I want to do a comedy routine about recovery at mid life.
A reporter for Yahoo Health interviewed me for an article on dating with a mental condition.
A lot of so-called normal guys are a few bricks shy of a house if you get my drift.
I’d rather date a person with a mental illness who’s normal than an allegedly normal person who’s effed up.
This might be why as I continue into my fiftieth year I’m suddenly interested in the inner beauty of a person.
At the same time I see the beauty of getting dolled up to go outside. I learned some tricks this weekend about making up your mind as well as your face. The inner core of our belief and our outer beauty should be in synch.
My joke is that a bathroom mirror should come with the instructions like a fire scene: Stand Back 500 Feet.
Try this and see if as I did it does the trick. Deborah Harry of Blondie fame was quoted in a book that women view ourselves microscopically. Yet at 50 we can’t afford neither emotionally nor financially to obsess about every line, wrinkle, and pore.
The simple solution is to stand back from the bathroom mirror at least two feet. This does the trick nicely when you’re looking at yourself. Like any work of art (and every human being is one) we need to view ourselves from a distance. This is for most of our day how other people view us. I doubt a lot of people enter or invade what’s called our personal bubble closer than two feet to our bodies every day.
Yes: the simple solution is to stand back from the bathroom mirror at least two feet. This works wonders in changing how we view ourselves. Like I reported in here before a makeover is also a special effect when a woman turns 50.
Other simple strategies come easy too:
Cleanse your face at night and apply moisturizer at night. Now is the time at 50 when a woman benefits from using moisturizer and broad-spectrum sunscreen in the morning and moisturizer at night.
The makeup artists who wrote The Makeup Wakeup also championed applying moisturizer. It can instantly wake up our faces.
What I find funny and with pun intended is that often the solution(s) are right in front of our face.
I so will not do expensive lasers, injections, and other treatments. I think it’s egregious of magazine editors to fuel the flames of their readers’ worries about getting older by showcasing anti-aging products in features.
Step Away. From the Mirror. I guarantee you’ll like the results.
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