Skin Deep

My grandma used to be really obsessed with vanity. She instilled some of the values I have today telling me that the more expensive things we buy will always last longer and that you should always leave the house looking your best, even if you're wearing jeans. Now of course things are different because she has dementia and can't really grasp what's going on. She still wears her fake jewelry (before it would have been real), which she has a lot of since the family replaced the good stuff. She had lost her wedding set and no one knows where it went, we don't even think she noticed it was gone. At least now she won't be so insecure about how she looks, she always used to talk about age spots removal because she ended up with a lot due to everyone always in search of a tan. She used to hound me to either cover up or wear lots of sunscreen because no one told them to. It's nice to look nice but really, beauty isn't just skin deep.