Don’t Be a Makeup Chicken

It’s not just for texts–it’s for everything, really, including your face. Not that your face isn’t a text, something that is read.

As you may have noticed from my photos, I am very pale..and blonde….with blue eyes. So, yeah. Pale. What this means for me, living in Ye Olde Florida, is that sun damage is a very real issue. I was never a sun worshipper, but I spent my fair share of days in the surf, hunting for shells, musing over life with my friends as I walk down the beach, getting drunk in the McDonald’s bathroom. Things most people do on the beach, right?

Consequently, I have hyperpigmentation all over my face. It sucks. It makes me look older and it complicates my foundation color choices…and so on. I’ve had it for about 6 years now.

So, when my esthetician suggested this, I figured: Why the hell not? It was not cheap–$160 for the system of 3 products. It was worth every little penny that cried as it left the warm confines of my wallet and was handed over slavishly to the receptionist.

Why? Because it is radically revising my face. Honestly, I’ve never seen results like this. I first noticed it when I looked in the mirror for my morning ritual a few days ago. My face was, indeed, brighter and then…..BAM….I noticed these two extremely pinky-healthy-pale areas on the sides of my nose, sitting there amongst the age spots. I stared at it for a moment.

It was a revelation. Seriously. I’m not overstating the issue!

I’ll write more as my face changes, but here’s a start for you, if you’re interested: http://www.resultsrx.com/

So, I have to tell y’all about India. But first? I have to tell y’all about Radical Revision. Yep. I capitalized it because it’s PROPER.

Radical Revision is just what it sounds like. It’s when you break up and want a new haircut. Or you decide that more eyeshadow is your new approach. Maybe you decide that you’re funkier than you’ve been giving yourself credit for. And so on. And so on.

I am newly single, so here’s what I’ve done: Completely new hair and tons more eyeshadow; I’m getting up earlier and feeling better about myself in general.

Sometimes Radical Revision is what you need to change things in your life. I’ve been going back and forth about my hair, but then I settled into it and thought, “I need to keep moving forward, not backward.” And that thinking has manifested itself as a completely different look. That I’ll be keeping.

Not the best pic, but a start