Fabulous Over Forty – Where Beauty Is Ageless

I have been hearing so many wonderful things about Josie Maran Argan Oil but had never tried it myself.   I wondered how much I would really use it if I spent $48 on a bottle of it – was it worth it?   I figured, nah.

Then I was in Sephora one day and at the checkout area with all the sample/travel sizes of products I saw a small bottle of this for only $14.   To me, that was worth spending to see if I liked it or not.    Then I got it home and wasn’t sure how/where I was going to use it!   So it sat on my shelf for about two months unopened.  

Then one day my eczema flared up and now instead of the usual spot on my back it was on my scalp.   Ugh  and UGLY!  Itchy dry patches everywhere.  Just what I needed to deal with – constantly wanting to scratch my itchy scalp.   It’s amazing what stress can do to your skin, and I was going thru a major stressful period of events to make my eczema flare up big time.  

So one night I decided to take a few drops and rub onto my scalp and get ready for bed.  Literally within minutes the itching stopped.  I thought “WOW!”  Then the next morning the red patches of eczema were nearly gone.   After a second night of doing this treatment, the dry patches were completely gone and I didn’t feel like scratching once.   I don’t know if it’s “magical” but it is amazing!  

A side benefit of using this on my scalp is that my hair enjoyed it as well, making it super soft and shiny.

This past Spring, while in New York I had a little free time so I made a dash for Sephora.  It’s right down the street from where I stay when in NYC – dangerous.  It’s a larger store than the ones we have here in Minneapolis, so more product to oooh and aaah over.

I’ve been hearing rave reviews about the Josie Maran products and I hit the jackpot with this Sephora.  One of the products I’ve been hearing so much about was the Argan Oil.  At $48, I wasn’t willing to spend that much on a product that I wasn’t really sure how or what I’d use it for.   But the lipsticks, well I can ALWAYS use another one!  

I’d heard great things about these lipsticks as well – her products are all organic too.  I tried on a few different shades that I debated on getting because when you put these lipsticks on, they seriously are super soft and moisturizing.   Amazingly so.  I settled on the color Mysterious. 

Um wait,  about 1/2 hour later and my lips were seriously dry.   What the heck was going on?   How could something so soft and wonderful turn my lips so dry?   I used this lipstick for about 3 days and had the same result every time.   So I set it in my makeup bag giving myself a break.   Well about 4 weeks later I thought – I love this shade, I must give it a try again.   Only now the lipstick was like it was deteriorating and had broken in the tube when I hadn’t touched it for several weeks!   It was getting all cracked and gross.   But not one to give up, I tried it again after “repairing” the lipstick in the tube, and I had the same exact results.   Super soft at first, and then very drying.

OK I surrender.   It’s not all what it’s cracked up to be.