It All Changes When You Turn 40
What happens when you turn 40 our friends! My hair and especially our skin started feeling the years. Here are the results from the Olay 28 Day Challenge we took!
This. Is. Me. NO makeup, our hair desperately needs to be redone, our eyes are puffier than they've ever been. Yes we are even still breaking out! We're telling you. It all changes when you turn 40! Sponsored by Olay.
We used to have thick straight hair, little to no wrinkles, and never bothered with skin creams or lotions. That's all changed.
What Changes When You Turn 40
We accepted the fact that we HAD to get our hair colored (unless we wanted to have a lot of grey) every other month or so. We needed good products for our face and under-eyes if we wanted to maintain a youthful look at 40. Period.
This is our before picture once we found what we was going to use…check out our journey thru 28 days of getting our skin back in shape.
We think it's funny that when we're younger (like our daughter here) we can't wait to grow up and look a bit older and more mature. Then when we hit about 40 we want to rewind and look younger. lol. Cycle of life we guess.
What happens when you turn 40
We all want to look a bit younger…have that smooth skin we once did when we were 17 like this right??!! At least for those of us (like us) who aren't beauty gurus and don't have a lot of time researching what is best, it's sometimes a bit difficult to figure out what to use.
We've used Olay products before and they have been around a long time and longevity is always a good thing, so we started there and saw they were having a 28-day challenge to achieve younger-looking skin.
We thought we'd see how well it would work for us. Above is our mid-month picture…
This is what we used, every morning and every night:
- Olay Micro Sculpting Cream
- Ultimate Eye Cream
We have to be honest….we ignored our eyes. Yes, we knew they were showing their age (hello…4-0) but like many of us moms we sometimes neglect ourselves…not anymore!!
We don't want to look older than our colleagues, we'd love for them to be surprised when we tell them our age so we realized we needed to focus on myself and that included our skin.
How to take care of your skin after 40
These products can easily be incorporated into our everyday life. That is KEY! We have all of about 5 minutes to spend on our face in the morning and at night (that includes any makeup we wear…which isn't much).
About 1 minute is all we need to apply both the Olay Micro Sculpting Cream AND Olay Eyes Ultimate Eye Cream….BAM, done.
Here is our progress throughout the Olay 28 Day Challenge:
- Top picture is before
- Picture below that is around day 14
- Picture below is a comparison of before and after on day 28
Skin care after 40
What do we think about the 28 Day Challenge?? First, it was easy to try. Second, it made our skin incredibly soft and healthy-looking. Third, we feel our under-eyes (which bugged us because of the bit of sagginess and wrinkles) appears smoother and softer to the touch for sure….score!
We are not one who wears a lot of make up so every line shows up if we don't have great products that help….remember, it all changes when you turn 40. Your hair, your feet (yes they grew when we was pregnant).
My body (stomach's not as flat as it used to be without exercising), and especially our skin!! Every simple thing we can do to make myself feel better we're all about….this was one of those.
