I would like to be loyal to the face I have made

“I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you” – Marilyn Monroe





Well, we all know how that turned out, don’t we.



I would like to be loyal to the face I have made… with a few minor tweaks. 

As a child of the eighties, I did my best to get the perfect tan; even if that meant sitting in the sun on overcast days covered in iodine infused baby oil.  Ouch.  I was so badly burned that I broke out in blisters all over my chest.  When they popped, I looked like a lizard, with thick scaley skin that took forever to heal. 

I now know better and I don’t think my face has been out in the sun without 70 SPF on it for almost 15 years.

But TX is tough on the skin, especially the left (driving) side of my face.  On top of that, I had brown sun damage on my forehead that was so severe it looked like two hands wrapped around my upper face.
So a few years ago I had my first glycolic peel. 

I know, it sounds extreme, but I thought…what do I have to lose? 

Turns out…the brown spots.

Oh yes, it was ugly.  Really ugly.  I mean I knew that it would be on some level.  A higher intellectual level, but I was pretty surprised at the layers of skin I managed to shed.  Some spots even scabbed.

But still.  The brown spots? They were gone. 

This first and most impactful peel was in about 6 years ago.  I have had one more since, but I think it was worth the money and discomfort.  Just don’t do it before a big event, you need at least two weeks to heal and if you can swing it, schedule a deep facial two weeks after the peel to “clean up” a bit.

But as for surgery…well.

I think my eyes are my best feature.  They are an interesting shape and color.  Sadly, I now notice that my eye lids seem to be getting a little crepey and one a bit saggier than the other. 

Fred will tell you that I am mistaken and more than a bit crazy.

There may be some truth to that.

So…maybe, just maybe, I would get an eye lid lift.

Maybe.

Besides…won’t droopy lids eventually impair my reading ability? 

We can’t have that!

Otherwise…my face isn’t doing too badly for 48.

Now, I feel sort of bad since I just slammed FlyLady.net the other day for telling people to wash their faces, and brush their teeth, but in truth, I sometimes forget to moisturize.

So that is another habit I am going to try to acquire this year. 

Who knows…maybe I will look better at 49 than I did at 48?

Maybe?

It could happen.