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From: Bama
Date: 10-10-2005, 05:45 PM (1 of 27)
I was waiting in the car for my kids this afternoon and looked at myself in the mirror on the visor. I have WRINKLES around my eyes now. I hadn't noticed before. Maybe my bathroom light is too dim. The sunlight showed them to me today.  I've noticed that hubby has gotten a few the past few years, but I didn't know I have them too.  I'm noticing alot of things changing now. I'll be 40 next March. |
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From: MaryW
Date: 10-10-2005, 05:49 PM (2 of 27)
Lori, you're still a young'un. I didn't like it when I first noticed wrinkles either. 
MaryW
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From: debsews
Date: 10-10-2005, 06:33 PM (3 of 27)
| Enjoy the next ten years - lots of things happen at 50! I loved 40 compared to 55. It's a shock to see the signs of aging in ourselves. I love to tell hubby about all the signs he has and he reciprocates! Oh well it beats the alternative! |
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From: tiedyejudy
Date: 10-10-2005, 06:34 PM (4 of 27)
I don't mind the wrinkles so much... I HATE the sagging double chin! Not to mention the excess baggage around my middle (nobody's fault buy my own! The wages of chocolate...  )
Judy Sall Originals
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From: Bama
Date: 10-10-2005, 08:44 PM (5 of 27)
You know the worst thing? The past year or so I have to cross my legs before I sneeze, or, you know. 
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From: bridesmom
Date: 10-10-2005, 11:21 PM (6 of 27)
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For the longest time, everytime I found a grey hair I pulled it out. Then finally I gave up, it hurt too much. So I decided to dye my hair more often! Wrinkles are laugh lines, you get them because you laugh so much!!! (at least that's my story and I'm sticking to it!) The best thing about being 50 - GRANDCHILDREN!!!
Laura
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 10-10-2005, 11:54 PM (7 of 27)
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Well I've had wrinkles on my forehead since I was 8 (worrying does that and I have the pics to prove it). I have no wrinkles around my eyes or mouth. (no smoking, no sun, no squinting....) I started dyeing my hair in 98 it didn't need it, I just liked it...so 3 mnths ago I decided to quit...one side of my hair is white, the other dark brown. I haven't decided if I like the look yet (my husbands hair has been totally gray for about 10 yrs now...mens side of his family...full head of hair that turns snowy white..they were all born blonde). I would like my hair to look like my grandmothers...snowy white, but she was a redhead. Various people have told me I look 38 (even with some white hair showing). I'm gonna be 51 in Dec. I think it's the combination of a pleasent expression, a fat round face and R E A L L Y oily skin. (yep STILL) plus the fact I refuse to act like I'm old...( on sat a clerk in a shop said my drivers license picture was beautiful...I was actually wearing makeup and my contacts that day and wasn't angry. Like I was when my AF ID photo was taken...I look like I wanna bite someones head off....and I wanted to too..) Chrys
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From: SummersEchos
Date: 10-11-2005, 12:34 AM (8 of 27)
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My YD BF was in a business where they removed the wrinkles from your face with this light thingy. Of course he said I could get mine for free. This treatment is 100 dollars a shot! He said he was surprised to see I didn't have a lot of wrinkles at my age lol. I shall be 55 this year. The wrinkles he noticed were the ones around my eyes, around my mouth, and my forehead. Not big bad ugly ones just wrinkles that really do not show unless you look closely. I told him when I laughed those are the wrinkles that appear. Look in the mirror when you are laughing or smiling big, and those you will see. So when I see a wrinkle I think of the laughter in my life. I do not dye my hair I am totally grey, I like my age and my hair color and my face with even those tiny wrinkles. It shows me I have lived a life of happiness and sorrow.
Summer
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From: Magot
Date: 10-11-2005, 01:35 AM (9 of 27)
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They say that past 40 you start to show the face that you have lived - At48 I am still giggling and it shows - what the heck, the lines go up. I've been dying my hair since I was 18 because I like the change - only now it is starting to look disasterous on the roots if I leave it too long - my brother is a badger and I feel under all this I may be as well!. You sound like Rogue from the X men Kath! love and kisses, Jan
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From: DorothyL
Date: 10-11-2005, 08:09 AM (10 of 27)
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Every time I have my hair colored I think "Maybe after this I'll just go gray gracefully." Then the gray starts coming in and I look frumpy. There is nothing graceful about it and I'm back banging on the hair dressers door. "Help, Gail, I look like a bag lady!" We discussed it last time I was in there and next time I'm going to have a big yellow stripe through my usual red. Just for kicks and giggles and to make my 30-year-old purple-haired daughter say "MOOOOOMMMM!" Dorothy |
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From: tiedyejudy
Date: 10-11-2005, 05:55 PM (11 of 27)
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My family doesn't go gray until 60 or so, so I have a couple of years yet. I've had dishwater blonde hair for years... had a color weave a couple of times just to keep it from looking too dingy. My hair is probably healthier now than it's ever been! I am 'blessed' with baby fine hair, but lots of it. Most of the time I have kept it short, but decided earlier this year to let it grow again for awhile. Found a good hairdresser who knows how to cut hair. Just wish I didn't have so many cowlicks!
