Beauty

[geezerette]

@Brisky 

You're a gas!  🤣🤣🤣

[lil spot]

Kettle Chips!!!!!

I love Kettle Chips so much they are no longer invited into my home. I had to breakup with them several months ago. There is something about the snap, crispness when you bite into them....

However, I'm now addicted ( is that too strong a word? ) to Paris tea. 

Thanks to @just bee  sharing her love of it, I decided to order a tin and see what it was all about. Oh boy!!! It is amazing. Harney & Sons should reward @just bee with a generous year supply for all her mention of it. I've place many orders this past year as a result of reading here and so far Paris is hands down my favorite. Thank you!!!!!

Off to do yard work to prepare for Winter.

[lil spot]

OH MY GOODNESS, the pressure is on. I'm now a Super Contributer. 

[geezerette]

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@just bee wrote:

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@FindingMyJoy wrote:

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@just bee wrote:

Beauty update.

I really like the Equate version of the CeraVe hydrating cleanser.  The next few weeks will be the test because it will be colder and drier.  Let's see if my face survives.

Oddly, BH, whose skin is generally good, is breaking out like a 14 year-old.  He's been using the CeraVe cleanser and moisturizing cream.  I suggested the cream is too thick so I gave him what was left of my Paula's Choice cleanser and an almost full jar of Lumene Glow Reveal facial moisturizer.

I opened a new jar for myself and noticed that they've changed the jar.  New design.  Not only that but I was surprised to see that it was filled to the brim and there were no air pockets.  That jar is solid product.  Right now I'm trying to figure out if there are any changes in the actual product.  It seems less "rosy" on my skin.  Not a bad thing -- just different.

Still using Raw Sugar in the shower.  I noticed that line is expanding -- lots of new products including men's shower items.  Still not sure why men require different soap -- BH says he's fine with the stuff we've been using.

I might try the Raw Sugar hand soap when I run out of Mrs. Meyer's.  (Right now the Meyer's scents I like are basil and radish and radish is hard to find.)

Eye shadow.  I have a lot of it.  I'm using what I'd bought before the fire (the LG Pink Grapefruit blush, too) and I don't think I'll ever use it all.  Another poster made a good point.  When her hair was no longer brown, she stopped using the brown shadows.

I don't know when my hair will change completely from brown to whatever it will become but I know I'll still have a ton of these neutral shadows.  I have to remind myself that these were not expensive and I probably should have tossed them after the fire anyway.

Still don't miss my fragrances.  And that really surprises me.

Still using Suave on my hair.  And that surprises me, too.

Yesterday I sat down to check for sale prices on my "staples" and realized I don't need anything.  More important is that I don't want anything.  The only thing I could use is a new tube of toothpaste.

This is what I was working towards.  I keep picturing the bathroom closet.  What will fill it when we move back into the house?  Alcohol, peroxide, aspirin, Band-aids, cotton swabs, deodorant, razor blades, Vicks... pretty basic stuff. 

This will be weird.

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That is a great mindset to have that you realized you don't need anything NOR do you want anything!! I look forward to that day where I can do the same. 

I feel for your BH. It's horrible when the acne flares up especially if it's been clear then explodes. Whatever happened to the myth that only teenagers get acne? Why couldn't that 1 myth be true?? 

I have some older acne discolorations that don't appear to be fading any time soon. Yep, I was bad and couldn't leave the zits alone...I was a picker. I did buy the recent Isomers vitamin C TSV that's supposed to be good for fading spots. If it makes an impact, it was worth me breaking my no new skincare goal. I'm tired of the spots and hate spending time trying to hide them when I go out. 

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@FindingMyJoy 

Like death and taxes, acne is forever.

But BH is one of those annoying people that had pretty good skin.  This acne thing is unusual for him.

Could just be that he's nearing 50.  Things fall apart at 50.  I have less than a week left of my fifties so I imagine I'll have a whole new set of issues.  I'm thinking either my teeth or gums will go.  Maybe both.

One good thing about acne.  Maybe it makes others believe we're younger than we are.  A perk?

