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The Truth About Aging and How To Fight Back

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:00:39 +0000

Is aging gracefully really a thing? Because I feel like just yesterday I was 23 without a wrinkle on my face or a bag under my eye. Fast forward to 8 years later and I feel like I have lines deeper than the Grand Canyon forming on my forehead and soon enough I’ll be mistaken for a raccoon with the dark circles that are invading my under eye area. Can I ask what the HELL happened in the past 8 years to make this happen? Was it because I didn’t start using that $250 face cream from Neimans when I was 22? What did I miss, what did I do wrong? Then it hit me. HELLO this is what aging looks like and it happens to the best of us. Like most women in their early 30s, seeing the first signs of aging can be difficult. We start looking different and seeing changes that we may not like. We may wear more makeup to cover the things we hate or try to cover ourselves all together with large sunglasses as much as humanly possible. These are all things I have found myself doing, especially since I am constantly on camera […]

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Tanning Tribulations: My Hard Lesson About Sun Damage

admin — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:22:24 +0000

Let’s hit the rewind button and travel back in time to about 10 years ago to when I was in my early twenties and didn’t have a care in the world. At that point in my life I was a junior at Radford University and was living the life. Going to class during the day, out partying with my sorority sisters at night maybe getting a workout at some point in between the two. I had just enough money in bank account each month to purchase food, booze, occasionally get my hair done and go tanning. Life was great. I felt like I was on top of the world but what I didn’t know then was that the stupid decisions I was making at that point in my life would later effect how I live now. I think we can all look back and think about how stupid we were when it came to protecting our skin from the sun. It was the last thing on our minds. I remember my mom telling me to take care of my skin, not to go tanning and to lather the sunscreen on my fair skin but being the stubborn twenty year old […]

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