Judy Sall Originals
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 10-11-2005, 10:17 PM (12 of 27)
I WISH I were Rogue !!!! Pretty and fatal !!!  Hmmmm.....ya know it would be something if we could all put pics of ourselves up somewhere in here....(I know you can use the avatar thing, but my husband can't get the darn pics small enough....besides we look better BIGGER )
Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
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From: Bama
Date: 10-13-2005, 05:26 PM (13 of 27)
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Yeah, it would be nice to put a face to all of you. I have seen pics of several people here. I even met Krystal O. in person. Chrys, I still have very oily skin too. And oily hair. I have to shampoo it every day. I still get acne occasionally. My hair is graying a little now, mostly right over my ears and on the crown. I think I'll have white streaks on the sides in a couple of years. I hope I don't get the skunk look. I've noticed gray/white hairs since I was about 25. It's really noticable in the sunlight.My hubby *says* he likes it, but my daughter begs me to color it. |
User: Bama
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From: Domestic Goddes
Date: 10-15-2005, 08:47 AM (14 of 27)
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I think of my wrinkles (I don't have too many yet but a few little ones have appeared) and my stretch marks as the signs of being a woman with experience of life - fun, laughter, happiness, a little sadness and pain and the joy of having a child. They should be celebrated, not condemned! My personal view is that anyone prepared to spend a fortune on plastic surgery to have them removed for pure vanity is mad - and has too much money (they could donate it to charity and feel a lot better about themselves). I've noticed a few silver hairs appearing and call these my "executive highlights" 
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From: Magot
Date: 10-15-2005, 10:30 AM (15 of 27)
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My husband found his first grey hair onthe day after our first daughter was born....now what does that say?
love and kisses, Jan
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User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626
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From: DorothyL
Date: 10-15-2005, 11:41 AM (16 of 27)
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My husband always tells my girls he had hair and no gray in his beard until he had two teenage daughters. The thing about having hair is a bit of an exaggeration though, in my opinion. Dorothy |
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From: Magot
Date: 10-15-2005, 12:17 PM (17 of 27)
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No photographic evidence, Dorothy?
love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
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From: DorothyL
Date: 10-15-2005, 01:48 PM (18 of 27)
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Lot of glare, Jan. Dorothy |
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From: Magot
Date: 10-15-2005, 02:59 PM (19 of 27)
wear snowgoggles,Dorothy. 
love and kisses, Jan
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 10-15-2005, 10:16 PM (20 of 27)
Powder the top of his head... 
Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
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From: bridesmom
Date: 10-16-2005, 05:11 AM (21 of 27)
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My DH isn't going bald, he's just growing a forehead!
Laura
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From: debsews
Date: 10-16-2005, 08:41 AM (22 of 27)
| You know God only made a few perfect heads - the rest he put hair on! |
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From: Bama
Date: 10-16-2005, 07:00 PM (23 of 27)
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You've prabably heard this one before but....... A little girl noticed several gray hairs on her mom's head and asked her why they were there. The mom said, "Every time you make mommy cry, I get a gray hair." The little girl thought about it a moment and said, "Gee, you must have made grandma cry alot." |
User: Bama
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From: MaryW
Date: 10-18-2005, 09:52 AM (24 of 27)
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My hubby says he has grown thru his hair. He tells my sister his bald spot is a solar panel for a sex machine. Uh huh. LOL.
MaryW
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From: Magot
Date: 10-18-2005, 12:12 PM (25 of 27)
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o sorry I'm off to the Dostor now.... love and kisses, Jan
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User: Magot
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 10-18-2005, 11:19 PM (26 of 27)
My husband has all his hair and THEN some....I've always wondered why men (bald or NOT) grow hair ALL OVER their bodies like they're growing a new lawn. Ears, noses (in and out  ), necks, backs, fronts (not just the belly button ) eye brows that look like BIG caterpillars.I keep telling my husband I'd dye his hair for him, but he says it'd take too much dye...I'd have to do ALL of him...the mustache and the chest hair too...GREY all over !
Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
Member since: 09-06-2002 Total posts: 2414
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From: Magot
Date: 10-19-2005, 02:17 AM (27 of 27)
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So, really Chrys, he is a gorilla. Tony had a small amount of bodily hair and has become more furry as the years roll by - buy then so have I - the hair has stopped growing on my legs but my moustache is coming in nicely. As for the eybrows that keep popping out of my chin.. love and kisses, Jan
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