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Microdermabrasion - The Eggwhite Lady
As a child, I recall watching the eggwhite lady "do" my mother's face; she came by once every two weeks to give my mother an eggwhite facial so that her skin should stay taut and firm. And it was in this method that I was introduced to the meaning of "feminine mystique"- the world of everlasting skin.I recall feeling very privileged to be allowed entranceway into this kitchen-turned-spa. The workaday was absorbing: first, the cucumber cleanser-a concoction the eggwhite lady made with diced cucumber, sour milk and a fine rotary blade. She cover the mixture ever so lightly over my mother's face; this was followed by a gentle massage up along the temples, round the cheeks, down towards the chin, then around the neck, followed by a piping hot towel and a rinse.
Only then was Mother prepared for the eggwhite ritual-whipped egg whites and honey applied carefully over the entire face except for the cotton pads round the eyes. No body spoke during these moments, as words would have broken in the spell. The eggwhites were magical crystals meant to stiffen over the skin and in the stiffening tighten up the loose and wayward cells that had spread from the outer dermal layer. Those were days once you pulled in wayward skin as you would children-with a crocked upper lip.
Mother never visioned how ridiculous she looked with eggwhites spread over her face like a nylon mask and the eggwhite lady never flashed a mirror ahead of her until her skin had been powdered, eyebrows plucked and redrawn and lips painted like a bowl of cherries.
I refer all this, because in our plexi-glass, techno-habituated world, we got along no better. The eggwhite masks have been replaced by its higher technological variant-"microdermabrasion." Back in the fifties, no woman (least of all Mother who was herself brickly as eggshell) would have accepted a word that sounded like a road blaster. But in our extreme specialized and technological world, anything that sounded less than new or revolutionary would never make its way to the market.
And so it is with eggwhite facials-which have at present been replaced by a facial of another kind-a fine haze of aluminum oxide particles sprayed over the face and neck area, then sanded away by a hand-held micro-blaster that literally grinds away lines and brown spots and everything that smacks of aging imperfections.
To my years (50 plus), immersed in the bias of technology with its implicit faith that science will redeem all natural inclinations, including aging, these words audio very seductive: "microdermabrasion" actually sounds abrasive enough to be effective. Small of surgery, microdermabrasion is a non-invasive form of the major makeover. It is non-invasive-because it uses no laser, no scalpel and requires nearly no recovery moment.
In fact, microdermabrasion sounds like a miracle: your skin gets sand-blasted; it will feel peeled and red, but only temporarily; the redness lasts only a couple of hours and the rawness is nothing a face cream will not console away. Is it effective? Yes-but only afterward 10 treatments, once every two weeks; the lines will disappear; blemishes and pigments of all kinds will seem reduced prominent, if not invisible. The price is less than a dinner outfit-about $150 to $200 per treatment. Beside from the 10 visits spread over 5 months, the regimen sounds quite palatable.
I have not tried microdermabrasion yet, although it does audio more seductive each day, especially for someone like me who has become fixated on the unsightly sun-caused pigmentation all over my skin. But then, I think of my mother and her old age and their implicit faith in the eggwhite gentlewoman. And I cannot help but feel that we have all been duped by an unspoken insistence that we need to resist nature at all costs. In the end, does it actually matter whether those lines are erased or will not be? Once my mother passed away at age 52, no one mourned the lines under her eyes or the sullen patches over her skin. The memories we have of her then and all the same are those of a gentle, sun-shy woman who loved us to the bone, who loved brush painting and Chinese opera and gave unendingly to those less fortunate.
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I refer all this, because in our plexi-glass, techno-habituated world, we got along no better.The eggwhite masks have been replaced by its higher technological variant-"microdermabrasion." Back in the fifties, no woman ...