BS: Wrinkles

Subject: BS: Wrinkles
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jul 18 - 01:00 PM

No grey hair yet but I have wrinkles under the eyes.
Moisturizers and Aloe do the trick but we all know wrinkle cremes are all a high price fraud. If one wants to avoid sure fire Retinol or risky plastic surgery I figured that what would be a temporary fix should shrink and constrict tissues.
So I ground up some alum/styptic pencil and added some aloe gold bond moisturizer creme and vitamin A&E. It works for several hours. I bet this is the principle behind Plexiderm as seen on TV.

Hooded eye brows might be the next project.
Getting alum in the eyes is unpleasant or perhaps dangerous.
Homeopathic concentrations may be good for Fuchs syndrome but that is for another day.

As for vanity even a haircut is vain.
As for temporary, so is aspirin.

Subject: RE: BS: Wrinkles
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 25 Jul 18 - 01:06 PM

Live with it and be happy. Some people have to manage with either one or three legs.

Subject: RE: BS: Wrinkles
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 25 Jul 18 - 01:07 PM

I'll maybe worry about wrinkles if I ever need to put a photo up on a dating site profile...


[...what... who just whispered.. photoshop - and lie about your age...???]

Subject: RE: BS: Wrinkles
From: Senoufou
Date: 25 Jul 18 - 01:11 PM

Why should wrinkles be unpleasant to look at? Why struggle to reverse the signs of ageing?

Wrinkles, grey hair etc are perfectly normal in older people, and ought to be universally acceptable.

I can never understand why anyone would purchase products which 'reduce lines' or 'cover grey hairs'. Or undertake cosmetic surgery, unless one is severely deformed or disfigured.

I have never in my (long) life used any products like this. I'm pretty sure I don't frighten people in the street, and look quite ordinary and normal for my age.

Subject: RE: BS: Wrinkles
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jul 18 - 01:12 PM

"Its better to look good than feel good"
Billy Crystal


Steve you pass on moral judgement more than a Baptist minister from Alabama, but far more rationally.

Subject: RE: BS: Wrinkles
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jul 18 - 01:17 PM

Desiccant will give you more wrinkles if you prefer that sort of thing.

Subject: RE: BS: Wrinkles
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 25 Jul 18 - 02:11 PM

Smokers face - I suspect science can backup my educated suspicion
that smoking significantly shrivels up and wrinkles smokers faces...

Subject: RE: BS: Wrinkles
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jul 18 - 02:39 PM

That's a fact Jack.
The Sun is still #1

Subject: RE: BS: Wrinkles
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Jul 18 - 02:52 PM

I'm almost 70, and I don't have grey hair, either. Mine turned white about 10 years ago, and I like that much better. It used to frizz up like Einstein's.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Wrinkles
From: Senoufou
Date: 25 Jul 18 - 03:30 PM

Hahahaa Joe! When it's time for me to visit my hairdresser to tidy me up, I always say, "I'm looking like Albert Einstein again Annette. Can I book an appointment please?"
I only have a quick trim, so I can see out under my fringe. I'm not interested in having a fancy hairdo, I just want to look neat.

Talking of wrinkles, my mother-in-law Assita Nimi is absolutely ancient (no-one of her generation knows how old they are exactly), probably around ninety.
But she hasn't got a single wrinkle, not one. Neither does my husband.
He's a bit younger than me but looks like a teenager! I bet people that see us together in Norwich think I'm being taken out for a little walk by my carer.

Subject: RE: BS: Wrinkles
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 25 Jul 18 - 03:39 PM

I don't know if I have wrinkles or not. I'd need to look in a mirror to find out, but when I do, it frightens me so badly that I immediately look away.

Subject: RE: BS: Wrinkles
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jul 18 - 08:33 PM

If you want to see what a permanent overdose of Botox looks like...
Check out Mitch McConnell

Subject: RE: BS: Wrinkles
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 Jul 18 - 09:23 PM

Back in my working days, I had a boss who had a face like a Japanese No-mask (beautiful lady of course, not ugly demon) from Botox & plastic surgery & makeup.

One day at a Union meeting I was speaking to our rep & the bloke from Head Office who commented on her lack of facial movement when they were in discussion so I mentioned this.

