As I'm closing in on another birthday, it seems like I've been a little more concerned with things like wrinkle cream and teeth whitener. See, I figure if I wake up at 60 and decide to start taking care of my skin, it will probably be a little too late. =)
So, several weeks back JD and I went to our local Walmart to look at Oil of Olay products. As we are standing there, JD notices that one of the wrinkle creams costs $60 to which he says "SIXTY DOLLARS FOR WRINKLE CREAM? You don't even have wrinkles, Mama. Why in the world would someone pay that kind of money for wrinkle cream". Of course, the ladies standing around us were laughing. I explained that I was starting out small - not with the $60 cream, but hey I might use it one day. Well we ended up with a face wash and a night time cream. I came home and could hardly wait to wash my face. I washed my face, got out of the shower and I'm telling you this....that stuff was so harsh that I promise you my face felt like if I smiled too big it would crack. You ever seen a picture of the desert all dried out - yep accurate description. Needless to say, the wrinkle cream felt nice. ha!
Fast forward to last week. My skin is adjusting to the new "dry it out, then put wrinkle cream on" skin care approach, so I thought I'd tackle the teeth whitening portion. I go into Walmart - once again - and I look for just Crest White Strips, to which I was informed that my Walmart will no longer be carrying them, so I bought the trays. You know, the ones that fit right in your mouth and you wear them for 45 minutes. Well, you're supposed to do that every day for a week. Here's my problem. First off, I get the trays all in and I realize that it doesn't say whether you can swallow that stuff or not, so I sit there trying not to swallow until I finally hear from Mallory and she informs me that it will be okay. I was glad JD wasn't there to witness this.
I wake up this morning and I guess the whitener is working so good that it actually managed to burn a hole on the inside of my lip. Oh yes, it did. Ouch. Needless to say, after 5 days of whitening, I've decided to take a few days off from that process. Ha!
All in all - I think I would like to grow old gracefully. Maybe wrinkles aren't so bad.
