Angela Bassett, who will be 50 in August, by Matthew Jordan Smith. I posted her picture because she looks fabulous and NOT because I am suggesting that she uses any of the products below.
This article from Jezebel a few days ago caught my attention and I have a confession to make: I have been buying anti-aging products since I was in my early 20s. Even though I have a great start in the aging department (I'm black, I don't smoke and I have great genes) I started with the anti-aging stuff early with the goal of being in Tina Turner-territory by the time I hit my sixties and seventies and I think I am on my way. And, it doesn't hurt to look at my grandmother, who is just shy of eighty and has no wrinkles in sight - and she smoked for twenty years!
I have two
iron-clad anti-aging beauty rules - exfoliator and sunscreen. The exfoliator can either come in the form of a scrub or an acid and usually, I will go with the latter in the form of Peter Thomas Roth's Anti-Aging Cleansing Gel, one of my longtime favorites. I do alternate (I like exfoliating cleanser and sunscreen from Rx for Brown Skin) but I always come back eventually. As for sunscreen, I am always surprised to read that dermatologists still have to convince some Black women to use sunscreen! Of course we have to use sunscreen too! We have skin! Everyone with skin should use sunscreen - period. I mentioned Peter Thomas Roth Uber-Dry Sunscreen
yesterday, but I still stock up on Olay's Age Defying Anti-Wrinkle Moisturizer with SPF 15
and Cetaphil's Daily Facial Moisturizer with SPF 15
.
Oh, and just to clarify - I am not saying that there is anything wrong with being old. But why not look like Tina Turner (or Angela Bassett!) if you can help it?
Peter Thomas Roth Age Defense Kit ($97 Value) $45.00. Peter Thomas Roth Uber-Dry Sunscreen SPF 30, $26.00
. Rx for Brown Skin Protect and Defend Moisturizing Sunscreen SPF 15, $26.00 . Rx for Brown Skin Bright and Even Regimen Set ($75 Value) $55.00.
so true, I've been using anti-aging remedies since my teens.
Posted by: dominican_enigma | 19/06/2008 at 16:15