Sue Richards, regular Canadian gal, heats up as her reproductive Best Before Date expires.
Monday, 8 January 2007
The lead line on the full-page colour advertisement in Saturday’s Globe and Mail claimed: Better Than Cosmetic Surgery! Beneath the headline, a beautiful woman lay sleeping. Below her this statement: Advanced Night Treatment. Repair Your Skin While You Sleep.
Yup. Auntie Aging was up to her scary tricks again - implying that my age appropriate skin needs fixing. Insisting that nothing short of 24-hour surveillance on my part was going to suffice - plus of course the ‘day therapy’ cream and the aforementioned night goop that likely costs a kings ransom.
Where oh where would I find the time and coin to buy into Aunties dire warnings? After all - Auntie was only trying to instill insecurity in me so that she and her gang could reap billions of dollars in revenue from the sale of her latest and greatest cure for normal. Auntie knows that the way to a woman’s purse is through her fragile sense of self. Sweet Auntie Aging needs you to believe that aging is nothing short of a gals single axis of evil - that together we can pretend that with enough effort we can wipe our face clean of life’s evidence and stop, then reverse our biological clock like daylight savings time.
Right.
And what exactly is in this stuff that has been clinically proven to get Auntie Wrinkle, Auntie Dry and Auntie Spot to pack their bags and move out of your life? I checked the Environmental Working Groups list of Anti-Aging products reported and scored in their Skin Deep Report. The particular formula in question wasn’t listed but 138 other mainstream products were. Even the product raising the least concern stated, “8 ingredients have not been assessed by the cosmetics industry.”
Call me fussy but I’m getting pretty tired of being a guinea pig.
I poured myself a glass of water, peeled an orange and went back to reading my new novel.
I’ll bank on my approach.
Sue Richards
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January 12th, 2007 at 8:01 am
Great post Sue. I remember seeing the Got Botox billboards around Toronto. They really annoyed me. My grandmother lived to the age of 97 and I thought she was beautiful with her age-appropirate skin. I would never want to 20 again or be treated like a 20-yar-old. Those were horrible years for me.
July 3rd, 2007 at 10:21 pm
We need to be careful of what we put on our skin and allow to be absorbed into our bodies. First and foremost, we need to stop allowing society and media tell us to look younger than we are.