In it she marvelled at the fact 40 year old women and how they look today is a far cry from what we'd have imagined a woman of a certain age to look a few decades ago.
And then I read it , the line that sent a chill through my " I'll be 40 in 2015"bones .
There it was in black and white " before 40 you get the face you were born with , after 40 you get the face you deserve ".
Now some of my friends will say " well whats wrong with that , haven't I always told you what a lovely clear complexion you have " .
And it's true I have gone through much of my life with barely a skin blemish to my name ( although an inherited tendency to get cold sores when I'm stressed does rear its blistery head from time to time)and as I slide towards middle age I still get people guessing that im in my mid twenties rather than being on the slippery slope to 40 , which does tend to piss off anyone younger I'm out with who is put at the same age or older than me by the guesser.
For my part I put it down to good genes , I remember my mum coming to meet me from work once back in the 90s and a workmate asked what me and my " best friend " were planning to go off and do as she had mistaken her for someone who was the same age as me. And her mum always had such beautiful soft unlined skin too which she put down to smothering her face in a great dollop of nivea cream before bed .
But the thing is while friends are using special toners and cleansers , exfoliating, massaging , brushing or buffing their faces and slathering on the expensive anti age potions and serums , I've never been much of a one for skin care .
It gets to the point that I am at times quite slapdash about it , my face washing has always been down to just a flannel and water (sometimes a baby wipe ) and instead of the latest bb lotion or whatever complicated name they're called this week , my moisturiser of choice is a cheap vitamin e cream that costs around 1.99. In fact I did feel a certain smugness as I read about one woman in the paper who'd spent millions on wanting to stay as young looking as her daughter when I'd got a similar effect from a pot of stuff that cost under £2.50.
And that's not the worst of it , I have to admit to, quite often since discovering the art of make up in my teens, going to bed after a night out still wearing an entire faceful of slap, even at time , whisper it , topping it back up instead of washing off the following day but somehow I still I seem to have come out of it with skin that's as spotless as a clean sheet .
It makes me feel really bad when I see other women like my step daughter struggling with their skin and putting so much effort into looking after it when I treat mine like shit and get off scot free ...
But could that be all about to change once I hit the big 4-0 , will maybe get my skin receive its big comeuppance , I'll just have to wait and see but just in case I might invest in a tube of oil of olay ( my mum swears by it ) before its too late and I end up looking like this !
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