July 2017

A mask made from egg yolks and seven drops of almond oil kept on your face for twenty minutes works as well or better than any expensive store bought mask. While cleaning and and softening your skin, it is simple and inexpensive to make. I would recommend using it every two to three weeks. I discovered this  formula many years ago while modeling in Paris and have never found a mask that has worked better for me. Enjoy!

After sleeping on a cotton pillow-case all of your life, have you ever awakened one day to find a pattern from the material engraved onto your face? This can occur when the skin begins to lose elasticity and is no longer tight and can take up to an hour before those lines begin to fade. The solution to the problem is relatively simple. You need to take a trip to the store (where bedding is sold) and purchase a less abrasive material. I have found silk or sateen to work best for me.  

I mentioned my falling asleep in the sun when I was a teenager in my last blog: however, I didn’t mention when at age twenty I spent the summer in Spain and gradually worked up a significant tan including my face. No bad sunburn or the need to soak in a boiling hot tub: however, two months later I developed two deep lines on my forehead. Yikes! I have never laid down again in the sun allowing my face to be exposed to the rays. Of course I go to the beach and wear my heavy duty sun block but if I lie in it directly, I “cover” my face with a cloth for extra protection. The good news is that to this day I have never found another deep line on my forehead or any place else. I suggest that you take a simple piece of material and cut out a hole for your nose so that you don’t suffocate. This is just yet another way to avoid those dreaded wrinkles and avoiding a laser peel.

Back when I was a teen, I went on Spring break to Miami with friends. After two days, all three of my friends were in bed suffering from painful sun poisoning along with a significant fever and I was taking every precaution so that it wouldn’t happen to me. That is, until I fell asleep in the sun. As I was walking home barely able to move my baked legs with tears streaming down my face, I was contemplating joining my friends in misery. That is until a guardian angel who appeared in the form of an elderly Floridian man, spotted my fried carcass dragging its way back to the hotel. “I see that you have a bad sun burn but if you follow my advice you are going to be okay.” He instructed me to immediately run a bath as hot as I could tolerate and to sit in the steaming water for a good hour. I was greatly surprised as I would have thought that ice would have been the best alternative. Upon arriving back to the hotel and running the steaming hot bath, my friends would have agreed as they thought that the man was crazy and me even more so for complying. One look at them and I was willing to do anything that could perhaps help my situation. I am pleased to share that his wonderful advise was indeed right on and I was able to go out that night and enjoy the rest of my vacation. There was no preventing the peeling that occurred within a few days but I escaped a very unpleasant fate. I hope that this story will be helpful to any of you who might incur a similar mishap. Wishing you all a wonderful summer!