{"id":87458,"date":"2016-09-26T01:05:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T07:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.liveyourtruth.com\/dyt\/?p=87458"},"modified":"2021-03-15T09:26:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T15:26:59","slug":"never-say-wrinkle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.liveyourtruth.com\/dyt\/never-say-wrinkle\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Never Say the W-Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

In the early days of creating Dressing Your Truth<\/a>h, I did a lot of research about how the psychology of fashion and beauty has negatively affected us as women. In my study, I looked for words used for decades that had a negative reference to our body and appearance.<\/p>\n

One of those words that I vowed to never use in my Dressing Your Truth content is the word “wrinkles.”<\/p>\n

I made that decision back in 2013. But in the years since, I\u2019ve seen many women who are prematurely aging themselves look for support by focusing exclusively on the word “wrinkle.” That word turns up invasive solutions that either lead women to pay up or give up. I wanted to offer women more affordable, natural support to create healthy skin, especially if they were seeing wrinkles as problems. That\u2019s why my skincare line includes the Wrinkle Recovery Serum<\/a>. I\u2019m walking proof that you can help your skin recover from damage\u2014and you can recover from talking about your skin having wrinkles!<\/p>\n

In fact, I remember the A-ha I had the day I realized that every skincare company pitches their products using a young, attractive Type 4 skincare model with porcelain skin to convince me to buy their product, with the hope I would have skin like hers.<\/p>\n

It was a freeing moment to realize that my Type 3 skin would never<\/em> look like hers\u2014nor did it need to for me to be beautiful!<\/p>\n

I realized that day that I needed to accept the skin God gave me, work with it to keep it as healthy and vital as I could, and it would never be porcelain! Rather, it would be beautifully dynamic, expressing more texture and deeper lines and creases!<\/p>\n

How do you talk about your own skin?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t know a woman who has ever said, “I love my wrinkles,” or “Oh, good. I am getting more wrinkles!”<\/p>\n

There is nothing wrong with getting older and aging\u2014we are aging every day! But no woman wants to age faster than she needs to.<\/p>\n

I always say, growing older is inevitable. But how you age is a choice.<\/p>\n

Your words and vocabulary make a difference! How many times have you referred to the lines and movement in your face as wrinkles?<\/p>\n

We have been taught that any lines we naturally express in our faces (true to our Energy Type) are BAD, and we need to correct, eliminate, or hide them in order to be beautiful. But it’s not true! We’ll feel more confident by accepting and caring for our unique skin, rather than trying (and failing) to turn it into something it can never be.<\/p>\n

The words I choose to use instead<\/strong><\/p>\n

I refer to skin features using accurate words with a more neutral reference:<\/p>\n