A wrinkle by any other name....

When wrinkles start forming around your mouth, we politely call them laugh lines. It's a nice way of saying, "Oh, you've just smiled and laughed so much during your lifetime -- that's why you have a wrinkle there." As if to say, how nice! How lucky of you! Woo-hoo, you have laugh lines! You've lived a happy life.

If wrinkles show up around your eyes, though, what do we call them? Crows' feet. They supposedly look as though a bird has trampled you and left its mark on your face. Which isn't nice at all. Who wants to look trampled? By a bird?

Wrinkles on your forehead are called worry lines. This has to be the worst name yet. This implies that horizontal lines on your brow are proof you have lived a life of fretting and misery. Which, maybe it's true and maybe it's not. Like, what if they're surprise lines?

If you have a wrinkle on your face outside of these boundaries, it's just a wrinkle, plain and simple. I have a wrinkle like that, I've just discovered, in an unfortunate spot under my right eye.

I really don't believe I can banish this wrinkle with a cream -- but part of me would love to believe so. It's this hope that sells wrinkle creams, I'm sure.

So last night after washing my face, I opened a jar of cream and found it empty. Luckily, I had another container of cream, so I reached for that. Actually, it's a mousse. It felt sticky when I put it on. So I picked up a tube standing by. That was a cooling gel, but it smelled funny. I scrounged around and found another jar of wrinkle cream and slathered on some of that.

Yes -- my face was hit with four wrinkle creams!

And that wrinkle is still there today.

Maybe there's a name for this?

Serial creaming?

Am I a serial creamer?