Welcome to the Preston Beauty Blog!

When did skincare and makeup become such serious business? Treatment products bursting with hyper-advanced technology, complicated application techniques and silly celebrity endorsements that aren't even remotely believable! And all we really want to do is to look and feel good for as long as possible. Is that so hard? Well, it depends on your appearance goal and the material you're starting with. I mean, if you've been living on the golf course or tennis court, spent your modeling years roasting on the bow of an Italian playboy's yacht you probably have some serious skin damage you're not loving. Loose neck and chest skin, that hated ruddiness and spots, lines, and... I won't go on. The cosmetics giants are ready to pounce on you like a fox on the turkey you think you've become. And you're ready game, too. Blowing your precious cash on promises, hope, illusion, even pretty lies you KNOW are lies but seduce so sweetly. Your youth and beauty are gone. You'll never attract anyone but an AARP recruiter. Cameras are beginning to automatically delete you from the images they capture. There is no longer any reason to go out, to enjoy life, to live even!


Now, let's be real.


You're an amazing, beautiful and potentially radiant individual who has been beaten down by an industry that makes its money on your insecurity and diminished self-esteem. And that industry is as much invested in promoting that sense of inadequacy as it is in offering you magical cures for it. But, fix one troubling thing and another year passes bringing ugly new reasons to hide face and body. And more cures! You're doomed to fix and failure, aren't you? 


No, you are not.


My Beauty Blog will help you understand what changes are taking place in you and how to best address them both cosmetically and personally, that is, through the beauty of what we see and what we think about what we're seeing. It's all about being in control of our total self and not being under the spell of standards and images we have neither the power to create or emulate. I, Preston, promise to be honest with you about what's possible, what's worth your time and money, and where you may want to focus more on self-acceptance than sweating the cost of the latest skin cooking procedure. Now, believe me, I love beauty products and procedures as much as anyone, but as options, not salvation. And we should be having fun with this, be able to laugh at the ridiculous as well as our ridiculous self for chasing a beauty we can neither keep or guarantee anyone else recognizes when we think we have it. 


I've been a skincare professional for almost 30-years now, the entire time enjoying the clients, the products and treatments that really can enhance one's appearance. I love people and am sympathetic to the signs and pains of aging. I've aged, experienced my own loss of youth and, thankfully, am only willing to go so far to retain what I can of it. This is a licensed skincare professional writing this.


I hope you'll enjoy my blog and visit it often. Got a question or comment? Please post!


You're beautiful,


Douglas Preston
The Preston Beauty Blog