Ya Gotta Know This About That: Is Beauty A Thing Of The Past?

It took a lot of time in past years to get beautiful.

Now days, I think women abuse their skin a lot. They tan a lot which can cause wrinkles and even skin cancer. They use a lot of makeup which tends to clog your pores and lays in the wrinkles and makes your face look even older. They use all kinds of soaps and cleaning products and don't get them rinsed off very well so that stays in the pores.   A gentle moisturizing cleanser would be the best but most don't use it. Lots of women have facial acne because they use so much junk on their faces and the pores get clogged.

Just think about those days of old and the lack of beauty supplies. There was no Oil of Olay or Mary Kay blemish concealer or wrinkle tightener or easy hair color (henna was available if you wanted red hair). And you couldn't tan in the winter like people do today in a tanning bed so women went around with white as lily legs and face in the winter.

In order for the hair to be presentable, women had to pin curl their hair or put the curls in rags like my mama used to do for my banana curls in my long hair. And older women loved to put finger waves in their hair.....I remember seeing many old women with finger waves down the back of their hair. Sure perms were available since around 1905 when a person used cow urine and water and heated rollers to get a curl to last. Perms were very popular through several decades and then not so popular due to the more desired straighter hair styles. But in order to get it straight, flat irons were used or chemicals to straighten and all of that damaged hair.

The carefree American ways are pretty popular in becoming beautiful nowadays but a lot of persons just don't make it to the beauty point. The New York minute is used in the beauty schedule so the procedure lacks results.....It seems to be ... go tan so the skin is dark (and if those same persons were born a really dark skin they would be using skin bleach).......take a shower in the hottest water one can and not use an exfoliating brush or fiber scrubber on the body so that the persons have layers of dead skin......scrub the facial skin with chemicals and put on the multitude of layers of make-up and blue and green eye shadow and layer after layer of mascara. Then straighten the hair with a flat iron and spike it up (which I do love this style for me) and use root pomade and then half a can of hair spray unless your hair is easily trained to stand up (mine is).

Voila...most might think after doing all of this un-natuaral and damaging procedures it becomes instant beauty in the eyes of the beholder but, maybe not to everyone else.

Maybe we need to go back to the olden ways.....scrub the face with water and use a mild cleanser like Ponds. Then apply moisturizer on the face. Take a cooler shower and scrub off the dead skin....and use a moisturizer on the body too. Get a simple hair cut that is cut to swing naturally and don't use Permanent Waves or chemicals to straighten...go natural if one has naturally curly hair.
And by all means, stay out of those tanning booths and out of the sun in the summer....and if you must be out in the sun, use a sunblock of a high number. Believe me you will be sorry in your older years when your face looks like it has cracks and crevices as deep as the grand canyon....just sayin......

What Do You Remember About Your Youth??

In Greenview it was pretty slim pickens so we made our own fun. these are things I remember from my youth. Keep in mind I was accident prone and always having mishaps....my dear mother always said she hoped she lived to see me grow out of it....she didn't live that long.

1.   Playing baseball at the old grade school ball diamond....boys and girls together on the teams.....just about every day in the summer.

2.   Playing of the swings and teeter totter (a friend....no names mentioned.... jumped off when I was in the air with my legs crossed underneath and bingo I broke both my legs....ouch!!)

3.   I got on my pony, Playboy Pat, just after my dad brought him home from winter pasture. He was full of vim and vigor and bucked me off and I broke my arm just about 1/2 inch below my shoulder. Old Pulaskis taped my arm to body for weeks....my break occurred the on Palm Sunday and it was about the middle of a hot June before it was finally not taped....hot and sweaty and stinky to boot!!

4.   I was riding my bike up towards the high school and got to Godbey's house and a car turned the corner in front of me and I fell in the gravel and almost got run over.....I had gravel embedded in my elbow and my knee. Old Doc Paulaski used a wire brush to get the gravel out of my ouchies.......I about pee'd my pants on that one.

6.    I remember good times of going to West Food Store and buying a hunk of bologna from him which he wrapped in white paper and his girlfriend Esther would take the money .... then a bunch of us kids would go to the park and pull off hunks of bologna and eat it...dirty hands and all.

7.   I remember going to see movies in the park on a big screen.

8.   Many times us kids would ride bikes to the country to visit our friends and relatives. My grammie lived about 3 miles out to the northwest and my friend lived just a bit further than this....I would peddle to grammie's and get refueled with Tang and cookies...then I would start for my friend Karen's house. By the time I got there it was just about time to start for home.

9.   If you read my story of my childhood fears of death in earlier blog posts, you know I hated and feared death and didn't want to be anywhere near a dead person....I hated the clown make-up the morticians used and the hands lying on the belly (reposed in death).

10. And it was always good to remember the ice cream cones at Emma's with the free cone papers at the bottom; going into the locker plant to get things from the locker because it was so dang cool; going for a ride with my friend Sandy's mom because they had an air conditioner in their Plymouth; permanently borrowing apples from townfolks' yards and taking them to the park to sit and eat; riding around town on our bikes and later in the family huge ghetto cruiser car.

And of course always remembering that I was and am a small town girl....who never grew up......I'm still young at heart and always will be.

Recipe

A Favorite Recipe

Take a cup of kindness,
mix it well with love.
Add a lot of patience
and faith in God above.
Sprinkle very generously
with joy and thanks and cheer -
And you'll have lot of "Angel Food"
to feast on all the year.
       --unknown author

Thought For The Day

Think like a man of action

and act like a man of thought.

--Henri Bergson

As I go along in life, I value certain things which enrich my life.....these are some things I think about......

As a friend you are not replaceable but you can hurt me with your attitude and your actions. But please don't step on me and sour the friendship as I might not recover and you might lose me as a friend.

Your life is a canvas. Treat it with respect and grandeur. It comes but once and it is like a valuable piece of artwork.

Laugh each day. Even if it's at yourself...it will do you good. Or laugh at me instead if you don't feel like you are funny enough to prompt laughter. I do some pretty stupid things so just think of those stupid things you know I've done....generate that laughter.

Recognize you aren't perfect. Eat your humility like a fine piece of chocolate.....life is full of mistakes and none of us is immune to that.

By all means be genuine. Don't mask yourself and try to be something you aren't.

And last of all be full of love for all mankind. Love in itself is perfect if you let it be. It can turn sour but you sometimes have to work to make sure it works. There are no exceptions to perfect love and be sure to let it come if wants to come to you.

Have a good day because you deserve it.