Boycott Makeup

You should never start to wear makeup unless you are prepared to do so, everyday, for the rest of your life.

  • Makeup hides flaws – it does not fix them.  In fact it exacerbates them.
  • Makeup makes you look ‘young’ and ‘aroused’ – flushed skin, bedroom eyes, and pinker lips.  Except when you are no longer young, you look like an old lady who’s trying too hard.
  • Once you start to wear makeup, you look like Casper when you stop because everyone is used to the ‘fake’ you.

Jennifer Lopez is almost never ‘professionally seen’ without makeup on.  So someone captures JLo au natural and Star magazine screams, “JLo, Walking Corpse!” and “Celebrities, They Look Just Like Us!”

She looks cute and fresh-faced, but since the public is used to Jennifer-Lopez-Goddess-of-Love, people think she looks ‘tired’ and ‘washed out’.

If you must, go mineral.

Ambrosia, Thy Name is Water

Instead of hiding your flaws with makeup, fix them!  The number one cause of non-delicious skin is dehydration.  Lack of water coupled with crap (sugar, caffeine, and sugar) makes your skin look like crap.

Your skin in the largest organ in your body.  Most people are putting crap both on and in their skin.  They then deprive their body of the water that would carry the crap back out of their body.

Water is delicious and awesome.

Moisturize

Hydrating yourself without moisturizing your skin is like prepping your deck without putting sealant on it.

Multi-task your kitchen!

Use baking soda to exfoliate your face.  It is gentler on your delicate skin and highly effective.

Use sugar or salt to exfoliate your body.  Not only does it make your skin feel awesome, but using it on your feet is a faster way to exfoliate than using a pumice stone.  Who has time to sit there and sand and buff their feet all night?  Not me.

Extra virgin olive oil and extra virgin coconut oil equal extra virgin awesome!  Put it on your face while watching tv then take it off.  You’ll be supple for daaays.

The Preemptive Strike

Stay the heck out of the sun unless you are wearing: a hat, sunglasses, sunscreen, or some combination of the aforementioned.

Some people put food on their face.  But what you put in  your face is way more important.  So, for the love of God, stop drinking soda.

Don’t smoke.  Trying to moisturize when you suck on fire is damn near useless.  It’s like throwing a bucket on a forest fire.

    That’s it.  Nice and simple.