Hi, this is Angie's complexion, and I'm briefly hijacking her blog while she zones out watching World Championship men's figure skating. (She far prefers the men who don't wear ruffles; rhinestones are okay.)
As Angie's complexion, the very gateway to her face, I feel it is time to intervene. Angie's brain recently informed the rest of her parts about the search for the Sego Lily Spa Blogger, a local contest whose winner will enjoy two glorious spa treatments every month for a year, a value of $3,000. In exchange, the winner will write about her experiences over at the Sego Lily Blog. I'd like to submit that there's no face more deserving of this honor.
Angie's face, sans makeup, at 5:00 on a Sunday evening.
Angie's qualifications are as follows:
- She is acquainted with words like "effervescent," "rejuvenating," "invigorating," "transcendent," and even "paradisaical," and she's not afraid to use them.
- She has personal experience with exfoliation.
- She is very well versed in pedicure etiquette, having learned the hard way how important it is to shave one's legs to the knee at least prior to a spa pedi.
- She has a Bachelor's Degree in English, and she's been writing professionally for 11 years, everything from scrapbook magazines to entire websites to health-insurance newsletters. Riveting, fascinating stuff.
- In her writing career, she has interviewed such notables as entertainment host/new age pianist John Tesh, Utah grocery superstars Bob and Randy Harmon, jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain, country bassist Robert Reynolds, Utah first ladies Mary Kaye Huntsman and Jackie Leavitt, and all four of her own grandparents.
- She is obsessive about sunscreen and refuses to go within 30 feet of a tanning bed, so the hard work the Sego Lily staff does shall not be undone by premature aging. This is not a face that will look like a leather handbag by the time Angie's 40.
- Sego Lily is in Angie's blood. She lives one street north of Sego Lily Drive, and she attends a church congregation known as the Sego Lily Ward. She'd also consider naming her first-born daughter "Sego Lily," provided that the child promises not to be a stripper when she grows up.
- Angie's fingernails are a manicurist's dream: strong, well-shaped, nearly unbreakable. And Angie kicked her nail-biting habit years ago, just in time to enjoy a brief stint as her magazine's hand model, despite her too-short pinkies.
Angie's hands as they appeared in Simple Scrapbooks magazine: two au natural and one dressed up for Halloween with green food coloring.
But, dear judges, it is not her qualifications alone that make Angie worthy of a year's worth of spa pampering. Please consider the following facts as well:
- Angie, age 33, has the skin of a 17-year-old, and not in the way she wishes. She took Jessica Simpson's advice and tried ProActiv, only to have her neck and eyelids swell up, despite the fact that she didn't apply the stuff to her neck OR her eyelids.
- Angie was once told by a dermatologist that she just has "that type of skin that will always have acne." Something to do with the shape of her pores. She begs someone to prove that smug, pimple-popping doctor wrong.
- She enjoyed her first facial last year, a mother's day gift from her husband, and it was beyond blissful. Angie determined then and there that if she were ever independently wealthy, she'd indulge in a weekly facial, massage, and mani-pedi.
- While working full time, Angie budgeted for semi-regular massages and pedicures as a way to relieve stress. But she was so stressed that she could never quite make the time. Now that she's been laid off, she has plenty of time and plenty of stress, but there's far less room in the budget. Isn't that the way it always goes?
- Angie just might be willing to have some before-and-after photos taken for the blog, even (gasp!) without makeup. She'd be tempted to Photoshop out all the red spots, but she could be convinced to refrain.
Angie drifting off into her "happy place," which happens to be just on the other side of those doors.
Well, this is Angie's complexion signing off. I hope she's not too angry that I spoke so freely about her secret skin troubles, although they're probably not as big of a secret as Angie likes to think. Sorry, Ang. But I think if she wins, she'll forgive me completely. What do you think?
Complexion out.
