Older Gals Get Make-Overs

Mine are graying! Apropos the hair-y reference: the older you get, the slower pit and leg hair grows...not nearly as much shaving required. Wait. Am I the only one?

I still have a head full of thick, coarse hair. Gray, too. And it doesn't grow slowly. Seems like I barely get home from the "cutter's" and it's time to go back.

Don't have an explanation of the slow and sparse pit/leg hair and the thick, fast-growing head hair. Jackie, is that anything you learned in school?
 

I like the sparse leg hair, don't even have to shave now, yeehaw, still have to shave my pits though, and my beard though:

denise w beard.jpgNo gettin jealous you guys!! LOL:)
 
Jackie, I know what pin curls are.
When I was 8 years old, my mother wanted me to go to a sweetheart banquet at my school.
Because she was working, she put my hair up in pin curls the night before the banquet, and then forgot to take them out before she left for work.

The problem was that my father believed that a woman's hair was her glory, and my hair was waist length. My hair though fine was very plentiful, and slightly curly. When mother got home to get me ready, she had left my hair up for about 18 hours.

I had the first African Affro in our neighborhood. It took a week to get my hair under control again. I was so embarrassed, but mother made me go anyway, and everyone couldn't help but stare at me for the whole event.:sosad::magnify:
 

Omgosh...Denise, forget the tweezers, look for sheep shears....I had to go finish edging the patio, a pebble flew up and hit the glass back door and shattered the glass, that'll cost me a good hundred or more, should of stayed here and discussed hair, lack of and overabundance of..lol

Georgia, I really don't know what causes the thinning as we get older, but, I've noticed it with my eyebrows also, I have to fill in.

Ina, what a funny story, although I know it wasn't funny for you at the time.
 
I think gelatin helps with hair loss too Jackie, I drink it everyday now in herbal tea w/honey. Lots of improvements, not sure on the hair yet, but we'll see;)

PS "oh crap" on your shattered glass:( I hear that, costs a lot to have those replaced. Well, glad it didn't hit you though, that would be way worse:(
 
You know I remember you discussing gelatin before and I looked for it at CVS, but they did not have it, where do you buy it and is it in capsules?
 
I just buy Knox, in a box, lol! We have a huge, sort of discount grocer (lots of bulk bins etc.) and they have knox gelatin for 1.58 a box (4 packs, tbsp each). So it comes to like 12 bucks a month. I take a pack a day,mix it in water (bout 4 oz) then add tea I've made. You can use what you like to mix it in. I like herbal teas as they are healthiest I think. The gelatin is plain so blah tasting if you don't mix it in something. You also need to keep stirring in room temp water, so it mixes, and doesn't gel. I've never had mine gel up on me if I do it the "above" way:)
 
You can buy it, take it, anyway you like;) I do a Tbsp worth though, that seems to be the right amount for me. My nails are looking good, also pain in right hand completely gone, thought I had some arthritis, did a lot while pet-sitting, never any soreness, or pain at all!! So I am becoming a "convinced" believer;)
 
Jackie, look for Knox gelatin in the grocery store in the same aisle where you find Jell-O.

Sorry about your patio door. See? Sitting around gossiping with the girls would have been a better idea.
 
The two ladies look so much nicer with a new hair style and a little make-up and they seem excited and happy
when they see how they look. It shows that results can be obtained without surgery which would scare me
to death even if I could afford it. :)
 
I doubt there's a woman alive (if she's being honest) that doesn't want to look better with a new outfit, a little makeup;) Every thing in moderation, I guess that works for me with fixing myself up too;) Surgery scares me, let alone doing it to be "what I think" might be beautiful. I think that surgery like that is wonderful for someone that needs it due to a burn, auto-accident, those types of things. I believe that was what it was first intended for. It also help little kids what are disfigured from birth defects etc.
 
nwlady said:
I doubt there's a woman alive (if she's being honest) that doesn't want to look better with a new outfit, a little makeup;) Every thing in moderation, I guess that works for me with fixing myself up too;) Surgery scares me, let alone doing it to be "what I think" might be beautiful. I think that surgery like that is wonderful for someone that needs it due to a burn, auto-accident, those types of things. I believe that was what it was first intended for. It also help little kids what are disfigured from birth defects etc.
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I agree with you completely Denise , although if I'm totally honest I'm not absolutely certain I would refuse a neck lift if I could afford it and I wasn't so scared of going under an anaesthetic simply for vanity's sake **yikes**:yoda:
 
hollydolly said:
I agree with you completely Denise , although if I'm totally honest I'm not absolutely certain I would refuse a neck lift if I could afford it and I wasn't so scared of going under an anaesthetic simply for vanity's sake **yikes**:yoda:
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I hear you Dolly;) I can't say I would "not" if I had the dollars. I can say I wouldn't, but if things were different, who knows for sure. I think if I was "going" to have anything, it would be my upper, eye-lids as they are drooping to wear I feel them, and I can even see them, especially my left, LOL! OMG this aging thing is not easy! Never thought I'd be here, but I have arrived! Young forever?? Yeah right, LOL!
 
Honey said:
I think it's because they make you look plastic!
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Hilarious, but you are right, I think a person starts looking like a maniquin. I see ladies that are just lovely, and they are not all tight like when we were young. What's weird to me, and I don't know if men ever feel this way about women, but I think older men are more handsome then younger. I think of someone like Jack Lemmon. I never thought he was anything to look at really. But he was so handsome to me like in Grumpy Old Men? I lost my thought there, but what I wanted to say was, I wonder if men ever think older women are more pretty then when they were younger? Oh well, I better drink some coffee, feel like space-cadet this a.m. Good to see you gals this a.m. Denise!!
 
It comes from the Greek word plastikos, which means to remake and shape. It has nothing to do with the artificial material, plastic.

These surgeries seem to be less intense and extreme, but I wouldn't even want to get cut for them...http://www.lifestylelift.com/
 
I wonder how many of us gals have pulled their skin back on their face to see what it would look like and lifted the jowls to see the difference. I think we would all like to look like we did in earlier days.....I would be too scared to go under the gas voluntarily.
 

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