worries

Ok ladies - when should we begin using anti-aging creams? When will it be too late to regain our youthful skin? When do we cross the line between buying some slap in a jar from Boots or finding out if a chemical face peel is as painful as it sounds? It's something that concerns me when I see women like Natalie Imbruglia on the telly talking about laugh lines and frown lines (maybe apathy could save the MTV generation from aging...) She's a beautiful 30-something and young-looking too. Is that because she uses the product or did they get her to front the campaign because she doesn't need it? It's very confusing...

But really, when does the time come? Surely it's too late when you start to notice the wrinkles... maybe you didn't notice them in time because of your failing eyesight or because you barely get time to wash let alone anything more, due to the 2.4 screaming kids, the school-run, the laundry, the shopping, the cleaning, holding down a career and trying to maintain a social life... *shudder* I bet you if you scoured the beauty companies' websites day-in-day-out for a year you'd never find the answer. They'll never tell you when to begin your anti-aging beauty regime and they want you to worry about it like me, so that you'll have heaps of flabby wrinkles so they can sell you their products. A-ha! Their evil conspiracy has been discovered!! Just as I suspected all along!

For me personally I'm confident I won't get very wrinkly in my old age. This is because I have very greasy skin and the grease prevents skin from drying out, which is what wrinkles are all about. So while I had to put up with horrible acne for most of my youth, you beautiful people will be holding back the excess skin with clothes pegs. Either that or opt out and die young. It's something to look forward to :o)

... If only beauty was more important to me, then maybe I'd get real pleasure out of that thought...