real women

[piranha]

don't get conned into using "firming cream".

it's a sad day when we become grateful to a cosmetics company that's solidly part of the whole billion dollar "beauty" machine for managing to figure out a way to use a tiny bit more normalness to sell us yet more "firming cream". i caught myself applauding them when i first saw the ads. five minutes later i woke up.

good grief. fuck you, unilever, and the whole damn industry with which you rode in.

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[kightp.livejournal.com]

Sing it, sister.

The only creams and potions I use are to protect and soothe my dry, itchy post-menopausal skin. I buy Aveeno products because they feel good and don't stink, and don't cost an arm and a leg - and don't contain a bunch of expensive "secret ingredients" that won't do diddly because - HELLO? - the skin is designed to keep things out, not absorb them!

The "curvy" women in that ad? Not anorexic, thank the goddess, but barely curvy by comparison to many of the beautiful women I know and love.

[redbird]

In my case, that and sunscreen, being a pale-skinned person in a climate that has many sunny days.

(I'm not post-menopausal, but I do have dry, itchy skin on my face.)

[lorres.livejournal.com]

don't get conned into using "firming cream".

Me? Firming cream? I don't think so. No wrinkle cream either. Or microdermabrasion, which actually frightens me a bit. Will those women end up with scar tissue instead of skin?

I was struggling in a minor but real way about growing old and looking old for a few years and then came my croning ceremony, which helped me big time at scorning the "beauty" machine. As long as it's selling "beauty" = "youth" I'm not buying. I'll take health, thank you. That's plenty when you get to be my age. 8^)