Hello and welcome to the July edition of the Love Every Body workshop and today the topic is skin.I am very fair skinned, and in my younger days would go to great lengths to try and cover up the freckles on my face which would multiply in the summer as I thought it gave me an uneven skintone!!! Fast forward to me now aged 39 and I love my freckles they are a part of me and I now actually look forward to the summer and the mass of freckles that appear!
I do have to be careful in the sun though as I burn easily but as I have gotten older my skin has changed and I now develop a slight tan (sometimes I just look like I need a good wash!!) either that are all the freckles on my arms join themselves up!
Yes I have wrinkles it is an inevitable part of ageing, I have crows feet around my eyes, frown lines above my nose and my forehead isn't as smooth as it was! The way I look at it some of those lines are from laughing, some are from when I have got cross and no I won't have botox I want to be able to express my feelings!!
I have managed to not collect very many scars over the years, I have like a lot of people my age a mark from my TB jab, a few chicken pox scars and a scar on the back of one of my toes from stepping on some glass as a a teenager! The biggest marks on my body are stretch marks which have turned silver over the years and snake around my tummy and the tops of my arms. I used to hate them but now I just see them as a part of my body's journey through life.
I have one tattoo on my lower back which is a tribal sun, I had it done on a whim whilst on holiday in Weston Super Mare and it hurt so bloody much that I have never had another done!!
Sometimes when I look at my hands I think I can see the beginnings of age spots but they could just be freckles!!
The only skin on my body that is annoying me at the moment is on my feet! I suffer terribly with cracked dry skin on my heels. I recently tried the bags that you put on your feet which make the skin peel off. So far the only peeling is on my toes and looks hideous!! I have bought a ped egg of Ebay in the vain hope that the cheese grater approach might help!! (I wont subject you to a picture of that!!)
So yes over the years I have come to love the skin I am in after all its the only skin I have!!