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@just bee 

They do seem to.  Although I made it through the fifties fine, I started to fall apart shortly after I hit 60.  (See what you have to look forward to?🤣)

The reason that particular sentence of yours struck me is that I found out this past week that the young couple (well, they're in their early fifties) that are like kids to me seem to be splitting up.  These are people that have been happy and in love since they were in their twenties.  Seems like all of a sudden he wants to throw it all up in the air for some twenty-something he "met" on the internet!  (I thought that kind of stuff only happened in the movies.)  She's a basket case and has no idea what she's going to do.  To make matters even worse, they work together, so she's taken a leave of absence and doesn't want to go back.  She's presently staying with her daughter but can't stay too long because it's prohibited in the daughter's lease.  So, it looks like I'm going to get a house guest.  

I'm just starting to enjoy being by myself again, but what can I do?  This kid would not only let me stay at her house indefinitely, but she'd wait on me hand and foot while I was there.  She is an absolute sweetheart.  And selfishly I figure if I don't step up when she needs me, she won't be there when I need her.  (Yeah, it's all about me.)

But I just really don't want the drama.  I still have enough of that going on in my own head.  It gives me a headache just thinking about it. Oh well.  Maybe something else will work out for her before it gets to that.  Or maybe my head will explode with an aneurysm before that.

What was @Brisky saying about things being beyond our control?  🤪

[geezerette]

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@lil spot wrote:

OH MY GOODNESS, the pressure is on. I'm now a Super Contributer. 

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@lil spot 

😂😂😂

[just bee]

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@lil spot wrote:

OH MY GOODNESS, the pressure is on. I'm now a Super Contributer. 

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@lil spot 

You've always been super!

[just bee]

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@Brisky wrote:
Just bee, I had a golden named Midas.
We had some neighbors two doors down come over and Midas didn't like them one bit! He was right! They were not our friends. They were weird and some how he noticed it. I could see it in his face and actions.
After that night my husband and I said once was enough. Midas was happy too.
I have got to go and I'm still at my therapy thread.
I'm really out now, Take Care everybody, Brisk out for real now!!!!

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@Brisky 

I believe it!  I'm still trying to figure out how my dog knows the difference between a dog and a coyote.

[FindingMyJoy]

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@lil spot wrote:

OH MY GOODNESS, the pressure is on. I'm now a Super Contributer. 

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Congratulations! Now everyone will expect that you post only super-stellar-mindblowing things! LOL

I remember back in the day when they did an update on QVC that changed the number of posts and titles of people...some people went bonkers about it...there was an uproar about how many posts equaled what title etc. It was a lot of drama about not-much of anything meaningful. But then I'm not a social influencer so I don't care about that stuff  

[just bee]

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@lil spot wrote:

Kettle Chips!!!!!

I love Kettle Chips so much they are no longer invited into my home. I had to breakup with them several months ago. There is something about the snap, crispness when you bite into them....

However, I'm now addicted ( is that too strong a word? ) to Paris tea. 

Thanks to @just bee  sharing her love of it, I decided to order a tin and see what it was all about. Oh boy!!! It is amazing. Harney & Sons should reward @just bee with a generous year supply for all her mention of it. I've place many orders this past year as a result of reading here and so far Paris is hands down my favorite. Thank you!!!!!

Off to do yard work to prepare for Winter.

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@lil spot 

It's that crunch.  The crunch is addictive.

Glad you like Paris!  I'm down to my last bag and would really like a good sale before I restock.  Victorian London Fog is similar but has lavender in it.

But if I had to choose one and only one, it would be Paris.

[FindingMyJoy]

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@Brisky wrote:
@FindingMyJoy, Vitamin c is the best way to go for Hyperpigment. I have never tried their products.
Let us know how it's working for you. Updates please.
Ok, Brisk has to go. Brisk out for real this time😌

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Yes I'll let you know if there is an improvement or if it's a dud. GIving it a full month like she alway says to do in her before/afters. They're older discolorations so I expect they will take longer to eventually fade but an improvement would be great!