Revitalizing cream and Dumb Blondes
We have a lot of fun with the notion of dumb blondes – Jayne Mansfield is probably my favorite, with Judy Holiday a close second (though Amanda Seyfried, “It’s like I have ESPN or something” also comes to mind) – all very intelligent in real life.
But even your stereotypical, I-bleach-my-hair-into-straw-because-it’s-what-boys-like dumb blonde can learn new vocabulary if it’s important to them – here’s a really important term: revitalizing cream.
Revitalizing Cream: Important Vocabulary
Just living in modern times is rough on a girl’s skin – bad air, fast food – and dumb blondes tend to too much tanning as well. Enter revitalizing cream.
Revitalizing cream = “ameliorating” cream
Revitalizing cream = “give new vigor to” cream
Revitalizing cream = “restore strength to” cream
Revitalizing cream = “make more lively or active” cream
Revitalizing cream = “make younger” cream
Revitalizing cream = “make like new” cream
Hopefully, somewhere in that list we found a phrase familiar to the so-called dumb blonde, to get the point across. Skin is important to your health as well as to your beauty, and using revitalizing cream can make a huge improvement to quality of life.
Dumb blonde? A literary convention useful for comedic purposes; a pose useful for duping dumb boys. Extremely rare in the real world.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Skincare And Remembrance of Teen Angst
Skincare And Remembrance of Teen Angst
Another Family Anecdote: in an elevator with The Kid when she was about 12, friendly stranger comments, “Ah, the complexion of the young!” The Kid looks at us all like we’re insane.
Skincare Then, Skincare Now
Looking back on our teen years, now, we can see that all that oilyness and occasional pimply-ness was the essence of life, hormonal blooming, a lovely event, in fact. Skincare then was trying to stop the moisture; skincare now is trying to get it back.
Skincare Then, Skincare Now
In fact, right about now is the time when our skin really is at its best – pimples gone, mostly, and the dryness of middle- and old-age in the future. Though it’s a time to enjoy, it’s also a time to prepare.
To some degree, as we age, our skin will lose some elasticity and firmness, but we do have some control over how much and how soon; we have control over our own skincare regimen.
Skincare Now:
.Drink lots of water
.Eat well – high fiber
.Stop smoking!
.Use high-quality skincare products – daily!
..cleanser
..toner
..moisturizer
It’s all a lovely event, in fact: crazy hormones in youth winding down to lovely adulthood and a handsome old age. Proper skincare really is a big part of the process.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Skincare Routines of the Summer TV Season:
Skincare Routines of the Summer TV Season:
Really looking forward to the summer crop of television series (I have no life), and the high heat and humidity are already steaming up my brain waves into hallucinogenic vapors….
Monk’s Skincare: Monk returns next Friday, I believe, on USA. We know about his dental care routine – he flosses 10 times a day, but what’s his skincare routine? I’m going to guess Monk Skincare involves high-quality Egyptian cotton washcloths AND loofahs AND very fast quantities of antibacterial soap. Probably a magnifying glass to inspect loofah for structural integrity. Probably a timer.
Brenda Lee’s Skincare: The Closer starts next Monday! Brenda Lee is overly meticulous about some things and overly lax about others; I’m going to guess she is on the verge of switching over on the skincare issue – from too-ego to too-id. She’s getting a bit older, and health in general will become a priority. So I think Brenda Lee Skincare was washing with soap at night (when she remembered) and is buying very expensive, high quality products found on the Internet and driving Fritz crazy with sticky masques.
Sam Axe Skincare: Burn Notice started this week! Sam, AKA Bruce Campbell, The Greatest Actor of All Time, isn’t the star, but he’s the best, obviously. His skincare shtick is feigning a deprecating attitude toward the skincare products of his manymanymany women friends, while surreptitiously making mental notes of what he wants to purchase later. Living in Miami, skin cancer and skincare have to be a priority.
...Mmmm Miami -- mojitos...... Bruce Campbell.....
Really looking forward to the summer crop of television series (I have no life), and the high heat and humidity are already steaming up my brain waves into hallucinogenic vapors….
Monk’s Skincare: Monk returns next Friday, I believe, on USA. We know about his dental care routine – he flosses 10 times a day, but what’s his skincare routine? I’m going to guess Monk Skincare involves high-quality Egyptian cotton washcloths AND loofahs AND very fast quantities of antibacterial soap. Probably a magnifying glass to inspect loofah for structural integrity. Probably a timer.
Brenda Lee’s Skincare: The Closer starts next Monday! Brenda Lee is overly meticulous about some things and overly lax about others; I’m going to guess she is on the verge of switching over on the skincare issue – from too-ego to too-id. She’s getting a bit older, and health in general will become a priority. So I think Brenda Lee Skincare was washing with soap at night (when she remembered) and is buying very expensive, high quality products found on the Internet and driving Fritz crazy with sticky masques.
Sam Axe Skincare: Burn Notice started this week! Sam, AKA Bruce Campbell, The Greatest Actor of All Time, isn’t the star, but he’s the best, obviously. His skincare shtick is feigning a deprecating attitude toward the skincare products of his manymanymany women friends, while surreptitiously making mental notes of what he wants to purchase later. Living in Miami, skin cancer and skincare have to be a priority.
...Mmmm Miami -- mojitos...... Bruce Campbell.....
Monday, June 1, 2009
Summer Skincare - A Family Anecdote
Summer Skincare – A Family Anecdote:
The Husband grew up with a battalion of cousins – big guys, all – but when they’d visit grandma at the farm, she’d outfit each of them with a lovely large bonnet, the down-at-the-farm version of summer skincare.
No pictures of this are extant.
Skincare Thru History
But when you start thinking about skincare through the ages, it does make you wonder – pioneer women working the fields sans sunscreen – did they burn often? Never seem to in Willa Cather novels. In really old photographs, they're always kinda squinting, so we know they saw sun.
And just slightly more recently in skincare history, my own youth – never sunscreen, ever; in my generation skincare consisted of tanning it as deeply and as often as possible, and skincare products were aimed to accelerate the process. The process toward skin cancer, as we now know, but then we just thought we were modern.
We’d giggle at the women in old movies who hysterically guarded their faces from the sun, who prized lily-whiteness – maggoty whiteness, we thought. Their skincare was soap and water, and a little pale face powder, if they were really fast.
Well, as in much of human history, we’re finding the old ways were the best. Let's try skincare aimed at protecting our skin from the elements, and the bonnets will just be there to keep us from squinting.
The Husband grew up with a battalion of cousins – big guys, all – but when they’d visit grandma at the farm, she’d outfit each of them with a lovely large bonnet, the down-at-the-farm version of summer skincare.
No pictures of this are extant.
Skincare Thru History
But when you start thinking about skincare through the ages, it does make you wonder – pioneer women working the fields sans sunscreen – did they burn often? Never seem to in Willa Cather novels. In really old photographs, they're always kinda squinting, so we know they saw sun.
And just slightly more recently in skincare history, my own youth – never sunscreen, ever; in my generation skincare consisted of tanning it as deeply and as often as possible, and skincare products were aimed to accelerate the process. The process toward skin cancer, as we now know, but then we just thought we were modern.
We’d giggle at the women in old movies who hysterically guarded their faces from the sun, who prized lily-whiteness – maggoty whiteness, we thought. Their skincare was soap and water, and a little pale face powder, if they were really fast.
Well, as in much of human history, we’re finding the old ways were the best. Let's try skincare aimed at protecting our skin from the elements, and the bonnets will just be there to keep us from squinting.
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