My face is my canvas

I miss my estrogen. I feel that my face is falling so my husband (who I love dearly) suggested I raise my body! Very funny. Your body changes as your hormones fluctuate. Changes occur internally and externally. Much of the research suggests that once you are in menopause (really what does this mean other than you haven’t had a menstrual cycle in 12 months) and your hormones reach a new level of homeostatis, then many of the typically symptoms will decrease and even disappear. You will be at your new normal.

But in the meantime…..

I realized that I am an artist and my canvas is my face. When I was younger, a little blush and lipstick was all I needed. Now I feel that each part of my face needs a different moisturizer, a different primer , a different base and different color.

I know I have a choice and somedays I do leave the house without any makeup. I am perfectly ok with that. However, I do know that I look brighter with a bit of color magic. Hormones have something to do with it. My skin does not look as bright. It is a fact. It is not in my head. So I now approach this with a bit of creativity and acceptance. I know I need to prime the canvas first.

It used to bother me that I needed to appy some additional products that I didn’t in the past. I denied it. Now it is all good. I use eyebrow pencil to fill in the grey hair (In case you haven’t notice, hair does turn grey everywhere you have hair on your body).  Undereye cream and eye shadow primer are two additional products I now use because the skin under my eyes is thinning and eye shadow doesn’t stay on as it used to. Don’t forget the lip pencil to fill in the thinning lips.

If this little bit of extra work on my canvas is my biggest challenge; then my life is pretty awesome. No big deal. What is really important is that I still have a sparkle in my eyes, my face can clearly show compassion, love, disappointment, joy, sadness and many other emotional combinations including laughing and crying at the same moment (which my husband knows not to respond to).

Until next time, remember we are not done yet.