So I suddenly had a sleeping dilemma that needed attention in my 40’s. Sleeping on my side with my face in the pillow was no longer an option when I started to notice pillow lines on my face which were turning into permanent wrinkles. What was a woman to do?

I tried sleeping on my back, which is great for everyone in America with small breasts. Mine, on the other hand, are not so small. Trying to sleep with what seemed like the weight of two bowling balls on my chest was not my idea of a good night’s rest. Because of the weight, I felt like I couldn’t breathe when I woke up. I even tried sleeping without a bra so they would fall to the sides, but the thought of having saggy boobs because I was sleeping bra-less was starting to give me nightmares.  I was running out of options!!

There I was, trying to figure out which of the three evils I could tolerate most: 1: a wrinkled face, 2: ten pounds of boobs on my rib cage all night so I could sleep on my back and avoid the wrinkled face, or 3: saggy boobs from sleeping bra-less so that I could breathe while sleeping on my back to avoid the wrinkled face? I even did a twitter poll with that same question and found that more than half of my friends would choose to sleep on their faces and get wrinkles than have the weight equivalent to a big bag of groceries sitting on their chest all night (shame on you!!!)

I needed to do come up with something, and fast.  As usual, I had a lovely afternoon with my friend Google. A glass of wine and some pringles later I discovered the best thing ever invented by man: the Juvarest pillow, and it looks like this:

Alright,  stop the judging! It does look like something from outer space, and it costs the same as an area of Botox on a Groupon,  but I promise you it’s a solution to all your face in the pillow problems.

When I first got it, I stared at it for a good 10 minutes trying to understand the thing, there are a lot of crevices and dips.  I read the instructions, which was to cradle the face on the cutouts on either side (depending on what side you sleep on).  Easy enough.  Well, not really, the first night I only made it about an hour and then thing got tossed on the floor in lieu of my regular pillow.  It was bulky and uncomfortable and I wasn’t having it! It seemed like a torture device designed to fool women into thinking they were getting a good night’s sleep.  Were they kidding?
The second night,  I forced myself to stick it out because the thing was expensive damn it, I’ll show them!   It was very awkward trying to figure out where my face sat in the cutouts. I kept moving my face and nothing seemed comfortable. Higher…no lower…to the left…no the right. That’s pretty much what was happening the first half hour until I got annoyed and slept on my back.  Back sleeping was easy because the cutout for back sleeping is perfect and you can’t mess that up, but the point of the pillow was not to sleep on my back.  All I knew was that I owed it to my face to make it work.

So I did,  and by the end of the week,  I just naturally turned to my side and things just went where they were supposed to.  I guess the less you think about it, the better off you are. As you use it,  it sort of gets “broken in” and doesn’t feel so awkward. It’s actually more comfortable than I expected it to be,  there’s even a curve on the bottom part to fit the shoulder when side sleeping.  I learned that every crevice and cutout is there for reason, there is good support for the back and neck and I never wake up sore.

It’s been six months and I can’t live without my juvarest.  Nothing makes me happier than walking up with no sheet marks and no wrinkles around my eyes from my face being in the pillow all night. Its like getting up with a fresh face every day!

The only downside is that it’s too bulky to pack in my suitcase when I travel by plane, but it’s always with me when I travel by car.  I probably could’ve fit it in my luggage this past summer on my annual trip to LA,  but it gave me anxiety zipping it in there knowing it would be smashed for 6 hours since I’m very overprotective of my beauty products.  I ended up taking a silk pillowcase with me to use on my trip instead.  Not the same!  That’s like going to the dollar store for a box of milkduds to sneak into the movies and only finding 10 milkduds in the box once you got there.  Complete disappointment!  Nothing compares line free face you wake up to every day.  Once you try it,  you’ll never go back.
Now that all my sleep problems are solved,  I’m a very happy less wrinkled 40-ish year old.  Has anyone else tried the juvarest?  I’d like to hear your thoughts.

UPDATE:  I found another pillow I really like that’s more affordable and easy to travel with called Beauty Bear from Nurse Jamie and it looks like this:

There are two kinds, the age defy which runs about $69 and the age defy memory foam one which runs $79.  I have both, but I prefer the regular one because it’s much softer and squishier.  To me, the memory foam one is pretty stiff but if you like stiff pillows, this one might be the one for you.

I also find that I can pack the beauty bear into my suitcase very easily because the size is much more reasonable than the juvarest.

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