Beauty And The Blog

Have you already discovered the wonders of retinol? If you are using a product containing this anti-aging ingredient, smart woman. For those of you who aren’t yet using retinol, you are about to be enlightened. And yes, you are smart, too. Because you have come looking for the info.

Retinol is two things to our skin. 1)  A cell communicating ingredient. Retinol tells your skin to start behaving as if it had younger, healthier skin cells. Yessss! (meaning smoother, glowing, radiant skin) And, 2) Retinol is a potent antioxidant that fights free radicals resulting from exposure to UVA and UVB rays (sun) and pollutants. Read the rest of this entry »

The reality and inevitability of aging and wrinkles. It cannot be avoided or evaded. In fact, we should all be considering ourselves lucky to be aging, means we are still alive.

Problems set in when we don’t want to look as if we are aging. I personally know this all too well. How about you? It isn’t the age that bothers me, the actual number. It’s that reflection in the mirror. The Battle of the Wrinkles. Luckily (and no, I am not bragging), between my experience as an Esthetician and just plain old good genes, I’ve been fighting back pretty well.

I’ve done my homework, researched product ingredients, figured out what will actually provide some results. And in case you haven’t, I have put much of it together here for you, on this blog (always more to come).

Results vary though. And we, you and I, vary. Some of us show the signs of aging earlier than others. Products vary. Effectiveness, stability, things like that.. All the hype around products is crazy. This one does it all! Eliminate wrinkles! Better than this, better than that! What a mess, right? Read the rest of this entry »

Acne (pimples, cysts, whiteheads and blackheads.. ewww) and wrinkles. Now that’s a combination no one wants, right? I usually present information about anti-aging, minimizing wrinkles and lines, product ingredients and such. And I did post previously on the subject of wrinkles and acne. How terribly unfair having both is. And I gave you some information on dealing with it.

I mentioned my use of the (dangerous drug) Accutane to cure what I considered a ‘moderate’ severity case of Adult Cystic Acne. Knowing what I know now about the drug, I wouldn’t take it. Who knew, back then? But being an Esthetician I so did not want to go to work with a broken out complexion (yes, I am vain about my skin…).

So, now I do not have cystic acne. But like many I do suffer from the occasional hormone or stress related breakout. So what I have for you here is what I have found to be the best answer for treating those pesky little developments. And it works for bigger developments as well if you have those… Read the rest of this entry »

A few months ago I was contacted via email by a woman who had a product she wished me to try and review for her. And then, of course write a post about it.

The product was a microdermabrasion cream. The cream is a manual exfoliant, you apply the cream to wet skin and massage it over your face in a circular motion. The tiny aluminum oxide crystals in the cream remove the layer of dead skin cells and reveal a fresher brighter complexion (there are various things in these types of creams ranging from ground nut shells -BAD- to tiny plastic beads to aluminum oxide crystals). The action of the massage with crystals also helps to stimulate cellular renewal deep within the layers of the skin.

The woman who initiated the correspondence was very personable, she told me the story of how she came to have this product. Who created it for her and why. Now, I am not going to tell you what the product is, who the woman is or who created it. Why not….? Read the rest of this entry »

Emu Oil. To me it’s, ewww (Ewwwemu Oil)! Yeah, I know Oprah uses it, or at least says she does. But honestly, I just am not all that excited about smearing rendered bird fat on my face and body. Not because I am a vegan, or even a vegetarian. And yes, I love animals. But not scorpions. One stung me last night. And yes, loving animals and eating animals, whole ‘nother issue for someone else’s blog. But I digress…

Granted, emu oil is great for the skin. Or so they say. And who are ‘they’, anyway? Mostly those who are manufacturing and selling emu oil would be my guess. Yet I did find information sighting a number of benefits to be had from the use of emu oil. And not just from an anti-aging view point. Read the rest of this entry »