Comparing Two Grandmas

When I was a child I had two grandmothers, Grandma Florie on the left and Grandma Jo on the right.  My beauty story starts with these grandmothers. I always noticed a big difference between the quality of my grandmother's skin. Grandma Florie (on the left) had a lot of wrinkles and sun damage while Grandma Jo (on the right) is still with us today at 97 years of age and has barely one wrinkle.  I was always very aware of this drastic difference, and I would ask my parents why it existed.  Grandma Florie spent a lot of time in the sun on the golf course and out having fun.  Grandma Jo spent a lot of time in the shade.  She was actually Elizabeth Taylor's aesthetician and her whole life revolved around doing facials and practicing skincare.  Of course I wanted to learn all her secrets,  but before I did, I learned that there's a base level of skincare everybody should start practicing at age eight or nine: moisturizing in the morning and at night, wearing a hat or a visor when you're in the sun, applying sunscreen, exfoliating, and using a gentle cleanser every evening.  My grandmother instilled these basic skin care tips in me at a very young age, and I started performing the routine every day since I was eight years old.  While other kids at camp would go on their merry way having fun doing their activities ignoring their skin, I was applying sunscreen and washing my face at night. The sooner you get a headstart the better.  I was also blessed with a flaw which help to keep me out of the sun; on my arm I have a pigment discoloration which actually gets darker when I'm in the sun, so it's forced me to think about sunscreen and think about spending more time in the shade.  It's been a blessing in disguise that has resulted in my skin staying baby bottom beautiful.