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Carol Perkins: Wrinkles no more Byjings, to use a Metcalfe County byword, this column gets to the bottom of the wrinkles: A great OTC preparation which eliminates the need for Botox - and it isn't Duck Tape. A youthful face is as close as many people's medicine cabinet. The next earlier Carol Perkins column: Carol Perkins: Yard Sales By Carol Perkins My mother has very few wrinkles. She has good DNA and I hope I will look as good as she does when I am her age (which I better keep to myself). However, I can't help but begin to worry that I may not be as lucky. Just recently I noticed small lines under my eyes. When I pull the sides of my face toward my ears, they disappear. I don't like what I see. Before I had cataract surgery, I didn't see those tiny ditches because my glasses covered them, and when I wasn't wearing my glasses, I could barely see my face. Now that I can see, I see too much! What should I do? Unlike my mother who has lathered herself in Johnson's Baby Lotion (they could sell even more of that lotion if they only knew what it has done for her) since the birth of my youngest brother, which would have been fifty-two years ago, I have never pampered my skin the way I should have done. Not because I thought I would never see a wrinkle, but more like I never thought about wrinkling period. That would be for "later." Later has arrived. Every beauty counter in every major department store has lovely, well-groomed ladies ready to sell me numerous products to help with this problem. As a matter of fact, I have some of those products under the sink. I am a sucker for products, but tend to forget I have them or am just too indifferent to use them. Washing my face in soap seems much easier than using a variety of creams and lotions, but perhaps if I had scrubbed and buffed and applied them to my face, these lines would not have occurred. But, I didn't and now I have them and must make a plan. "Guy, do you see these lines?" I stuck my face to his face. "What lines?" A man knows what to say, doesn't he? "The lines under my eyes!" "Those little lines?" He was saying the right things. I demonstrated how much better my face would look without them by pulling the skin back to my ears as I had done many times in the mirror for myself. "I think I need Botox." "Yeah, go get you some of that Botox and then you won't be able to blink your eyes but the wrinkles will be gone!" He knew I wasn't going to have Botox, but I really wanted to do something other than duck tape my skin to my ears. Later that night, as Guy was going through his bedtime routine in the bathroom, and I was sitting in the recliner, enjoying my nightly routine of reading from my Kindle, he came down the hallway waving a tube of something over his head. "Here's what you need. I heard on a TV show about women using this and how it works." In his hand was a tube of Preparation H. I didn't laugh because I had once heard of this, too. I was impressed that he was even thinking about helping me solve the problem. So, for the last three nights I have lathered my checks in Preparation H. Every morning, so far, I brush my teeth, take a shower, and then push my face to the magnifying mirror, hoping for results. Byjings (Guy's grandfather Perkins used to say this word), I think the special formula for shrinkage is working! What a clever man to see the Preparation H in his cabinet drawer and think of me! Now that it seems to work on wrinkles, perhaps I will rub some on these ugly brown spots that have popped up on my hands and arms. There may be many uses for PH other than the one for which it was intended! - Carol Perkins This story was posted on 2012-08-05 06:30:17
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