God, maintaining oneself as one gets older aint half time and $ consuming..

[BrendaandEddie]

this week ( ish) i have had:

• brows tinted and shaped (can't do myself am poof, well could probably tint but ouchy cant pull out hair)
• Hair cut coming up too (colour done separately by mobile thank GOD)
• Nails done (last for three weeks)
• Fake tanned.
• Chiropodist ( twice in the summer for serious scaley hooves)

Hmm maybe Bourjois is similar to Chanel but to quote the good Brenda, I CAN'T TAKE THE RISK.
Chanel Vitalumière Aqua or Giorgio Armani Silk are my current likes and have been for a good while. But I now have bastarding crows feet and make up can sit in them and God its ageing. All the faffing about it takes to avoid that. Am so sorely tempted to hit the Botox there.

And agree, you need to watch t-shirts.

I iron everything. Yip, everything except underwear. Therapeutically mind-numbing and clothes looks so much better. I really am not as 'tucked-in' IRL as all that ironing sounds.

Agree re ironing. Plus I increasingly insist on a belt. That goes

As an extreme hourglass (40-29-40) I have struggled with clothes for a while. They are getting increasingly expensive - I mostly buy at TKMaxx these days but 3/4 of what I try goes back on the rail.

Hair is ok, no visible grey yet so it us just regular cry and highlights every 3-4 months. Body hair also ok - agree with epilation but only for legs. Other areas are plucked/shaved/ignored unless swimming.

The biggie for me is eye bags. I am cursed with genetic ones and have spent hundreds on them including a specialist make up lesson. I'd have fillers except I'm scared. A light tan works best - just returned from a week in Spain and they aren't too obvious at the mo. Can see the attraction of a facial-only sunbed tbh. But won't cos of safety. And further wrinkles.

Oh god have fillers. Life too short

Lol at hair needing regular cry. Obv I meant cut, tho might have been a Freudian typo!

I never coloured my hair till grey set in. I couldn't be arsed with it

But what if it goes wrong and I am left with eyes like Leslie ash lips?

Sass there'll be loads of places in your neck of the woods

You won't. Simple. Mate had them. Loved

She get black eyes?

Has anyone had anything more-ahem-invasive yet?

I'll ask

She says you can text her if you like

Slight bruising on one side. Only one person noticed. Do it do it

Tempted.... Will let you know if I ever go through with it! Will be in next sch hol if I do for damage limitation purposes.

Leslie Ash had permanaent filler (AFAIK) NEVER a good idea. The vast majo Her disaster was beacause she had a reaction to this permanent filler. Go somewhere good, with decent medical supervision, it's all reversible if you don't liek it. Really is easy.

buggerthebotox do you mean surgery? No. And I wouldn't either. I'm willing to muck about with fillers and Botox but surgery is not for me.

Oh and go somewhere where the ethos is 'subtle'. It should not be noticeable. At most, only phenomenally observant good friends should notice.

Oh ffs, don't know what 'The vast majo' means in my post ^^up there..

I'm now 50, and have thus far not really bothered too much with products etc, but am beginning to find more and more problems. It really doesn't please me. Anyone else suffer from the following?

1. Now have to wear glasses for much of the time[hate it]. Can't see eyebrows in order to pluck them, even with the use of a magnifying mirror.
2. Top lip so thin, it virtually disappears when I smile.
3. red patches on face, menopause flush I think.
4. Hair a complete mess. OK when first washed and blow dried. Next day looks like a crows nest.
5. Grey hair.
6. Weight gain, and struggling to lose it.

It's great being 50, especially when I stand next to my 2 lovely daughters. I used to look like them once!

Oh I wash hair every day

"Am poof" Quite offensive!

I do my own eyebrows & nails & feet & I dye my own roots. I do have to spend a little longer maintaining my appearance now I'm into my 40's but financially there is no difference

PetitBateau
Hate having to wash my hair every day. Maybe i should be more like you, and make more of an effort.

i dont feel clean unless I have. I get up extra early to read my book in the bath for half an hour so its no issue.
I can do mornings, i can see if you can't its a hassle. Or if you have masses of hair

My hair is terrible now, really dry and horrid.

I am blaming dyeing but mostly swimming. What is the answer? Atuallly maybe that's a new thread.

cut lots off. USe oil ( argan type stuff)

and STOP STRAIGHTENING
I tell you mine transformed. I used oil and a babyliss big hair instead, now gentle curls onto shoulder, not poker straight dry hair