I'm Using Anti-Wrinkle Cream and I'm Not Even 19 Yet...

As much as I blog about strange things, funny things and serious things, I think it's generally more about how I view the world and my thoughts and opinions on life, not about myself. However, those of you who are super attentive, geeky and/or nosey will have deduced that I am about 19 years old-- in fact I'm 18, and will be 19 next month... and as the title of this post suggests, I am also using anti wrinkle cream. The reason for this? Apparently my default face or reaction or SOMETHING is just raising my eyebrows, because I have rather obvious 'worry lines'. At least I think they're worry lines? There are three (with a fourth appearing) and they go across my forehead, parallel to my eyes. If they're are worry lines, it's a stupid name for them, because my worried face is either furrowing my eyebrows (suggesting the 'angry old lady' face is actually worry lines) or narrowing my eyes. So whilst I'm not constantly pulling a worried face, I must be raising my eyebrows for a significant period of my life. Perhaps I sleep with my eyebrows raised? Who can tell. At any rate, I thought I'd blog about it. I initially set out to do this post more of random things that I do which aren't really suitable for my age group, for instance: using anti wrinkle cream. I think I might do that at a later point, but I guess it'll just be a relatively short, different 'breed' of post- as it were. I think I might start a series of short posts about me- just things that have little relevance in my life so that you have a bit more insight into what sort of a person I am, rather than just assuming I was a blood-thirsty child who tried to kill herself and her brother's best friend, who now muses deeply about the meaning of life...

So today's post I guess is about facial expressions. Okay I lied, it's about my favourite cosmetic's range: Nivea Pure and Natural. It's a fresh-smelling cosmetics line which does moisturisers and the best lip care you could dream of. BUSINESS SABOTAGE: CARMEX SUCKS. Carmex- whilst smelling delicious and making your lips tingle, therefore making you believe it really is good for my lips- actually dehydrates your lips faster, making them dependent on the substance, and so making you use more and thus buy more. Pink rose Vaseline also does this because it's hybrid of lip balm and lipstick. It probably contains fish-scales yo. I think of Carmex more like a drug- you get the tingling when you first start using it, but the more you use it, the more often you have to use it, which gets your lips accustomed to the ingredients and, eventually, they stop tingling when you use it-- another ploy to get you to use more of it, desperately trying to get that first tingle back, when in reality the tingle never really existed... *0*

Nivea's Pure and Natural lip balm though, milk and honey, is so simple and good (like Glinda the Good) that babies can eat it. Not only can babies eat it, they enjoy eating it. Not in a "Yum I want that tingling tongue again" way, more in a "feels good on ma hand, taste good in ma mouth" way. I have a stick of milk and honey lip balm with a well in it to prove this. The 9-month-old discovered the cap first, and spent about 20 minutes pulling and pushing it off and on, then discovered that she could dig her nail into it... then eat the delicious lip balm from her fingertip. IT was a fun morning. She was so happy to have discovered Nivea. I got a Pure and Natural gift set for Christmas in about 2012, and never really used anything from it, until I got really dry lips one time and realised that Carmex was NOT the way, and plucked the lip balm from the little travel bag (which also contained hand cream and body moisturiser). It sorted my lips after using it about three times. It still does, but I like to use it often because it makes my lips feel nice and soft. The hand cream is something I never thought I would use, because I get Dermatitis, an eczema-like skin conditions which reacts to various things. It also makes my hands sweat more when I'm having a flare up (and one of the things I'm sensitive to is the sun so summer is never fun for Sweaty-Hands-Betty). This means that if I have an allergy, hand cream/moisturiser doesn't dry because of all the sweat, but if I'm not having an allergy I run the risk of triggering a reaction and, again, never having the lotion dry on my hands and moisturise my skin. After my success with the lip balm though, I thought I'd give it a try as the skin care line is advertised as being 95% natural. It also has the usual schpeil about no parabens, enzymes or preservatives. It was good, and has been ever since! The moisturiser is quite nice as well, though I don't use it very much because I don't often get dry skin on my body. It's just my knees and elbows generally; everywhere else I tend to have quite soft skin, especially my forearms. So when I made the decision a few weeks ago that I should start using anti-wrinkle cream to prevent further premature iron-lines, I decided I would try a nice natural product- most certainly not a 'contains collagen and pro-ben-zymes' or something else that sounds sciency but actually does nothing to help your skin (and occasionally makes it worse so you think you need to buy more of the product) ((I need to write a blog post about my branding conspiracy theories at some point, see if anyone else is on my wavelength)). I most certainly did not want filler, or anything that says "plump" "fill" "elasticity" or "inject".

Today*, when I was shopping for far too much stuff that I probably don't need in Home Bargains-- LOVE THAT SHOP-- I spotted the face cream and decided to go for it: today was the day; today I turned 65 in my own mind; today... I bought anti-wrinkle cream.

AND WAS THRILLED THAT IT WAS NIVEA PURE AND NATURAL.

So this is the beginning of my journey. I will use it tonight as it is a night mask, and every night for the next week and report any changes I see. I will state now that if I see the wrinkles getting worse, I'm going to stop using the cream and will probably start advocating against anti-wrinkle creams. Wish me luck, I'll update on this post next week (Thursday 19th February) and every subsequent Thursday, along with my usual posts which will start back weekly on Monday 23rd February, which is also when I will probably do a bit of explaining as to why my posts and general internetting just stopped short in about November.

*Today for me is actually February 9th, this post will be out on Thursday which is today for you, so by the time you read this I will have been using it for 3 days. If I actually see any improvements I might tweet. But I probably won't.