I am heading to New York next week for my first-ever photoshoot with Redbook. They are making me what they call a “marquee” personality in the magazine and giving me a big byline and, obviously, a photo next to my column as well. This really represents a huge milestone for me and I'm really grateful and humbled and nervous all at the same time.
I’ve known about this shoot for awhile and had some really grandiose schemes and plans to be just camera fab when the big day came. I started the Nutrisystem diet. But, well, you know, they don’t have wine on their menu and, well... And then there’s always the teeth-whitening ritual that I do before any important trip. I’ve found, though, that it really helps if you remember to actually take the strips out of the box and put them on your teeth. I was gung-ho to start working out, hard, again. But my leg is still on the mend and the surgeon was skeptical at best about what I thought I was going to do? Okay, so now it’s only a few more days before I have to leave and I’m panicking. But I do have one more little beauty trick up my sleeve that just might make everything else pale (literally) by comparison.
I learned this one about a million years ago from a Hindu ‘Mistress of Spices’. She told me that after I wash my face at night I should add the teensiest, tiniest little bit of tumeric (a yellow spice available wherever most spices are sold) to my face cream at night and then rub it into my skin. I am already enacting a beauty ritual from the school of Chi Gung that says that once you have washed your face you should take your left hand and slap your forehead nine times in a row. Concurrently, and with the right one, you slap your chin that same number of times. Then take the right and slap the right cheek nine times while, with the left you hit the left cheek. Now, switch hands and finish out with the right slapping the left cheek and vice versa. In total this takes about twenty seconds but can also take twenty years off, too.
I figured I'd add the tumeric to the routine and wake up looking the fairest of them all. Tumeric is sometimes referred to as “the spice of love” and, now understand this is why I was learning about it, the spice of LUCK as well. You have to make sure not to add too much to your creams, though, or you'll look like your liver’s gone bad. It’s yellow. The thought is that using this spice not only makes you more lovable and brings luck your way, but that it makes wrinkles disappear. Okay, and this is the beauty part, it is said to take old age away. That’s right…take old age away. I’m in.
I started it last night and absolutely do see a bit of difference, a glow even on the face today. Will keep you posted about all results once the whirlwind is over, but, for now, just call me “Tu-Faced.”
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