

I'm not out of the woods yet, still emerging from the Winter hibernation. But hopefully will get there!

A bit of blush on the cheeks helps too just to add!

I often wonder how men get away with no slap or anything like that. How do they do it!

pollypenny

I can't believe the state on my neck! And there's nothing I can do about it.

Haylescom

What annoys me is my mixture of young and old. I started going grey in my teens (old) and have to cover it up with dye. This week I've had a break out of spots on my chin like I did when I was 13 (young).
I was on a hen weekend recently with girls who were discussing the botox injections they get and it sounded so depressing. But it's also made me look more closely at my own face! I have a deep ridge just above my nose that used to go when I relaxed my face. Now it's a permanent wrinkle.

DigForVictory

Oh I wish I saw my mum in the mirror - she's got glorious skin, a bone structure to kill for and thick hair.

Thanks to just not eating much other than a lot of disgustingly healthy stuff, I am excavating the bone structure I inherited but the snuffle/cough/cold means I'm not sleeping, my nose is abraded & my skin is on a par with spotty teenage son (only he has stubble as well).

I'll look hard in a mirror again in another decade. Or at good month after this blinking snuffle wear off.

By all means pamper! (Just *my* interpretation of that is cuddling up to a teapot & a series of Father Brown.)