It’s A Women’s World

Anyone need any costume jewelery for this upcoming Halloween holiday? Please don’t give me the spiel about how it’s not really a holiday. Believe me - I get the picture, but still consider it the coolest day of the year. Remember how great it was back when you a kid and doing all that trick-or-treating? Yeah, the nostalgia is kicking in. I certainly never forgot how much I loved heading down a dark and spooky street on that chilly October night. I shuffled quickly with my massive treat bag in hand. I wanted to fill that baby as full as I could possibly get it. After all, I had to stock up big time. Halloween only comes once a year, remember?

Once I had my bag stuffed with goodies, it was time to haul it all back home for a routine sorting. I think every kid on the planet does this. You just have to separate the chocolate from the lollipops and so on. These days I still enjoy that creepy night, however, I live it vicariously through my little girl. Well, the trick-or-treating part anyway. And now I have the pleasure of sorting through her treats.

The Internet is absolutely loaded with great Halloween costume jewelery, outfits, fake weapons, scary masks and more. Why couldn’t they have had this when I was a little kid back in the 80’s? Yeah, you’d better believe I would have been all over this in no time flat. I would have been picking out my costume months ahead of time. As you may already be aware, this is the surefire way to get the one you truly want.

I was just surfing through oodles of Halloween costume jewelery and masks last month. Once I had discovered that my seven year old daughter wanted to be a werewolf for Halloween this year, I was on it. I surfed through a dozen different websites in search of the perfect werewolf costume. She wanted one that would scare other children. Hey, it sounded good to me. That’s what October 31st is all about, right? Eventually I spotted that creepy and deviant looking wolf costume. Now we’re all set.

Don’t put that costume jewelery and Halloween mask off until October 29th. Get on the web now and start browsing for the best stuff available. Every year these companies tend to out-do themselves. This means more realistic looking costumes every Halloween. Enjoy them! It only happens once a year.

Back in the day, the thinking about good skin care products was not very sophisticated. Essentially good skin care was something that made you look better immediately. Heavy makeup and cosmetics, products that could eventually damage the skin and even occasionally poison the body, were all the rage. If it looked pretty, it was what you wanted to put on your face. In many ways, skin care cosmetics have changed since those days, but the changes have come slowly. Innovations such as natural skin care are still not universally accepted, and many people use harsh skin anti-aging treatments that might do more harm than good in the long run.

As a dermatologist familiar with the practice of alternative medicine, I try to steer people away from this approach. There are some great creams available for skin treatments, but good skincare doesn’t start with the skin itself. If you want to have good skin care, you need to take care of your body as a whole. Good nutrition is where good skin starts. Of course, nowadays many people understand that eating too much fatty food can make your skin oily, greasy and unhealthy looking. It can ruin your complexion in ways that are not easily fixed by topical treatments. What people don’t realize is that the problems go deeper than that. The vitamins that make healthy skin look vibrant and radiant come from the food that you eat every day. Without getting good nutrition, there’s no way to have truly good skin care.

Of course, if that were all that it took to take care of your skin, us dermatologists is would be out of business. We would be replaced by dietitians overnight! Fortunately for my profession, there is more that goes into skincare than nutrition. There are many different treatments available for a variety of different skin issues. Exfoliants, anti-wrinkle creams, cover-up and makeup, and nutritional rubs can all help to keep your skin healthy and beautiful. Health spas, massages, and other treatments that don’t obviously relate to the skin can still improve appearance. Apparently, the way our skin looks is much more complicated than even dermatologists anticipated. Basically, good skin care involves two things.  Being aware of the variety of treatments available and being willing to try them until you find something that works. With enough persistence, even the worst skincare problems can be resolved. It is just a matter of being patient.