Skincare Acceptance
In efforts to write about some important topics, I have realized you dear reader need breaks from long winded explanations. So I decided it would be better to blog in a series with preachy advice but sprinkled with funny stories. The first will be on skincare.
Part 1
I’m gonna tell you something, I am sort of obsessed with skincare. If there’s a new laser something I can inject in my face whatever I will try it. The rest of my life I’ll be forever searching for the fountain of youth. Unfortunately I don’t ever think I will find it found it? but I can tell you the best things to do especially for prevention. So let’s start.
Starts early
You will see that on my kids I tend to have them all covered up. When I was a kid that was not the situation, in fact I don’t remember ever remember applying a cream until I was 10? I also remember always wearing the smallest bathing suit possible. As I get older I really see the effects of the sun. I do believe to reduction in ozone layer the effects are more prominent from my childhood. For instance my kids yearly have new moles pop out on their face.
National obsession
Mind you I’m Korean so my mom has always been really obsessed with what she calls “her beauty”. She takes it very seriously. I remember as a kid sitting next to her during bedtime ritual. No it wasn’t a story… It was her with ten types of creams. She would do all these layers and explain solemnly this is for cleaning, this is for softness… These were my fairytales.
Too Young
My mom was also one of the first ones to go have some kind of plastic surgery. So I call myself a child of plastic surgery, I proudly admit I can recognize cosmetic procedure quit easily. But today I find that a lot of surgery actually can be preventable or delayed. I’m lucky since my mom was never in the sun (she always wore a visor) that I knew about the dangers of sun damage. She was very big on making sure that we didn’t get too much sun. So the very first step you can do to delay aging is wearing a hat.
I knew better
So granted as I get older I have now realized that my preoccupation with tanning in my 20’s was probably the wrong thing to do. I confess… I had a monthly tan all you want membership at Hollywood Tans. It most certainly made my skin age faster. I did eventually switch to spray tanning every 4 days but looking back at photos I believe I could have easily been an extra the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Our biggest obstacle
We should embrace the natural color of our skin. There’s nothing wrong with any skin tone but any preoccupation with lightening and darkening the skin you were born with is damaging to you skin. I think don’t try to be anybody that you are not. So what I’m saying at the end is that being pale is beautiful, being tan is beautiful and finally having dark is beautiful. Being yourself is the most beautiful thing you can be.
Accepting your getting older and is the first action in delaying aging.
