Incorporating a Natural Shiitake Complex into the formula, Aveeno has launched a new line of anti-aging facial products called Positively Ageless. The Natural Shiitake Complex accelerates the cell renewal process that naturally slows as we age. According to company claims, 73 percent of women noticed a visible difference in the reduction of fine lines and wrinkles after one month of use. At this time, Aveeno is offering a free Positively Ageless product sample and coupons. Simply visit the special Aveeno Positively Ageless webpage to request your free sample and product coupons. The shiitake mushroom, native to China, has been cultivated for more than one thousand years. Some records indicate it may have been cultivated for nearly two thousand... [Read more]

As a teen, summer days were spent in the quest for the perfect tan. With cocoa butter and baby oil, my friends and I baked in the midday sun. Fast forward to adulthood and the breaking news health headline reads: “Eighty percent of your lifetime sun damage occurs before age 18.” The information has come too late for us, as we are now well past the teen years. The consensus? We are toast. Literally. Left to wait for the sun skin damage to start revealing itself in premature wrinkles and worse yet, skin cancer. But wait. According to adjunct assistant professor of dermatology at Stanford University School of Medicine Dr Katie Rodan, the dermatologists calculated wrong. “A recent study revealed that we actually get only 23 percent... [Read more]

It is a facelift without surgery. And yes, it will only cost about ten dollars. I was pleased to discover that Carole Maggio’s book Facercise: The Dynamic Muscle-Toning Program for Renewed Vitality and a More Youthful Appearance has been revised, updated and is back in print. Maggio walks the reader through a series of facial exercises that will help lift the face; diminish puffiness around the eyes; tighten the chin, neck, and jawline; improve skin color and tone; lift eyebrows; recontour cheeks and make lips plump and more firm. Best of all — it works. Once you learn the step-by-step facial exercises, you will find they can be done anywhere, at anytime. [Read more]

You can be supermodel tall. Enviably thin. World famous. Jet-setting rich. Knock-down-drop-dead gorgeous. But — if in a petulant fit befitting the tantrum of a toddler, you wing a cellphone at the head of a woman hired to cater to your every whim — you cannot be considered fabulous. Ever. Her maid Ana Scolavino required four stitches to mend the physical head injury sustained after being hit with the cellphone. On March 19, Naomi Campbell, outfitted in an orange vest and workman’s boots, will begin her five days of court-ordered community service mopping floors at New York’s Sanitation Department. After that, Campbell will be required to complete an anger management program. Ultimately, pretty is as pretty does. This... [Read more]

Newspaper columnist Cathy Hamilton was chronicling a personal account of the adventures and misadventures of being a woman over 50 in a weekly column called Boomer Girl Diary for a local newspaper when she began searching online for a community of baby boomer women. What she found was there was not much to be found. And so, Boomergirl was born. Boomergirl, created for boomer women, born 1946 to 1964, is a community-based website offering beauty, fashion, family, finances, fitness and health advice; information of all sort and the latest news; blogs written by Boomergirl staff and members; clubs to join; hot tip of the day, Brain Boost; and a daily Spanish lesson. You can find well-written editorials and virtual flashbacks into the past. Boomergirl... [Read more]