Okay, everyone! What we've been waiting for! While waiting at the library yesterday, I came across this book, and HAD to sit down and browse through it. I have mixed feelings: it's good for what it is, but part of me wants to scoff, and much of it I knew already or had decided I didn't give a damn about anyway. As you might expect, it's full of tips about clothes, shoes, makeup, hair, underwear, etc., so you can look Y & H (young and hip, I guess), rather than OL (Old Lady). The author is probably in her mid forties. Being more than a bit past that is why I don't care about some of it, but still... I did go and buy Sally Hansen airbrush for legs, a recommended product.
OK, so I had to just go and buy it from Amazon, used, with my One Click.
ReplyDeleteI wish they had one for men though...and then another book about how to give it to your husband!
I've used the sally hansen stuff. Am I an OL if I feel naked without stockings in the office?!
ReplyDeleteI guess I'm getting lazy or perhaps would rather use my time for quilting as opposed to the high maintenance stuff of looking Y&H!
you do realise if your hair was longer you actually look like the pyt on the cover of the book, dont you?
ReplyDeleteI dont think i'll airbrush my legs - my thighs are so big, i wouldnt be able to reach around the back, and i'd end up with white stripes up the backs of my legs. My legs would look like a landing strip for areoplanes and my bum is big enough to be the hangar for numerous jets. not an image i want to encourage.grin.
Must try the airbrush. My legs are so pasty white and I wear capris a lot in summer. Hey, I looked hot in my mid-40s, ten years later I look sooo old. Went out without makeup today. Scared myself when I looked in the mirror....
ReplyDeletethe title turns me off...makes growing old sound like the plague...i wanted to be y&h ACTUALLY when i was y&h. now that i'm older and hipper, i want to carry myself well.
ReplyDeleteI use the Jergens self tanning lotion and it works very well. The only caution is to cover your fingernails or they turn orange. I picked up some of those very thin rubber gloves today to wear when I put it on. The lotion just gives a nice healthy look to my ghastly white legs.
ReplyDeleteI also just discovered (almost by accident) that if I sit on the ledge under the waterfall in the swimming pool and rub my (always very rough) heels on the swimming pool wall, I get that nasty rough heel pumiced off. I was so excited to learn that trick!