Gray hair, memory lapses, hot flashes: has menopause come to your doorstep?

As we approach middle age, the female body goes through many changes. What used to be beautiful, dewy, soft and subtle black skin now looks as if you’ve been through a sandstorm. Welcome to the arrival of the twin sisters Meno & Pause. It is also known as having your Men-on-Pause. The first appearance of wrinkles passes as expression lines, the first gray hairs that you pluck out one by one until they are too numerous to count. Without realizing that you would get 7 gray hairs for every 1 you get, you pluck and pluck and pluck? And let’s not forget, memory fails. This is when you become an official member of the CRS Club.

Wait, there’s more! Not only does her eyesight begin to fail her, her skin begins to look dull and ashen and not to mention dry. Oh I know, you thought your Black Don’t Crack! Well yes, especially since you’ve been taught that you don’t need moisturizers because your skin is naturally oily. Fat doesn’t always mean hydrated. It just means you’re greasy, in most cases.

The first hot flash, and the surprising inconsistency of your menstrual cycles as you go through “the switch,” can wreak havoc on your skin. First, your period is AWOL for three months, then it shows up twice in one month, as if you have to make up for the missed days. Then you start to see chin hairs and you think, Oh, I’m going to grab the tweezers and pull them out. Wrong answer! This will bring up those unwanted dark spots because you don’t know how to properly remove those hairs that seem to multiply overnight.

Accepting these changes may require some physical adjustment and preparation on your part. You can stock up on budget-sized wrinkle creams, face serums, eye creams, maximum gray coverage hair dye, designer glasses that come with a bifocal prescription, ginkgo biloba herbal supplements, and I don’t remember what else to boost your memory. .

All these material things will help you with the physical changes. But the most important thing you need is a simple attitude adjustment.

Many African-American women tend to view menopause and all the changes before, during, and after it as a bad thing. It’s not! It’s such a natural process. Evidence has shown that a bad attitude can make all those changes seem worse than they really are.

Do you have a hot flash? This could mean anything from a twill down the back of your neck to a full blown, oh god you ignited the moment. One way to overcome skin changes is to not wear as much makeup as you used to. This is the perfect time for the natural glow of your beautiful black skin to shine through.

A daily skincare regimen would be to cleanse, tone, and moisturize. I would add an exfoliation process to your regimen at least twice a week. This would remove any dead skin buildup that appears.

Embrace these years with enthusiasm. It’s a great time for hot butt naked sex, you no longer have your man on pause. And it is the perfect exercise for great blood circulation. What a great way to bring back that radiant, youthful glow in your beautiful black skin.