Wrinkles

I was 19 or so when I walked into a cosmetic store looking for acne cream/lotion/wash, anything to get rid of my acne. I walked straight up to the lady and said, ma'am I need your best of everything to get rid of this acne. It's sad, I had beautiful skin all the way through high school, and right after that it went downhill. boooo! The lady looks at me and in her "not so American" accent she says, "Acne will go away, but what you need to work on is your wrinkles". I am 19 and wrinkles are what I should be worried about? Since she was ancient and had very wrinkle free skin, I was convinced she was right! So, instead of acne products I bought the best of all the wrinkle creams,serums and washes she had to offer. As you can see, I am sold easily by anyone who is willing to convince me to buy something (especially at 19).

So, now here I am at age 26 and I use my wrinkle products as often as I brush my teeth (twice daily). I am afraid if I don’t use them the lady from that store will hunt me down and ask me why I am NOT using those wrinkle products. Anyways that brings me to a little story…What had happened was…

I was in the bathroom doing all of my daily rituals, teeth brushing, and face washing makeup and of course applying the infamous “wrinkle cream”. When my four year old niece prances in, looks at me and says…

4 year old niece: “Hey, aunt Mandy. What are you doing?

Me: “Well, little lady. I am putting on my wrinkle cream.”

4 year old niece: (crinkled up nose) “Why?”

Me: “Because aunt Mandy NEEDS it”

4 year old niece: (head moving side to side, the look of disgust on her face in her most know it all 4yr old voice) “oh, you have to use wrinkle cream? Grammy doesn't need cream to make her wrinkles"

As she walks out of the bathroom she gives me a look of – I TOLD YOU!

I’ll leave it at that… I guess at 4 years old they have the world figured out for sure. Ha!