5 Ways Menopause Wrecked My Skin At 48. And Exactly How I Fixed Every One.
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5 Ways Menopause Wrecked My Skin At 48. And Exactly How I Fixed Every One.

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 4, 202624 min

I'm 48, and somewhere in my forties during perimenopause my skin changed on me. Everyone said it was just aging, so I believed them for way too long and kept buying creams that did nothing. Then I went digging and found five different things actually aging my skin in menopause, all set off by one thing... my estrogen dropping. These are all five, and exactly what I did to fix each one, from the cells you cannot scrub off to the one bottle I built to handle all of it. Want Your Free Personalized...

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I'm 48 and I spent 1.3 million dollars to look and feel hot as fuck. I know, judge me. And today I'm going to tell you the five things that made my face look older starting in perimenopause and exactly what I did to fix each one. Because the thing that blindsided me was there's five different things happening to your skin during perimenopause and menopause.

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And the crazy thing is they all start happening at the same exact time, which is why one day it can feel like you wake up, look in the mirror and think, who's this bitch? I don't know her, right? So if you feel like your face fell off a cliff one day and you don't know how to throw at

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a rope and pull it back up, this one's for you. I'm Cynthia Garcia, your foul mouth fairy godmother. I grew up dirt poor in Appalachia where I would dumpster dive for makeup and I got called ugly enough times that I finally started to believe it. Then I made some money and I spent it figuring out

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