![]() ![]() I remember in the 80’s when it was de rigueur to be the color of a Slim Jim, she would sit on a lawn chair next to our pool and slather herself in baby oil before laying in the sun for hours. Nearly no wrinkles, no blemishes, no sagging, and nary a dark spot to be found, which is maddening because she abused her skin mercilessly almost her entire life. She just turned 80 and literally has the skin of a woman half her age. My mom’s unsuccessful grasp of the biology of dark patches aside, she had a point…my skin isn’t getting any better, and unfortunately I wasn’t blessed with her supernaturally good fortune in that arena. If you wait any longer those dark patches will make roots and it will be TOO LATE.” Her eyes widened as she let the impact of her words hang ominously over us. “Hey,” she said, “You need to do something about your skin NOW. I gave zero thought to it until three days ago, when I FaceTimed with my mom and she delicately told me my face looked like a beat-up old boot. So long, blotchiness and sun spots! Not today, dark shitty pores!Īnd then the package was promptly relegated to my “out of sight out of mind” shelf in the bathroom for the better part of 2 months. I raised my fist to the heavens and declared that I was going to exfoliate and hydrate and tone my way to baby bum-level dermal perfection. The parcel arrived a few days later and I opened it eagerly, promising myself that this was the beginning of a new era, the era of Taking Care of Business, and I was going to emerge post-Hanacure like a beautiful butterfly from my haggard chrysalis. ![]() So I bit the bullet and spent the $110 for a one-month supply. As a result I've developed a lot of freckles and dark spots - especially on my left side from driving - as well as uneven tone, enlarged pores, and an overall air of having given the eff up. My skin has gone into rapid decline in the last year or two as I’ve had to reckon with the fact that, not only did I not take as good care of it as I should have during the years it really counted, but since I had children my attention to self-care is pretty much non-existent. Needless to say, the prospect was enticing. Intrigued, I watched a video of a middle-aged Asian man who subjected himself to the process and it was magical…he went in looking like aged leather and came out looking like a summer peach. ![]() By all accounts this stuff was lightning in a bottle, with people swearing it takes years off your appearance and works wonders on a whole host of skin woes. I couldn’t read a blog post or scroll through facebook or instagram without being served up articles, ads, videos, and before & after photos of the product accompanied by wildly glowing reviews. It first came up on my radar when a girlfriend mentioned having seen a rousing endorsement by Drew Barrymore, and then suddenly it was EVERYWHERE. If you’ve spent any amount of time on social media recently (and of course you have because everybody poops), chances are you’ve already heard of the Korean skincare phenomenon known as Hanacure. ![]()
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