Is Glitter Like Herpes?

Jen Hardy [00:00:19]:
Hello, beautiful. You know, my mom always used to say that glitter was the herpes of the craft world, Which is kinda true when you think about it because you can’t get rid of either one of them. And as I got older, Over 40. Everyone told me not to use glitter or shiny makeup because it would accentuate my wrinkles. Well, I hate to tell you, but now I’m over 50 and I’ve made a decision. If my wrinkles aren’t going anywhere, Might as well throw some glitter on them because if it isn’t going anywhere either, at least it will be sparkly. And so I really have decided, I like sparkle. I never used to, but isn’t it better than dry, icky old skin? I think so.

Jen Hardy [00:01:08]:
So now everything in my world has a little bit of glitter, a little bit of sparkle, and I threw in a few sequins here and there for good measure because Why not? And guess what? People don’t seem to notice the wrinkles as much because they really do notice the glitter. Oh, and I’m going to tell you a secret for mature hair. Wait. Hold on. Put a pin in that. Have you ever noticed how they don’t call aging women, aging women? They don’t call us Senior women or old women because all of those words would be rude even though they’re true. But if you go on to YouTube And you wanna look up hair tutorials or makeup tutorials for old ladies. You’re gonna find where it says, Makeup for mature women.

Jen Hardy [00:01:59]:
And I don’t know how mature I am at this point, to be quite honest, because for the first time in my adult life, I feel like I’m more immature than I’ve ever been. And you know what? I’m absolutely loving my life. You know, I’ve been listening to the Gen Z and the millennials talking about how they hate adulting. And in the beginning I thought, are you dumb? Because, I’m very thankful to be on my own and responsible for myself. I took great pride in getting my 1st jobs And paying for my places to live. And I still don’t really understand the mentality of adulting Being a problem, but I do understand wanting to chill out and relax, which brings me back To what I was gonna say about mature hair. Okay. So this hair trick Is crazy good.

Jen Hardy [00:02:55]:
Alright. So I had a friend our family had a friend staying with us, and he’s bald. And he and I were working on some podcasting and some video stuff together. And we’d say, okay. You know, we’d have breakfast and we say, okay. It’s time to get ready. He’d go in his spot, I’d go in my spot, and he’d be out 5 minutes. Meanwhile, I’m in my room.

Jen Hardy [00:03:13]:
I’m still in the shower, then I gotta do makeup and hair. And over an hour after he was done, I’d come out. And I went to him and I said, look, I cannot with this. Okay? This is just not fair. You just towel off that head and you’re ready to go. I gotta do all this other stuff. Also, did you ever realize that no one hands men a may a a art kit and says, Take this in the other room and go make yourself look better. We don’t say that to men.

Jen Hardy [00:03:41]:
We get what we get. And why is it That we have to take an art kit and go paint our face and make ourself look like a whole new person. In fact, when I finally knew I was doing makeup right, It was when my son came to me and said, mom, you gotta stop wearing makeup because you look like a whole other person. And I said, oh, thank you so much. That means I’m doing it right. But should that be right? I don’t know. It sounds kinda messed up to me. Just gonna let you think about that.

Jen Hardy [00:04:10]:
Alright. Between that and the herpes, you’re gonna have a lot to think about tonight, but that’s okay. Anyway, so the secret that he shared with me was Get a hat. But not just any hat. You gotta get a hat and bling it out. Okay? Now let me just pause there and say, if you are a person, as I was for a very long time, where you just wanna wear yoga pants and a t shirt and a Baseball hat and go out however you wanna go out, girl, you rock that. Because this is all about this whole fabulous over 50 thing Is about what makes you feel fabulous. It’s not it doesn’t have to be glitter.

Jen Hardy [00:04:46]:
It doesn’t have to be sequin. It doesn’t have to be fancy blingy. It can be whatever you like. You wanna dress like a cowgirl? You dress like a cowboy. Cowgirl. You wanna dress like a cheerleader. I don’t care what you wanna dress like. You do you and you just feel good about it.

Jen Hardy [00:05:01]:
That is the whole point. Okay? This whole glitter thing, it’s making me feel really good. So okay. So we get the hat. We bling the crap out of that thing. If you like that sort of thing, which obviously I happen to do, except the hat I’m wearing right now is not blingy at all because it’s a black Velvet hat, and I’m very excited about this hat. And I’m trying to figure out exactly what I’m gonna do with it because I don’t want to mess it up yet. I don’t know.

Jen Hardy [00:05:27]:
Anyway, If you wanna see a hat that I’ve recently done, you’re gonna wanna click on the show notes and you’re gonna go see it because I’ve got a Picture of me wearing it up there. In fact, it’s behind me. You can see it in the video if you’re watching the video. But if you’re not, go to the website in the show notes. If you’re listening to the podcast, you’re gonna have a little link there. Click it. Boom. There’s the hat.