She was anti union because everyone can look after themselves - well maybe strong-minded people like her but we had a lot of colleagues in our multi-cultural govt. agency from backgrounds where women (and men) did not speak up, especially to people in authority. A few years later when she was working on a masters which involved a study of unions, she started to see why they were vital.

back to wrinkles & grey hair - I earned mine by living into retirement when I remember a few colleagues who died young.

sandra (grey/white haired old lady who was yesterday complimented by an unknown twenty-something for my lovely hair!!)

Subject: RE: BS: Wrinkles
From: Senoufou
Date: 26 Jul 18 - 02:29 AM

Ah Sandra, people I see on TV who've been over-enthusiastic with the Botox look - well- weird. As you say, mask-like.

There's a fascinating TV programme on at the moment called 'Botched'. It's about two American plastic surgeons in California who help people who have had disastrous operations and work done on their bodies and faces. (Doctors Dubrow and Nassif)

They get deranged women with lips like grouper fish, wanting yet more filler added. Fortunately, they're very ethical and their aim is a natural look, so these types of client are refused.

There's a similar one called 'Atlanta Plastic', where the surgeons are forever liposuctioning fat ladies and poking implants into their busts until they look positively pneumatic.
Most interesting, but I'd never go in for anything like that.

Subject: RE: BS: Wrinkles
From: Murpholly
Date: 26 Jul 18 - 04:07 AM

As a female I have been aging disgracefully for years. The age of chivalry is still with us despie the press; it is amazing how many men, women and children open doors for me, offer to help me with my shopping, give way to me in queus. White hair and wrinkles are welcome here.

Subject: RE: BS: Wrinkles
From: theleveller
Date: 26 Jul 18 - 05:03 AM

Still got a long way to go before I look like Ronnie Wood.
Ronnie

Subject: RE: BS: Wrinkles
From: Senoufou
Date: 26 Jul 18 - 07:17 AM

Ronnie is 71 and was born very near to where I was.
I think he has a cheeky, impish face, very 'lived-in'.

Like Bee-dubya-ell, I don't look in the mirror much, so haven't particularly noticed my wrinkles. I expect I have loads of them, but at least I'm still breathing, which is the most important thing!

Subject: RE: BS: Wrinkles
From: Charmion
Date: 26 Jul 18 - 09:24 AM

I have my father's bloodhound eyes, hooded and pouched, but I wear spectacles, so no one notices but me and nobody cares. As for wrinkles -- a classic Figure 11 between my eyebrows and a fine set of crow's feet. It's the reading and the squinting.

Himself, my better half, has curly white hair so beautiful that total strangers comment on it -- "Ooooh! How do you get it like that?" He squirms a bit and giggles. I'm almost 64 and have grey hair only in my eyebrows, and the hairdresser thinks I'm a genetic freak. She should have seen my granny, who had dark brown hair with only a skunk streak of silver right up to her death at 92.

Subject: RE: BS: Wrinkles
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 26 Jul 18 - 09:34 AM

I have no grey or white hairs, they've instead just grown invisible...

Subject: RE: BS: Wrinkles
From: MikeL2
Date: 26 Jul 18 - 09:35 AM

Hi

I am now in my eighties and am six feet tall. I appear to have lost 2 inches in the last couple of years. I have to see myself in the mirror because I shave every day. So I know I have no wrinkles. Also other people remark about me not having wrinkles ....so I guess I don't.

I have never smoked even one cigarette and I believe that's what helps with not growing wrinkles.I have drunk lots of alcohol over the years so I have had no need to use any creams etc.
Mind you I have lost almost all my hair and what bit is left is pure white.

My brother also a six footer has smoked and drunk heavily. He is still six feet and has some facial wrinkles but he has lost no hair and has no grey or white hairs.

Go figure !!

Cheers

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Wrinkles
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 26 Jul 18 - 11:04 AM

speaking of Ronnie Wood & his ilk - local singer/songwriter Pat Drummond has a great song about Keith Richards - listen here

Subject: RE: BS: Wrinkles
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 26 Jul 18 - 11:09 AM

My mrs fancies older movie stars with rugged 'lived in' faces...

Subject: RE: BS: Wrinkles
From: theleveller
Date: 26 Jul 18 - 04:56 PM

My face is not so much lived in as inhabited by very careless and unruly squatters. Still not as bad as Keef or Ronnie though.

Subject: RE: BS: Wrinkles
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 26 Jul 18 - 05:34 PM

I've been watching The BBC "Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing" series..
Both are recovering from heart surgery.
One's a few months older, the other a few months younger than me.
Thankfully I don't look anything near as old as either... yet.....