Jen Hardy [00:05:48]:
Anyway, I went to Podfest which is my Favorite conference to go to also happens to be about podcasting which is my favorite thing to do because I like having a microphone in front of me. And I was helping run it, Which was amazingly fun and quite an honor, to be honest. My husband and I got to run the volunteers, which is why I happen to have Some e6000 industrial strength glue and a lot of extra rhinestones and, Glitter. That goes on clothes. Paintable glitter. Just in case. Okay. So Anyway, because you never know when you’re gonna need to blink something out.

Jen Hardy [00:06:26]:
And so at Podfest, they decided the team had to have 8 o’clock meetings. Now let me tell you, They also have parties that go after midnight. And I used to do things like go to parties after midnight and then get up and go to work. That’s not something my body likes to do anymore. And I don’t know if you know me very well, but, I am not a morning person. I’ve never been a morning person. In fact, my children aren’t allowed to get up until after 8. And even though we homeschool, we don’t start till 10.

Jen Hardy [00:06:56]:
So and you might think that’s crazy, but It’s our school. We do what we want. And my body does not like to move. And I don’t like to move before 9 at the very earliest. I was just made to be a 2nd shift person. I’m not made to be a morning person. So what did I do? Because, I mean, I’ve gotta go to this meeting. This is a big honor to be there.

Jen Hardy [00:07:15]:
So took my friend’s advice from a year ago that I had kinda, like, let’s sink in the back of my brain, and I walked down to Walgreens and I got myself a cute little sun hat. Now this cute little sun hat wasn’t as cute when I got it because it had a big old strap on it that said Orlando, And that’s not my name and it’s not what I wanna be showing off. So I took it off and then I took one of the lanyards from Podfest and I put that around the brim of the hat. So now it’s a Podfest hat. How cool is that? But not only that, of course, I took my e6000 glue and some of my rhinestones, not too many because There’s a fine line between glittery and tacky. Very fine line. I try to stay on the correct side of that line. I am quite sure that I pass it often.

Jen Hardy [00:08:04]:
My children will tell you that. In fact, Today, I was wearing my fancy black hat that I really like, and my daughter said, I looked ridiculous in it, Which I will accept that because she’s very honest, and I do appreciate when people let me know that I look ridiculous, but I don’t look ridiculous. I’m quite fancy, and I like it. But at the same time, she was wearing a hat that she calls derpy. And what derpy means is dorky but cute. And I’m thinking, okay, you’re wearing a derpy hat. Why am I ridiculous? Anyway, you know teenagers, Gen x. It’s a whole thing.

Jen Hardy [00:08:40]:
So we’re gonna get back to go into Podfest, get the hat, put the lanyard around it, It’s me six thousand. Put a couple of rhinestones. Not too many as we talked about. Tacky thing. Put it on. Now. But the hat itself wasn’t gonna do everything because I also have a body that needed covering. So I had brought a wrap, You know, like, kinda like a sweater thing that you, like, wrap around you.

Jen Hardy [00:09:03]:
It doesn’t really have arms. You know what I mean. And it’s just a black wrap that has lots of glitter on it. Well, spots of glitter. And so I put that beautiful black bling wrap over my pajamas, put my hat on, and put lipstick on. No other makeup. I don’t have time for that in the morning. I was lucky I could get my lips to look like lips, and I walked out the door.

Jen Hardy [00:09:26]:
And I can’t tell you how many people stopped me to tell me how absolutely glamorous and fabulous I looked. And I’m just gonna tell you, I rolled out of bed and barely put a brush through my hair, did brush my teeth, threw that stuff on, and left my hotel room. And it made me realize something. That hour that I’m taking to get ready every day is not always necessary, and it isn’t necessary for you either. And maybe you’re you know, maybe you like just to be relaxed and you don’t want the glitter and the glam, then that’s fine too. But find whatever it is that makes you feel really good and put together something quick and easy because There is a middle ground and that’s what I could never find. It was either I looked tacky or I looked Way done, and there was no middle. And I love this because it’s 2 seconds, and it still makes you look really, really nice.

Jen Hardy [00:10:22]:
So if you want to look really nice, there’s one secret to doing it, but definitely the hat I’m telling you, mature, thin, fine hair, does look better in a hat. So I’m just gonna say if you know what that’s like. So if you were at Podfest, now you know my secret. And so I think I’m gonna leave you all with that now. I am recovering from pneumonia. POD fest wore me out, and then I had a few stressful things at home. And, I’m gonna go take a rest. And I’m not taking a rest though because I’m a mature woman.

Jen Hardy [00:10:55]:
It’s because I’m darn tired, and I’ve earned it. So you have an incredible time this week doing all of the fabulous things you’re doing, and I am gonna have a fabulous time this week Resting. And I would love to talk to you soon, so I need you to stay tuned and stay Fabulous.